The San Francisco Art Institute is currently accepting Graduate Program applications for the Fall 2012 term on a space-available basis. We invite you to become part of a global community of artists and thinkers noted for their diverse, provocative, and innovative work.

SFAI offers internationally regarded MFA programs in Design and Technology, Film, New Genres, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. Reflecting a legacy of studio-based practice, these conceptual fine art programs encourage an experimental spirit, creative risk-taking, and interdisciplinary curiosity. Led by SFAI’s distinguished faculty, students are challenged to consider the contemporary, historical, and theoretical contexts of art as they develop a sustaining and vital creative practice.

SFAI’s MA programs in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Exhibition and Museum Studies, and Urban Studies focus on advanced scholarly inquiry into the major ideas, institutions, and discourses of contemporary art, and the social and political conditions of its production.

The Dual Degree MA/MFA program is designed for students who want to synthesize the intellectual and artistic facets of their creative work, and cultivate a large portfolio of tools as cultural producers.

The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program is ideally suited for students who want to strengthen their work in an intensive environment of studio practice and critical engagement, in preparation for application to an MFA program.

For application details, please visit www.sfai.edu/graduate-application-process.

For additional information, please contact the Associate Director of Graduate Admissions, Jana Rumberger, at 415 351 3507 or jrumberger@sfai.edu.


Recently at the San Francisco Art Institute – Vernissage: MFA Graduate Exhibition
SFAI’s graduating MFA students transformed San Francisco’s iconic Phoenix Hotel for the annual MFA Graduate Exhibition, displaying their art in guest rooms, poolside, and throughout the hotel. The exhibition unveiled and showcased diverse, ambitious work by the next generation of artists from this celebrated school.

View the 2012 graduate exhibition catalogue, MA/MFA Art and Ideas.


About the San Francisco Art Institute
Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), a nonprofit art college, is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. A small school with global impact—notable faculty and alumni include Richard Diebenkorn, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Enrique Chagoya, Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Pau, Ruby Yang, Paul Kos, George Kuchar, Lance Acord, and Kehinde Wiley—SFAI enrolls approximately 650 students in undergraduate and graduate programs, and offers a wide range of continuing education courses and public programs. The historic Chestnut Street campus is located in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, and the Graduate Center is located in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood.

For more information about SFAI, please visit www.sfai.edu.