Thesis Workshop

Course Description

Summary

In this intensive workshop-format class, students will complete their artist’s book documenting and embodying their MFA thesis research, processes and practices. They will also complete the publishing of the portfolio which serves as an archival project documenting their life’s work. To make this possible, students will use software such as Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and online Blurb publishing. 

Each graduate student in the program completes a final thesis project as the culmination of their work towards the MFA degree.  The thesis project includes: a portfolio, an artist’s talk, an artist’s book and a public-facing project, research as action.  In each case, the thesis represents a synthesis of the student’s accumulated knowledge and serves as an opportunity to share ideas, practices and processes.  The project is intended to make visible the student’s ability to go beyond the mere collection of information into synthesis, analysis, judgment and interpretation. Thinking Partners work in support of the student’s progress and process.