Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Programs
Art Education Graduate Programs
The Penn State University Park campus is in the geographical center of Pennsylvania, surrounded by mountain ridges, farms and forests. Over the past century, the campus has grown hand in hand with the borough of State College and its four surrounding townships. Today the population of the region exceeds 100,000 and is considered a metropolitan area. Nevertheless, the overall impression is distinctly rural.
The University environment offers an abundant array of artistic events and activities. The Center for the Performing Arts schedules major performances of dance, music, and theatre throughout the year. The Palmer Museum of Art offers more than a dozen important art exhibitions by world-renowned visual artists. Pennsylvania Centre Stage, a professional regional theatre, provides high-quality summer productions featuring nationally known performers.
The College of Arts and Architecture, one of nine colleges on the University Park campus, is the home of seven schools and departments offering programs in the visual arts, music, theatre, architecture, landscape architecture, art history, and the integrated arts. The Penn State School of Visual Arts is part of the College of Arts and Architecture. The college is also the home of the University Resident Theatre Company. Cultural opportunities for students are enhanced through the University's proximity to New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.
Penn State College of Arts and Architecture School of Visual Arts' programs are housed in five campus buildings. The facilities are comprehensive and offer students a wide variety of instructional space, tools, and equipment within each of the school's programs and options. A large, well-equipped wood and metal shop serves the entire school, as does a Macintosh computer-design laboratory. Additionally, the Penn State School of Visual Arts maintains ongoing exhibitions in its teaching art galleries.
All of its buildings are in close proximity to Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art. An excellent arts library serves the University Park campus and provides extensive resources for study and research.
The Visual Arts faculty's academic strength is reflected in the strong academic backgrounds and the national and international reputations of its members as artists, teachers, and scholars. They have been awarded Fulbright and Rockefeller Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their work can be found in arts magazines, textbooks, and in the major scholarly art journals. Art education professors are known both nationally and internationally for their leadership in art education theory and research. Studio faculty members represent many stylistic approaches to art and work with a wide variety of media. All studio faculty members are producing professional artists who maintain ties outside the University and are represented by major galleries. Their work is included in the permanent collections of leading museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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