MFA Program
The SUNY Brockport MFA in Visual Studies at VSW offers an opportunity unique in graduate studies. Our MFA program is comparable to a long-term artist residency. In addition to courses designed to challenge, enhance, and grow artistic practices, we offer work experience in an artist-run, non-profit arts organization. Graduate students commit to four full-time semesters of study, plus one part-time semester for a final project. Graduate students have full access to available equipment and studio space at the Workshop. The artists, publishers, curators, and researchers who staff and visit VSW instruct the graduate students. Visual Studies MFA students share their studio work with members of the VSW community on a weekly basis. Besides their own studio practice, the graduate students do a minimum of 5 service hours a week in a VSW program area. Service hours offer firsthand knowledge of the fields of work available within the media arts and provide invaluable experience prior to obtaining the MFA degree. In addition, graduate students attend a weekly seminar in the history and curatorial practices of the media arts. They participate in discussions, read important texts and do hands-on curatorial work with the extensive materials in VSW’s Research Center.

If you are interested in learning more about the MFA program you should contact us and make a point of visiting VSW to meet with us prior to applying. All applications for the MFA Program are through the College at Brockport State University of New York department of Graduate Studies. Contact Kristen Merola, MFA Coordinator at VSW, for all inquiries into graduate education at VSW.

For more information and to meet with us call (585) 442-8676 ext.112 or email workshops@vsw.org

Online application and support materials checklist are available through the Office of Graduate Studies