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Catalog Description

This critique-based seminar course is offered each semester to all graduate students in the MFA program except those in their last semester of Final Creative Project work. The goal for this course is to create an interdisciplinary forum where students develop research skills, learn how to best articulate their artistic production, and critique their peers’ works.

Course Activities

This course focuses on the development and presentation of creative work, including placing the work in historical/aesthetic context, writing about the work, and engaging in verbal, public critique. These activities are designed to prepare students for the first year review, thesis proposal, creative project and thesis paper, as well as support ongoing artistic development. Each student is expected to:

• Present his or her work in two in-class group critiques
• Present his or her work at one in-class critique with a guest critic
• Discuss work-in-progress with three different course faculty members in three studio visits outside normal class time
• Complete at least one project during the semester
• Participate regularly in other students’ in-class critiques
• Write an artist’s statement, bio and project proposal
• Prepare a written assessment at the end of the semester of your own creative practice and participation in critique