Program Overview

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Studio Art Master’s with a Concentration in New Media Art

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

Program Type

• Major

Format

• On Campus

Estimated Time to Complete

• 2-3 years

Credit Hours

• 60

Program Description

Learn to integrate the language of art and technology through an informed critical practice. Through New Media Art, you will focus on our relationship with technology, visual culture and performance in contemporary art. This broad and intensive terminal degree experience focuses on intellectual and creative growth, fostering your practice and preparing you for a lifetime of accomplishment and meaningful contribution as a culture creator. The program frames the individual needs of each student through the development of conceptual, aesthetic and technical skills.

Requirements

• Critical thinking
• Advanced craftsmanship
• Teamwork
• Advanced oral and written communication
• Advanced multiple approach assessment

Marketable Skills

• Critical thinking
• Advanced craftsmanship
• Teamwork
• Advanced oral and written communication
• Advanced multiple approach assessment

Program Highlights

Graduate courses include discipline-based courses, professional practices and variable topics courses designed to explore concepts and processes in art-making that go beyond the normal curricular parameters of traditional studio disciplines.

All graduate students are provided individual studios in our new Art Annex.

The CAVE is a modular exhibition, performance, and studio space specifically tailored for time-based art, immersive video installations and virtual reality experiences. Equipped with state-of-the-art audio and visual matrix, theatrical grid and nearly 360 degrees of seamless projection surfaces, the CAVE facilitates a wide variety of artistic practices focused on emergent technologies.

The Lighting Studio contains two seamless cycloramas in chroma green and white, various colors of backdrop paper, a sound-isolation booth and professional lighting equipment.

The Alcove Project Space is for small-scale and short-term student exhibitions. The space is outfitted with a short-throw projector, a theatrical grid for hanging work or creating lighting schemes, and 2x house speakers.

The New Media Art concentration crosses various disciplines and mediums and has included expanded cinema performance, virtual world-building, training neural networks, data encoded fashion design, light sculpture, soundscape compositions, interactive video, crypto-art, projection mapping and physical computing.

Career Opportunities

The Studio Art M.F.A. with a concentration in New Media Art prepares graduates for diverse career pathways in education, museum work, the entertainment industry and the arts.

Employment opportunities include:

• Teaching in higher education
• Teaching general art in K-12 education
• Working as a visual arts technician
• Workshop leader
• Entrepreneurial pursuits

Fine artists may maintain a professional studio practice, produce exhibitions and participate in global arts networks.

New Media Art practices include performance art, video art, mixed media, cyber and digital art and crypto art.

Graduates may be self-employed business owners or work for manufacturers or large-scale studios.

Additional employment opportunities include film editing and production, gaming direction, museum curation and technical support, gallerist, and multimedia show developers for planetariums, music and theater performances.

Courses

• Seminar in University Art Teaching (3 hrs)
• Praxis: Rotating Topics (3 hrs)
• Professional Practices for the Studio Artist (3 hrs)
• M.F.A. Project In Lieu of Thesis Research (3 hrs)
• M.F.A. Project in Lieu of Thesis (3 hrs)
• Topics in Studio Art (3 hr)