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unusual facts about master of fine arts


Norma Fox Mazer

From 1997 to 2006 Mazer taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program at Vermont College.


Benjamin Kunkel

Kunkel grew up in Eagle, Colorado, and was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; Kunkel studied at Deep Springs College in California, graduated with a BA from Harvard University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University.

College of Art, Delhi

This includes training for Master of Fine Art (MFA, a post graduation course of two year in duration) except Art History and Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA, an undergraduate course with 4 years duration) in Applied Art, Art History, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and Visual Communication with emphasis on studio practicals, prescribed theory subjects and research in selected fields.

David Crouse

Having helped to establish a creative writing program at Chester College of New England, a renowned liberal arts college located in Chester, New Hampshire, Crouse returned to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which awarded him his MFA in Creative Writing in 1996.

Dennis Klocek

After graduating with an MFA in 1975 from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with a thesis on Goethe’s color theory, he taught for seven years at a community college.

Dirk Westphal

Since completing his MFA at California Institute of the Arts in 1989 he has been working in several different artistic processes, but with an emphasis in photography.

Kate Vrijmoet

She went on to study at the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and was invited to teach there in 1994, earning her MFA in 1997.

Lydia Dean Pilcher

After receiving an MFA at New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of feature films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford).

Patrick Earl Hammie

In 2006 he was awarded a Graduate Assistantship to study for a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Reginald Case

He studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, San Francisco State University and Boston University where he earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Rhonda Aldrich

She grew up in Leon, Kansas where she did ballet and drama lessons at a children's theatre in Wichita and graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor of arts in theatre then graduated from Ohio University with a master of fine arts in acting.

Ruth-Marion Baruch

Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922, and later moved to the United States, where she studied photography at Ohio University (receiving an MFA) and at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Tamy Ben-Tor

Graduating from Columbia University's MFA Program in 2006, she lives and works in New York and shows with Zach Feuer Gallery.

Tee Corinne

With a B.A. in printmaking and painting (with minors in English and history) from University of South Florida, Corrine went onto get an M.F.A. in drawing and sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1968.


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Ali Banisadr

In 2005, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and his Master of Fine Arts in 2007 from the New York Academy of Art.

Irene Ferguson

Ferguson gained a Diploma of Fine Arts with Honors from Otago School of Fine Art, Dunedin in 1993 and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art in 2005.

Kerstin Jeppsson

Jeppsson received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Stockholm in 1977, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1979, where she studied with Mel Powell for composition and Daniel Schulman for conducting.

Kō Yamada

He trained in the United States, earning both a Bachelor's degree in photography (1990) and Master of Fine Arts (1993) from Ohio University.

Kurt Edward Fishback

Kurt studied art at Sacramento City College, SFAI, Cornell University and UC Davis where he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree studying with Robert Arneson, Roy DeForest, William Wiley and Manuel Neri.

Lisa Robertson

She currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Maura Bosch

She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Hartt College of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978, and at Princeton University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 2008, after studying with Alexander Lepak, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt and Peter Westergaard.

Rachel Gold

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Studies from Macalester College and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Hamline University.

Sofia Maldonado

She received a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas (2006) in San Juan, a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2008, and was a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.

Yury Kharchenko

From 2004 - 2008 he studied at the famous Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by Markus Lüpertz and Siegfried Anzinger and graduated with master of fine arts and Diploma.