University of Minnesota Master of Fine Art Supporting Paper
Twin Cities campus
 | Twin Cities Campus Fine art G.F.A.Fine art Department Link to a listing of faculty for this plan. Department of Art, E201 Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Avenue Due south, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-8096; fax: 612-625-7881).
Along with the plan-specific requirements listed below, please read the Full general Data section of this website for requirements that apply to all major fields. The MFA program places major emphasis on artistic artistic piece of work of high quality. It promotes not only the conceptual and technical education of the professional person artist in their artistic do, encouraging critical research, excellence, and an understanding of the history of art, but also an experimental approach toward each media. The following iv areas of report are available: Cartoon, Painting, and Printmaking; Sculpture and Ceramics; Photography and Moving Images; Interdisciplinary Fine art and Social Practice. The MFA is considered a final caste in the field of fine arts and is typically the caste required to teach at the college or university level. Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the programme is iii.00. Admission to the MFA program is highly competitive. In improver to meeting the University's awarding requirements, students applying to the programme must demonstrate a high degree of capability and delivery in their artistic portfolio and in their statements of artistic and academic intent. Applicants must submit a portfolio electronically with documentation of artwork completed in the three years prior to admission. Instructions for submitting the portfolio and supplemental materials including 3 letters of recommendation may be plant at the department's website: world wide web.art.umn.edu Students are admitted for fall semester only. International applicants must submit score(s) from 1 of the post-obit tests:
Central to test abbreviations (TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB). For an online application or for more than information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website. Programme Requirements Plan B: Program B requires 58 major credits and six credits outside the major. The final exam is oral. A capstone project is required. Capstone Projection: The capstone projection comprises participation in the University�s Katherine E. Nash Gallery MFA thesis exhibition and a supporting paper. This program may be completed with a modest. Employ of 4xxx courses toward plan requirements is permitted nether certain conditions with adviser approval. A minimum GPA of 2.lxxx is required for students to remain in practiced standing. At least ii semesters must be completed before filing a Degree Program Class. The MFA is a iii-year, total-time program, that provides studio infinite for the three sequent years for the pursuit of artistic inquiry. Seminar Courses (nine credits) Take the following courses. ARTS 8402 must exist taken fall of Yr 1; Take ARTS 8403 Spring of Year 2; ARTS 8404 must be taken fall of Year 3. ARTS 8402 - Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art (3.0 cr) ARTS 8403 - MFA Professional Practices and Teaching Pedagogy (3.0 cr) ARTS 8404 - MFA Thesis Research + Writing (3.0 cr) MFA Critique Seminars (ix credits) Accept ARTS 8410 autumn of Year one, leap of Year 1, and autumn of Yr 2. ARTS 8410 - MFA Critique Seminar (3.0 cr) Studio Credits (24 credits) Select credits from the following in consultation with the advisor. ARTS 8420 can exist repeated. ARTS 5110 - Advanced Drawing (4.0 cr) ARTS 5120 - Avant-garde Painting (4.0 cr) ARTS 5140 - Advanced Printmaking (iv.0 cr) ARTS 5230 - Advanced Fine art + Sound (iv.0 cr) ARTS 5250 - Art + Operation (4.0 cr) ARTS 5260 - Art + Interdisciplinary Collaborations (3.0 cr) ARTS 5610 - New Media: Making Fine art Interactive (four.0 cr) ARTS 5710 - Avant-garde Photography and Moving Image Projects (4.0 cr) ARTS 5750 - Advanced Narrative Digital Filmmaking (4.0 cr) ARTS 5760 - Experimental Film and Video (4.0 cr) ARTS 5780 - Avant-garde Super viii and xvi MM Filmmaking (four.0 cr) ARTS 5810 - Avant-garde Ceramics (four.0 cr) ARTS 5850 - Advanced Foundry and Metallic Sculpture (four.0 cr) ARTS 5860 - Avant-garde Sculpture (4.0 cr) ARTS 5890 - 3D Modeling and Digital Fabrication (4.0 cr) GCC 5013 - Making Sense of Climate Change - Scientific discipline, Fine art, and Agency [CIV] (3.0 cr) Outside Coursework (6 credits) Select at least vi credits of art theory or fine art history coursework, in consultation with the advisor, from the following. Other courses may exist substituted with prior approving from the director of graduate studies. ARTH 5xxx Artistic Thesis (16 credits) Have viii credits each semester of Year three in consultation with the advisor. ARTS 8450 - MFA Creative Thesis (ane.0-ix.0 cr) | | | |
ARTS 8402 - Theoretical Constructions in Contemporary Art
| Credits: | iii.0 [max three.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Structure for examining and understanding current disquisitional exercise. Evaluation and questions nigh assumptions of theory in context of current artistic production.
ARTS 8403 - MFA Professional Practices and Instruction Pedagogy
| Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
| Grading Ground: | A-F only |
| Typically offered: | Every Bound |
This course is intended to provide a context for developing a career as an creative person and explore how to create a sustainable artistic practice. This class volition also explore bug in contemporary arts education through multiple approaches and best practices in education education. A primary goal of the course is to provide the Department of Art graduate instructors with an opportunity develop educational activity skills before entering the classroom, access to UMN educational activity resources and of import information regarding expectations of Academy of Minnesota instructors and courses. Through visiting creative person presentations, every bit well as those past professionals in arts administration, non-profits, established and non-traditional galleries, curators, critics, and recent art graduates, we will also examine the rich ecology of the arts in the Twin Cities customs. We volition besides explore how to navigate the arts terrain successfully as an artist.
ARTS 8404 - MFA Thesis Research + Writing
| Credits: | 3.0 [max iii.0] |
| Grading Footing: | A-F merely |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall |
This workshop aims to facilitate the writing process of the MFA Thesis Supporting Paper for third-twelvemonth graduate students. In accordance with the MFA advisory transmission, students are challenged to articulate their creative investigations and processes too as philosophical and critical perspectives adult throughout their course of written report. By the time third-year reviews take place in December, students are expected to have a total-length draft of their text (fifteen pages, double-spaced, 12-signal type) that names relevant reference points of the work, historical and contemporary art influences, a bibliography, and completes the requirements laid out in the MFA Advising Transmission.
ARTS 8410 - MFA Critique Seminar
| Credits: | 3.0 [max 12.0] |
| Grading Basis: | A-F only |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Taken for three semesters during the beginning and 2d twelvemonth of the program, the MFA Critique Seminar provides candidates with an intellectual community and critical forum in which they may examination, temper, and overstate the ideas that underlie their creative goals. The seminar will meet weekly to critique, in rotation, the work-in-progress of all candidates. The cross-disciplinary nature of the chat is meant to foster the widest possible dialogue amidst artists, encourage divergent thinking and discourage the easy acceptance of received notions. The seminar will also include, critiques, and discussions with visiting artists, curators, etc.
ARTS 5110 - Advanced Drawing
| Credits: | 4.0 [max xvi.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
This studio form provides students the opportunity to investigate individual ideas and work on cocky-guided projects within a communal learning environment. Students will be encouraged to develop and execute their ideas with skillfulness and clarity. Through a consideration of diverse materials and practices, students will develop a proficiency in the language of gimmicky drawing or painting. This form is designed to assist students in making connections between their ain piece of work and larger global themes and issues. Group and individual critiques, field trips, reviewing the work of other artists and readings volition supplement studio work. Students are expected to spend fourth dimension working on their projects outside of scheduled grade time. prereq: Art major and ARTS 3110
ARTS 5120 - Advanced Painting
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 16.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Bound |
This studio course provides students the opportunity to investigate private ideas and work on self-guided projects within a communal learning surroundings. Students volition exist encouraged to develop and execute their ideas with skillfulness and clarity. Through a consideration of diverse materials and practices, students will develop a proficiency in the linguistic communication of contemporary painting. This course is designed to assist students make connections between their own work and larger global themes and issues. Group and individual critiques, field trips, reviewing the work of other artists and readings volition supplement studio work. Students are expected to spend time working on their paintings outside of scheduled course fourth dimension. prereq: ARTS 3120 and ARTS major
ARTS 5140 - Advanced Printmaking
| Credits: | 4.0 [max xvi.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Autumn & Jump |
In-depth research of personal imagery using a wide range of historical and contemporary applications. Development of imagery using color, photo-mechanical, digital processes. Cantankerous-media approaches. Prereq: ARTS 3130
ARTS 5230 - Avant-garde Art + Audio
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Sound art exercise/theory. Emphasizes individual artistic projects using sound every bit primary material. History of experimental sound art from early on 20th century to present. Critiques, readings, writing, public presentations. prereq: ARTS major and 3605 or 3230
ARTS 5250 - Art + Performance
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Form Equivalencies: | ArtS 3250/ArtS 5250 |
| Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Bound |
Studio practise in performance art and installation; investigation of historical and contemporary methods and concepts of interdisciplinary expression. Evolution of personal imagery. Prereq: ARTS major
ARTS 5260 - Art + Interdisciplinary Collaborations
| Credits: | three.0 [max 9.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Interdisciplinary, collaborative artist teams explore modes of creative expression at intersections of the arts. Students collaborate to co-writer/produce works of art for pubic presentation. Emphazes integration of media arts with visual art, music, dance, and theater to produce interdisciplinary/collaborative art. prereq: Upper-sectionalization undergraduate or graduate educatee in art, artistic writing, dance, music or theater.
ARTS 5610 - New Media: Making Fine art Interactive
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Conceptual/aesthetic development with digital, interactive art. Experimental approaches to interactive technologies. Projects with responsive/tangible media. Theory/history of new media. prereq: 3601 or instr consent
ARTS 5710 - Avant-garde Photography and Moving Image Projects
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 16.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Blueprint/implementation of individual advanced projects. Demonstrations, lectures, critique. Reading, writing, word of related manufactures/exhibitions. prereq: previously completed a 3XXX course in Photography or Moving Images and Art major
ARTS 5750 - Advanced Narrative Digital Filmmaking
| Credits: | four.0 [max 12.0] |
| Grade Equivalencies: | ArtS 3750/ArtS 5750 |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Narrative forms of video. Documentary, alive activeness, memoir, experimental forms. Digital video production and editing. Personal aesthetic and conceptual directions. Theory, critical readings about historical and contemporary works in video. prereq: 3750
ARTS 5760 - Experimental Picture show and Video
| Credits: | iv.0 [max 12.0] |
| Course Equivalencies: | ArtS 3760/ArtS 5760 |
| Typically offered: | Every Autumn & Spring |
Experimental approaches in producing digital video inside a contemporary art context. Using digital media technologies in installation, functioning, and interactive video art. Emphasizes expanding personal creative development. Theoretical issues, critical/historical readings/writings in media arts. prereq: ARTS major, ARTS 1704
ARTS 5770 - Animation
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Course Equivalencies: | ArtS 3770/ArtS 5770 |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Creating ideas visually with 2- and 3-dimensional animation technologies. Vector- and layer-based raster animation. Modeling objects and spaces, creating textures, lighting, movement, sound rails. prereq: Fine art major
ARTS 5780 - Advanced Super eight and xvi MM Filmmaking
| Credits: | four.0 [max 8.0] |
| Course Equivalencies: | ArtS 3780/ArtS 5780 |
| Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Leap |
This course will explore the medium of Super viii filmmaking in the tradition of the experimental and avant �garde. We will focus on the physicality of the film stock, the basic mechanics of the camera and projector, and how these elements translate into a visual linguistic communication and aesthetic. Students will learn how to shoot, process, edit, splice, projection, and transfer their own super 8 films. This form will balance the technical, conceptual, and historical aspects of small-scale gauge or amateur analog filmmaking, and address what it means to work in this medium at the showtime of the 21st century. The class will include presentations, readings, and discussions on contemporary and historical artists in the medium, as well as exterior film screenings and lectures. Classroom visits by artists will as well provide an informed context for the primary grade objective. Prereq: Art major
ARTS 5810 - Advanced Ceramics
| Credits: | 4.0 [max xvi.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Autumn & Spring |
Critical discourse of aesthetics. History of, gimmicky problems in dirt and criticism. Independent, advanced projects. prereq: ARTS major and ARTS 3820 or ARTS 3830
ARTS 5850 - Advanced Foundry and Metal Sculpture
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Class Equivalencies: | ArtS 3850/ArtS 5850 |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Metallic casting of sculpture in statuary, iron, aluminum, other metals. Studio practice, investigation of historical/contemporary methods and concepts. Development of personal sculptural imagery. prereq: Art major
ARTS 5860 - Advanced Sculpture
| Credits: | 4.0 [max 12.0] |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
This advanced Sculpture course is a self-motivated and self-directed studio class to help you develop and maintain a personal studio practice. The construction of this studio form provides space for in-depth research, thought development, individual exploration, experimentation, play and critical feedback. Prereq: ARTS major and ARTS 3860
ARTS 5890 - 3D Modeling and Digital Fabrication
| Credits: | iv.0 [max 12.0] |
| Course Equivalencies: | ArtS 3890/ArtS 5890 |
| Typically offered: | Every Spring |
In this course, students volition learn the bones skills of 3D calculator modeling and digital fabrication to generate objects using the Department of Fine art's 3D Printers, 3-axis CNC Router, and Laser Cutter. Didactics includes computer modeling in Adobe Illustrator and Rhino, transfer of files, and object fabrication. Prereq: ARTS major
ARTS 8420 - MFA Studio
| Credits: | 1.0 -6.0 [max 36.0] |
| Grading Basis: | A-F only |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
This graduate level directed report offers students the opportunity to work with individual kinesthesia. Students arrange regular meetings and develop a proposal for the semester, which is approved by the instructor. Prior to registration, the student must contact the faculty member with whom they hope to piece of work.
GCC 5013 - Making Sense of Climate change - Science, Fine art, and Agency (CIV)
| Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
| Course Equivalencies: | GCC 3013/GCC 5013 |
| Grading Basis: | A-F but |
| Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
The overarching theme of the course is the office of artistic/humanistic ways of knowing as tools for making sense and pregnant in the face up of "grand challenges." Our culture tends to privilege science, and to isolate it from the "purposive" disciplines--arts and humanities--that assist humanity ask and answer hard questions virtually what should be done about our k challenges. In this form, we volition examine climatic change science, with a particular focus on how climatic change is expected to affect fundamental ecological systems such as forests and farms and resource for vital biodiversity such every bit pollinators. Nosotros will study the work of artists who take responded to climate change science through their creative practice to make sense and meaning of climate change. Finally, students create collaborative public art projects that will become part of local community festivals/events tardily in the semester. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course.
ARTS 8450 - MFA Creative Thesis
| Credits: | 1.0 -9.0 [max 18.0] |
| Grading Basis: | A-F only |
| Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Enquiry/studio piece of work in preparation for thesis exhibition. Third year students are required to complete 18 cr. of this grade in their final twelvemonth. Prior to registration, the student must contact the faculty member with whom they hope to work.
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