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View from the High Line, just a few blocks from the Fine Arts building

Angela Conant poses with a hat made for Robin Winters' seminar (Photo Credit: Matthew Neiderhauser)

Art Practice faculty member Suzanne Anker's installation, "Shelf Life"

Art Practice faculty member Ernesto Pujol's "Farmers Dream" performance

Art Practice faculty member Jovana Stokic participates in Marina Abramović's "The Artist is Present"

A still from Art Practice faculty member Dara Birnbaum's "Arabesque"

MFA Art Practice candidates at Dia Beacon (Photo Credit: Matthew Neiderhauser)

Art Practice faculty member Gary Simmons' "Home and Away"

Bradford Kessler with a Dan Flavin piece at the Dia (Photo Credit: Matthew Neiderhauser)

An image from Art Practice faculty member Mark Tribe's "Port Huron Project"

Art Practice faculty member Robin Winters' "Man and Beast"

A still from Art Practice faculty member Kathy Brew's "Mixed Messages"

Art Practice faculty member Susan Hefuna's "Dream"

Announcements

Congratulations to the new MFA Art Practice Class

We look forward to welcoming the MFA Art Practice class of 2014 to SVA's campus this summer.


Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe

April 14, 2012 - August 19, 2012

Santa Monica Museum of Art presents "Origin of the Universe," a solo exhibition of work by Art Practice faculty member Mickalene Thomas. The exhibition examines art historical constructs of feminine identity, sexuality, beauty, and power in 15 works of various sizes, shapes, and media.


Kathy Brew: Going Gray

May 10, 2012 - May 23, 2012

UCLA Art | Sci Center and the Institute for Society and Genertics present "Going Gray," an exhibition of video, photography, and mixed-media work by Art Practice faculty member Kathy Brew that looks at the seemingly frivolous aspect of dying/not dying one’s hair to explore questions about aging and current cultural attitudes towards the graying of America.


Dara Birnbaum receives an Anonymous Was A Woman Grant

Art Practice faculty member Dara Birnbaum is one of ten recipients of the 2011 Anonymous Was a Woman grant. The unrestricted grant of $25,000 enables women, over 45 years of age and at a critical juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. The award is given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth and the quality of her work.

Program Concept

The Art Practice program offers a fully interdisciplinary approach to an MFA degree. We approach artmaking holistically: artists in the program are not defined or separated by medium or discipline. In this post-conceptual, post-studio era, artists pursue their practice by engaging an idea first, and then develop a plan that may involve a combination of media, technologies and techniques, some of which are linked to traditional art media, and some of which find the artist working with technologies and industries not usually associated with artmaking.

We want to help prepare artists to feel secure in their ability to find ways to produce works of art using traditional and nontraditional media in both traditional and nontraditional settings. To accomplish this, we bring together a carefully selected, small group of MFA candidates who will devote three successive summers and the two intervening years to a program in which they will engage with artists, designers, art historians and museum curators, including Vito Acconci, Cory Arcangel, Roger Black, Maurice Berger, Dara Birnbaum, Kathy Brew, Mel Chin, Liz Diller, Liam Gillick, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, James Harithas, Daniel Kunitz, Glenn Ligon, Steven Henry Madoff, Douglas Nickel, Martha Rosler, Tim Rollins, Jovana Stokic, Philippe Vergne, Carrie Mae Weems, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, and Terry Winters.

Application Deadline

The MFA Art Practice program has rolling admissions. Applications received by January 20th, 2012 will have priority for Summer 2012 admission, but we will continue to accept applications beyond that date as space permits. Decision letters will be mailed by April 1, 2012.

Program Dates

The MFA Art Practice program 2012 Summer semester will run from June 25th through August 14th, 2012.

Frequently Asked Questions
Mailing

MFA Art Practice
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
New York, NY
10010-3994

Visiting

335 West 16th Street
5th Floor
New York, NY, 10011

Email

artpractice@sva.edu

Phone

(212) 592.2781