Students: 700
undergraduate and Diploma, 100 graduate, 780 non-matriculated
students.
Program Areas
of Study: 15 areas in studio art, including Film, Painting, and Performance.
Programs:
BFA, BFA in Art Education,
Combined-Degree program (BFA/BA or BFA/BS); MFA,
MAT; Post-Baccalaureate program; the Diploma
and Fifth Year programs; and Continuing Education programs.
Continuing
Education: Studio art classes and workshops; high school programs; and certificate
programs in graphic design and illustration. More about continuing education...
Partnerships: The School is a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and maintains partnerships with Tufts and Northeastern universities. The
ProArts Consortium offers studio courses at five other visual and
performing arts schools for no additional cost. The School is also a member of
the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
Faculty:
Approximately 50 full-time and 100 part-time; Museum School faculty are working artists who
show their work frequently. More about the faculty...
Financial Aid: SMFA
is committed to helping talented and motivated students pay for school. Total
financial aid awarded directly by the School in the 2006–2007 year was $4,323,950.
Alumni: The School has a long heritage of
training successful artists. These include David Lynch, filmmaker/director; Nan
Goldin, photographer; Ellen Gallagher, mixed media artist; Cy Twombly, painter;
Ellsworth Kelly, painter/sculptor/printmaker; and Jim Dine, painter/printmaker.
More about our alumni…
Mission: The mission of the School is to
provide an education in the fine arts for undergraduate and graduate
artists—inexperienced and advanced artists of widely ranging age groupings—that
is interdisciplinary, self-directed, always evolving.
It has
special features: it values cultural, artistic, and intellectual diversity; it
must include a wide range of media; it stresses the development of individual
vision; it values art making more than adherence to curricular rules; it stays
deeply in touch with the external world of art. If the mission is constant, its
practice is always emerging.
Accreditation: The School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, is recognized by the Department of
Education as an institution of higher education. It is accredited by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the United States Department
of Justice for foreign students, and the Veterans Administration for training
under Public Law 550 and Chapter 35, Title 38, United States Code. Tufts University is regionally accredited by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
