University of California,
Davis
Call for applications:
High-Residency MFA Program in Studio Art
Application Deadline for fall 2014 admission:
January 15,
2014
University of California,
Davis 加州大學Davis分校
Art & Art History
Department1 Shields AvenueDavis, CA 95616-8528
T +1 530 752 0105
artstudio.ucdavis.edu
May Wilson, Suspicion of
Objects, Sculpture, MFA 2013. Photo by Rachel Gelenius.
The Master of Fine Arts degree in Art Studio at UC Davis offers a
unique opportunity for study across a wide range of visual arts. The focus
is to hone artistic and perceptive abilities, build technical skills, and
foster intellectual development for individual students in their pursuit of
careers as practicing artists. Students are strongly encouraged to explore
whatever medium best serves their expressive needs. The Art Department has
facilities for drawing, ceramic/clay sculpture, painting, photography,
printmaking, video, and sculpture (we do not have a foundry). Graduate
students are also given large, individual studios on campus, which are
located near the main art building with 24/7 access.
In keeping with the mission of the University of
California, tuition is very accessible and out-of-state students receive
support to offset their expenses. Art Studio helps to financially
support the education of its graduate students through generous Art Studio
Fellowships and competitive awards endowed by Mary Lou Osborn, Robert
Arneson, Fay Nelson, Freemon Gadberry, and The Nelson Artfriends. Students
may also apply for university support through Graduate Studies Travel
Awards, Davis Humanities Fellowships, and Consortium for Women and Research
Awards. UC Davis participates in The Headlands Graduate Fellow Award
program that supports year-long artist's residencies for recent M.F.A.
graduates at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Some of our recent students
have won nationally competitive graduate fellowships from The Dedalus
Foundation and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Graduate students also have
the opportunity to work with the faculty as teaching assistants and as
instructor of record as Associate Instructors. These positions come with
pay and full tuition support.
The entire Art Studio faculty shares
responsibility for the graduate program and teaches both graduate and
undergraduate courses. The faculty represents a diversity of approaches
across all disciplines. The faculty is available to all graduate students
for one-on-one studio visits throughout the year and participate in all
formal reviews.
Faculty
include Tom Bills, Robin Hill, Darrin Martin, Hearne Pardee, Lucy Puls,
Annabeth Rosen, Youngsuk Suh, and Gina Werfel.
MFA students in the Art Department are linked
with the Art History, Cinema and Technocultural Studies, Music, and
Performing Studies programs on campus. Visiting artists to all of these
programs and to the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on campus are an
integrated and essential part of study. The university is an unparalleled
resource in all disciplines of research to broaden and deepen the work of
an artist. The Art Studio MFA program also includes a lively Visiting
Lecture Series, which includes presentations and graduate critiques with
artists. Among the past lecturers are Phong Bui, Joan Jonas, Gregory
Amenoff, Mary Lucier, Robert Storr, Vito Acconci, Ken Johnson, Jed Perl,
Fred Tomaselli, Kalup Linzy, Terry Winters, Larry Rinder, Jennifer and
Kevin McCoy, Rochelle Feinstein, Dana Schutz, Ryan Trecartin, and Shana
Moulton.
UC Davis is
located about an hour's drive from Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco; a
six-hour drive from Los Angeles; a two-hour drive from the ocean and
equidistant from Lake Tahoe. Davis is situated on the floor of the
Sacramento Valley, hot and dry in the summer and cool and rainy in the
winter and is surrounded by fruit and nut tree orchards. Napa and Sonoma
are close at hand.