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Laguna College of Art and Design LCAD MFA program in Drawing

Laguna College of Art and Design LCAD

MFA program in Drawing

Laguna Beach, USA

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Sep 2025

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    About : The MFA program in Drawing offers an intensive, studio-based curriculum designed for students to refine their artistic skills and conceptual understanding. This program typically spans two years and emphasizes experimentation, critical thinking, and personal artistic development. Students will engage with various techniques, materials, and methods that broaden their artistic vision and practice.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates of the MFA program in Drawing can pursue diverse career paths, including professional artist, art educator, gallery curator, or arts administrator. Many also find opportunities in arts-related organizations, education settings, and community art programs, leveraging their skills in drawing within various creative industries.

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Introduction

Our MFA program in Drawing provides you with a supportive environment in which you may address contemporary subject matter via historical drawing traditions.

The core of Laguna College of Art + Design’s MFA program in Drawing is built on the values of time-honored skills informed by contemporary theory and designed to help you realize the ideas possible through representational modes of painting and drawing. Our curriculum recognizes that there are particularly technical, ideational, and formal issues related to representation that require you to undergo specialized study at the graduate level, and we strive to meet these demands with a faculty and a curriculum tailored to your needs.

The primary goal of the MFA program in Drawing is to support you in building on the traditional skills you acquired in your undergraduate studies so that you may realize ideas possible in the discipline of representational art. You will achieve this goal through the creation of a coherent body of work, a written thesis, and a thesis exhibition. Additionally, you will gain insights into the presentation and marketing of your work and will be educated in the logistics of teaching art at the college level.

Our students have recently been included in group exhibitions across Southern California at venues that include Laguna Art Museum, Koplin del Rio, and Arena 1. Our current students and alumni have had solo and group exhibitions around the country with the prominent galleries that represent them.

Work by our students has been published in Juxtapoz, Blue Canvas, Southwest Art, Drawing, Pastel Journal, and Art Collector magazines.

Our faculty includes such acclaimed artists as F. Scott Hess, John Nava, Kent Williams, and Peter Zokosky and it attracts world-renowned visiting artists including Jerome Witkin, Alex Kanevsky, Margaret Bowland, Bo Bartlett, and Justin Mortimer.

As a graduate of LCAD’s MFA program in Drawing, you will be equipped for a career as gallery artists and/or a teacher in higher education.

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