MFA General Information
The six studio areas comprising the MFA program (ceramics, jewelry design & metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture) each offer unique opportunities for our students. The sculpture area has been instrumental in the revitalization of the Texas Sculpture Symposium and has hosted the 7th and 9th symposia in the fall semesters 2004 and 2006 on the TTU campus in Junction, Texas. Printmaking faculty recently organized and hosted Beyond Printmaking, an exciting national show of innovative hybrid prints juried by printmaker Anita Jung.
Photography students are contributing to the superlative Millennial Collection of photographs documenting the Llano Estacado region during this period of rapid transition and are participating in a collaborative project with the Mechanical Engineering program to build a large-scale camera obscura. One of our painting MFA students recently organized and secured funds for an exchange show with Ohio State University MFA students, which included sending a group of painting faculty and students to visit the Ohio State campus and faculty studios.
Ceramics students and faculty raise funds every year to attend the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference and in summer 2007, one of our current MFA students and two alumni participated in an eight-week residency at The Pottery Workshop and Experimental Sculpture Factory, located in Jingdezhen, China. Students in jewelry design and metalsmithing regularly attend and show portfolios at the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference, and the Jewelry Metals Club has sponsored on-campus visits by numerous internationally and nationally known jewelers and metalsmiths.
MFA Advisor :: Sang-Mi Yoo
Artwork by Recent Graduates of the MFA Program