ART THEORY AND PRACTICE

Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

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graduate

degree requirements | courses | resources | prospective students

opportunities

Both internal and external funding opportunities are available to AT&P graduate students during their two-year residency. Of the awards administered through Northwestern, our MFA students are eligible for Graduate Research Grants (GRG) as well as support from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIRA). The Graduate School website also lists external funding sources particularly suited to AT&P students. Contact William Jones at the Graduate School for more information

post graduate
residencies

ARTOMI in Chatham, NY http://www.artomi.org
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts http://www.bemiscenter.org/
Blue Mountain Center http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/
Contemporary Arts Center http://www.thecac.org/
Leighton Studios for Independent Residencies, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=77
Macdowell Colony http://www.macdowellcolony.org/
Millay Colony for the Arts http://www.millaycolony.org/
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program http://www.rair.org/
Sculpture Space http://www.sculpturespace.org/
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture http://www.skowheganart.org/ Triangle Artists Workshop http://www.triangleworkshop.org/
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts http://www.vcca.com/