Artist Dolores Zinny translates her experience as an international professional artist into a pedagogical platform. The MFA is a social sculpture that contains the individual creations of all its members. We define sculpture as a space for confluence and translation of local ideas in a globalized context: a place where our differences converge.
Small Cohort/Close Mentorship
Students work one-on-one with Program Director Dolores Zinny, faculty and a rotating roster of internationally renowned artists, curators and scholars in residence, such as Teresita Fernández, Asad Raza, Aruna D'Souza, Eddie Aparicio, Tony Cokes, Alexandra Grant, Coco Fusco and Matt Mullican. [See all faculty and artists in residence]
They give public talks and hold studio visits, staying in close dialogue with the students. Intensive studio practice is balanced with a grounding in art history and critical theory. Students also work with experts in other fields: writers, journalists, scientists, architects and designers, developing new ways of making and sharing work.
Individual Studio
Each student has a spacious private studio opening onto a shared work area and a full fabrication shop.
Four Exhibitions/Two Publications
Each semester builds toward an exhibition and critique. Graduates leave with a four-exhibition portfolio, published in the Year in Review book. [See the books]
Student Work: NIC F. AMSEL, class of 2026
Student Work: Cosmo Guo, class of 2024
Student Work: BoneZone, class of 2023
Field Trips
Rinehart is steps from Baltimore Penn Station. Washington, D.C. is 40 minutes away, Philadelphia 1 hour and New York City 2.5 hours. Every semester we visit Glenstone. Museum with adjunct faculty and curator Yuri Stone. Every year we travel to New York for museums and galleries, and in Biennial years, the Whitney Biennial.
Recent destinations include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with an on-site seminar by senior curator Carlos Basualdo and tour of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the
National Gallery of Art with senior curator Lynne Cooke.
