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Congratulations on both offers! I haven’t completed an MA, I just thought I’d share what answers I received from instructors and older peers to similar questions I had earlier on in the application season. From what I understand, in many cases an MA can be a very similar experience to an MFA depending on the institution and type of program. The general idea I got was that the difference is usually in how much flexibility you have and what their expectations are for candidate’s to sustain self directed work. An MA will help you find a direction and your unique voice as an artist- so it can be seen as a facilitating precursor to an MFA. An MFA is more likely to give you the time, space and community to refine or grow into an already determined direction/voice. I’m sure everyone has a very unique experience with their postgrad studies, but this was the general takeaway and the advice I used myself, to choose potential programs to apply to. For context, I accepted my offer from the Painting department at Cranbrook last week

Has anyone accepted their offer from Cranbrook Painting?

I’m waiting for my official letter and finance package too!! I hope we receive them soon

It was an unofficial email from Martha and Willie