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# Led by John Hendrix, Washington University’s MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture Forges New Terrain
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/john-hendrix-washington-university-mfa-illustration-visual-culture/
- Published: 2020-10-07T16:00:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:42:44.000Z
- Description: Armed with pen, ink, and stylus, MFA-IVC students unearth the wild, the wondrous, and the unknown. Apply and visit us virtually at our Fall Open House.
- Author: Washington University in St. Louis
- Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, Missouri, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:08 (2019, 2020, part 3)

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Image courtesy Shannon Levin, BFA ’17 from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

*Hot off the press: Get your free copy of* [The Graphic Vindicator](https://bit.ly/3d5mZVJ?ref=hyperallergic.com) *(the official publication of Washington University’s MFA-IVC program!) and visit us at our* [*Virtual Open House*](https://bit.ly/3d5mZVJ?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.* 

The [Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’](https://bit.ly/33ARhMX?ref=hyperallergic.com) [MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture program](https://bit.ly/34KJjQL?ref=hyperallergic.com) at [Washington University in St. Louis](https://bit.ly/3jFdDlK?ref=hyperallergic.com) combines studio practice in illustration with material culture studies. This two-year residential program prepares graduates to work as author-artists of graphic novels, comics, and picture books, as well as professors, critical writers, and curators.

The MFA-IVC program is built on the expertise of the school’s illustration and design faculty, and the vast resources of Washington University, a tier-one research institution. The school’s resources include the [Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library](https://bit.ly/36ERwZ8?ref=hyperallergic.com), the [Kemper Art Museum](https://bit.ly/2SAYA0s?ref=hyperallergic.com), and the [D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library](https://bit.ly/34uTtob?ref=hyperallergic.com), a preeminent site for studying the history and culture of American illustration.

## Facilities

MFA-IVC studios are located in [Weil Hall,](https://bit.ly/3jBN7d9?ref=hyperallergic.com) a brand-new facility with a digital fabrication lab and numerous spaces for collaboration and cross-disciplinary exchange. You’ll also have access to our integrated printmaking suite, home to [Island Press](https://bit.ly/3d5jyOB?ref=hyperallergic.com) and the [Kranzberg Book Studio](https://bit.ly/3jBN7d9?ref=hyperallergic.com).

## Faculty

Our faculty specialize in children’s books, editorial illustration, cultural theory, graphic novels, zines, typography, and social practice. Faculty members include John Hendrix (chair), D.B. Dowd, Gerald Early, Edward Kinsella III, Heidi Kolk, Shreyas R Krishnan, Skye Lacerte, Joy Novak, and Dan Zettwoch. Fall guest speakers include designer Silas Munro and cartoonists Eleanor Davis and Lauren R. Weinstein.

[**Apply to** ](https://bit.ly/3lkT3b2?ref=hyperallergic.com)[**Washington University’s MFA-IVC program**](https://bit.ly/2I4pzQf?ref=hyperallergic.com) **by February 5, 2021.**

Questions? Contact graduate recruitment specialist Taylor Yocom at [mfa-ivc@wustl.edu](mailto:mfa-ivc@wustl.edu).