Functions for the College of Arkansas Faculty of Artwork’s graduate applications for the 2026–2027 tutorial yr at the moment are open and will likely be accepted by January 15, 2026.
Housed within the Fulbright Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the college provides tuition-free graduate applications in artwork training, artwork historical past, graphic design, and studio artwork. College students accepted have entry to help by graduate assistantships, fellowships, and analysis and journey grants. Informational classes for every program at the moment are obtainable on the college’s YouTube web page.
MA Scholar Ella Nowicki
Due to a beneficiant present from the Walton Household Charitable Help Basis in 2017 — the biggest ever given to a US college in help of or to ascertain a faculty of artwork — the College of Arkansas Faculty of Artwork has expanded graduate program choices with unprecedented ranges of economic help. This has included the launch of the two-year MA in artwork training and M.Des. graduate applications in 2022, and the MA in artwork historical past program in 2023.
The MA in Artwork Training is designed for college students in search of to broaden and deepen their information of concept and apply in artwork training. It trains artwork educators to be culturally responsive and use interdisciplinary, collaborative instructing and analysis to handle present and future challenges.
MA College students Raven Cook dinner, Djamila Ricciardi and Ella Nowicki with Jen Padgett, Windgate Curator of Craft at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork
The M.Des. in Graphic Design focuses on communication and participatory design, making ready college students for an rising subject that may interact communities in participatory processes to generate equitable and sustainable options to design issues.
Final spring, the lately launched MA in Artwork Historical past celebrated its first cohort’s commencement in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork, specializing within the research of the humanities of the Americas. College students expertise an progressive program that reimagines what artwork historical past might be by a theme-based curriculum, hands-on studying with artwork objects, distinctive alternatives for journey, and internship experiences designed to launch graduates into quite a lot of arts careers.
MFA Scholar Greta Kresse
These graduate applications improve the interdisciplinary imaginative and prescient of the Faculty of Artwork and construct upon the established Studio Artwork MFA. The three-year, in-residence MFA program is designed to help quite a lot of approaches to artwork making, coupled with rigorous theoretical inquiry, analysis, and social consciousness.
To study extra and apply, go to artwork.uark.edu.
MA College students Larissa Randall, Isabel Ouweleen and Alexander Betz with former Director of Analysis, Fellowships and College Partnerships and Curator of American Artwork, Mindy Besaw
