Graduate Programs

SFAI offers a Master of Fine Arts and a Summer Master of Fine Arts (MFA, SMFA), a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts (PB), and three new Master of Arts programs in History and Theory of Contemporary Art (MA), Urban Studies (MA), and Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA).

All of SFAI's Graduate Programs are committed to creative research that investigates the relationship between inquiry and practice and how this dynamic manifests itself in contemporary and historical approaches to cultural production in a time of accelerated paradigm shifts. The Summer MFA program has the same rigor and faculty as the Academic Year MFA program except it is designed for those graduate students who choose an alternative academic schedule for the pursuit of the MFA degree. The Post-Baccalaureate program is excellent for students who want to better prepare themselves and their portfolios for entrance to an MFA program or for those who simply want to enhance skills and knowledge without plans to enter a graduate degree program. In the MA programs students are trained to be challenging thinkers within an environment of rigorous studio practice and interdisciplinary study, affording them the ability to imagine a myriad of solutions that are applicable in a variety of fields.