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Writing
Jeri Vanblaricom Braun
From Typographic Body, 2000
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The Master of Fine Arts in Writing program is for writers in all genres,
as well as for artists who work with image and text. It is an integral
part of the School’s graduate division and is closely associated
with the Master of Fine Arts in Studio. The School’s writing program
is distinct from more conventional programs in that it brings together
a community of writers and artists at one of the nation’s leading
colleges of art and draws on a distinguished faculty with diverse artistic
and intellectual concerns. Core faculty — writers of poetry and
prose and artists in performance; film, video, and new media; visual
communication; printmedia and painting — are augmented by visiting
writers, artists, and scholars. In this unique community of writers
and artists, hybrid works, new forms, and collaborative projects are
encouraged.
Writing students at the School of the Art Institute have access to studio
facilities — and a strong community of artists and critical thinkers.
In addition, the School’s Visiting
Artists Program brings artists, writers, critics, and scholars to
the School to teach, lecture, and participate in critiques. Recent visiting
artists have included DJ Spooky, Robert Ashley, Valerie Steele, Jeffrey
Kipnis, Arturo Herrera, Michael Ray Charles, Roger Shimomura, Xu Bing,
Marjorie Perloff, Joe Sacco, Cai Gno-Qiang, Renata Stih, and Freder
Schnock.
The program’s flexible structure accommodates individual needs
and exploration. Three-fourths of the course work is devoted to the
development of student writing through workshops, generative seminars,
and tutorial projects or thesis advising. Electives offer the opportunity
for writers to take interdisciplinary seminars on a variety of subjects
or courses offered by studio departments. Students may also select from
an array of courses in art history, theory, and criticism; liberal arts;
arts administration; art education; or historic preservation to satisfy
their electives. Students complete a writing project of appropriate
length in their final semester.
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