Program Overview: The School of Art includes the Sculpture + Expanded practice program created by a faculty who are nationally recognized for their studio and public work as artists. The program and staff maintain a deep commitment to the development and expansion of the work of graduate students while producing and disseminating their own work. The program seeks to provide a platform for developing contemporary explorations of both traditional sculpture materials and methodologies and the engagement of the broadest array of emerging and alternative strategies and tactics.
The Master of Fine Art in Sculpture is an intensive three-year program. The first and second years are primarily devoted to studio, seminar, art history, and elective coursework. During the third year, the emphasis is an intensive commitment to studio time in preparation for the thesis exhibition. As part of this 3rd year studio experience, the student will have individual and group meetings with faculty, interaction with peers, and will participate in graduate critiques. A normal full-time academic load is 15 credit-hours per semester, and progress toward the degree is guided by the student’s graduate review committee members to the successful completion of 90 credit hours.

Credit-Hour Requirements Summary: 90 Total credit hours

40 studio (28 in major area and 12 in studio elective hours)
12 art history/academic studies
6 seminars
25 thesis credits

The First-Year Progress Review Occurs toward the end of fall semester and constitutes a progress assessment of the student’s work by his/her committee members.

The First-Year M.F.A. Candidacy Review occurs toward the end of spring semester and admits the student to full candidacy for the degree by the student’s committee members.

A Thesis Proposal Review occurs during spring semester of the second year and establishes the goals and guidelines of the student’s thesis exhibition.

The Thesis Exhibition Review occurs during the third year and satisfies an oral defense of the thesis exhibition. The School of Art requires that candidates for the M.F.A., at successful completion of the degree, prepare visual documentation of the work.

Admissions Policy: Admission to the MFA program requires a bachelors degree or equivalent, and the submission of a portfolio of images through slideroom, a CV, artists statement, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation (through the online request service). You must also submit an application to Ohio University online.

Change Policy: Admission to the MFA program requires a bachelors degree or equivalent, and the submission of a portfolio of images through slideroom, a CV, artists statement, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation (through the online request service). You must also submit an application to Ohio University online.

Transfer Policy: Admission to the MFA program requires a bachelors degree or equivalent, and the submission of a portfolio of images through slideroom, a CV, artists statement, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation (through the online request service). You must also submit an application to Ohio University online.

Opportunities: Graduate students are educated to practice as artists, educators and creative activists. Upon the completion of their degree program, they will have developed a significant body of work exemplary of the conceptual underpinnings determined by their research and studio/field practice. The program’s process involves exploring the widest possible variety of approaches and concepts applicable to the individual student’s work and results in unique and significant bodies of work inclusive of a trajectory for future practice.