MFA in Media Arts

The Media Arts Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program provides the academic, aesthetic, and technical tools to make art that matters. Purchase College’s excellent production facilities, teaching, research, and public engagement opportunities provide a fertile environment for graduate art studies. Students develop their art practice within a comprehensive curriculum that includes individual mentoring by full-time faculty, collaborative work, theoretical inquiry, and the flexibility to explore their interests within Purchase College’s varied course offerings. Students work with a department of diverse faculty who are prominent in media art and technology.

The MFA in Media Arts is ideal for graduates interested in media arts, new media, digital arts, video art, or related programs to develop their practice further. We embrace an interdisciplinary post-studio approach, centering on contemporary art forms, social and political engagement, materiality, critical data studies, media ecologies, and alternative domains of cultural production and circulation. We provide the resources to create formally inventive media art, rigorously theorized, historically reflective, and socially engaged.

We’re the eccentric cousin of the SUNY family. We’re the dreamers, the DIYers, the future of arts and culture, of the humanities and the sciences. We’re passionate about everything—from rigorous coursework to current events to the music lineup at Culture Shock. We live on a collaborative and sustainable campus, and we work to create the kind of society we want to see in the world. We respect others, ourselves, and our surroundings as we grow into the people who will make real change someday.

We’re inclusive, LGBTQ-welcoming, and always actively seeking new ways to foster diversity in our academic programs and on our campus. So “Think Wide Open” has come to mean a lot to us. You’re not constrained by a major, or a residence hall, or a background. You’re entering one of the most challenging and exciting times of your life–embrace it!