Visual Arts + Sound Art

MFA Degree

The Visual Arts + Sound Art Program offers students many opportunities to expand the depth and complexity of their studio practice as well as their ability to think critically in the context of contemporary art theory. To that end, students have regular studio visits with faculty as well as invited guest artists and critics who offer critical insight into both the form and underlying ideas of students’ artistic work.

Floating World (72 x 96 in, oil and collage on canvas, 2021) by Ian Decker
Visual Arts

The MFA degree in Visual Arts is an interdisciplinary two-year studio program, allowing 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.

>19980 (3’30”, 2­channel video projection with stereo sound, 2018) by mengtai zhang
Sound Art

An interdepartmental program in association with the Department of Music and the Computer Music Center that leads to an MFA degree in Visual Arts.

Fall 2025 Admissions Deadlines

Information Sessions

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.