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Virtual Open House - Tuesday, May 5, 2026: 5-6:30 p.m.
Join us at one of our upcoming virtual Graduate School Open House events on Zoom! You'll have the opportunity to learn more about 蘑菇短视频, understand the Graduate School application process, and meet key program representatives.
The MFA at 蘑菇短视频is an interdisciplinary studio art program and creative research environment where ideas are given form. Through close association with a diverse faculty, visiting artists, scholars, and their peers, students develop a contextual and historical awareness of their practice focusing on exploration, creative research, and art making. The MFA at 蘑菇短视频positions students to engage in conceptual strategies towards the independence necessary to navigate as professional artists and creative world citizens.
College of Fine and Performing Arts
What You'll Learn
The MFA degree at 蘑菇短视频is earned through a 60-credit program structure of coursework, independent creative research, and art production. Through close interaction with our faculty of professional practicing artists, students are given guidance and expertise in a wide variety of media that is rigorously examined, reviewed and critiqued. Students also engage in a broad range of related experiences in contemporary art through programs and initiatives to complement the development of their studio practice. All graduate students are provided with ample studio space and given the freedom of choice to work in a specific discipline or across any of our five areas: Ceramics, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Printmaking + Book-Arts, and Sculpture.
Where You'll Go
The current generation of students has learned to interface with the world in a whole new way, with the computer and mobile phone, as their main creative and communicative tools. They are fortunate and poised to take advantage of the possibilities and new initiatives across the spectrum of disciplines. Working with different perspectives and knowledge provides a cultural landscape where exciting and unexpected ideas can emerge from the exchange, embracing new forms of inquiry, new technologies, and new production.
More About Our Master in Fine Art
Whether you are a student looking for the next level of creative study or a working artist, attending graduate school is an act of self-investment. Our program is a 60 credit 3-year Masters of Fine Art in studio art that offers the freedom for both specialization and interdisciplinary experimentation. Supported by excellent faculty and facilities in Ceramics, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking + Book Arts, Painting/Drawing and Design, our MFA is designed to encourage independent research and creative risk-taking.
Students are provided with private or semi-private studios and 24/7 year-round access.
Our small program size of 12 - 15 graduates offers a high faculty to student ratio
and individualized attention with visiting artists, lecturers and critics. Graduate
Assistantships are awarded to each student, travel and workshop funding is available,
and our curriculum provides an opportunity for students to teach as an Instructor
of Record in a range of discipline-specific studio classes.
We are a 682-acre mountain campus located in Cullowhee, NC, 50 miles west of Asheville,
and situated within the ancestral homelands of the Cherokee people, 20 miles from present-day Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian communities of the Qualla
Boundary. Our piece of Central Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
For more information, please contact the Director of the MFA Program/ Distinguished
Professor Jennifer Printz, jprintz@wcu.edu, 828-227-3877.
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