Ball State's Department of Art (College of Fine Arts) offers graduate study leading to Master of Arts in Visual Arts with Emphasis in Studio Art. A 33 credit hours of graduate-level art courses, including studio electives and a final thesis/creative project. This program offers a concentration in visual arts through studio/education seminars, art history, and advanced studio. Available studio areas are listed to the right. Interdisciplinary study is possible.

Degree Overview: Students pursuing this degree are expected to develop and refine studio skills, education skills, and academic scholarship to a level of professional excellence. The graduate program enables students to Work closely with studio faculty in well-designed facilities, Become an ambassador of the visual arts in school systems and communities, Enrich their lives with the traditions of the visual arts.

This program reflects the department's mission to educate students in developing significant ideas with the discipline of visual arts education and in mastering the tools and methods of inquiry for creating art. Creating art forms and teaching art are highly individualized activities that require an understanding of the four major activities related to art--perceiving, producing, knowing, and evaluating--that help students understand themselves and the world around them.

• Corporate Designer
• Desktop Publishing Artist
• Exhibit Designer
• Fashion Designer
• Flatware Designer
• Freelance Artist
• Gallery Director
• Graphic Designer
• Illustrator
• Interior Designer
• Jewelry Designer
• Journalistic Artist
• Magazine Designer
• Manager (Museum/Gallery)
• Medical Illustrator
• Museum Curator
• Portrait Artist
• Production Artist
• Production Coordinator
• Professor of Art/Art History
• Stylist
• Technical Illustrator
• Textile Designer
• TV Graphic Designer
• Web Designer

Applicants for the MA or MFA degree programs in art at Ball State must meet the admission requirements of the university's Graduate School and then be formally admitted by the Department of Art. To be considered for an assistantship, students must submit their application in March (last business day) for the following academic year.

Students applying for admission to the graduate program must have an undergraduate degree in art and a grade point average in art courses of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale, and they must pass a review by the Department of Art's graduate committee. The department has no admission quotas by race, gender, state of residence, or expressed discipline preference.

Interested students must submit an application for admission to the Graduate School and provide the following items to the Department of Art:

• Letter expressing goals in pursuing the degree
• Current resume
• Transcripts for all college-level course work
• Portfolio of artwork in CD format
• Three letters of recommendation
• Supportive material such as research and publications

Required Core Courses

• Colloquium in the Visual Arts
• Visual Arts Seminar
• Special Topics in the History of Art
• Seminar in Art History
• Thesis

Elective Courses

• Advanced Ceramics
• Advanced Metals
• Advanced Drawing
• Advanced Painting
• Advanced Sculpture
• Advanced Printmaking
• Advanced Animation
• Advanced Video and Intermedia Art
• Advanced Photography
• Independent Study in Visual Arts
• Colloquium in the Visual Arts
• Visual Arts Seminar
• Curriculum Methods in Art Education
• Workshop in the Visual Arts
• Teaching Art Awareness in Public Schools