OTIS is a leader among institutions of higher learning specializing in the education of artists and designers. Cited in America’s creative capitol, Los Angeles, OTIS is also the city’s first independent professional art school. In 1918, General Harrison Gray Otis, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, bequeathed his home for "the advancement of the arts." Since then OTIS has trained artists and designers who are in the vanguard of American cultural and entrepreneurial life. From companies...
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) empowers artists and designers to reimagine what art and design can do in the world. Founded in 1909, PNCA is an accredited, independent visual arts and design college offering 10 undergraduate and seven graduate degree programs centered on the core values of professional practice, integrated knowledge, critical thinking, effective communication, and social responsibility.
Located in an historic building in the heart of Portland, Oregon's downtown...
Parsons School of Design is one of the leading institutions for art and design education in the world. Today Parsons is the only American art and design school within a comprehensive university — The New School — which also houses a rigorous liberal arts college and a progressive performing arts school. Guided by Parsons faculty, graduate students draw on the university's extensive resources to challenge convention and innovate, improving people's lives directly and preparing for an...
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the world’s top ranked art, design, information and architecture schools with outstanding programs, most of which are ranked among the top ten and five in the United States. With more than 20 graduate programs, an award-winning faculty of practicing professional artists, designers, writers, architects and historians, an outstanding internship program, and a beautiful 25-acre tree-lined residential campus minutes from Manhattan, as well as a Manhattan...
Graduate study at RISD offers an immersive and inspiring opportunity to delve deeply into a chosen discipline and emerge with new perspectives to your creative practice. Each year 478 master’s degree candidates benefit from dynamic community of peers, diverse guest critics and close working relationships with faculty who are practicing artists, designers and scholars themselves. Equally as important, you'll learn about yourself, the way you think and how you move through new modes of...
For 160 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program ranked number two among art and design colleges by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities....
The Master of Fine Arts program at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University is a rigorous, interdisciplinary program rooted in contemporary art. Our students are committed to producing bodies of research through art-making, supported by a professional community of global artists and scholars.
As a graduate student at SMFA at Tufts you’ll join a community of working artists engaged in interdisciplinary research to create boundary and medium-pushing work designed to shape the...
School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers and creative professionals for nearly seven decades. With a faculty of distinguished working professionals, dynamic curriculum and an emphasis on critical thinking, SVA is a catalyst for innovation and social responsibility. SVA is located in the heart of New York City, a world capital of art, design, and culture; a fact that greatly enhances the education of its students.
In 1947, SVA opened its doors with 35...
The mission of the Yale School of Art is to provide students with intellectually informed, hands-on instruction in the practice of an array of visual arts media within the context of a liberal arts university. As a part of the first institution of higher learning to successfully integrate a studio-based education into such a broad pedagogical framework, the Yale School of Art has a long and distinguished history of training artists of the highest caliber. The School of Art is founded on the...
