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YOUR ART & DESIGN graduate EDUCATION WILL BE SHAPED BY ITS It’s about you- your interests and talents, but it’s also about the people and resources that surround you.

When you come to the School of Art & Design at the

University of Michigan you will find a School with over 40 faculty to guide your growth as a creative maker and thinker.

You’ll work in some of the best facilities in the country, with both traditional and cutting-edge tools and technologies.

You’ll have opportunities for cross-disciplinary study, community-based projects and international study.

The School of Art & Design offers four innovative programs at the graduate level

MFA in Art & Design

Design Science PhD the

a three-year Master of Fine

Rackham School of Graduate

Arts degree requiring all

Studies’ interdisciplinary

students to develop an

Design Science Ph.D. Program

intense engagement with

offers the opportunity to study

one or more fields of

the discovery of principles and

knowledge beyond

methods for the systematic

the traditional purview

pursuit of design knowledge.

of art and design.

MFA/MBA a four-year dual

MFA/MSI a four-year dual

degree program with the

degree program with the

Stephen M. Ross School of

School of Information,

Business for a Master of Fine

including study of information

Arts and Master of Business

design and data visualization,

Administration. Includes core

and the role of visual

courses in business functions

perception and human

and real world experience in

emotion in interpreting and

business consulting and as well

processing visual information.

as coursework in visual culture and theory, along with directed studio practice coursework.

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Graduate Program you will also be a part of a creative environment that draws upon the vitality of a top tier university.

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WHEN YOU COME TO THE SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN

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At the University of Michigan,

you’ll be challenged, not only by art and design, but by the exploration of a great learning institution. Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, best selling novelists, renowned performers, leadingedge artists and designers – they’re all part of your extended community.

And the University has a number of organizations and resources

specifically tailored to assist graduate students as they make connections across campus and beyond. These include: the Office of Graduate Student Success, Services for Students with Disabilities, Students of Color of Rackham (SCOR), International Center, English Language Institute, The International Institute, Rackham Helping Hands, Rackham’s International Connect Program. http://www.rackham.umich.edu/index.php/student_life/

U-M has over 1,000 student clubs and organizations

The Ann Arbor campus offers 6,500 courses each year

U-M has 600 degree programs offered by 19 Over 100,000 fans have filled the Big House for every U-M home game since 1975

There are more than 420,000 U-M alumni

schools and colleges

the benefits of a

big 10 experience You’ll be part of a college life that

includes friends and colleagues drawn from all 50 states and over 100 other countries, stellar faculty, social organizations of all

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kinds, and exhibitions and performances by renowned creative practitioners.

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ONE OF THE BEST COLLEGE TOWNS IN AMERICA

A safe, small cosmopolitan city, surrounded by beautiful countryside.

When you come to the School of Art &

Design, Ann Arbor will be your hometown. There’s a vibrant night life with music that ranges from jazz to hip-hop, and classical to world music; restaurants from Ethiopian to Chicago hotdogs and pizza; cafes and coffee shops of all types; and one of the most respected film festivals in the country.

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CREATIVE COMMUNITY WITHOUT BORDERS  When you come to the School of Art & Design

you will be part of a close-knit community with one of the best student-faculty ratios on campus (10:1). You will also benefit from the creative energy generated by the

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Work by A&D Stamps Series invited artist Xu Bing

University, the city of Ann Arbor, and art-design events, activities and institutions from Toronto to Chicago.

U-M and A&D visitors, the Royal Shakespeare Company

A MAGNET that  Every year UM hosts thousands of

renowned visitors. During any week you might attend a presentation by Google founder

author Dave Eggers, see a presentation by artists from Pixar Animation, or a performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company.

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film from Michael Moore, hear a reading by

Jaronski

Larry Page, get a lesson on documentary

On the stages of U-M

Michael Ondaatje - author Twyla Tharp Dance

Sandra Day O’Connor - Supreme Court Justice

Gary Snyder - poet

Thelma Golden - director, Studio Museum

Kodo Drummers of Japan

Kofi Annan - U.N. Secretary General

Cornell West - public intellectual

Madeline Albright - past Secretary of State

Martha Graham Dance Company

Orchestra Baobab Dance Party

Laurie Anderson - performance artist Ken Burns - filmmaker Anne Carson - poet Mikhail Baryshnikov - dancer Allen Ginsberg - poet Anthony Appiah - philosopher Okwui Enwezor - curator Mark Morris Dance Group Chris Ware - graphic novelist Handspring Puppet Company Larry Kasdan - filmmaker Meredith Monk - performance artist Arab World Music Summit DJ Spooky - performance artist Michael Moore - filmmaker Steven Sondheim - composer/lyricist Dalai Lama - spirtual leader

Robert Moses - urban planner Mike Wallace - journalist Soweto Gospel Choir Bolshoi Ballet Tokyo String Quartet Elie Wiesel - activist Philip Glass - musician Larry Page - Google founder

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Paul Rusesabagina - Hotel Rwanda Keith Jarrett - jazz musician Elmore Leonard - author Patti Smith - singer, song writer Royal Shakespeare Company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Afro-Cuban Dance Party Ellen Degeneres - comic

Dave Eggers - author

Bill Gates - chairman, Microsoft

Bob Dylan - musician

Bill Clinton - past U.S. president

Theatre de Complicite New York Philharmonic Joseph Brodsky - public intellectual Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

DRAWS THE WORLD TO YOU

Sankai Juku - dance company Yo-Yo Ma - cellist

University and Ann Arbor: Jean Paul Slusser Gallery Work • Ann Arbor

DIVERSE Detroit and the Region: MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) Detroit Institute of Art G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Zeitgeist Gallery Detroit Film Center 555 Gallery Sherry Washington Gallery Center Gallery (CCS) Detroit Artist’s Mart Museum of African American History

Work • Detroit PLAY Robbins Gallery University of Michigan Museum of Art Residential College Gallery Lane Hall (Women’s Studies) Duderstadt Center Gallery Gallery Project Ann Arbor Art Center Washington Gallery Detroit Street Gallery Claire Spitler Works of Art

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Found Institute for the Humanities Gallery Art Lounge in the Michigan Union The Clay Gallery

Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts Cranbrook Museum of Art Kresge Museum of Art Art Gallery of Windsor Cleveland Institute of Art Flint Institute of Art Furniture Factory C-Pop River Gallery Paul Kotula Project Susanne Hilberry Gallery Hill Gallery

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ion sites Every month the University has new

exhibitions opening at one or more of the dozen gallery spaces across campus. Four A&D exhibition venues, including one in downtown Ann Arbor and one in Detroit, as well as a unique on-line site for time-based media, offer continuing opportunities for you to show your work. One of these sites, Warren Robbins Gallery, is a dedicated exhibition space for the graduate program. The Robbins Gallery offers graduate students ongoing opportunities to organize, curate, install, and promote exhibitions.

In addition, there’s Ann Arbor’s thriving art/

represented by museums and galleries in Detroit.

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the Toledo Art Museum, and the urban vitality

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Cranbrook Museum of Art, the Windsor Art Gallery,

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design scene and within an hour’s drive the

Sarah Sze - installation Jane Atwood - photography J.M. Coetzee - writer Liz Lerman - dance Anne Wilson - fibers Krzysztof Wodiczko - installation Ann Pasternak - Director, Creative Time Alfredo Jaar - architect/installation Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison - photography Paul Goldberger - The New Yorker Jay Allison - NPR Talk of the Nation Guillermo Gomez-Pena - performance Chip Kidd - graphic design Julie Mehretu - painting Jeremy Deller - public artist Kara Walker - installation Ellen Lupton - designer/writer

Leonardo Drew - sculpture Fred Wilson - installation Trimpin - sound Xu Bing - installation James Elkins - theory Theo Jansen - kinetic sculpture Droog Design - industrial design Chris Ware - graphic novels Bettye Saar - sculpture Bernard Khoury - architecture Kenro Izu - photography Glenn Ligon - painting Richard Saul Wurman - design

Chakaia Booker - sculpture Lawrence Weschler - writer

Every week during the semester, A&D’s

Penny W. Stamps Visitors Series brings nationally and internationally renowned creative innovators to campus for public presentations at the historic Michigan Theatre.

Graduate students in the School of Art & Design have a unique opportunity to make connections with the Stamps visitors by serving as hosts. In addition, many of the Stamps visitors make time to meet with the graduate students for conversation and critiques.

You will also be part of a University-wide conversation that includes UM’s programs in music, dance, creative writing, film and video, theater, and architecture, to name just a few – offering even more opportunities to learn from faculty and visitors who make creative work.

VISITING creative innovators

Mary Lucier - video

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Work by design firm 2x4, A&D Stamps Series speakers

A&D’s faculty participate in a world community eXhibitions include L’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Italy Technische Universitat - Austria Drill Hall - United Kingdom Centre de Cultural Contemporanea - Spain Gwangju Bienniale - China Tretyakov Gallery of Art - Russia Whitney Museum of American Art - New York Museum of Modern Art - New York Johannesburg Biennial - South Africa The Jewish Museum - New York The Israel Museum - Israel Museo del Corso - Italy Guggenheim Museum - New York Guangdong Museum - China Lincoln Center - New York Kunstforum - Germany

Rome’s Temple Gallery - Italy Mackintosh Museum - Scotland Gallery WooDuk - Korea Photography Biennial of New Zealand - New Zealand Human Rights Watch of Beijing - China Museo de Arte Moderno - Argentina Galerie Michele Broutta - France City Art Museum of Ravenna Italy - Italy Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco Brussels International Film Festival - Belgium Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia South African National Gallery - South Africa Japan School of Contemporary Photography - Japan Smithsonian Institution - Washington, D.C. Brooklyn Museum of Art - New York Museum of Contemporary Photography - Chicago White Columns Gallery - New York Leopold-Hoesch Museum - Germany Institute of Contemporary Art - United Kingdom Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar Gallery - Hungary Asia Society - New York American Cultural Center - Israel

Our location within a

To date, our graduate

top research university

students have conducted creative work and participated in coursework within over 30 departments and programs across the University, benefiting from the insights of over 65 faculty advisors from nonArt & Design departments.

offers opportunities for

At the University of

The A&D graduate

partnerships with over 200

Michigan School of

curriculum, A&D+, expects

Art & Design you will

students to reach beyond art and design to develop robust engagements with additional fields of inquiry at the University

other disciplines including: cultural anthropology, bioinformatics, Asian studies, African studies, complex systems, comparative literature, dance, ecology, evolutionary biology, film and video studies, kinesiology, law, engineering, business, museum studies, natural resources and environmental studies, philosophy, women’s studies, sociology, theatre and drama, and world performance studies.

participate in a vibrant creative culture with a global reach. And we understand how to use this 360-degree perspective to position you for a future of creative work and leadership.

PLACING YOU & yOUR WORk in

a global context

As you move out into

Graduate students have

the global community,

studied, performed, and exhibited in such diverse settings as China, Germany, Japan, Suriname, Ghana, Egypt, Mongolia, Easter Island, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Graduates have used Fulbright Fellowships to continue their creative studies in locations including the Netherlands, Scotland, and Indonesia.

the School’s faculty artists/ designers have projects in locations from New York, Paris, China, and Israel, to South Africa, Korea and New Zealand and can guide you as you make your own international connections.

The School provides support for an international experience

for all graduate

An MFA from the School

students during the

of Art and Design offers

summer after their first or second year. The School’s Office of International Engagement and individual faculty advisors support students in researching locations, identifying contacts and institutions, formulating proposals, and finalizing travel and housing.

students the experiences, connections, and skill sets needed to thrive in a variety of public and private roles and to become cultural leaders in a rapidly changing global culture.

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