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Bard College Catalogue 2009-2010
2009-2010
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
http://www.bard.edu/mfa The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, founded in 1981, offers an interdisciplinary program leading to the master of fine arts degree. For three intensive summer sessions, artists from a variety of fields—film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing—live and work on the Bard campus in an environment that encourages proficiency and recognizes the importance of engaged discussion to the artistic process. During the eight-week sessions, work is carried out by each student individually, in conferences with faculty and visiting artists, in caucuses within the artist’s discipline, and in seminars and critiques with the community as a whole.
In addition to the three summer sessions, work toward the M.F.A. degree continues in two independent study sessions during the intervening winters. Bard M.F.A. students include active, midcareer artists, teachers, and professionals in other fields as well as recent graduates. The faculty is composed of working artists who are concerned with nurturing student artists and with the theory and practice of their own art.
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