Application Deadline: January 8
Admission is based on an evaluation of previous creative and academic achievements, a clear sense of critical direction, and compatibility with the aims and ideas of the program. M.A. students begin their full-time enrollment in September. Applicants to this program should apply online. The résumé, personal statement, and writing sample should be uploaded with the online application. Successful applicants may come from various backgrounds, including practicing artists, critical studies or arts institutions.
Please prepare the following:
- A professional résumé listing creative and academic background, work experience, creative work, critical writing, civic, activist, and community-based engagements, performances, installations, published work, etc.
- A statement of purpose (two to three pages double-spaced) that addresses (a) your critical, activist, and professional trajectory, in particular the resources you have garnered and the most salient constraints you have encountered; (b) your reflections on key and pressing issues in arts politics generally; and (c) the difference to your work and thought that you hope the program will make, and the project or intervention you would like to engage in during and after the program.
- A writing sample that reflects your ability to carry out sustained academic research and critical writing, and to successfully complete interdisciplinary graduate course work. A substantive essay is recommended but longer samples are acceptable, e.g., samples or documentation of creative and critical work or documentation or writings about activist, institutional, or organizational projects which you have initiated or taken a significant role in directing.
