MFA in Studio Art - Photography and Media in Austin United States | University of Texas at Austin

The Studio Art graduate program welcomes all lines of inquiry: spatial, lens-based, two-dimensional, interactive, sound, and performative. We are a multidisciplinary program using as an organizational structure the expansive territories of Painting & Drawing, Photography & Media, Print, Sculpture & Extended Media, and Transmedia.
MFA students work closely with dedicated and professionally active faculty to fine-tune existing skill sets and develop new approaches, both conceptual and technical. We have built a supportive yet stimulating community in which students are immersed in an environment of discovery, challenged to consider the depth of an individual discipline, encouraged to explore new ones, meanwhile finding overlaps in new and familiar ways.
Used to its full advantage, our curriculum is distinctive to each student's interests and particular to the assets and research strengths of the department as well as to The University of Texas at Austin. The curriculum allows for many course options giving MFA candidates progressively more studio time as their investigations become more demanding and distinct. Students develop their artist's voice, in both the ability to make images and to build intellectually upon the discourse surrounding one another's practices. Students formulate an ongoing and dynamic dialogue with faculty, peers and visiting specialists allowing for a richly informed approach and experience in art making.
Students studying Photography & Media acquire the technical skills and creative fluency needed to create resonant visual images. Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, courses challenge students to overcome preconceptions about the medium and strengthen their individual practices. With courses in traditional and digital processes, faculty members provide a multifaceted approach to the technical skills of image making and the conceptual foundations of photography.