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Graduate Advising

MAKE GRAD STUDIO RESERVATIONS HERE

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

  • Art & Visual Culture Education (AVCE) Graduate Handbook (PDF)
  • Art History Graduate Handbook (PDF)
  • Studio Art Graduate Handbook (PDF)

ADVISING INFORMATION

The Graduate Program Coordinator, Megan Bartel (mbartel@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-8518), is the liaison between the graduate students and the School of Art administration and University of Arizona Graduate College. The Program Coordinator is here to help all graduate students from first inquiry to graduation, and to help graduate students understand and navigate the requirements of the graduate programs.

Please click here to schedule an appointment with Megan.

All graduate students are advised by their faculty. Faculty advisors work with their graduate students to determine what courses each student should take and what courses can be used to fulfill the program requirements. All program requirements are listed in the handbook.

Art & Visual Culture Education

Each student will be initially assigned a temporary advisor, a professor from the Division of Art and Visual Culture Education, to help him/her with academic and other education matters. During the first year of study, the student will ask one of the AVCE professors to serve as her/his M.A. thesis or M.A. report advisor.

Art History

In the first semester, Masters students will be advised by the Art History Graduate Advisor. Students must select a major area of concentration by the end of the first year. Students should solicit the agreement of a faculty member to direct the thesis or orals examination, and henceforth should discuss all academic decisions with the major advisor. PhD students will enter the program only with the prior acceptance of a dissertation advisor.

Studio Art

In the first three semesters all students will be advised by their division chairs. After Candidacy Review, the student selects the thesis committee. The chair of the students’ thesis committee will be the students’ advisor.

GRADUATE STUDENT FORMS & DOCUMENTS

Graduate Student Resources Booklet (PDF)

Registration Forms

  • Graduate Independent Coursework Form (PDF or Word Doc)
  • Graduate Internship Contract (PDF or Word Doc)

School of Art Forms

  • Special Member Form (PDF or Word Doc)
  • Master’s Completion of Degree Requirements (PDF or Word Doc)
  • School of Art Petition (PDF and Word Doc)
  • School of Art Appeal (PDF and Word Doc)

Studio Art

  • Candidacy Review Results (PDF)
  • Thesis Committee Agreement (PDF)
  • Thesis Exhibition Image Requirements + List (PDF or Word Doc)
  • Studio Art Coursework Checklist (PDF)
    • Painting & Drawing Sample Plan of Study (PDF)
    • Photography | Video | Imaging Sample Plan of Study (PDF)
    • Printmaking Sample Plan of Study (PDF)
    • Illustration + Design Sample Plan of Study (PDF)
    • 3D & Extended Media Sample Plan of Study (PDF)

Art & Visual Culture Education

  • MA AVCE Sample Plan of Study
    • Art and Visual Culture Studies Option (PDF)
    • Community and Museums Option (PDF)
    • Teaching Option (PDF)
  • AVCE PhD Preliminary Plan of Study (PDF)

Art History

  • MA Art History Plan of Study (PDF)
  • PhD Art History Plan of Study (PDF)
  • Art History MA Annual Report (PDF or Word Doc)
  • Art History PhD Annual Report (PDF or Word Doc)

TA & Adjunct Handbook

  • TA and Adjunct Handbook (PDF)

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the Graduate Program Coordinator at mbartel@email.arizona.edu or 520-621-8518.

Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize Competition

Building on the excellence of its graduate programs, the Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize Competition is intended to provide MFA-seeking graduate students with up to $10,000 to support the completion of work in the sculptural/3D arts. The work supported by this award can be presented on or off campus; possible projects include:

  • Land-art
  • Site-specific sculpture/installation
  • “Traditional” sculptural work
  • Performance-based work incorporating 3 dimensional components.

Helen Gross Award

The Helen Gross Award is a generous gift from Joseph Gross to support talented young artists who have shown remarkable ability in their areas of study, along with a record of exhibitions of their own work as well as others. The scholarship is intended to provide MFA seeking graduates who have passed candidacy review with a $1,000 award to support the cost of their thesis exhibition. This award is presented at an annual luncheon hosted by Joseph Gross for the award recipient and the School of Art Director.

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Megan G Bartel Program Coordinator
mbartel@email.arizona.edu Art Bldg, Room 11D
520-621-8518
James Graham Academic Advisor I
jimgraham@email.arizona.edu Art Bldg, Room 110
520-621-7570
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Wilma Pinedo Program Coordinator
wpinedo@email.arizona.edu Art Bldg, Room 11C
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University of Arizona School of Art

6 days ago

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“Inside, Outside” is an impressive series of collages by School of Art student, Breanna Romero.
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Growing up I had a slight obsession with collecting Teen Vogue publications as well as anatomy textbooks. I was always drawn to the editorials within the magazines, but also the detailed and meticulous illustrations within the textbooks. This obsession would lead to myself finding beauty within the human body, its ability to contort and take numerous forms. Created through scans of my old magazines and textbooks, I wanted to combine the similarities I found into a photo spread of my own publication that meets in-between fashion magazine and informative medical textbook.
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“Inside, Outside” is an impressive series of collages by School of Art student, Breanna Romero.
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Growing up I had a slight obsession with collecting Teen Vogue publications as well as anatomy textbooks. I was always drawn to the editorials within the magazines, but also the detailed and meticulous illustrations within the textbooks. This obsession would lead to myself finding beauty within the human body, its ability to contort and take numerous forms. Created through scans of my old magazines and textbooks, I wanted to combine the similarities I found into a photo spread of my own publication that meets in-between fashion magazine and informative medical textbook. 
- @icedchaiwithoatmilkImage attachment
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2 weeks ago

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This gorgeous manipulated digital photograph is titled "Triangular Melons," and is by recent @uarizonaphoto MFA Alumna, Leah Netsky!
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My work considers the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science and technology. I use physical and digital manipulation of subjects to explore the human drive to edit, define, and control the organic. I have recently been working on a series of "future fruit" which play on genetic modification in fruit production. This image imagines how melons might be designed in the future.
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This gorgeous manipulated digital photograph is titled Triangular Melons, and is by recent @uarizonaphoto MFA Alumna, Leah Netsky!
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My work considers the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science and technology. I use physical and digital manipulation of subjects to explore the human drive to edit, define, and control the organic. I have recently been working on a series of future fruit which play on genetic modification in fruit production. This image imagines how melons might be designed in the future.
- @leah_netsky
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2 weeks ago

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These beautiful photographs are from Tamrin Ingram who received her MFA from the Photography, Video and Imaging program here at the UArizona School of Art!
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These two photographs contain the shadow of my granny.
In one she photographs her youngest daughter (my mother, now passed) on a swing set, and the shadow of mother and daughter is cast on the background. In another the same shadow of Granny is cast upon the freshly dug grave of her husband. I was struck by these self-shadow portraits of her, both photographs are quite plain yet both seem to whisper something about heartache, parenthood, and loss. In one, a wife documents the final resting place of newly dead husband, in another a mother documents her daughter just after the death of father and husband, and on the edge of it all is myself, daughter and granddaughter left with only shadows and dirt and two haunting photographs, seeing them at a time long before they ever saw me.
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These beautiful photographs are from Tamrin Ingram who received her MFA from the Photography, Video and Imaging program here at the UArizona School of Art!
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These two photographs contain the shadow of my granny.
In one she photographs her youngest daughter (my mother, now passed) on a swing set, and the shadow of mother and daughter is cast on the background. In another the same shadow of Granny is cast upon the freshly dug grave of her husband. I was struck by these self-shadow portraits of her, both photographs are quite plain yet both seem to whisper something about heartache, parenthood, and loss. In one, a wife documents the final resting place of newly dead husband, in another a mother documents her daughter just after the death of father and husband, and on the edge of it all is myself, daughter and granddaughter left with only shadows and dirt and two haunting photographs, seeing them at a time long before they ever saw me.
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4 weeks ago

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This fantastic illustrative piece is called SIMPLIFY by School of Art student, Caroline Berkey!
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“I would hope my illustrations speak more for themselves than any written statement would. I also wouldn't want to discourage any viewer from applying a personal meaning to my work, especially since the nuance of visual narrative is so special. This piece means a lot to me. I made this piece while experiencing the worst artist block I've felt, to my memory. I made this piece when I didn't want to make anything at all. I made this piece at the beginning of a global pandemic, when all of my goals and plans were flipped upside down, and I ashamedly felt relieved. I made this piece because I think it's funny and honest. S I M P L I F Y.” @caro.carlitos
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This fantastic illustrative piece is called SIMPLIFY by School of Art student, Caroline Berkey!
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“I would hope my illustrations speak more for themselves than any written statement would. I also wouldnt want to discourage any viewer from applying a personal meaning to my work, especially since the nuance of visual narrative is so special. This piece means a lot to me. I made this piece while experiencing the worst artist block Ive felt, to my memory. I made this piece when I didnt want to make anything at all. I made this piece at the beginning of a global pandemic, when all of my goals and plans were flipped upside down, and I ashamedly felt relieved. I made this piece because I think its funny and honest. S I M P L I F Y.” @caro.carlitos
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1 month ago

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Congratulations to Alex Turner for his recognition in the 2020 Lens Culture Black and White Awards. Alex placed 1st in the Single Image Category for his beautiful image, “29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses , 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, 2019” from the series “Blind River”! ... See MoreSee Less

Congratulations to Alex Turner for his recognition in the 2020 Lens Culture Black and White Awards. Alex placed 1st in the Single Image Category for his beautiful image, “29 Humans (Smugglers) and 12 Horses , 1-Week Interval, Patagonia Mountains, AZ, 2019” from the series “Blind River”!
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Beautiful acrylic portrait from School of Art student Sara Al Dabbagh. This work features her rendition of a Sumerian Noblewoman in the desert of Sumer, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Sara is a third year Bachelor of Fine Arts student majoring in Studio Art with emphasis in Two-Dimensional studies.
“I am a woman from Iraq, and I have always desired to have myself be represented in art and modern culture. I made this piece, to show the beauty of Iraq.” @artist.sakalda
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Beautiful acrylic portrait from School of Art student Sara Al Dabbagh. This work features her rendition of a Sumerian Noblewoman in the desert of Sumer, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 
Sara is a third year Bachelor of Fine Arts student majoring in Studio Art with emphasis in Two-Dimensional studies. 
“I am a woman from Iraq, and I have always desired to have myself be represented in art and modern culture. I made this piece, to show the beauty of Iraq.” @artist.sakalda
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