Art schools directory - Directory

Art in America, Oct, 2002

New England

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

Office of Admissions
700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215
617.585,6700 Fax: 617.437.1226
800.773.0494 Toll-free
Web: www.aiboston.edu

Professional college of visual arts within a larger university. Studio-intensive mentoring with individualized instruction in the cultural center of Boston: Programs include M.F.A., B.F.A Diploma, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Continuing, Professional Education and Pre-College Low residency M.F.A with concentration in interdisciplinary media. Post-Baccalaureate Advanced Professional Certificate in graphic design, illustration or animation. BFA majors: graphic design, illustration/animation, photography, fine arts.

Boston University School of Visual Arts

College of Fine Arts
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
617.353.3371 Fax 617.353.7217
Web: www.bu.edu/CFA

BFA/MFA: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design. Art Education. MFA: Studio Teaching

Brandeis University

Fine Arts Department, Waltham MA 02254
781.736.2656
Fax: 781.736.2672
E-mail: fair@brandeis.edu

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Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
508.487-9960
Web: www.fawc.org
E-mail: info@fawc.org

SEVEN-MONTH RESIDENCY

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Massachusetts is dedicated to providing emerging visual artists with time and space in which to pursue independent work in a community of peers. The deadline for our seven-month Winter Fellowship Program for visual artists is February 1, 2003. For information call: 508-487-9960, e-mail: info@fawc.org

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Hartford Art School, University of Hartford

200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford CT 06117
860.768.4827
Email: calafiore@mail.hartford.edu
Web: www.hartfordartschool.org

A professional accredited art school of 350 within a University of 4,000. Offering modern studios, semi-private spaces, small classes, 24-hour access, a distinguished faculty and active visiting artist program with 8 BFA and 4 MFA majors offered

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Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

84 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371
860.434-5232 ext. 122 Fax: 860.434.8725
Web: www.lymeacademy.edu
E-mail: admissions@lymeacademy.edu

Offering a BFA and a Professional Certificate in Painting and Sculpture, the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts has earned its reputation as New England's Fine Arts College by offering a rigorous and disciplined curriculum that is unique in its focus on the fundamental traditions of the fine arts. Summer Programs offered.

Maine College of Art

MFA Studio Arts, 97 Spring Street, Portland, ME 04101
800.639.4808
Web: www.meca.edu
Email: rkatz@meca.edu

The only graduate program of its kind in the U.S., the Maine College of Art MFA in Studio Arts is a self-designed two-year course of study that features: an eight week summer residency lead by a world-class visiting faculty; fall and spring, off-campus studio and academic study under the direction of a personal non-resident studio instructor; ten-day mid winter intensive with study on-campus and in New York; a strong theory and cultural studies component. Visit website for admissions information.

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Vermont College of Union Institute & University

36 College Street, Montpelier VT 05602
800.336.6794; 802.828.8500 Fax: 802/828-8855
Web: www.tui.edu/vermontcollege
Email: vcadmis@tui.edu

The MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College allows students to earn a 60-credit degree over a period of two years. The Program combines ten-day on-campus residencies followed by six-month semesters of self-designed studio practice conducted from students' home studios in the context of the communities in which they live, work, and make art. The Program encourages an interdisciplinary approach to studio practices, helping emerging artists to integrate contemporary cultural theory with the practical concerns of their own media, method, and place in the world.

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Yale University School of Art

Patricia DeChiara, Director Academic Affairs
P.O. Box 208339, New Haven, CT 06520-8339
203.432.2600 Web: www.yate.edu/art

MFA: Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture. Summer courses.

Northeast

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture

18 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
212.501.3000 Fax: 212.501.3079
Web: www.bgc.bard.edu
Email: admissions@bgc.bard.edu

MA and Ph.D programs in the history of the decorative arts, design, culture, museum studies, and garden history. The Center stresses an interdisciplinary approach in all of its concentrations. Training for careers in museums, historic houses, galleries, auction houses and academia. New in 2002: Concentrations in Garden History and American Design and Culture. Website: www.bgc.bard.edu

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Center for Curatorial Studies

Norton Batkin, Director
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
845.758.7598 Fax: 845.758.2442
Web: www.bard.edu/ccs Email: ccs@bard.edu