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New York Academy of Art (NYAA)
The New York Academy of Art is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training the fine arts with active critical discourse.
Summer Undergraduate Residency Program
A four week intensive program designed for ambitious undergraduates and recent graduates ready to refined their craft and expand their artistic voice.
Courses include: Drawing (Exploration of the Human Form), Theory, (The Trajectory of Contemporary Artistic Practice), Cultural Studies (Museums, Galleries, Artist Studios), Dialogues in Painting (Traditional Materials), Sculpting the Figure (Perceptual Modeling).
Admission is competitive and based on portfolio review. Apply your SURP Tuition Toward Graduate Study!
Courses include: Drawing (Exploration of the Human Form), Theory, (The Trajectory of Contemporary Artistic Practice), Cultural Studies (Museums, Galleries, Artist Studios), Dialogues in Painting (Traditional Materials), Sculpting the Figure (Perceptual Modeling).
Admission is competitive and based on portfolio review. Apply your SURP Tuition Toward Graduate Study!
Contact Information
Address: 111 Franklin Street, New York, NY. 10013
Email: admissions@nyaa.edu
Phone: (212) 966-0300
Website: New York Academy of Art
San Francisco State University - School of Design (MA in Design)
The School of Design at San Francisco State offers a Master of Arts program in design to students from both design and non-design backgrounds. Their program serves students interested in deepening their study of design, as well as those looking to transition to design-related careers.
Graduate students work directly with faculty whose expertise spans product design, graphic and visual communication design, user experience design, and digital modeling and fabrication. The school is deeply committed to design for social justice, seeking to apply design and design thinking to issues of both local and global concern.
Contact Information
Address: San Francisco State University, College of Liberal & Creative Arts, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Fine Arts Building, Room 121, San Francisco, CA 94132
Email: design@sfsu.edu
Phone: 415-338-2211
Website: SFSU School of Design
San Diego State University - School of Art and Design (MA in Art History | MFA in Art)
MA in Art History
The MA in Art History at San Diego State University provides advanced study of histories and theories of art and visual culture across global traditions and periods. Situated on the US-Mexico border and the Pacific Rim, the program reflects the School of Art and Design’s commitment to transnational and cross-cultural inquiry, with faculty specialists in the art of the Americas, Asia and the Asian diaspora, the African diaspora, and Europe. As part of an interdisciplinary School, students will engage not only the histories of art, but also of architecture, craft, design, and new media, alongside thematic strengths in contemporary art, performance, feminist practices, and technology.
MFA in Art
The School of Art and Design offers graduate study leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree in Art. The objective of this program is to provide the essential theoretical education, technical training, and creative experience necessary for professional activity and college-level teaching in the visual arts. Students in the degree program are supported by dedicated and engaged faculty members with a broad range of research interests, explored through art history, ceramics, exhibition design and curatorial practice, furniture design and woodworking, graphic design, interactive design, interior architecture, jewelry and metalwork, multimedia, painting and printmaking, photography, sculpture, and socially-engaged art and design practice.
San Diego State University - School of Theatre, Television, and Film (MFA in Film and Television Production)
For more than four decades, SDSU’s program in Television, Film and New Media has been an ardent champion of independent thought and approaches to the production and study of media. Our program prepares students to become leaders in production and criticism, navigating the mainstream and independent media worlds with the ethical acuity of community action and global citizenship. Situated between Los Angeles and an international border, our program combines the benefits of proximity to the mainstream entertainment industry with the perspectives and opportunities offered by a binational backdrop.
Students are immersed in the tandem pillars of a state-of-the-art production education and a forward-thinking cinema studies curriculum. TFM’s facilities include industry-grade production and post-production centers, scene shops, and sets. The Hollywood Reporter ranks the program’s production design emphasis as one of the world’s ten best. The cinema studies curriculum brings life to the possibilities of the media, from the rich aesthetic histories that enliven the cinematic arts, to today’s most pressing conversations around media industries, global cultures, and identity, led by the pioneering Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Identify and develop personal themes in their creative work that will resonate with intended audiences.
- Distinguish film genres and production styles from both the history of film and current trends.
- Implement preparatory research and individual perspectives into a cohesive work of art.
- Master the organization and management of a substantial short film or written production
- Integrate production deadlines and other collaborative commitments into workflow.
- Develop a professional level of craft in specific areas of film production.
- Integrate production deadlines and other collaborative commitments into workflow.
- Demonstrate fluency in the directing, shooting and editing of a project, or in the organization, content, and format of a creative written project.
Contact Information
Address: San Diego State University, School of Art and Design, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182 (Art North 505)
Email: artgrad@sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6511
Website: SDSU School of Art and Design
Address: San Diego State University, School of Theatre, Television, and Film,5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182 (DA 201)
Email: ttf@sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-5091
Website: SDSU Film and Television Production