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Yes I would reapply. I could look at your portfolio and essays if you want. Then def tell you whether it is likely.

Thanks Eric for piping in. What is an average day like at VCU MFA? Studio life? Able to meet and make new friends?

With MFA programs not taking on new students, is this due to funding the MFA students or just lack of studio space? I thought that MFA programs were paid by the student themselves so mostly they could be supporting themselves without any school funding?

I think that having a BFA is pretty optional if you can show through your portfolio and interview that you have a strong command of contemporary art and can contextualize your art practice and prove that you are committed to being an artist full time.

For fiction MFA's I would suggest posting under the literary arts MFA forum for more on point advice.

I don't think that during this time that financial aid will be increased. In fact, many school turned down the whole class in order to keep their current students viable. So I wouldn't hope for huge money to help out with these programs during the COVID-19 era.

Roski is rebuilding but sadly enough their prestige has dropped a lot and they haven't gotten their mojo back like during the late 1990's and early 2000's. UCLA and CalArts are pretty much the heavyweights in the LA area. Not much else honestly apart from Otis if you do paintings. But UCLA is pretty much the largest art MFA in terms of scope and cutting edge faculty.

Good news! SVA just updated their class of 2022 listing here at http://mfafinearts.sva.edu/students Apparently the class size is smaller but still strong! Not every school is rejecting folks outright.

I would base your decision on faculty in the dept.

Indeed, there is a separate art education track for master's level if you want to teach. Studio art MFA's should be focused on being an artist first... teaching should be secondary or an adjunct.

Just so you know as a former English major I will volunteer any time to proofread any artist/personal statements here. Just e-mail me at albertabdulbarrwang@gmail.com and I can provide feedback.

I agree but sadly enough money rules everything around us :(. For me, since I am trying to enter the contemporary art world admittedly prestige of program is going to be the main deciding factor for me.

Yeah... it's hard and honestly I am probably to lay down a ton of dough for my MFA in 2 years soon so not looking forward to that

COVID-19 is helping my art practice quite a bit and I really have been thriving under this difficult year. I just finished 12 group shows and right now I have a solo show in SLC, Utah. Hopefully I can do art in NYC/LA and teach. Nothing too crazy.

SAIC for fiber I gather is pretty awesome. We have a professor at Weber State named Cara Krebs and she seems to be having a blast after she graduated from there.

I am the opposite route. I want the bustle and drama of a huge city either LA or NY. It would be funny if I got back into Yale again for a MFA (I already got a MPH from there). I don't think it's impossible as one of our U of U graduates got into the sculpture dept. However their photography dept could be much harder to get in...

Here is a cool video about MFA's.

Hmm... I would try to hunt down New Genres places like Columbia, etc.

Silverbuttons you don't need to worry. A long CV does not matter much. Even Yale is focused on fit and whether they can have a diverse range of students. If you are rejected most likely the program has too many of one type of student.

Wow, that's news to me about UCLA

I am not since I have 21 credit hours and I won't be applying for another 1.5 years.

My main focus is mostly studio practice and gallery sales/career and then be an adjunct faculty/workshop teacher. I would say 80% gallery/20% academic career. I suspect that going to a top-tier MFA school is going to be the direction here.

I can help out... do you have an art website I can look at?

The question I have is: Can I do both a gallery and academic career? I REALLY want to! I love teaching.

I have been keeping up with this thread. I am currently a 2nd year undergraduate photography BFA student and I am grateful to have a future minor in art history. I feel based on what has been going on with the MA track here at my university that being a graduate level art history student is a labor of love. I am the only Muslim, Asian-American heterosexual male who is taking upper level art history courses and having taken numerous undergraduate courses in art history is an immense amount of work and for me to be motivated to get a minor in the field, I have to remind myself that it's a labor of love. I look at the museum jobs even locally here in Utah and those are rather slim and in fact, many folks do not have a Ph.D. in art history to hold key positions in the institution. I love art history but already I realize that one of my favorite artists Cady Noland doesn't even have a monograph of her work available and there are very few articles about her installations. At this point, I am glad that I am a visual artist and that art history can help me refine my visual language. But the art history students even at a non top tier school are challenged by a bleak future. On the other hand, our art history department is hiring a young new professor who specializes in Islamic art so I am celebrating. I expect her to be permanent here as there are very few jobs in the field but no one knows at this point.