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Rinehart School of Sculpture (MFA)

The Rinehart School of Sculpture seeks to create a stimulating environment by enrolling artists with multiple perspectives and diverse cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds who share an interest in exploring the possibilities for creating art in a multi-dimensional environment.

Rinehart School of Sculpture's goal is to train artists for the 21st century, including the art of the moment, and to make sure that each student understands the implications of his or her work. Rinehart's 10 students work in many media, from performance and video to traditional metals and stone.

Students are assigned to individual studios surrounding a common work area, which includes a complete wood and metal shop. The studios open into the shared space so that ideas are exchanged and peer interaction and discourse occur naturally and frequently. In this secure environment, the creative process flourishes, and ideas take shape and become substance.

Weekly seminars include guests who reinforce our varied practices. There are reading seminars and writing workshops. Guests assist in career development, and equal attention is given to history and theory. Rinehart students learn to proceed independently and with authority as they approach professional status.

In order to complete the MFA, students are required to take 48 credits in studio and 12 credits in liberal arts seminars. A selection of seminars specifically designed for graduate students is offered each semester, but graduate students may also take undergraduate liberal arts courses for graduate credit with the instructor's permission. Undergraduate studio classes may also be taken for graduate credit, but permission of the director is required.

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  1. Best Graduate Schools Ranking

    U.S. News & World Report Ranks MICA's Master of Fine Arts Programs Among Top Four in Nation

    Maryland Institute College of Art's (MICA) Master of Fine Arts programs were ranked among the top four in the nation, with those of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Yale University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, by U.S. News & World Report, in its “Best Graduate Schools” edition released on March 26, 2008. This ranking was based “solely on the results of a peer assessment survey of art school deans [asked to] rate the academic quality of programs,” at 220 colleges and universities, according to the magazine.