MFA in Critical & Curatorial Studies

MFA in Art with a concentration in Critical & Curatorial Studies

Application deadline:March 1, 2014

The program educates graduate students to pursue careers in the fields of curatorial practice, art criticism, and public programming. Upon completion of this three-year program, students will be well versed in debates that define art and visual culture from modernism to the present, capable of conceiving new models of contemporary exhibition and criticism, and trained to execute professional, innovative projects in the field. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, taught and administered by a core faculty selected from the Department of Art and the Visual Studies PhD program in the School of the Humanities, a collaboration designed to prepare students for careers in such visual art venues as museums, art galleries, publications, and archives. The curriculum and resulting degree combine aspects of MA and MFA training, reflecting the concentration’s location in the School of the Arts and its partnership with the School of Humanities.

Faculty—from the Department of Art: Juli Carson (director), Kevin Appel, Miles Coolidge, Daniel Martinez, Litia Perta, and Bruce Yonemoto; from the Visual Studies program: Cécile Whiting, Bridget R. Cooks, Bliss Cua Lim, Catherine Liu, and James Nisbet.

Application and additional information can be found here.

UC Irvine
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
3229 Art Culture and Technology
Irvine, CA 92697-2775
studioart.arts.uci.edu