{"id":3404,"date":"2022-05-31T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-program-page&p=3404"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:12:12","slug":"mfa","status":"publish","type":"bu-program-page","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/academics\/degrees-programs\/painting\/mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Graduate Painting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Painting at Boston University promotes the discipline in its varied manifestations as a fundamental form of artistic expression. At its core, the program is studio-driven, with rigorous expectations about each student\u2019s commitment to their own artistic practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an art form, painting is more than an activity; it is a long-term, critical engagement with materials and methodologies, ideas, feelings and sensibilities, and histories and contexts. Graduate students work independently to sharpen their individual artistic vision and skills, while learning collectively through critical dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As such, the program supplements the emphasis on making with studio visits, group critiques and final reviews, and weekly seminars. In their final semester, all graduate painting students write a thesis paper and exhibit their work in a thesis exhibition. Elective courses, workshops, and occasional field trips round out a graduate painting student\u2019s education, while physical proximity in the studios and weekly all-program meetings strengthens a sense of community and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know…<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The graduate Painting program here at Boston University School of Visual Arts is ranked<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

#6 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by U.S. News & World Report<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Program of Study<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Studio activity is considered the core of the two-year graduate program. All students are expected to demonstrate a deep commitment to their practice by maintaining regular studio habits. The weekly seminar class comprises reading, writing, and discussion, helping students cultivate the language and context that surrounds their work and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series<\/a> brings guest speakers to the studios on a regular basis. Guests deliver a lecture on their work, visit studios or give a workshop, and are invited to socialize afterwards with the graduate students in a more informal context. The Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series brings established artists per year to campus to deliver lectures on their work and interact with the graduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postwar and Contemporary Art History courses are required to contextualize the graduate students\u2019 ideas and practices. In order to take full advantage of the benefits offered by a large university, graduate students may also take elective courses in programs across the BU community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hallmarks of our program are intimacy and intensity.  In addition to regular studio visits with SVA\u2019s core graduate faculty, students have extensive one-on-one contact with numerous internationally renowned visiting artists, curators, writers, and critics.  Weekly group critiques, thematic seminar courses, professional symposia, technical workshops, and field trips add to the wide-ranging and immersive conversation that forms the basis of the department\u2019s studio culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facilities and Resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Graduate students have 24-hour access to individual studios on the third floor of the 808 Building, approximately 250-350 square feet each. Most have natural light with views of Boston and Brookline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional facilities available to graduate students include printmaking facilities, a fully equipped woodshop, welding shop, ceramics facilities, black-and-white darkrooms, digital media studios including vinyl cutters and a Risograph printer. Check out more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First-of-Its-Kind Group Show Brings Together Artists from MFA Programs around Boston<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I graduated from the MFA programs as an immigrant. I came to this country looking for opportunity\u2014nobody knew me at the time, but someone did give me the opportunity to show my work. I learned from that experience that whenever I have the power, I should do something to make an opportunity for other students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Kamal Ahmad (CFA\u201916), curator and director of the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston\u2019s South End<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MFA Painting Graduates Exhibit Work at Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Into the Thicket<\/em> exhibition in New York City featuree the work of the cohort of recent Boston University graduates who completed the Master of Fine Arts in Painting program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visiting Artists<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Tuesday Night Lecture Series in the MFA program in Painting takes place nearly every week in the graduate studios. Visiting artists deliver a lecture on their work, visit studios and\/or give a workshop, and are invited to socialize afterwards with the graduate students in a more informal context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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