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Located in New York's legendary East Village,
NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions is closely tied to the international art world in all its dimensions. The department’s interdisciplinary approach to art, with its commitment to autonomy and experimentation as well as research, collaboration, and community practice, underscores the central role of visual art within contemporary culture.
Downtown New York has long been a magnet for the world’s most innovative artists. Within this cosmopolitan environment, NYU creates a home for visual artists who work side by side with acclaimed performers, scientists, theorists, and philosophers to explore the frontiers of creative practice.
BFA and MFA programs in studio art are interdisciplinary, and combine cultural theory with facilities in painting, sculpture, photography, computer art and design, video, performance, ceramics, metalsmithing, installation, curatorial projects, and an environmental health clinic. The department’s MA programs include Visual Culture, Art Education, Visual Arts Administration, Costume Studies, and Art Therapy, plus a Doctoral Program in Visual Culture and Art Education. Featured course descriptions.
New York City’s galleries, museums, schools, studios, and performance spaces, from Chelsea to Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, are an integral part of NYU’s campus, as are the university’s vast intellectual and academic resources. New York University is one of the nation’s leading research universities, with 48,000 students enrolled in 14 colleges, schools, and divisions.
The Department of Art and Art Professions is a work in progress, responding to the shifts in contemporary art as it translates social change into new forms of understanding: Global Education currently features Steinhardt Global Art initiatives in Africa, China, and Europe, with new sites in development. Cross-School initiatives include collaborations with Steinhardt’s Department of Media Culture and Communication, Stern School of Business, and Tisch School of the Arts. Offsite collaborations include PERFORMA, the international Biennial of Performance Art, the International Center for Photography, and the Urban Glass Workshop in Brooklyn. Community based initiatives in studio art, art education, and art therapy are complimented by an extended network of internships and field placements with outstanding artists, museums, galleries, publishers, filmmakers, schools, and hospitals.
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