克莱蒙研究大学

In Claremont Graduate University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program, you make your own art, in your own dedicated studio, and build a career as a culturally effective professional artist.

At the heart of the MFA program is the freedom to create. CGU’s MFA program has no agendas regarding forms, styles, materials, or approaches. It is wholly studio-based, devoted to giving you time and space to develop as a thinking artist. During two years of intensive study, the program will catalyze your thinking and research, maximize your time in the studio, and prepare you to exhibit your work in public with a clear and compelling vision.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Collaborate with other students and learn from professional artists and critics in your studio, not in a classroom
Work one-on-one with faculty who are internationally recognized artists committed to strengthening your artistic vision
Benefit from CGU’s proximity to the Los Angeles art community, the largest concentration of arts activity in the country
Draw inspiration from visiting lecturers, conferences, and pop-up shows
Take advantage of access to the faculties and resources from the highly ranked institutions of The Claremont Colleges

Curriculum

Unit Breakdown

Minimum 24 units of studio art
Minimum 20 academic course units

Required Courses

8 units Survey of Contemporary Art (two 4-unit classes)
8 units Ideas in Contemporary Art (two 4-unit classes)
4 units Written Statement Seminar (two 2-unit classes; one in the second semester and one in the third)
24 units of studio coursework (may include 3 units of MFA)
MFA Project, which is taken in the fourth semester
16 units maximum of electives

MFA Project

Advancement Paper: In your third semester, you will write an advancement paper that clarifies what it is you do as artist. Your faculty committee will review it.
Advancement Meeting: Held in your studio for one hour with your committee members to help focus your ideas and the development of your work in preparation for your MFA exhibition.
MFA Exhibition: The culmination of your time in the studio, in which you give a public exhibition of your art work.