OPEN CALL: MFA in Studio Art and MA in Art History
The USF School of Art & Art History invites applications to its MFA in Studio Art and MA in Art History.
Focus on your work with generous financial packages, including full tuition waivers for all students; fellowships; professional development funding; and graduate assistantships providing the opportunity to teach courses, assist professors, or work at local art institutions such as USF’s American Alliance of Museums accredited Contemporary Art Museum, USF’s distinguished print atelier Graphicstudio, or the Morean Art Center in neighboring St. Petersburg—a hub for ceramics, glass, and community arts engagement.
Immerse yourself in a dynamic atmosphere with ongoing opportunities for dialogue with the faculty, other graduate students and a world-class program of visiting artists, critics and scholars. Our visitors conduct lectures, teach seminars, hold workshops, provide studio visits (2-3 per year per MFA graduate student), hold roundtable discussions with MA students, and contribute writing for our MFA thesis catalog.
Past and scheduled visitors include Matt Bollinger, Julie Curtiss, Thierry de Duve, Coco Fusco, Blake Gopnik, Gordon Hall, Kalup Linzy, Todd McGowan, Jiha Moon, Michael Rakowitz, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Amy Sillman, and Carmen Winant. Recent and upcoming MFA thesis catalog writers include former editor of Spike Art Magazine Laurie Rojas and former senior critic of Hyperallergic Seph Rodney.
Students also have the opportunity to participate in the school’s annual subsidized field trips to New York, Art Basel, and our study abroad program in Paris.
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree at the University of South Florida’s School of Art & Art History is an idea-centered three-year program that encourages broad media exploration, interdisciplinary projects, and engagement with current theoretical and cultural issues.
Maximize your potential in a course of study carefully designed for in-depth investigations of your chosen artistic ideas, themes and/or media. Learn more about our curriculum here.
Develop and refine techniques that best communicate the content of your artistic pursuits with individual private studios, on- and off-campus gallery spaces, and 24-hour access to equipment and facilities.
Areas of study
MFA students have the option of focusing their studies in one discipline or learning in any combination of the following: Animation & Digital Modeling, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture & Extended Media, and Video.
Studio Faculty
Neil Bender, John Byrd, Marcus DeSieno, McArthur Freeman, Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Sue Havens, Ezra Johnson, Jason Lazarus, Noelle Mason, Vanessa Mayoraz, Anat Pollack, Susanna Wallin, Joo Yeon Woo, Shengwei Zhou.
Master of Arts in Art History
The Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of South Florida’s School of Art & Art History is a unique two-year program featuring small, writing-intensive seminar-style courses emphasizing critical theory and interdisciplinary approaches.
Engage in advanced research on current issues in art history as you immerse yourself in the study of art and visual culture. Learn more about our curriculum here.
Areas of study
MA students have the option of focusing their studies in one discipline or learning in any combination of the following: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, 19th-Century, Modern, Contemporary, and Islamic Art; Critical Museum Studies.
Art History Faculty
Esra Akin-Kivanc, Pam Brekka, Sheramy Bundrick, Elisabeth Fraser, Riccardo Marchi, Jocelyn Marshall, Helena Szepe.
For more information, on how to apply to the MFA program, visit here; for the MA program, visit here.
Please send all program inquiries to our Graduate Program Facilitator Ryne Heslin at rheslin@usf.edu.