Visual Arts

The Visual Arts MFA Program attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, taught by internationally celebrated artists at a world-renowned research institution in New York City.

The Visual Arts Program is interdisciplinary and offers an MFA degree in Visual Arts rather than in one specific medium. The two-year studio program allows students to pursue moving image, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and expanded practice. The School also offers an undergraduate major in Visual Arts that leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by Columbia College and the School of General Studies.

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Visual Arts + Sound Art Tours

The Visual Arts MFA Program offers weekly tours of our facilities for prospective graduate students given by one of the current Visual Arts MFA students.

For tour dates and times, please visit us here.

Please meet at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Gallery in 310 Dodge Hall.