230 The Fenway
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is located in Boston's cultural district, Fenway. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, studio programs leading to diplomas, fifth year certificates, and a post-baccalaureate certificate.

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts offers a bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of fine arts plus MAT in art history, and combined degrees. Areas of study include art education, artist resources, ceramics, drawing, film and animation, foundations, glass, metals, painting, performance, photography, print and paper, sculpture, sound, text and image arts, video, and visual and critical studies. Graduate degrees include master of fine arts and master of arts in teaching. The studio program allows students to immerse themselves in studio practice. The fifth year certificate program provides a year of independent work that culminates in a "fifth year exhibition." The post-baccalaureate program is an intensive year of studio art study and practice.

Quick Facts

School of the Museum of Fine Arts has more than 700 undergraduate and diploma students, more than 100 graduate students, and over 780 non-matriculated students.

The school offers continuing education studio art classes and workshops, high school programs, and certificate programs in Graphic Design and illustration.

There are approximately 50 full-time and 100 part-time faculty. The faculty are working artists who frequently exhibit their work in the U.S. and Europe, including the collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

For the 2006-2007 academic year, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts awarded $4,323,950 in financial aid.

The school's alumni are talented, successful artists, including David Lynch, filmmaker/director; Nan Goldin, photographer; Ellen Gallagher, mixed media artist; Cy Twombly, painter; Ellsworth Kelly, painter/sculptor/printmaker; and Jim Dine, painter/printmaker.

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is recognized by the Department of Education and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the United States Department of Justice for foreign students, and the Veterans Administration for training.

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