Master of Fine Arts in Craft Media

Alberta University of the Arts

The MFA in Craft Media centres craft as a medium for conceptual exploration and critical dialogue through embodied material practices. You will be challenged to approach form, function, labour, skill, modes of production, materiality, modes of communication, and other theoretical investigations in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, studio-based program that creatively evaluates and pushes at the boundaries of contemporary craft.The MFA CRAFT MEDIA at AUArts is a unique graduate program. It is studio-led with an emphasis on practice-based research and is grounded in a well-supported exploration of historical, theoretical and critical understandings. It is designed for emerging, mid-career and well-established makers and allows time to define, situate and advance your own Craft ethos within a framework of practical philosophies of making. Over the 20 months of the degree, you will probe questions of form, function, materiality, method, uncovering where tradition intersects with the new, and how diasporas and the movement of peoples connect with the movement of symbols, and stories and techniques. You will immerse yourself in Craft discourses, research strategies, and thematic investigations leading toward a thesis and graduate exhibition. You may work intensively within Ceramics, Fibre, Glass, Jewellery and Metals, or you can build for yourself an interdisciplinary programme of study.