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Berkeley qarc3/25/2023 Throughout both years of the program, students participate in an Independent Study course, in which they make their own work while regularly meeting with a faculty advisor about their progress. Students test ideas and work in a wide range of media and disciplines, which include but are not limited to broadly defined areas of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, digital and new media, performance, and social practice. MFA students have enrolled in courses offered in Physics, Asian Studies, Rhetoric, Film and Media, Peace and Conflict Studies, Art History, Anthropology, Music, Environmental Science, Botany, Mathematics, Middle-Eastern Studies, Religion, Classics, English, Architecture, Philosophy, Engineering, and Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. These electives can be any upper-division or graduate level course, campus-wide. Students also take electives throughout their first year, (unless they are teaching Art 8, in which case they may defer these electives to the following or previous semester). The seminar courses are rotated amongst core faculty, so that in your four semesters, you will experience four different instructors leading the critique seminar, and two instructors leading the theory and criticism seminar, as this course is offered only in the fall semester. Rooted in peer-to-peer discussion, the curriculum of the Art Practice MFA program is built on a core set of required classes: the Critique seminar, the Theory and Criticism seminar, and Independent Study with chosen or assigned faculty. The UC Berkeley Art Practice MFA culminates in an MFA thesis show at the internationally recognized Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Distinguished visiting artists provide a supplementary lecture and studio visit curriculum to MFA students. We encourage students to explore a wide range of media, and to pursue electives taken departments outside Art Practice, as well as within our own studio and critical theory courses. Group critique and peer review are integral components of the program. Our low faculty-student ratio facilitates regular one-on-one instruction. Our cohort of graduate students is intentionally intimate: we graduate 6 students per year, and our program is multi-disciplinary. The program aims to broaden the productive, conceptual, and critical faculties of students in their pursuit of careers as professional artists. UC Berkeley’s Art Practice MFA program is committed to artistic innovation and intellectual rigor. We offer professional art training in the context of a rich and distinguished liberal arts and sciences university. The Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley offers a two-year Masters of Fine Arts Degree headed by our faculty of internationally-recognized artists, and enriched by a roster of affiliate faculty from multiple departments across campus. Here are the slides for this orientation. We are hosting a Graduate Program Application Orientation online on Friday Oct. If you are interested in applying to our program and have questions, email Greg Niemeyer. To start your application, head to the UCB Graduate Division Online Application portal at Greg Niemeyer, Professor: Application Deadline: Decem(8:59pm PT)
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