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to Department of Art Guidelines
for Master of Fine Arts Degree
Dear
MFA program applicant,
Thank
you for your interest in the studio graduate program at Tulane
University. Through the School of Liberal Arts, the Newcomb Art
Department offers the MFA degree in a relatively small, intensive,
two-year residency program that emphasizes close interaction with
faculty and peers. Degree requirements focus on studio work but
include four MFA seminar classes and two graduate level courses
in the history of art. Students are provided with a private studio
and 24-hour access to general facilities.
The
Woldenberg Art Center offers some of the finest facilities available.
Sculpture houses an extensive metal foundry and wood shop. Ceramics
includes general studio workrooms as well as clay and glaze mixing
rooms and kiln room. Glass houses both a hot and cold shop. Printmaking
has facilities for intaglio, lithography and silkscreen as well
as its own darkroom. Photography includes graduate and main darkrooms,
a developing room, print mounting room, lighting studio, lecture
and demo room and a digital imaging room. Painting and drawing
maintains four rooms with full walls of natural north light and
color-balanced lighting. The 1,600 sq. ft. Carroll Gallery in
the Newcomb Art Wing is dedicated to student and faculty exhibitions,
providing opportunities for showing new student work in addition
to regular thesis exhibitions. The new 3,500-sq. ft. Newcomb Art
Gallery features temporary exhibitions of contemporary and historic
visual art on a year-round basis.
Application
deadline is February 1st. Please note that the GRE is not required
of MFA applicants in studio art. You may complete almost all of
the steps for the application process online. Alternately, you
may download the application and forms and mail them to:
Tulane
University
School of Liberal Arts
Director of Graduate Studies
102 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Your
supporting materials of college transcripts, 20 - 35mm good quality
labeled slides of your work or a CD should be mailed to:
Newcomb
Art Department
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Slides
should be of recent pieces and indicate your primary interest
and direction. The studio art faculty reviews all applications
in the first week of March and makes recommendations to the School
of Liberal Arts on candidates to accept. All admitted students
receive a financial aid package that consists of a tuition waiver
and an assistantship stipend of $13,000 per year. Further information
may be obtained from our web site at www.tulane.edu/~art/
If you have more questions about the program, specific requirements
or deadlines, please contact me at (504) 314-2412
or email me at schism@tulane.edu
