Online Critique Seminar |
5611 (001) |
John D Neff |
Thurs
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
All Online
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Description
This 1.5 credit synchronous online course provides a forum for structured group discussion of students¿ studio work during remote semesters. Attendance at regularly scheduled synchronous meetings is required for this course.
The project of this course is developing students¿ skills around the observation of artworks, the verbal interpretation of artworks, and the framing of generative questions about studio practices.
In the course, students will present their own artwork and respond to colleagues¿ works within the context of facilitated group discussions on Zoom. A modest amount of asynchronous coursework will take place through Canvas and other platforms.
Regular synchronous course meetings will take place Thursdays 6-7 pm Central and Saturdays 11-12 pm Central.
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Class Number
2011
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement, Art/Design and Politics, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Online
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Online Critique Seminar |
5611 (002) |
John D Neff |
Sat
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
All Online
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Description
This 1.5 credit synchronous online course provides a forum for structured group discussion of students¿ studio work during remote semesters. Attendance at regularly scheduled synchronous meetings is required for this course.
The project of this course is developing students¿ skills around the observation of artworks, the verbal interpretation of artworks, and the framing of generative questions about studio practices.
In the course, students will present their own artwork and respond to colleagues¿ works within the context of facilitated group discussions on Zoom. A modest amount of asynchronous coursework will take place through Canvas and other platforms.
Regular synchronous course meetings will take place Thursdays 6-7 pm Central and Saturdays 11-12 pm Central.
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Class Number
2012
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Credits
1.5
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Area of Study
Community & Social Engagement, Art/Design and Politics, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Online
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Writing as Listening |
6430 (001) |
Nathanaël |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
How is writing art? How is writing art connected to writing about art? How do various theories of poetics shape writing as art? This online course addresses the craft of writing in view of urgent issues of contemporary art. Students will develop and manage their own blogs and participate in continuing online discussions. The final requirement will be a finished body of writing. This seminar proposes a meeting with several authors whose writing, whatever form it takes (philosophy, film, poetry, photography...), is foremost a manner of listening. Giving pause to the scream so inscribed in occidental literary habits, this course suggests attending to muteness in various forms as a way to sensory knowledge, and further to something like a lost memory, of writing itself. Preferring ambiguity to certitude, questions to answers, perception as knowledge, in our work together, we will visit works that call upon wounded worlds, mute worlds, worlds without appeal, still capable of metamorphosis. With Frantz Fanon, Arlette Pacquit, Claude Cahun, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Kinugasa Teinosuke, Gao Xingjian.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1860
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Poetry and Protest, Writing for Performance |
6430 (002) |
Pamela I. Sneed |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
How is writing art? How is writing art connected to writing about art? How do various theories of poetics shape writing as art? This online course addresses the craft of writing in view of urgent issues of contemporary art. Students will develop and manage their own blogs and participate in continuing online discussions. The final requirement will be a finished body of writing. Poetry and Protest, Writing for Performance is a course designed to explore a multiplicity of ways of writing for page, stage and gallery with a focus on performance writing . One need not have experience writing but more openness and interest. Through assigned texts, prompts and viewing video performances, we will experiment with ways to write and to take the personal story, experiences and shape them into non-traditional texts used for solo performance. We will examine many forms of the personal monologue: autobiographical, fictional, topical and character driven, as well as poetry, the poetic series and rendering poetry visually. There will be a particular emphasis in this class on the language of protest woven with the autobiographical and historical: the interface of the personal and political. We will write and also examine writing for performance through the lens of culture, current events, race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. The goal of the course is for students to further develop voice, work on form and content and to create a body of text that reflects them uniquely. Ultimately the body of text created could be foundations of a performance or gallery project which could also involve technology, visual art, dance, and music. Some of the artists surveyed will be James Baldwin, Sekou Sundiata, Amiri Baraka, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Ntozake Shange, Robin Coste Lewis, Fred Moten, Layli Longsoldier, Chimamanda Adichie, myself and more. Students should be prepared to write, experiment, share with the group, read, record and present their work to others. Students will develop and manage their own online blogs and participate in online discussion.. There will be bi-weekly writing assignments and viewing prompts The final project will be 10-12 page creative writing assignment.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1861
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Writing As Studio Practice |
6430 (003) |
John D Neff |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
This course combines study of texts on aesthetics and language¿concentrating on works that experiment with autobiographical forms¿with short writing exercises encouraging students to reimagine genres of art writing such as artist statements, interviews, press releases, and reviews. The authors explored will include Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Ho Davies, Lara Mimosa Montes, Claudia Rankine and Anne Truitt. Students will share short responses to readings and brief writing exercises every week. Students will complete a final project of their design, one formed in conversation with their classmates. Throughout the semester, there will be regular, required synchronous meetings (Mondays, 6 PM CST) via Zoom for discussion of course exercises and materials as well as asynchronous meetings when required.
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1862
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Sculpting Space: Design, Architecture, and Sacred |
6490 (001) |
D. Denenge Duyst- Akpem |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
This course takes the concept of ?sculpting space? as a springboard for investigations into commemorative design, speculative architecture, and foundational sacred systems in Africa and the African Diaspora, rooted in Afro-Futurism and ?visions of a liberated future? (Larry Neal), considering the intentional sculpting of space as pathway to transformation for self and community. Areas covered will include: commemoration and protection in textile; Yoruba aesthetic of the cool in design; sacred geometry in object and environment; West African modernist and speculative architecture; contemporary designers; and inhabiting permanent spaces of transition.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1968
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity
Location
Online
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Multiple Forms |
6599 (001) |
Nathanaël |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The written thesis is a significant portion of the requirements for graduation from the Low-Residency MFA Program. Its pedagogical value is equal to the significance of the thesis exhibition during the third summer residency and should be considered in tandem with the exhibition. In this course, students work with a faculty advisor to develop a written thesis that demonstrates a strong ability to synthesize conceptual relationships across disciplines in relation to the artist¿s practice. The submitted paper will combine theoretical frameworks to reconfigure concerns into a singular and powerful statement, and demonstrate the student's ability to address work across disciplines with confidence in writing and composition. ¿According to a Bambara proverb, `the people of the person are multiple in the person.¿¿ (Dénètem Touam Bona). The approach to writing encouraged in this section of Thesis Composition is oriented toward the multiverse, which according to Bona is ¿lodged at the heart of each human and holds at its core vegetal, animal, climactic, mineral elements that enter into combinations in perpetual movement.¿ ¿Multiple Forms¿ takes this combinatory seriously, and believes writing to be capable of accounting for such movement. As such the Theses composed under this rubric will be trans-genre, themselves translations of simultaneous forms, that need not be placed in competition with one another. Various forms of writing are able here to cohabit or to combine, to varying degrees of synchrony, and other forms of scoring (such as musical annotation or ideogrammatic drawing) will be welcome variants for the expression of a given set of questions. The disposition of forms is not merely decorative but a material aspect of the process of reflection ¿ if one considers that writing is thinking through, and with, the body. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2019
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Expanded Forms |
6599 (003) |
Tyler S. Coburn |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
Thesis Composition: Expanded Forms is an opportunity for students to explore modes of writing that are proximate to and resonant with their thesis projects. Working closely with Professor Coburn, each member of our intimate cohort can experiment with any number of applicable forms including but not limited to poetry, autofiction, autoethnography, script writing, ekphrasis, and creative nonfiction. Whatever path a thesis paper takes, it will begin with an introduction that situates the writing within art-historical and/or theoretical discourses. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2021
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Situated Criticality |
6599 (004) |
Giovanni Aloi |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
This course is designed to help students situate themselves in the broader context of contemporary theoretical discourses and practices. This is an essential component of a graduate thesis. Students will undertake independent research, source a broad range of references drawn from the approaches and outputs of artists, philosophers, and other culture-makers, will synthesize complex information, and partake in asynchronous and synchronous discussions for the purpose of competently and critically theorising their own practices. Periodic deadlines help students organize their workflow, from the proposal and outline to the drafting stages. While since the early 2000s, Giovanni Aloi has been deeply involved in the fields of animal-studies, critical plant studies, ecological studies, and Posthumanism, he is also able and willing to supervise students working on a variety of topics. Students will be able to explore creative writing approaches, although, in all instances, a thesis must include a thoroughly researched and theoretically grounded, extensive introduction. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2022
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Research and Praxis |
6599 (005) |
Andrea Ray |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
This course is organized into the sections; mapping, collating, drafting, and refining. Participants compose a thesis paper that formalizes their research and provides contextual analysis of their creative practice. This section asks, how can we as creative practitioners approach the writing of a thesis that acts not as an endpoint, but as scaffolding in generative support of future work? Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2023
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (001) |
Aliza Shvarts |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
1969
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (002) |
Asha Iman Veal |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2356
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (003) |
Terri Kapsalis |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2357
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (004) |
D. Denenge Duyst- Akpem |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2358
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (005) |
Assaf Evron |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2359
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (006) |
Kelly F. Kaczynski |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2360
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (007) |
John D Neff |
TBD - TBD
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2361
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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Graduate Projects |
6909 (008) |
Corrine E. Fitzpatrick |
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
All Online
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Description
The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Class Number
2416
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Credits
3
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Department
Masters in Fine Arts Low Residency
Location
Online
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