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# Get Your Studio Art MFA at UConn Studio, a Top 25 Research University
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/get-your-studio-art-mfa-at-uconn-studio-a-top-25-research-university/
- Published: 2019-09-11T13:04:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:08:02.000Z
- Description: UConn’s MFA in Art supports art making across a broad range of studio media with an internationally recognized faculty, generous financial support, and new graduate studios.
- Author: University of Connecticut (UConn)
- Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, Connecticut, University of Connecticut, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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UConn Visual Arts Research Complex (VARC) at Kirby Mill

30 years strong UConn’s MFA program positions studio art practice in a research environment at a top 25 R1 university. Creative research is important at UConn.

The strength of UConn’s program is mirrored in recent successes: 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, [Janet L. Pritchard](https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/janet-l-pritchard/?ref=hyperallergic.com), landscape photographer and Professor of Art, and inaugural 1989 MFA alumna [Deborah Zlotsky](https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/deborah-zlotsky/?ref=hyperallergic.com), painter and Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design; three-time Fulbright Scholar [Kathryn Myers](https://kathrynmyers.org/home.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (2020/2011/2002), painter and Professor of Art; as well as five faculty 2019 Artist Fellowships from the Connecticut Office of the Arts; and 2018 MFA alumna [Kaleigh Rusgrove](https://www.kaleighrusgrove.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the most recent Student Fulbright, currently in Australia. Past UConn Guggenheim Fellows include [Deborah Dancy](http://www.deborahdancy.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1997), Emerita Professor of Art, [Matt Jensen](http://jensen-projects.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (2016), MFA alumnus 2008, and [Mary Kocol](http://www.marykocol.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1993), BA alumna 1984.

[UConn’s MFA in Art](http://bit.ly/2UgkzKm?ref=hyperallergic.com) supports art making across a broad range of studio media with an internationally recognized faculty, generous financial support, and new [graduate studios](https://hyperallergic.com/405063/uconn-announces-new-studio-facilities-for-its-mfa-studio-art-program/), which opened in January. The program is situated in a rural locale centrally located in Southern New England for easy day trips to New York, Boston, Providence, Hartford, and New Haven.

**For more information, visit** [**art.uconn.edu**](http://bit.ly/2UgkzKm?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**