Post-baccalaureate Program
The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate is a highly intensive full-time one-year program for photographers who seek an advanced level of discourse, both practical and theoretical. The program provides a curriculum for students who wish to develop their portfolios and their educations to prepare for future graduate school or as an end in itself.
Students participate in the weekly Photography Post-baccalaureate Major Studio, in which each student presents his or her work. In addition, photography post-baccalaureate students enroll in elective photography classes, independent study arrangements with faculty, and art history electives.
Faculty
Senior faculty include Laura McPhee (Program Coordinator), Abelardo Morell, Nick Nixon and Barbara Bosworth. Laura McPhee's work was recently on view in an extensive one-person exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Abelardo Morell, known best for his images made with a camera obscura, exhibits and publishes widely, including most recently in "Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell" at the Yale University Art Gallery. Nick Nixon, the subject of two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is best known for his humanistic black and white portraits. Barbara Bosworth has exhibited landscape photography in "Human Nature: the Photographs of Barbara Bosworth," at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Junior members of the photography faculty include Matt Connors and Eirik Johnson. A monograph on Eirik's work, entitled Borderlands, has just been published by Twin Palms Publishers and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Matt Connors creates montages, often of urban scenes that are re-combined in a rigorous fashion that includes digital re-imaging. The resultant seamless hybrids often posit "a global condition where photographic truth is indistinguishable from manipulation."
Visiting Artists and Lectures
Visiting artists are an integral part of both the MFA and Post-Bac programs, and the department has a strong artist and critic lecture series. Visitors have included: Walead Beshty, Elinor Carucci, James Casebere, William Christenberry, Lois Conner, Linda Connor, Charlotte Cotton, Gregory Crewdson, Tim Davis, P. L. DiCorcia, Jim Dow, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta, Jason Fulford, Katy Grannan, Emmet Gowin, Andy Grundberg, Justine Kurland, Laura Letinsky, Susan Meiselas, Vik Muniz, Laurel Nakadate, Doug Nickel, Sandra Phillips, Thomas Roma, Luc Sante, Gary Schneider, Rebecca Solnit, Alec Soth, Jem Southam, Larry Sultan, Shellburne Thurber, Penelope Umbrico, and Kim Yasuda.
Facilities
Photography post-baccalaureate students will share a studio with its own imaging equipment. This studio is located next to the MFA photo studio, on the same floor as labs for the approximately 120 photography students pursuing BFA degrees at MassArt. These labs include digital, non-silver, traditional black and white and color processing facilities, and a Polaroid 20 x 24 studio. Photography faculty have offices on this floor and are available to students during weekly office hours.
Class Schedule
The ten to twelve full-time students admitted to this program will participate in a required weekly studio seminar, Photography Post-baccalaureate Major Studio, in which each student presents his or her work on a regular basis. In addition, photography post-baccalaureate students will enroll in undergraduate elective photography classes, independent study arrangements with faculty, and undergraduate art history electives.
For more information visit the website of MassArt's Graduate Programs.