Low Res MFA Art and Social Practice

The low-residency 90 credit  three year MFA program is a unique combination of mentorship, community collaborations/partnerships and an annual conference on socially engaged art practice at PSU that brings together artists, curators, scholars and students from around the world. This program blends critical and professional engagement with social engagement on a global and local scale. This program will begin in the Fall of 2010 and accept four students annually.

The low-residency MFA program in Art & Social Practice t hat will be connected to the annual Open Engagement conference as the focal point of this distance education program. This program will be in residence annually for one week in October and 3 weeks in the spring in Portland, Oregon, with other opportunities for travel and residency through out the program. We are currently developing opportunities for residency connected to this Art and Social Practice program in both Hong Kong and Copenhagen.

The program will focus on field work, public pedagogy and community collaboration/partnership. Students will connect their art practice to research in the field through their electives and community partnerships, promoting transdisciplinarity. This work and research conducted by the MFA candidates will be presented annually at the Open Engagement conference leading up to their final graduate project in the third and final year of the program. Each year the three featured artists at the conference will join the adjunct faculty at Portland State University and teach in the low-res program centered around their practice and the creation of the project and research they will share at the conference.

Admission Requirements

www.pdx.edu/art/mfa-admissions-requirements