FREE GRAD SCHOOL
talent not included
Your future is now fully funded.
At the School of Art, we believe in the importance of growing your talent free from distraction of cost. That's why we made our graduate programs free!
The Fine Print
Full Funding*$32,290
*Amount of tuition support disbursed for 3 years when combined with 6(+) graduate level units per semester and cumulative 3.0(+) GPA.
Full funding covers all base tuition costs. Student is still responsible for university, program and course fees.
Teaching *10 hrs
*Amount of time assigned per week for teaching in a graduate assistant position that aligns with your area of expertise.
Student Aid*$10,000(+)
*Amount of additional financial assistance provided (+) free campus health insurance compounded with offer.
Work
Graduate students utilize the invaluable creative experience and intellectual context they receive to create impactful careers and expand the boundaries of art.
Khaled Jarrar
(MFA, ’19)
Blood for Sale, public performance on Wall Street, as part of an exhibition at New York’s Open Source Gallery, 2018.
Bella Maria Varela (MFA, ’21)
American GRL, blanket and bikini mixed media, 4 ft x 10 ft. x .5 ft, part of Border Becky installation, 2021.
Elliott Jamal Robbins (MFA, ’21)
A La Petite Mort, graphite on paper 52” x 40” – part of Black Aesthetic installation, 2017.
Maria Shaltout
(MFA, ’20)
Snake Woman, multimedia installation, 2020.
Oliver Padilla
(MFA, ’17)
Product of the American Dream, installation, 2017.
Hellen Gaudence
(MFA, ’17)
Ibitola, 16 x 20 digital print, as part of Magharibi project, 2017.
People
These are just a few examples of our world-class artists and professors who will work to sharpen your focus, gain insight, and become uniquely competitive in your professional career.
Visit the School of Art’s faculty directory.
Using photography, video, and installation, Alshaibi’s work pairs stunning visual explorations with themes of identity and imperiled environments. “[The desert] was an early symbol in my work as a paradoxical landscape that reflected the experience of life that always appears to be changing and reforming, but is actually just recycling and repeating the same history lessons,” she says.
Sama Alshaibi
Taylor’s artwork examines place, territory, history, and politics and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Pursuing long-term projects that reveal the changing circumstances of the US/Mexico borderlands.
David Taylor
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Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, along the US/Mexico border, Macias’ work explores the current social-political climate as well as the consequences of assimilation, which "can be seen as an erasure of history, heritage, and culture.”
Alejandro Macias
Gipe’s work engages the postmodern landscape and the visual rhetoric of progress by utilizing “irredeemable” imagery sourced from an archive of business magazines, social realism photography, and propaganda artworks from the former Soviet Union and China.
Lawrence Gipe
Kraehe is recognized for her research on arts equity as well as her publications, workshops, podcasts, and public lectures that illuminate the roles race, racism, and anti-racism play in art institutions and the education of arts professionals.
Amelia (Amy) Kraehe
Places
Valuable spaces to find what inspires you.
Graduate Research Laboratory
The Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory is a 25,000 square-foot facility provided to graduate students for the express purpose of producing art objects and scholarly work. The lab features 50 private artist's studios with 24-hour access, wood and metal fabrication studios, a seminar room, and an art gallery.
Center For Creative Photography
The Center for Creative Photography is recognized as one of the nation’s finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. In addition to its archival and fine print collections, the Center maintains an unparalleled resource library of books, journals, exhibition and auction catalogs, and an extensive oral history collection.
Palo Verde Graduate Gallery
Intended to generate new ideas and increase understanding of contemporary art through original graduate projects, the Palo Verde Gallery is an experimental gallery space devoted entirely to the exhibition of student work.
The 800-square-foot exhibition space provides career development opportunities to students and emerging artists, so they can realize their artistic visions and gain experience working alongside gallery professionals.
Find new inspiration in the Old Pueblo.
Tucson is uniquely situated at the cultural intersection of Southwest American and Mexican heritage. Surrounded by surreal landscapes and steeped in rich artistic traditions, there’s no shortage of wide open spaces to find what inspires you.
Visual Resource Center
The VRC is dedicated to supporting the teaching, research, and study needs of the School of Art’s students and faculty by providing extensive image, research, and presentation resources and assistance. In addition to the Center’s digital and analog image library and digital document library, it also features a reading room and Graduate student study carrels.