skip 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
202 Woldenberg Art Center
6823 St. Charles
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 and applications may be obtained from the SLA
Graduate Studies website. If you have more questions about the
program, specific requirements or deadlines, please contact me at
(504) 314-2407 or email me at khjones@tulane.edu
Best
Regards,
Kevin
Jones
Graduate Coordinator
