MFA-Art | Photography Specialization

The MFA-Art- Photography Specialization is a 60-credit hour in-person program that takes 3 years (6 semesters) to complete. Our Photography program focuses on rigorous critical discussion, technical mastery, and creative exploration supported by facilities, equipment and opportunities to engage across campus and beyond. Nearly 4000 square feet of photography facilities include digital and analog labs, a lighting studio, and cameras and lighting equipment for checkout. The Sheldon Museum of Art adjacent to Woods Art Building offers print viewing and close interaction with the extensive photography collection, visiting artists, and staff.

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Program Features

Our three-year, 60-credit MFA in Art offers:

• 24-hour access to all facilities
• Graduate Teaching Assistantships & full tuition waivers
• School of Art, Art History & Design annual awards
• Secure, generous one- or two-person studios
• Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts awards, presentation travel, and research grants
• One-on-one studio visits with Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars
• Opportunities to work with faculty across all studio areas, design, and art history/visual culture
• Opportunities to take courses across campus in other disciplines
• Proximity and dialog with MFA students in all studio areas
• Extensive collection of photobooks in UNL’s Love Library
• Solo MFA thesis exhibitions
• Opportunities to exhibit work in the many galleries and alternative spaces in Lincoln
• A Residency Prize for one graduating student from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts’ internationally renowned artist residency program

Notable Facilities & Equipment 

• Private graduate darkroom with 4x5" enlargers, archival washer, and a grad-only Jobo film processor
• Alternative process space and UV exposure units
• Graduate-only digital darkroom
• Critique space with configurable LED track lighting and magnetic walls
• Large open lab area with digital projector and framing/finishing space
• The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Digital Lab for equipment check-out and use large format scanners and printers
• Lighting equipment including strobes, cool lights, and flashes with wireless transmitters
• Light modifiers including softboxes, umbrellas, grids, and gels
• Studio equipment including smoke and haze machines, light stands, V-flats, backdrops, tripods
• Sony alpha full-frame mirrorless cameras and lenses
• Hasselblad and Fujifilm digital medium format cameras
• Analog small, medium, and large format cameras and lenses

About Lincoln

Students will immerse themselves in a vibrant arts community in the heart of the city of Lincoln, where creativity and opportunities abound that will shape your education and future career as an artist.

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