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MFA 2D Fine Arts

The foundation of our MFA 2D program is an individualized education that helps each student develop artistic vision and voice.

Our full-time, two-year (60-credit) MFA Fine Arts 2D program encourages students to experiment and explore, while refining the technical and conceptual strategies in their work.

Students are encouraged and challenged, and through rigorous study, creative exploration, and critical discourse, each artist’s body of work deepens and evolves, along with the student’s ability to place their work in the context of contemporary practice. 

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Dialogue and critique are key components of an education in the studio arts, and at MassArt critique is viewed as a creative act. The rich dialogue among students, faculty, visiting artists, and critics takes place within the framework of core classes, electives, presentations, and excursions off campus. Our approach illuminates new pathways for each artist’s work, helping students to build a sustainable practice, and to develop perspective and empathy as artist citizens of the world.

MFA Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the MFA 2D Fine Arts program are expected to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes.

  • Understand perceptual, formal, and conceptual approaches to painting and printmaking
  • Demonstrate technical and material proficiency in drawing, painting, and printmaking
  • Strengthen visual analysis and verbal articulation skills in relation to artistic practice
  • Understand and appreciate diverse, historical, contemporary practices, and the artist’s role in society
  • Develop a unique body of work that reflects authentic perspectives
  • Comprehend the histories of Painting and Printmaking as technological/material/conceptual developments that are tied to geography, time, and larger ideologies
  • Develop strategies that encompass the role of investigation and experimentation in creative practice
  • Demonstrate best practices in the studio, including health and safety
  • Acquire professional skills for sustainable studio practices beyond school

MFA 2D Faculty

Cecilia Vázquez

Chair, Fine Arts 2D

Catarina Coelho

Visiting Lecturer, Fine Arts 2D

Elizabeth Mooney

Assistant Professor, Low Residency MFA
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