The Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Windsor provides graduate students with the opportunity to explore studio production within an interdisciplinary context. The two-year, studio-centered program is geared towards creative exploration, innovative experimentation and the development of a sustainable artistic practice. MFA graduate seminars provide a solid critical and theoretical framework that enables graduate students to independently develop artistic research and studio production that is further supported by a range of dynamic faculty, visiting artists, curators and critics.
The School of Visual Arts has one of the longest running MFA programs in Canada, founded in 1979. University of Windsor MFA graduates have gone on to establish significant careers as visual artists, educators, curators and arts professionals who have made important contributions to art in Canada and elsewhere. Three of our recent graduates were nominated for the prestigious Sobey prize. Over the years our faculty have been dedicated to building a uniquely intensive studio program that stresses individual attention and the development of professional practice in contemporary visual art. To this end the School of Visual Arts is well equipped to facilitate work in a wide range of media, both traditional and emerging, as well as practices that push the established framework of contemporary practice.
Our MFA program tends to attract a select group of students who wish to pursue studio work that dissolves the boundaries of conventional areas of specialization. We encourage strong working relationships between graduate students and our faculty who have established national and international reputations at the forefront of their respective fields, exhibiting regularly in Canada and abroad. Currently SVA faculty members are working on a range of externally funded projects that explore the intersection of art and biotechnology, ecology, architecture and urban culture.
Application Deadline:
Applications for the 2009-2010 academic year are due February 10, 2010. For more information on application procedures and requirements, see the Admission section.
Further information can be obtained by contacting Dr. Lee Rodney, Graduate Program Coordinator, at (519)253-3000 ×2829 or art@uwindsor.ca.
Program News:
- I get more frightened when I see how scared you are, the annual MFA group exhibition will open at the Art Gallery of Windsor on January 15, 2010. This year’s show has been organized around the theme of fear and will feature new work from this year’s graduating class: Immony Men, Leesa Bringas, Hoda Zarbaf, Adrian Gorea and Victor Romao.
- Sigi Torinus, Associate Professor in Digital Media recently opened her exhibtion, Browsing Beauty, a collaboration with German artist, Andrea Sunder-Plassman at the Chatham Art Gallery. This exhibition will travel to The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa) and the WKP Kennedy Gallery later on this year. The website details the various permutations of this collaboration as it has taken place over the last twelve years: www.browsingbeauty.com
- Dr. Jennifer Willet, Assistant Professor, has been awarded a major three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant to set up INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology
- MFA candiate Immony Men has a traveling exhibition, Effections: We Need to Talk which opened at Gallery Connexion in Fredricton, NB last spring and has since traveled to Videographe in Montreal where it will run until November 29, 2009.
- MFA candidates Justin Langlois and Victor Romao were represented in Nine Miles South of Eight Mile, the Art Gallery of Windsor’s 2009 Windsor Biennial which ran from April 17 - June 30, 2009.
