2025-2026 Graduate Catalog
Hartford Art School
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The Hartford Art School is both geographically and culturally a focal point on the University of Hartford campus. Located near the bridge across the Park River, linking the dormitory area with the main campus, the buildings of the art school are easily accessible to students. The varied activities of the school-exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and receptions-provide stimulating enrichment to University life, and are enthusiastically attended by students of the University as well as art school students.
Carol Joseloff Taub Hall is the main art building and houses administrative offices, a student gallery and studio facilities for drawing, painting, printmaking, and foundation studies.
The Renée Samuels Center houses state-of-the-art digital labs and studios for animation and game art and photography. The Center also houses black and white, and color darkrooms for photography.
The Stanley Sculpture Building is located behind Taub Hall and houses a modern sculpture facility with equipment and tools for working in clay, stone, wood, metal, and other sculptural materials.
Directly adjacent to the Stanley Sculpture Building, the Krieble Ceramics Center houses studios for ceramics, including a kiln room with gas-fired, wood-fired, and electric kilns; a newly renovated clay and glaze laboratory; and studios for pottery and sculptural ceramics. The building also houses a large studio for the three-dimensional studies component of the first-year program.
Connecting the Sculpture Building and Ceramics Building is the Sculpture Fabrication Workshop, providing space for a well-equipped and -staffed woodworking studio.
Studio art facilities in the Harry Jack Gray Center house the Illustration, and Visual Communication Design departments of the Hartford Art School, and provide both classroom and advanced work stations for upper-level students in visual communication design and illustration. The Anne Bunce Cheney Art Collection is housed in the Mortensen Library and is within a short distance of all studio facilities.
Also adjacent to the Stanley Sculpture Building is an expanded foundry for casting nonferrous metals, and a fully equipped workshop for glass blowing and hot and cold glass fabrication.
Founded in 1877, the Hartford Art School is one of the oldest art schools in America. Its studio programs are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. The Hartford Art School awards the Bachelor of Fine Arts with studio majors, the Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and the Master of Fine Arts with low-residency concentrations in illustration and photography.
Mission
We are a robust learning community of artists, designers, and art historians, immersed in traditional practice, contemporary thought, and emerging technologies. We educate our students to develop authentic approaches as they create their unique paths toward success.
Vision
We prepare confident artists, designers, and art historians with the skills, agility, and grit to succeed in a complex, ever-changing world.
Master of Fine Arts Degree
Objective
The mission of the Master of Fine Arts program is to provide the advanced student of art an extended period of concentrated study under the tutelage of faculty mentors. The broad objective of the program is to assist graduate students in the pursuit of personal vision, technical mastery of their field, and the development of a professional work ethic as a precursor to careers as practicing professional artists or as teachers of art at all levels of instruction, including the college level.
Through a series of studio tutorials, graduate seminars, and advanced courses in art history, the graduate student is challenged both artistically and intellectually.
General Requirements for Admission
Applicants to the Master of Fine Arts program are expected to have earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from an accredited institution of higher learning. Students who hold a baccalaureate degree other than the Bachelor of Fine Arts may be admitted, provided the quality of their studio work is equivalent to that of individuals who have had the B.F.A. preparation.
Generally, applicants are admitted to the program if their art work and capacity for self-motivated study is such as to indicate the likelihood of success at the graduate level.
ProgramsMaster’s DegreeCoursesIllustrationPhotography
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