Courses

All MFA candidates in Studio Arts have focused studio classes lead by full time faculty, specific to their discipline and attended only by majors in their area of expertise. 

These important core courses are augmented by seminars selected by each candidate to best inform their practice through investment into academic research and exchange with students in other areas of expertise.  The MFA in Studio Arts Program recognizes the importance of theoretical, conceptual and historical concerns and their impact on contemporary art. To address these realities, students are require to take 21 credits of seminar courses during their residency. These seminars allow a deepening of the Concordia experience as they provide a rigourous and conceptual framework for the development of ideas in relation to creative practice. The seminars are taught by a dynamic faculty of respected curators, writers, theorists, and practice-based researchers within the burgeoning Montreal arts community.

Seminar topics vary regularly to reflect the shifting nature of contemporary art and culture.

Seminar topics have included, “Living Art: Actions, Interventions, Performance; The Home Movie/Video in Art; Film and Everyday Life' Performing Failure: Techniques of Mutism; Quebec Independent Cinema; The Roots of Contemporary Art; Dada to Data; The Art of Eating Things; Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Judgement; Video Performance – The Body as Site in Video Art; Situationism and Beyond; Thinking through Sound; and Art, Place and Public Space. 

Seminar faculty have included Stéphane Aquin, Renée Baert, George Bogardi, Lon Dubinsky, Jim Drobnick, Jennifer Fisher, Nicole Gingras, Stephen Horne, Stephann Kurr, Lani Maestro, Christof Migone, Marcus Miller, Nancy Ring, and Cheryl Simon.