M.F.A. degree program in art
HEGIS code 1002
NYS SED program code 02016

The M.F.A. studio program offers concentrations in drawing and painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and digital art. Students usually focus on one of these but take courses in other areas and in art history. Periodically, their work is formally reviewed by the full faculty who also individually visit their studios for informal critiques. Graduating students participate in a large M.F.A. thesis exhibition, usually at a Manhattan gallery. The department has a fine arts rather than a commercial orientation and seeks a balance between the traditional and the new in its mix of students, faculty, and course content. The faculty includes internationally recognized artists whose work is found in such prestigious museums as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, and who have garnered numerous prizes, awards, grants, fellowships, and other honors. Many are represented by galleries here and abroad. Being in the heart of the art world, the department draws on New York's vast community of distinguished artists for our faculty and for the many visiting artists, art historians, critics, and curators who regularly lecture and give individual critiques of student work as part of a program that supplements the formal curriculum. In addition, our students have easy access to New York City's great museums and countless galleries.

A large percentage of our graduates are successful artists, many of whom sell their work in commercial galleries. Many also teach at leading art schools and universities. Others have become commercial artists, illustrators, computer graphics designers, architects, art directors, cartoonists, art restorers, and fashion designers-bringing their fine-arts sensibilities to these related fields. A number have won such major honors as the Guggenheim, Fulbright, Pollock-Krasner, and the Prix de Rome.

M.F.A. degree program in art - full information and requirements

Program Heads

Name	Title	Phone	Location	Email	Office Hours
Schwab, Douglas	Assistant Professor	718.951.5181	5312 Boylan Hall	dschwab brooklyn.cuny.edu	Available by appointment

Students choose as an area of concentration one of the following subject areas: Drawing and painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, or digital art. They also take courses in other areas of concentration and in art history. Periodically, their work is formally reviewed by the full studio faculty, who also visit their studios individually for informal critiques.

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Matriculation requirements
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Applicants must offer at least 36 credits in studio art and art history courses including a well-balanced distribution of credits in two-dimensional and three-dimensional art acceptable to the Art Department.

Applicants must submit directly to the Art Department a selection of work emphasizing their intended area of concentration before February 1 for Fall admission. The work should be submitted through the program's Web site, http://artmfa.brooklyn.cuny.edu, following the instructions on the Web site.

Applicants must also submit a completed application to the Brooklyn College Division of Graduate Studies. General matriculation and admission requirements of the Division of Graduate Studies are in the section "Admission" of the Graduate Bulletin.

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Degree requirements
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Forty-eight credits are required for the degree.

Students must complete Art 7210X, 7910X, 7920X, 7940G, 7950G, and 7951G. Art 7940G, 7950G, and 7951G must be taken in sequence, usually beginning in the first semester of matriculation.

Students must also complete 21 additional credits in studio art courses, internships, independent study electives, or other electives outside the Art Department.

Students must also complete nine additional credits in art history courses. Art 7198G may be repeated for credit.

Independent creative work developed in Art 7940G, 7950G, and 7951G must culminate in a final exhibition with an accompanying artist's statement about the work.

Courses in the Art Department offered toward the degree must be 7000-level courses.

The program of study must be approved by the deputy chairperson for graduate studio art.

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Charles G. Shaw Awards
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For distinction in painting, the Art Department grants awards each term to a number of graduate students matriculated in the M.F.A. program.