202 Center for the Arts
Buffalo NY
The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications for its MFA in Studio Art degree.
The MFA is a two-year interdisciplinary program where students, faculty, visiting artists and curators participate in energetic contemporary art discourse. Students engage with the program through independently driven studio practice alongside thematic labs, research, academic electives, seminars, studio visits, group critiques, and exhibitions, as well as with a vibrant professional arts community. Our students go on to build internationally celebrated careers in the Arts.
The Department of Art is situated within an “R1” designated research University, enabling access to knowledge bases across a wide range of creative and academic fields. The Department, located in the Center for the Arts, houses the Departments of Art, Media Study, Theater and Dance as well as the UB Art Galleries’ CFA Gallery.
Our curriculum encourages interdisciplinary studio practice and research. As such, each student works closely with a thesis committee of full-time faculty to focus conceptual experimentation, personal and intellectual exploration, critical thinking, and self-directed production towards a publicly presented exhibition.
Our program offers fully funded teaching appointments to gain professional teaching experience, as well as health insurance. Funding options include full-tuition scholarships for all MFA students.
Each MFA candidate works in spacious individual studios with access to extensive departmental facilities: from manual and digital fabrication tools, photography facilities including photo processing labs (black and white and color) to print media and audio production equipment and labs. Students also have access to the Art and Science laboratory Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts and The Project Space for experimental exhibitions.
Department of Art Full-time faculty include Marc Böhlen, Becky Brown, Noah Breuer, Crystal Z. Campbell, Millie Chen, Kelly Myers-Chunco, Maximilian Goldfarb, Berin Golonu, George Afedzi Hughes, Matt Kenyon, Joan Linder, Julia Lillie, John Opera, Abdi Osman, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Stephanie Rothenberg, Theo Triandos, Victoria Udondian, and Paul Vanouse.
The application deadline is Wednesday, January 15, 2025. The Schomburg Fellowship Program application deadline is December 9, 2024.
If you have questions about the MFA in studio arts, please contact Maximilian Goldfarb, Director of Graduate Studies: MG229 [at] Buffalo.edu.
