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

Art Practice participants pose with hats made for Robin Winters' seminar (Photo Credit: Matt Pozorski)

Art Practice participants rock climb with Natalie Jeremijenko

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

Art Practice participant Rosanna Scimeca experiments with molecular cuisine

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

An installation view of Art Practice faculty member Kathy Brew's "Going Gray"

Art Practice participant Seirin Nagano in Ernesto Pujol's performance workshop

Announcements

Apply to the MFA Art Practice Program

The graduate online application to the School of Visual Arts is now available. MFA Art Practice continues to accept applications as space remains in the program. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible.

[UN]NATURAL LIMITS at the Austrian Culture Forum New York

January 23, 2013 - April 1, 2013

Art Practice Participant Mathias Kessler has a site specific piece included in the [UN]NATURAL LIMITS exhibition at the Austrian Culture Forum in New York City.

We're All Videofreex

You can now view the MFA Art Practice sponsored symposium, "We're All Videofreex: Changing Media and Social Change from Portapak to Smartphone" on iTunesU. The symposium, co-chaired by MFA Art Practice Chair David A. Ross, included presentations by members of the seminal video activist collective, the Videofreex, as well as analysis by artists, scholars and media historians, including Deirdre Boyle, Elizabeth Coffman and Art Practice faculty member Mark Tribe.

Modern Painters Artists to Watch:

Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir

Art Practice Participant Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir (MFA AP13) is featured in Modern Painters' "Artists to Watch" issue as one of "24 young international talents you'll want to know."

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, Dara Birnbaum, Kathy Brew, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Laura F. Gibellini, Liam Gillick, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Natalie Jeremijenko, Daniel Kunitz, Steven Henry Madoff, Martha Rosler, Tim Rollins, Sarah Sharp, Lorna Simpson, Jovana Stokic, Elisabeth Sussman, Philippe Vergne, Carrie Mae Weems, Robin Winters and Terry Winters.

Application Deadline

The MFA Art Practice program has rolling admissions. Applications received by January 15th, 2013 will have priority for Summer 2013 admission, but we will continue to accept applications beyond that date as space permits. Decision letters will be mailed by April 1, 2013.

Program Dates

The MFA Art Practice program 2013 Summer semester runs from June 24th through August 13th, 2013.

Frequently Asked Questions

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