The University of Chicago offers a Master of Fine Arts degree through the Department of Visual Arts, located at Midway Studios. Our MFA student body is comprised of artists working in sculpture, photography, painting, print-making, installation, performance, video and new media. Students are expected to work with all faculty, whose expertise cross a number of disciplines. We admit students to the program based on the quality of their art and their interest in working in an interdisciplinary art program within a university environment. We believe that art should not be an isolating activity and that students/artists benefit from the cross-fertilization of daily contact with people dealing with similar sets of issues but working in different media. Art is a cultural product and, as such, we encourage students to explore not only the specific artistic issues pertinent to their work, but also the theoretical, social and historical ones as well.

Last Updated on Nov 15, 2007