MFA
Our rigorous, interdisciplinary program is rooted in creative inquiry, material experimentation, and a commitment to professional preparedness. Our expansive facilities and personal studios serve as a site for both individual exploration and collective exchange.
Over the course of 3 years of full-time* study, MFA students engage in ambitious studio work, study art history and criticism, and build connections across campus to further their unique creative practice. Their interests will be diverse, but they will share our belief that art is a vital mode of inquiry.
*Students are admitted to the program under the assumption that they will enroll full time for three consecutive years.
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
Guests interact with artwork in the 2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Samantha Hurley)
2025 MFA thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum. (Photo/Lindsey Kennedy)
Graduate Information Sessions
Learn more about our MFA program by attending a virtual information session with our graduate studies faculty and staff. Please note—Registration is required to attend this virtual session.
Full Funding
All of our MFA students are funded for the duration of the 3-year program. Departmental Assistants receive tuition waivers, 60% health insurance coverage, and monthly stipends (August – May). In exchange, students work and teach in the department during the academic year.
MFA students may receive additional support in the form of scholarships as well as research and travel funding.
Curriculum
Students in the MFA program benefit from a flexible, forward-thinking curriculum that allows them to dig deep in one area or cross-pollinate and experiment. They can supplement their studio practice and conceptual development with courses in other disciplines. And, while their practice is advantaged by access to leading research in a variety of extra-aesthetic fields, our students also benefit from the intimacy of the art school and the micro communities of which it is comprised.
Our faculty are dedicated craftspeople, designers, scholars, and artists with expertise in a wide range of media, both old and new. Their research is engaged with a diverse array of themes and theoretical frameworks, including ecology, the inhuman, alterity, play, identity, material and visual culture, and adornment.
In this context and with the advantage of these resources, our MFA students are making objects and ephemera, performances and paintings, photographs and installations, lens-based work and jewelry, textiles and soundscapes.
Handbook and Forms
MFA Studios
Main Art Building
The Glass Gallery - MFA Gallery on the third floor of the Main Art Building
The Glass Gallery
MFA critique space
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor
Third floor MFA hallway
MFA Studio on the third floor
MFA Studio on the third floor of the Main Art Building
Maddy Underwood's Studio on the third floor. https://art.uga.edu/profile/maddy-underwood/
MFA Studio on the third floor
Graduate and faculty printmaking studio (second floor)
Graduate and faculty printmaking studio (second floor)
MFA Studio on the second floor
MFA Studio on the second floor
Thomas Street Art Complex
Mickey Boyd in his MFA studio
MFA studios in the jewelry & metalworking wing of TSAC
MFA studios in the jewelry & metalworking wing of TSAC
MFA studio in the jewelry & metalworking wing of TSAC
Ceramics Building
Yoon Hwang in his ceramics studio (Photo/Sidney Chansamone, sid.chansa@gmail.com)
MFA Ceramics studio (Photo/Sidney Chansamone, sid.chansa@gmail.com)
Yoon Hwang in his ceramics studio (Photo/Sidney Chansamone, sid.chansa@gmail.com)
Contact the Grad Office
More information on our graduate programs in Art, Art Education, and Art History can be found using the links above or by contacting the School of Art Graduate Office.
Last updated: August 7, 2026