MFA Art: Interdisciplinary Art at University of Nevada, Reno

Programme overview

The MFA in Visual Art is an interdisciplinary programme combining full-residency semesters on the Reno campus with ten-day summer and winter low-residency sessions at Lake Tahoe. Students receive one-on-one mentorship, private graduate studios with 24-hour access and access to studio labs including book arts, ceramics, digital media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

What you will study

The 60-credit curriculum includes ART 601 Residency, ART 698 Seminar in the Visual Arts, ART 722 Graduate Tutorial, ART 710 Graduate Studio Practice, ART 737 Theory and Criticism, ART 611 Interdisciplinary Practice, ART 649 Professional Practice and ART 650 Critique Seminar, a mid-way advancement to candidacy exhibition and a thesis exhibition with ART 777 Thesis.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Apply through the Graduate School by February 15 selecting Art: Visual Arts (MFA). Required: three letters of recommendation from professional references; 1-2 page statement of purpose; portfolio of 10-15 works in a single PDF (maximum 15 MB); a writing sample (an independently written undergraduate thesis or an academic paper presenting an original argument). Other Graduate School materials also apply. No GPA minimum stated on the programme page.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Graduate entry terms are Spring, Summer and Fall 2027 for most programmes; several programmes (for example MPH, PhD Public Health, MSW on campus, DPT) accept Fall applicants only.

Graduate application fee is $60 for domestic students and $95 for international students. Applications are submitted by programme through TargetX, GradCAS, BusinessCAS, SOPHAS or EngineeringCAS as listed on the Graduate School apply page.

Apply through the official page: https://www.unr.edu/grad/apply

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