Master of Fine Arts in Art and Design

Our accredited three-year Master of Fine Arts degree program is structured to provide you with exposure to a broad range of creative approaches in your choice of nine areas of study: Blacksmithing, Ceramics, Design, Drawing, Glass, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and Small Metals. We promote a diverse approach to making with courses designed to address contemporary issues while promoting an atmosphere balanced between conceptual development and material exploration. You will find they are well supported in cross-discipline exploration as they strive to develop their best work. While attending, you will have access to excellent resources to facilitate your creative development, including an engaged faculty who are professional artists, designers, and scholars, extensively equipped facilities, tuition waivers, dedicated studio spaces and regular opportunities to exhibit your work. We maintain a dynamic environment in which emerging artists and designers develop through access to the opportunities inherent at a Carnegie Research University.

2.7 (on a grading scale with 4.0=A; approximately a "B-" average) on the last two years of Bachelor's coursework, 3.0 on all previous graduate work (approximately a "B" average). An applicant was awarded a Master's degree at an accredited college/university in the United States and has been in residence in the United States continuously prior to application to SIU (not out of the country for more than one calendar year). You have a minimum of 60 graded (A, B, C) hours of recent coursework completed at an accredited college / university in the United States with continuous residence in the United States prior to application at SIU. Pass / Fail, Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory, or Proficiency credit is not acceptable. The English language requirement may be met by submitting: 550 on the paper-based TOEFL, 80 on the internet-based TOEFL, 6