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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 three innovative programs at the graduate level
MFA in Art & Design
MFA/MBA a four-year dual
Design Science PhD the
a three-year Master of Fine
degree program with the
Rackham School of Graduate
Arts degree requiring all
Stephen M. Ross School of
Studies’ interdisciplinary
students to develop an
Business for a Master of Fine
Design Science Ph.D. Program
intense engagement with
Arts and Master of Business
offers the opportunity to study
one or more fields of
Administration. Includes core
the discovery of principles and
knowledge beyond
courses in business functions
methods for the systematic
the traditional purview
and real world experience in
pursuit of design knowledge.
of art and design.
business consulting and as well 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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University, the city of Ann Arbor, and art-design events, activities and institutions from Toronto to Chicago.
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
exhibiti
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,
Work by A&D Stamps Series invited artist Orlan
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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