Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing

Pratt Institute

From critical analysis to furthering and refining material knowledge, you’ll engage in an intense studio experience, strengthening your skills and broadening your knowledge of historical, social, and critical issues through seminars, group critiques, and peer interactions. Our MFA degree is in fine arts rather than any specific medium or discipline. Though many students are committed to an area of interest-whether painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, or integrated practices-they are free to explore other forms and approaches as their work evolves. Faculty and students build close relationships through structured studio visits, seminars, and informal conversations. These relationships create vital communities and support networks that endure long after graduation.Pratt Institute’s M.F.A. Painting and Drawing Curriculum offers students a broad but rigorous studio practice, highlighting students’ individual development and focusing on an understanding of the significant concerns that constitute contemporary art today. From critical analysis to furthering and refining material knowledge, each student will engage in an intense studio experience, strengthening their skills and broadening their knowledge of historical, social, and critical issues through seminars, group critiques, and peer interactions. The two-year program culminates in a written thesis and solo thesis exhibition that prepares graduates to join the art world as professionals.

School of Art