Master of Fine Arts Department Mission and Outcomes | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Master of Fine Arts Department Mission and Outcomes

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies

The MCAD MFA strives to build a community of makers, thinkers, theorists, researchers, and creative professionals. As they pursue creative work in a lively, interdisciplinary environment, students respond to social, cultural, and professional needs while engaging in entrepreneurial opportunities that stretch across art and design practices. Individual faculty mentorships and formal committee reviews guide students toward mastery of their discipline as practitioners. Successful MFA candidacy will allow students to join professional and academic life.

The MFA program sees the prime scholarship to be in studio practice.

  • Practice and apply discipline-specific and interdisciplinary methodologies demonstrated through purposeful studio work and experimentation.
  • Integrate historical and contemporary contexts into creative practice, including from relevant fields of art, design, and cultural production, utilizing varied research methods.
  • Develop ideas related to creative work through written, oral, and integrated methods of communication, with a focus on academic, art, and design contexts.
  • Demonstrate group learning processes and skills for communicating across difference through collaborative practices.
  • Create a body of work that combines considerations of subject, form, content, and context, demonstrated through an exhibition, position paper, and thesis statement.

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Land Acknowledgement

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) acknowledges it is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. This is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, who were forcibly exiled from the land because of aggressive and persistent settler colonialism. We recognize that this place has a complex and layered history. As a community dedicated to creativity, MCAD is committed to ongoing efforts to support and advocate for American Indian Nations and peoples.


Nondiscrimination Policy

MCAD admits students of any race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or marital status to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, or marital status in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.