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Unique Features |
The graduate MFA program at Herron supports a dual focus on both a traditional emphasis on building the student’s mastery of her/his creative process in the pursuit of her/his own unique artistic vision AND learning the skills and gaining experience in operating as an artist who is engaged directly with the real world.
An emphasis on strategies for building a career that incorporates the flexibility to work in public art and to undertake complex project-based work on commission.
Opportunities for “real world” experience in undertaking projects on campus and within the urban metropolitan area of central Indiana, including the development of public art opportunities and opportunities for commission-based projects.
The outstanding potential for interdisciplinary research by virtue of the graduate programs and resources on the IUPUI campus (combining the strengths of both Indiana University and Purdue University). Graduate students in visual art make art with content; this content can be developed from the full spectrum of fields of knowledge explored on the IUPUI campus (from art history to public history to medicine to the physical sciences to engineering to political science to economics to literature to environmental sciences, and so on).