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UNLV Graduate Assistantship, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Posted by: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Deadline: Sat, February 1st, 2020

The UNLV Department of Art invites self-directed artists and designers to apply for the Fall 2019 MFA Program in Art. The three-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is studio-based and research-focused with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, community engagement, and professional development. Each MFA student is provided with studio space. Graduate Assistantships in teaching, research, and professional development financially support and advance students who have rare opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research, contribute to the development of curriculum, manage studios and shops, and work alongside community members, local organizations, and other departments on campus. Assistantship packages include tuition waivers and stipends. As the culmination of the program, each MFA candidate produces a public graduation thesis project.

Through academic and public programming, the Department of Art collaborates with UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, a network of campus galleries, and The College of Fine Arts. The College of Fine Arts boldly launches visionaries not only in art and design, but also in dance, film, theater, set design, entertainment design, music, and architecture. Graduate students have the opportunity to work with a diverse art/art history faculty whose work engages a variety of media, including site-based installation, sculpture, ceramics, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, intermedia, graphic design, and digital art. The Department regularly presents visiting speakers and hosts artists-in-residence.

Las Vegas is becoming a center for inventive, resourceful, transformative art and design practice. One of the most affordable big cities in the US, it is a cultural crossroads and dynamic metropolitan region, home to 1.5 million people. Of note in the area: Area 51, The Believer Festival, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Double Negative, Hoover Dam, Meow Wolf, The Neon Museum, Seven Magic Mountains. Beyond the spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, the surrounding desert landscape is jaw-dropping; it is an easy drive to Red Rock National Conservation Area, Valley of Fire State Park, and Gold Butte National Monument which includes cultural sites sacred to the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. The Grand Canyon, California and the coast are also easy day or weekend trips. 

Founded in 1957, UNLV is a public degree-granting institution of approximately 30,000 students and 3,500 faculty and staff that is recognized as “very high research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. UNLV is located on a 332-acre campus near the Las Vegas Strip. It has earned the title of one of the most diverse universities for undergraduates by U.S. News & World Report.  

The Department of Art strives to create a model for professional development in all areas of the arts, design, and relevant histories, to teach the diversity of culture and identity in the US and its democratic values, and to prepare graduates for success in competitive and evolving communities through access to cutting-edge fabrication equipment, new critical and creative contexts, and opportunities for exhibition, publication, discussion, and critique linked with partners in Las Vegas and beyond.

Link to the application guidelines here:

https://www.unlv.edu/news-story/mfa-art-call-applications

Posted on Tue, October 15th, 2019
Expires on Sat, February 1st, 2020

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