Program Mission
The Master of Arts in art program is designed to provide candidates with advanced artistic development and professional growth as well as prepare candidates for further graduate study.
Program Details
Studio Disciplines
Course work in the studio discipline is structured to meet your needs whenever possible while maintaining a strong academic foundation. Studio disciplines include ceramics, drawing, metalsmithing/jewelry, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. You will work closely with both your instructional faculty and Masters Committee to develop a focused body of artworks designed to assist you in your pursuit of a terminal degree program in art or other professional aspirations.
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Faculty
The Art Department faculty consists of nineteen full-time teaching artists and scholars dedicated to excellence in scholarship and creative activity. The faculty have received national recognition for their scholarship and artwork. They have extensive teaching experience that provides you with the kind of personal attention that helps ensure a successful academic experience at Eastern.
Facilities
As a graduate student you will have 24/7 access to the Art Department studio facilities. The Art Department facilities include the Burl Ives Studio Hall, a building with private studios for graduate students and faculty and a large critique gallery. The Doudna Fine Arts Center is a 269,380 square-foot state-of-the-art performance and teaching complex for the department of art, music and theatre arts. Instructional spaces for the art department include well-equipped studio labs for printmaking, painting, drawing, metalsmithing, ceramics, sculpture and art education. Art history instructional spaces include two multi-media lecture classrooms and a seminar room.
The art department is further complemented by the Tarble Arts Center, a major regional art center. Every academic year the Tarble Arts Center and Art Department bring a series of visiting artists to campus. Besides attending the public lecture/presentation or, if scheduled, participating in a workshop, you will have the opportunity to interact with many of the visiting artists through individual or group graduate critiques.
Visiting Artists
Past visiting artists have included: Wangechi Mutu, Beverly Fishman, Paul Henry Ramirez, Vera Klement, Jim Lutes, Jill Downen, Dan Anderson, Joan Livingstone, Amy Honchell, Laurie Hogin, Alex Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Bernard Williams, Guerrilla Girls, Pat Oleszko, and Ed Paschke.
MA Alumni
Graduates of the program have gone on to leading M.F.A. programs including Cranbrook Academy of Art, Boston University, University of Chicago, Claremont University, University of Notre Dame, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Royal College of Art in London.
2011 Graduate Art Exhibition
Annual group thesis exhibition presents works in painting, drawing, weaving, printmaking, and sculpture created by 2010-2011 graduate students in the MA Art Studio program: Lei Curtis, Margaret Crowly, Jessica Harman, Kristy Hughes, Colby Julian, Jeneba Koroma, Jonathan Massullo, Crystal Means, Ashley Moore, Elizabeth Turrisi, and Sean Walker. Click on picture below to see the album of images from exhibition.
