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Dec 12, 2024
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University General Course Catalog 2021-2022 ARCHIVED CATALOG: LINKS AND CONTENT ARE OUT OF DATE. CHECK WITH YOUR ADVISOR.
Interdisciplinary Arts (Low Residency), M.F.A
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The Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts is a focus for creative art making, fostered by critical thinking, with an emphasis on community. The experience and exploration of embodied place is a central element of this distinctive program, encouraging students’ multi-dimensional relationship with their environment both here in the Tahoe Basin and within their own communities. Through a multidisciplinary approach to art making, the program encourages participants to consider how we engage the material and social worlds of our respective environments from personal, to political, to planetary. This low residency program takes advantage of emerging technologies in education to combine two intensive 10-days residency periods each year in beautiful Lake Tahoe, full-time work in the student’s local studio, and a dynamic group of faculty, renowned visiting artists, professional mentors and peers. Residencies bring students, faculty and visiting artists together in a collaborative community to engage, critique, and explore unfamiliar ideas and cross-disciplinary questions. Personalized mentorship and extensive studio time will help students develop the expressive and professional skills to realize their personal visions. The interdisciplinary approach addresses the challenges and responsibilities faced by contemporary artists in an evolving global environment by focusing on the skill development, experimentation, and collaborative dialogue that fosters creative solutions and the practice of art.
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Admissions Requirements
This program is available only to students previously admitted to the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisiplinary Arts program at Sierra Nevada University who plan to complete their degree at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Program Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes
Students who graduate with a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts will:
- have manifested an articulate and creative idiosyncratic voice, demonstrated in their midway and final exhibition portfolios and defenses, and be aware of the complexities of contest in which their voice participates;
- be able to design and execute artworks and projects of vision that come from a sustainable practice. Sustainability is understood to be the ability to live a creative and ethical life capable of cultural participation. For example, students will be able to place their practice both in and beyond traditional art venues.
- have integrated entrepreneurial spirit into their practice and be capable of imaging diverse and creative responses to a variety of opportunities.
- have a deep understanding of how their individual practices embody a sense of place, and are part of a complex system of intersecting life forms and a multiplicity of community interests.
- have experienced collaborative art-making, and will be capable of synthesizing a wide variety of perspectives and of working toward a common goal with participants from different disciplines.
- be able to speak and write about their work and others’ work informed by a fluid set of critical and historical contexts.
A. Core (9 units)
- ART 604 - High Desert Installation I (3 units)
- ART 605 - High Desert Installation II (3 units)
- ART 606 - Creative Problem Solving I (3 units)
- ART 607 - Creative Problem Solving II (3 units)
- ART 608 - Experiential Learning I (3 units)
- ART 609 - Experiential Learning II (3 units)
- ART 650 - Critique Seminar (3 units)
B. Studio (12 units)
- ART 710 - Graduate Studio Practices (3 units)
C. Critical Thinking (12 units)
- ART 737 - Theory and Criticism (3 units)
- ART 747 - Directed Readings (3 units)
D. Exhibition (12 units)
- ART 610 - Midway Exhibition (3 units)
- ART 649 - Professional Practices for Artists (3 units)
- ART 698 - Seminar in Visual Arts (3 units)
- ART 777 - Graduate Exhibition (3 units)
- ART 790 - Community Service in the Arts (3 units)
E. Graduate Mentorship (12 units)
- ART 700 - Midway Conversation Design (3 units)
- ART 703 - Developing Studio Language (3 units)
- ART 710 - Graduate Studio Practices (3 units)
- ART 777 - Graduate Exhibition (3 units)
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