578 Fine Arts and Illustration Masters Degree Programs

Explore the business of art and learn how to make a living as an artist by earning a Bachelor's in Creative Arts Enterprise at the University of West Alabama. In this program, you'll learn from a dedicated faculty of working professionals and build the communication, critical thinking and problem solving skills you need to market your creative talent. Study online or on campus, and customize your degree by choosing elective courses that interest you. Transfer credits are accepted. Apply today.

The international curriculum in Arts, Museology and Curatorship (AMaC) is aimed at discussing the different methodologies in the fields of valorization of the arts, museology and curatorship in an international perspective. In their first year, students will acquire a deep historical, critical and operational knowledge of the arts system and its challenges. In their second year, students will practically apply the theoretical issues, specializing in one of three specific areas: Valorisation of the Arts, Museums and Museology and Curatorship.

The MA in Illustration provides the skills to develop portfolios with samples in Children’s Book, Editorial, Licensing, Package Illustration, Concept Art, Book Covers, Preliminary Art, Advertising, or Institutional Art portfolios. Both representational and stylistic approaches for print and or web are taught. Students graduate with a portfolio created in a personal style and medium of choice that is market appropriate.

Contemporary Design (CoDe) is a studio- and material-led two‑year Master’s major in the Aalto University Master’s Programme in Design. It foregrounds hands-on making, experimental material research (including biomaterials and geopolymers) and critical reflection, preparing graduates to produce innovative design solutions, material innovations and research-informed art/design projects.

The three-year international Master in Fine Arts (iMFA) program under the guidance of the Institute of Radio, Film, and Television, equips students with practical skills like script writing, film and television production, and new media audio-visual editing. Our students will take academic and practice-based courses with faculty members from CMIC, while having the opportunity to choose business-related courses at ZIBS. Mentors of this program graduated from world-class universities like the University of Michigan and the University of Art in Berlin. Established practitioners are hired as visiting scholars.

The Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) major is a transdisciplinary, student-led Master of Arts (Art and Design) programme taught in English. The major critically explores practices across visual cultures, curating and contemporary art and supports experimental, research-based pathways that combine artistic practice, curatorial work and theory. It is delivered as a 120 ECTS, 2‑year full‑time MA.

The Corcoran MFA in Contemporary Art Practices is a two-year (60-credit) terminal Master of Fine Arts that advances interdisciplinary, research-driven studio practice. Students receive individual studio space, work with faculty and visiting artists/curators, and engage with Washington, D.C.'s robust arts ecosystem to develop professional, exhibition-ready, and community-engaged work.

Realise your creative ambitions and expand your knowledge and skills within the expansive and multidisciplinary field of illustration

With the Master's Degree in illustration and Comics you will find your own voice as an illustrator and draftsman, while expanding your skills and graphic languages to successfully answer to the professional market requirements.

A unique program in terms of its diverse and interdisciplinary range of subjects, the Arts and Culture master's programme offers you the choice of two specializationsprogramprogram: Art History and Museum Studies. Each explores different themes from a comparative and global perspective and offers a broad range of electives, allowing you to further customize your degree.

The two-year Master's track in Arts, Media and Literary Studies is a specialization within the Research Master's degree in Arts and Culture. Arts, Media and Literary Studies equips students with knowledge and skills to become researchers and experts on the role that the arts, literature and media play in society, now and in the past. The programme offers a rich multi- and interdisciplinary framework within which students can specialize in one of the following disciplines or combinations of disciplines, under close supervision of a highly qualified research faculty:

The Master of Fine Art program provides students a framework for advanced study in drawing and painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Students are focused on technical and conceptual development in figurative, abstract, or landscape work. The School of Fine Art provides graduate students with studio space, exhibition galleries, and world-class facilities.

The MLitt in Theology and the Arts gives students a theoretically inflected and historically contextualized introduction to the field of theology and the arts, acting as a stand-alone Master’s course or a stepping stone for those considering doctoral research in the field.

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree offers a transformative journey into the creative and conceptual depths of the arts, providing students with the opportunity to refine their craft and develop a distinctive artistic voice. It fosters an environment of intellectual exploration and critical reflection, encouraging deep engagement with artistic theory, history, and contemporary practice

Master of Fine Art is a two-year programme that aims to give the students the knowledge required to become independent artists. The focus of the study is on self-critical reflection, as well as development, and intensification of the student's own artistic projects. The programme also aims to enable students to become active contributors within contemporary art and related areas of society, both locally, nationally and internationally.