Overview

About the Program

We rigorously engage the burgeoning philosophical, critical and technical conditions that shape art making today. The mission of the Sculpture program at Virginia Commonwealth University is to continually develop a rigorous yet supportive environment that leads to the expansive growth of individual artists.

The Sculpture Department welcomes a broad range of approaches: from spatial-, object- and material-based practices; to performance, film and lens-based media; from social and relational to web-based and evolving technologies. Moreover, within the School of Arts and art community at large, Sculpture + Extended Media tests the limits of objects, images and actions, acting as a speculative laboratory that branches into science, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, ethnology, media studies, history and other practices.

Our task is not only decoding the emergent meanings of materials, methods and movements; it is producing an art capable of modeling significant intensities, experiences and sensations relevant to our time.

Sculpture + Extended Media is a place that legitimizes and also fosters restless becoming, where intellectual, emotional, and physical emancipation is as crucial for the individual as it is for the community. It is a place of ongoing transformation and reconstruction, actively formed and rebuilt by those who join us. In this state everything becomes both beautifully unknown and potentially knowable.

Programme Structure

Courses in this program include:

Advanced studio practice
Group critique
Applied criticism and theory
Advanced professional engagement

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

60 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Richmond, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants must have earned an undergraduate bachelor’s degree

A minimum of 36 semester hour credits in art and 20 credits of sculpture or related course work at the undergraduate level

Artist Statement

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Portfolio: 20 still and/or moving images

The applicant must provide a personal statement discussing reasons for pursuing graduate study

All applicants must present grades (marks) that reflect superior ability and serious effort

All non-native English-speaking applicants must provide evidence of English language proficiency

Prospective students who have studied outside of the U.S. must provide an official course-by-course external credential evaluation as a required part of the admission process

Proof of adequate funds to live and study full time at VCU by submitting an I-20 DS Request Form accompanied by an original bank verification letter

A $70 state-required application fee

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

31590 USD / year

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Out-of-State

31590 USD / year

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16754 USD / year

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Living costs

Richmond

United States

1071 - 1750 USD / month

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