Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts

The program leading to the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts is designed to provide an advanced level of professional training for artists in the fields of music, dance, theatre, film, video and visual art. The goal of the program is to further cross-disciplinary research, technical skill, and artistic creativity and to develop a critical awareness of the historical perspective of art and its relationship to contemporary society. The program develops student's individual artistic practice, creativity, interdisciplinary research, technical skill and critical awareness of art's relationship to contemporary society. Several kinds of artist thrive in this program: those who have a strong background in a single discipline and value the stimulation of an interdisciplinary environment; those whose studio practice fuses two or more disciplines; and those who want to develop the theoretical or scholarly context of their practice.