Studio Art
Master of Fine Arts
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Campus address: Art Building (ART) 3.330, phone (512) 471-3377; campus mail code: D1300
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, 2301 San Jacinto Boulevard D1300, Austin TX 78712-1421
E-mail: ktshorb@austin.utexas.edu
URL: http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/academic/studio-art/graduate/overview
Facilities for Graduate Work
The program comprises five areas: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and extended media, and transmedia. Studios for all of these areas are housed in the Art Building, and graduate students generally have access to these facilities twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Many graduate students are assigned an individual studio workspace; all students have access to a fully furnished wood shop that is also open evenings and weekends. The studio art computer lab features fully equipped Macintosh graphics workstations and auxiliary hardware and software. Students also have access to the holdings of the Fine Arts Library, which is housed in the E. William Doty Fine Arts Building.
The studios contain equipment for all of the following areas: metals, enameling kilns and equipment for fabrication, smithing, blacksmithing, and vacuum and centrifugal casting, as well as a large inventory of specialized hand tools; for painting, well-ventilated, well-lit, large individual studios within a communal suite; for photography, wet black-and-white and digital darkrooms; for printmaking, four large lithographic presses, 130 stones of various sizes, equipment for aluminum plate lithography, including photolithography, four large intaglio printing presses and a vented acid room, well-ventilated vacuum serigraphy screen tables for works as large as 3' × 5', and a fully equipped photomechanical reproduction facility for works up to 20' × 24'; for sculpture, foundry and fabrication facilities, welding equipment, saws, sanders, drill presses, and other hand and power tools; and for transmedia, computer image processors, video cameras, video mixers with chroma-key functions, 16-mm film and digital multimedia equipment, audio equipment, and a performance facility with green screen.
Areas of Study
The studio art graduate program comprises the following five studio areas and specializations: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and extended media, and transmedia. The Master of Fine Arts program emphasizes studio practice while students develop their mastery of visual and verbal forms of expression. The course of study includes studio and art history seminars, individual and group critiques, and discussions with visiting artists and critics. Students are encouraged to describe their maturing art orally and in writing to their peers and accomplished professionals.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.
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Troy D Brauntuch Sarah A Canright Michael Ray Charles Lee R Chesney III Thelma R Coles Sandra Fernandez Mark K Goodman Kenneth J Hale Amy Hauft Donald D Herron Timothy G High Teresa Hubbard Richard M Jordan Beili Liu |
Lawrence D McFarland Michael J Mogavero Leslie A Mutchler Bogdan P Perzynski Bradley R Petersen Edwin L Rifkin John Risley Margo L Sawyer Michael Smith John S Stoney Daniel D Sutherland Jeff Williams John A Yancey |
Admission Requirements
The applicant must be an early-career artist with a bachelor’s degree in studio art. Applicants with bachelor’s degrees in other fields are considered if they have completed substantial coursework in studio art and art history or have a demonstrated interest and accomplishment in studio art. Students must apply to one of the five specializations and submit online a fifteen-image portfolio representing a coherent body of work in that medium made within the previous two years. Transmedia applicants must submit work online and on DVD. Full application instructions are available on the program’s Web site.