Degree Programs

Rei, BFA ’23, I Cleaned It Up Før Yøu, watercolor on paper

Yixiang Tong, MFA ’20, Lighter and Lighter: Lift up your heads, single large projection video installation

She Danced , photography Grace Gomez, PB ’18, MFA ’20,

Willoughby Hastings, MFA ’19, Crushing the Code: Unknowing Southern Hospitality, sugar, twine, wood, cement, steel, ivory grosgrain ribbon, uphostery trim, installation view from 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition: no time for laundry

Lien Pham, BFA ’21, Return Dad, digital photograph Helen Rose Discoll, BFA ’19, Adam’s Test #2 , graphite on paper, pine, installation view from 2019 SMFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: Liminal Space

Jennifer Schmidt, Faculty

ities and follow the thread.” “No matt er what skills you’re studying or goals you’re pursuFor us, it’s about how you feed your mind and how you pursue your curios- ing as a creative artist, we’re all always working in an interdisciplinary way.

PROGRAMS

DEGREE

“It was important to me that whatever program I chose would have a lot of freedom. I valued the ability to craft an individualized curriculum that would support my interests.” Nicholas Papa, BFA ’18

UNDERGRAD EXPERIENCE

Join a community that will transform you in all the best ways. The students you live, study, and work with will become your friends, your sounding boards, your professional network, and your cheerleaders. They’ll make you think, help you work, and ensure you have plenty of fun.

As an SMFA at Tufts student, you’ll join an active community full of opportunities to connect, share your interests, and discover new ones. Consider joining the Skate Sculpture Club, the Student Government Association, the Eco-Art Club, the Artists of Color Union, or one of the other 300+ student organizations. Take an excursion to Cambridge with some classmates or just hang out having coff ee in the atrium. Leisure-time experiences like these will become cherished memories and shape your character. Your professors, too, will enrich your SMFA experience. Thanks to a nine-to-one student-to-faculty ratio, they’ll get to know you well and play important roles in your life at the school.

Here’s another statistic to keep in mind as you contemplate college: SMFA meets 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for all undergraduate students for the entire time they’re enrolled. If you belong in SMFA’s tightknit community, nothing should stop you from being here.

Lily pursued a major in International Literary and Visual Studies (ILVS) with an emphasis in Japanese and Chinese culture while also working toward her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She expanded her artistic repertoire, grounded in sketching and painting, to include 3D endeavors and pieces constructed in Jumbo’s Maker Studio. She co-founded a campus arts magazine, Currents, to promote collaboration and showcase artistic work across the university; and she and her cofounders lead guided trips to the Museum of Fine Arts so all students, regardless of major, can connect and interact with art. Lily Pisano, BFA + BA ’21

BFA

This is so much more than an art school degree. Yes, you’ll follow a rigorous studio program and learn the inner workings of the contemporary art world. But you’ll also be a full-fl edged member of a top research university, with all its academic fi elds and resources. You decide the breadth and depth of your studies. Choose from 64 possible minors, if you like. Pursue your interests and prepare for your career.

BFA + BA/BS COMBINED DEGREE

Just as our Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is deeply interdisciplinary, so is our combined degree. Our CD enables you to simultaneously pursue two areas of interest for fi ve years and obtain two degrees. In addition to a BFA in studio art, you can earn either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science in any major in the School of Arts and Sciences. (Choose from more than 60.)

SMFA graduate faculty are Guggenheim Fellows, Fulbright scholars, and National Endowment for the Arts grantees. They’ve GRADUATE DEGREES

In our rigorous graduate programs, you’ll expand your studio practice while drawing on in-depth research. Work with prestigious faculty to gain the skills you need to create meaningful work. And plug into a global art network that will help you build the career you want.

MASTER OF FINE ARTS

Join a studio-based program enriched by research which supports the professional development of visual artists from all over the world. International travel, seminars on contemporary practice, visiting curators and critics, and close guidance from working artists serving as faculty grad advisors: these provide the foundation of the program and will help you shape and advance your practice as a professional artist.

While you’re earning your degree, you can also opt to complete our Museum Studies Certificate Program, which prepares you for a variety of art museum positions. You’ll have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and develop your instructional skills by pursuing a teaching assistantship or postgrad teaching fellowship. And you’ll build curatorial and exhibition skills by collaborating closely with our professional galleries as you work toward your thesis exhibition.