Vermont College of Fine Arts
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| Type | Private non-profit |
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| Established | 1831; independent fine arts institution in 2008 |
| President | Thomas Christopher Greene |
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Academic staff
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approx. 60 |
| Postgraduates | about 380 |
| Location | Montpelier, Vermont, United States |
| Colors | Green and white |
| Affiliations | New England Association of Schools and Colleges |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 44°15′19″N 72°34′3″W / 44.25528°N 72.56750°W Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a graduate-level fine arts institution in Montpelier, Vermont. VCFA is a national center for graduate fine arts education with a unique practice-based learning model, internationally renowned faculty, and a range of delivery models — including low residency, intensive conference retreats, and fully residential programs. VCFA educates emerging and established artists through the offering of six low residency Master of Fine Arts degrees in the following fields: Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults, Visual Art, Music Composition, Graphic Design and Film; a residential Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing and Publishing; low residency Master of Arts in Teaching in Art and Design Education; and a low residency Master of Arts in Art and Design Education. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, Newbery Medal honorees, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Program fellows, and Ford Foundation grant recipients.
The low-residency structure allows students get their graduate degrees through brief, on-campus residencies, self-designated study, flexible scheduling, and personalized attention through one-on-one guidance with a faculty mentor. The five ten-day on-campus residencies consist of workshops, lectures, readings, panel discussions, student-teacher conferences and critiques, presentations of works in progress." A faculty member works with five or fewer students through written correspondence, electronic/video/telephone communication in between residencies.
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