School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University Scholastic

American art school

Schoolhouse of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Type	Private
Established	1876
Parent establishment	Tufts University
Dean	Nancy Bauer
Bookish staff	135 full- and office-time ^[i]
Undergraduates	301^[1]
Postgraduates	149^[ane]
Location	Boston , Massachusetts , United States
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Northeastern Academy AICAD
Website	smfa.tufts.edu

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum Schoolhouse, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees dedicated to the visual arts.

It is affiliated with the Museum of Fine Arts. SMFA is as well a fellow member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Fine art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of several dozen leading art schools in the United States.^[2] The schoolhouse is accredited by the National Clan of Schools of Art and Design.^[2]

History [edit]

The Weems Heart, function of Graham Gund'south expansion, looking downward from the 3rd floor

The school was founded in 1876 nether the name School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA).^[two] From 1876 to 1909, the school was housed in the basement of the original Museum building in Copley Square. When the Museum moved to Huntington Avenue in 1909, the Schoolhouse moved into a separate, temporary structure to the west of the main building. The permanent building, designed past Guy Lowell, was completed in 1927. The 45,000-square-pes (4,200 m²) red brick edifice provided improved classroom, studio and library facilities.

In 1945 the Museum School and Tufts College collaborated to develop their first joint caste teacher training granting program. The cosmos of additional programs between the ii institutions followed soon later.

In 1987, a newly renovated and expanded school edifice, designed by builder Graham Gund, more than doubled the size of the existing structure and provided an auditorium, enlarged library, expanded studios and classrooms, a spacious new entrance, deli, and increased gallery and exhibition spaces. Gund's expansion included the central atrium, known every bit the Katherine Lane Weems Atrium, that connects the two buildings.

In December 2015, it was announced that the Schoolhouse of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston would become a office of Tufts University and on June 30, 2016 the integration was completed.^[three]

Academics [edit]

The school does not have a foundations programme, just it does crave all new students to take a freshman seminar. Encouraged to build an individual plan of interdisciplinary written report, students are not asked to declare a major, only by choosing amid in-depth courses in a dozen disciplines, students are free to concentrate in a medium of their choice.

Ane of the unique attributes of SMFA is that students are required to participate in a "Review Lath" which is a review of all of the fine art work that a educatee has done during the semester. Review Boards are led by two faculty members and ii fellow students. In that location are many opportunities for students to exhibit their artwork at both the master building and the Mission Hill building.

Opportunities to exhibit works include the annual Art Auction and the juried "Student Annual Exhibition". Various galleries and spaces that are bachelor to students around the school buildings include Pocketbook Gallery, Hallway Gallery, Bath Gallery, Underground Gallery, equally well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The school's principal campus is adjacent to and just to the west of the Museum of Fine Arts. Virtually classroom infinite is located there, every bit well as the Cafe des Arts, the library, the School'south store and the Grossman Gallery. The Mission Hill building, located most a quarter mile from the main building, recently has been renovated and includes studio spaces for graduate and post-baccalaureate students too as classrooms, workshops, and the Writing Center.

Notable alumni [edit]

Academia [edit]

Alon Bement (diploma 1898) was a painter, arts administrator, author, and educator.^[4]

Concern [edit]

Zach Feuer (BFA 2000), attended 1996–2000, art dealer.

Design [edit]

Tom Jung, attended in the 1930s, graphic designer and illustrator
Sally Pierone, attended 1940–1942, art director and designer.

Film, video and animation [edit]

Omer Fast (BFA 1995) video artist.
Steven Lisberger (diploma 1974), flick director, producer and writer, known for his work on Tron (1982).
David Lynch, attended 1964–1965, filmmaker.
Kelly Reichardt (MFA), filmmaker and screenwriter, known for Certain Women and Offset Cow
Levni Yilmaz, attended in the 1990s, filmmaker, animator, cartoonist.

Illustrators and comic artists [edit]

Jan Brett, attended 1969–1970, illustrator.^[5]
Al Capp, cartoonist of Li'50 Abner, attended briefly before having to leave for non-payment of tuition.
William Snelling Hadaway, attended in the 1890s, book illustration, jewelry and metallic design.
Liz Prince (BFA 2007), attended 2002–2007, comic volume artist, Ignatz Laurels winner
Richard Scarry (diploma 1942) illustrator.
Tom Sutton, attended in 1960, illustrator and comic book artist
Wallace Tripp, attended 1960–1964, illustrator.

Painters and printmakers [edit]

Marion Boyd Allen, attended 1896 –1909,^[six] 19th century painter.
Will Barnet, attended 1928–1930, painter and printmaker.
Ture Bengtz (diploma 1933), Boston Expressionist school painter, teacher at Schoolhouse of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Frank Weston Benson (diploma 1883), American Impressionist painter, printmaker and watercolorist.
Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, attended 1909–1910, painter of portraits, indoor genre scenes, and notwithstanding life.
Holly Coulis (MFA 1998) painter.
Allan Rohan Crite (diploma 1936), painter.
Eleanor de Laittre, attended 1930, early on proponent of abstract, cubist-inspired painting.
Mira Lehr, attended in the 1950s, painter
Jim Dine, attended 1950–1953, 1955–1958, painter and printmaker.
Esther Geller, attended in 1921, abstract expressionist painter, known for encaustic painting, taught with Karl Zerbe from 1943–1944.^[seven]
Philip Leslie Hale, attended 1883, later served every bit kinesthesia from 1893–1931, painter.^[8]
William Melton Halsey, attended 1935–1939, recipient of William Paige Fellowship, muralist and painter.^[nine]
Lois Mailou Jones (diploma 1927), painter.
Ellsworth Kelly (diploma 1948), painter, associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism.
May Hallowell Loud, attended 1879–1883, painter.
F. Luis Mora, attended in 1889, Uruguayan-born American figural painter
Vanessa Platacis, contemporary painter and installation artist
Larry Poons, attended 1957–1958, abstruse painter.
Sarah Gooll Putnam, attended 1877, 19th century painter.
Frank Stout, attended 1949, figurative painter associated with post-abstract expressionist realism.
Edmund Tarbell (diploma 1882), painter.
Cy Twombly (diploma 1949) abstruse painter.
John Woodrow Wilson, attended 1939-1945, painter and printmaker.
Karl Stephan 2014-15, painter, printmaker, collagist, educator.

Operation artists [edit]

Art Schoolhouse Cheerleaders, attended 1996–1998, operation art troupe
Lisa Bufano, attended after 2003, interdisciplinary functioning artist whose piece of work incorporated dance, props, elements of doll-making, fabric work, and animation.
Joan Jonas, attended 1958–1961, performance artist.
Kaiju Big Battel, attended in the 1990s, performance art troupe featuring parodies of both professional wrestling and tokusatsu kaiju.
Doug and Mike Starn (diploma 1984, fifth year certificate 1985), twin brothers, photographers and performance artists.

Photographers [edit]

David Armstrong, attended in the 1970s, photographer.^[x]
Ballad Beckwith, lensman, author, known for photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa.
Marie Cosindas, attended 1947–1950, 1955–1956, lensman.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (diploma 1975, fifth year certificate 1976), photographer.
Nan Goldin (diploma 1977; 5th year document 1978), photographer.
Todd Hido (BFA 1991), photographer.
Mark Morrisroe, attended in the 1970s, photographer

Multimedia and installation artists [edit]

Anita Glesta (MFA caste), installation artist
Laurel Nakadate (BFA 1998), film, video artist, and photographer.^[11]
Ellen Levy (diploma 1981) is a multimedia artist and scholar who explores art, science, applied science interrelationships and complex systems.

Musicians [edit]

David Buckley (MFA 1977), painter and quondam musician with the BARRACUDAS.
Leslie Hall, attended 2000–2003, musician, frontwoman for Leslie and the Ly'south.
Juliana Hatfield, attended 2012, musician.
Malcolm Travis, attended 1974–1978, musician, drummer with Human Sexual Response.
Peter Wolf, attended in the 1960s, musician, known every bit the lead vocalist of the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983.

Sculptors [edit]

Adio diBiccari, attended 1932, sculptor.
Kahlil George Gibran, attended 1940–1943, painter and sculptor.
Stacy Poitras, attended 1985–1988, chainsaw sculptor and reality tv star.
John A. Wilson, attended 1896, sculptor

Writers [edit]

Susan Howe (diploma 1961) poet, scholar, essayist and critic.

Notable faculty [edit]

Sculptor faculty [edit]

Frederick Warren Allen, sculptor, taught for almost l years (1907–1954) and for 30 years he was the Head of the Sculpture Section. Emeritus.
Frank Dengler, sculptor, kinesthesia for a short time, until 1877.
Charles Grafly, sculptor, he served as the Head of Modeling from 1917–1929.^[12]
Bela Lyon Pratt, sculptor, she served as the Head of Modeling from 1893–1917.^[12]

Painting faculty [edit]

David Aronson, painter, sculptor; Emeritus Professor of Art, Boston University.
Ture Bengtz (diploma 1933), Boston Expressionist school painter, afterward a instructor at School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
David Antonio Cruz, painter and interdisciplinary artist; faculty.
Esther Geller, attended 1921, abstruse expressionist painter, known for encaustic painting, taught with Karl Zerbe from 1943–1944.^[7]
Philip Leslie Hale, attended 1883, later served as faculty from 1893–1931, painter.^[8]
Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky, painter, taught painting starting in 1935.
William McGregor Paxton, painter and a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He was faculty from 1906–1913.
Karl Zerbe, German-American painter, he served every bit the Caput of Department of Painting from 1937–1955.

Other faculty [edit]

Chantal Zakari, faculty, book artist and graphic designer.

See too [edit]

Bad Girrls Studios
Cowles Art School
Boston Expressionism
Boston School (painting)

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tufts University Fast Facts". Tufts Academy. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bowditch, Alexandra (2020-05-28). "SMFA at Tufts Announces As Above, So Beneath, a Virtual MFA Thesis Exhibition". Hyperallergic . Retrieved 2021-02-23 .
^ Gay, Malcolm (December 21, 2015). "Tufts University to accept command of MFA'due south art school - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com . Retrieved 2021-02-23 . {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "ALON BEMEMT, A PAINTER, IS DEAD; Sometime Dean of Traphagen School of Way Had Led Art and Industry Alliance". Times Car. The New York Times. 1954-11-24. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-02-23 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Drawn to her animals - Arts - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. 2011-11-21. Archived from the original on 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2021-02-23 .
^ 1896-97 Annual Written report of the Permanent Commission in Charge of the School By Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School
^ ^a ^b Academy of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts (1950). Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. The Academy of Michigan. pp. 41, 175.
^ ^a ^b "Athenaeum of American Art, Smithsonian". Philip Leslie Hale papers, Biographical Annotation.
^ Severens, Martha (1999). William Halsey. Greenville Canton Museum of Art. p. fourteen. ISBN096032464X.
^ Vitello, Paul (2014-11-01). "David Armstrong, Photographer of Subcultures, Dies at sixty (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-23 .
^ "Laurel Nakadate Biography". Artnet.com . Retrieved 2021-02-23 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
^ ^a ^b David B. Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture at the National University of Pattern, Volume 1, 1826–1925 (Hudson Hills Publishing, 2004), pp. 230-31.

External links [edit]

Official website

Coordinates: 42°20′xix″Northward 71°05′48″W / 42.33856°N 71.09676°W / 42.33856; -71.09676

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