Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a graduate program associated with

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

that grants

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degrees. Founded in 1981, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (otherwise known as the Bard MFA program) is a nontraditional school for interdisciplinary study in the visual and creative arts. The program takes place over two years and two months, with students residing on campus during three consecutive summers, and two winter sessions of independent study completed off campus. Each summer session runs for eight intensive weeks. Currently ranked as one of ten most influential Master of Fine Arts programs in the world by

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Magazine. The Bard MFA program is one of eight graduate programs at

External links

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Photographs from Bard's MFA program

PDF download of Bard's 2010 MFA thesis exhibition catalogue
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