Program Category: Painting MFA

  • September 13, 2025
    This course traces the development of representational art since 1960 and coordinates it with the major changes in the art…

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    This course will examine storytelling as our most powerful means of understanding ourselves and the world around us. Literature becomes…

  • September 13, 2025
    Art: The lifeblood of creative expression. A world without art is a difficult scenario to imagine. But, behind any major…

  • September 13, 2025
    In the rapidly evolving world of creative industries, mastering the art of business and budgeting is crucial. This course is…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course traces the major movements and canonical figures of Modernism from 1850-1960. The theoretical underpinnings of Modernism are examined…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course examines contemporary representational art in galleries and museums of the greater Los Angeles area. Noted art writer John…

  • September 13, 2025
    The Science of Sight is a comprehensive overview of the visual phenomenon of eyesight incorporating information from disciplines of anatomy…

  • September 13, 2025
    This 3 unit MFA Studio class is entirely focused on painting portraits, what makes it unique is that different guest…

  • September 13, 2025
    A 3-unit MFA studio class that will focus on drawing and painting derived from direct observation of the natural world…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course guides students in producing and assembling a body of work that is cohesive in methodology and concept and…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course will explore a wide range of less-familiar visual arts. Crossing the boundaries of time, culture, class, geography, and…

  • September 13, 2025
    How do environments influence our experience of the world? The spaces we occupy can be understood as characters in the…

  • September 13, 2025
    Creative Investigation is a three unit Graduate level studio class designed to expand the options and approaches to representational art,…

  • September 13, 2025
    The live human figure will be the constant theme of this 3 unit MFA studio class. A variety of accomplished…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course is a masters level portrait class. The creation of engaging portraits will be explored. Our models will be…

  • September 13, 2025
    The Filtered Photo is a 3 unit MFA Studio class is focused on skillful incorporation of photography involved in the…

  • September 13, 2025
    A 3-unit MFA Studio class that is entirely focused on painting and or drawing compositions that support the clear objectives…

  • September 13, 2025
    This 3 credit MFA studio class utilizes several guest teachers with the focus on the topic of Narrative. Projects are…

  • September 13, 2025
    This 3-unit MFA Studio class is focused on painting and drawing methods passed down in workshops or ateliers. Academic practices…

  • September 13, 2025
    A continuation of painting the life model, emphasizing observation and accurate representation. Students convincingly depict the life model through the…

  • September 13, 2025
    In this studio course will explore and develop personal content and examine the ramifications of public exposure. Research and strategies…

  • September 13, 2025
    This studio course is tailored to the student who wants to maximize productive work and seriously curtail procrastination. Heightened accountability,…

  • September 13, 2025
    The human figure occupies various positions on the spectrum between the analytically anatomical to the purely poetic. This course will…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course draws on contemporary and classical sources, both literary and visual, to create narrative works. Lessons in constructing narrative…

  • September 13, 2025
    This graduate level studio course is designed to explore and enhance the connection between materials, methods and the resultant meaning…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course is designed to prepare students for careers as professional artists and college-level educators. The course will also serve…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course examines the writing of other visual artists from a variety of mediums and reviews the fundamentals of English…

  • September 13, 2025
    This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…

  • September 13, 2025
    This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…

  • September 13, 2025
    This specialized course is designed to develop the MFA Thesis: a substantial summative statement analyzing and explaining the student's final…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course is dedicated principally to identifying and exploring directions the student's work may take, including such aspects as subject…

  • September 13, 2025
    In this course, the student continues the work begun in Mentor Studio 1, producing more resolved, focused studies based on…

  • September 13, 2025
    This course is concerned with further clarifying the formal and conceptual direction the graduate's work is to take through the…

  • September 13, 2025
    Mentor Studio 4 culminates with the student's graduate exhibition.

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