Master of Arts in Fine Arts (MA)
Studio
Graduate Program Coordinator
Dr. Dorothy Heard
Montclair State University’s Master of Arts
in Fine Arts – Studio Concentration (MAST) is a program for
individuals who wish to pursue professional visual arts study.
MAST is an individually designed program for those committed to
the visual arts as a means of expression, communication,
knowledge and inquiry.
MAST encourages students to ask and answer
difficult aesthetic, artistic and cultural questions: What is
art? Why make art? Who decides what is art and what is not art?
Why am I making art? Who am I making art for? How does the art I
make relate to me and to others? What do with art once I’ve made
it? Why? The MAST program encourages expressive freedom for all
individuals and their ideas and work, thereby encouraging students
to develop respectful, open and critical habits of mind.
The MAST program accommodates a range of
applicant goals. MAST serves the needs of: (1) students who wish
to develop their aesthetic ‘voice’ and acquire technical knowledge
and skills in a studio specialization; (2) students who wish to
prepare a professional portfolio of original art works suitable
for application to an MFA program; (3) students who already hold
art degrees and wish to gain knowledge and produce art works in a
studio specialization they have not studied in the past; and (4)
students who hold baccalaureates in other fields and wish to
student art at a professional level.
The MAST curriculum combines sequenced
coursework and independent study; studio and art history; and
seminars to provide students with both the structured support and
the flexibility needed to begin to develop a personal vision
within the context of multiple contemporary and historical art and
culture concerns. Students complete a Visual Project and Paper as
part of the MAST program. Courses of study for MAST are highly
individual.
MAST is a professional degree program. A
minimum of 33 credits is needed to complete the MAST program.
Depending upon the applicant’s background, prerequisites may be
required to meet program admission standards. Art history and
studio deficiencies may be satisfied during the MAST program.
Students who do not have a baccalaureate in the visual arts may
begin their MAST program by establishing an undergraduate
equivalency in the visual arts. MAST welcomes international
students. Students who complete the MAST program are not
guaranteed admission into Montclair State University’s MFA
program.
The MA in Fine Arts, Studio is a program offered by the
Department of Art & Design within the
College of the Arts. For further information on this and other MA programs,
visit the
Department of Art & Design's Graduate Web pages.
TO APPLY TO THIS PROGRAM, PLEASE VISIT
http://www.montclair.edu/graduate/prospective/app.shtml
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