The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design on the College of Michigan, ranked among the many high eight graduate colleges in the US for artwork and design by U.S. Information and World Report, is at the moment accepting MFA in Art applications for Fall 2026.
At Stamps, MFA college students are welcomed right into a rigorous tutorial surroundings by a full-time school of 44 main students, artists, and makers who mentor, encourage, and problem college students each step of the best way. All through the 2 years of this system, college students will interact with school from Stamps and throughout the College of Michigan, with entry to the sources and collaborative alternatives solely accessible at a R1-designated analysis college. They’ll additionally study from nationally and internationally acknowledged visiting artists and critics, who present one-on-one suggestions, insightful views, and networking through studio visits, critiques, and different occasions.
College students obtain monetary help, entry to world-class studio areas, the curricular basis for artistic work, exhibition alternatives, and considerate advising and mentorship all through this system and past. Central to our program, college students conduct analysis and inventive observe by means of their funded worldwide challenge, which they full between their first and second years. On the finish of this journey, graduates of this system may have a newfound readability on how their work engages with, displays upon, and intersects with the world at massive; and can be prepared for a variety of alternatives in a wide range of fields and contexts.
“The Stamps MFA Program helps research-based, interdisciplinary, and materially subtle inventive work — typically in dialogue with vital idea and pressing social actions. School, employees, and regional neighborhood members help college students find contexts for his or her work that align with their aspirations and intentions, whereas working collaboratively to reimagine what inventive analysis might appear like within the complicated, fraught up to date second we’re in.”
Angela Washko, MFA Program Director and Catherine B Heller Professor of Artwork
Guests to the Stamps School and Graduate Studios view work by Sujay Saple (MFA ’26)
Visit the Stamps website for a visible introduction to the Stamps MFA program by means of our most up-to-date thesis exhibition, and study extra about our graduate program in our upcoming virtual open house and Graduate National Portfolio Day events.
Applications are due January 3, 2026.
To study extra, go to stamps.umich.edu.
