Fine Arts Building
2000 Lakeshore dr.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70148
USA
Hours: Monday–Friday 4pm–8am
T +1 504 280 6493
F +1 504 280 7346
jrineha1@uno.edu
The MFA in Fine Arts degree program fosters students’ creative, intellectual, and professional development as artists who produce excellent work, are able to discuss and contextualize their work cogently, and who are prepared to enter various career paths available to artists. Course work emphasizes advanced studio practices, art history, theory, and criticism. A Visiting Artist Program that brings a wide range of artists and scholars to campus on a regular basis enhances the MFA experience by providing lectures, workshops, and critiques. The program culminates in an exhibition of a body of work, a written thesis that supports the work, and an oral defense of both.
The MFA, Fine Arts degree program at the University of New Orleans requires extensive research and writing as a fundamental aspect of artistic practice. Applicants to the program should document a desire and ability to engage in the highest level of discourse in all components of the program.
Important information
–2 and 3 year MFA options
–We offer graduate assistantships which includes a stipend and tuition waiver
–Available scholarships
–Interdisciplinary multimedia experimentation
–Individual studio space
–Emphasis on contemporary practices
–Close faculty mentorship and small student faculty ratio
–Strong visiting artist program which includes individual studio visits: Mark Dion, Andrea Frasier, Hew Locke, Paul Chan, Dario Robleto, Ivan Navarro
–Intensive individual and group based critiques
–Prospect New Orleans partner
–Accessible experimental and established art scenes
–Open access to digital printing lab, printmaking studio and sculpture facilities
–Solo thesis exhibition
