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Letter from the Department Chair 



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In the School of Design's graduate Fine Arts program, motivated and promising artists work in a range of styles and approaches while immersing themselves in a curriculum that nurtures their technical skills and allows them the freedom to pursue ideas and develop their personal visions. Students benefit from spending two years in a cultural environment dedicated to recognizing the diversity and complexity of today's visual arts world.
   
 
Graduate students in Fine Arts work in the disciplines of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and combined media/newer technologies. They are challenged to consider the wider implications of their work and respond to the constantly expanding requirements and responsibilities of artists. Emphasis is placed on individual studio work, supported by a rigorous examination of critical and conceptual issues. Students participate in individual critiques, intensive group critiques, critical and professional seminars, and work with visiting critics on contemporary issues.

The Department of Fine Arts has a number of international initiatives underway to allow students the opportunity to work and study abroad, including an exchange program with the Royal College in London.

Students also pursue the interdisciplinary opportunities available within the school and can work towards certificates in areas of concentrated study, as well as make use of the exceptional resources of a world class urban university.

John Moore
Monroe and Edna Gutman Professor of Fine Arts
Chair, Department of Fine Arts



   

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