ABOUT — MFA 2024 Exhibition

GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL NARRATIVE PAINTING PRINT MEDIA & PHOTOGRAPHY SCULPTURE

BOSTON UNIVERSITY MFA 2024 EXHIBITION

I am pleased to introduce the Boston University School of Visual Arts Class of 2024 Master of Fine Arts thesis show featuring work by graduating students in Master of Fine Arts programs in Graphic Design, Painting, Sculpture, Print Media & Photography, and Visual Narrative. This is the first thesis exhibition for the latter two MFA programs, launched in 2022. With sixty-one students, this class represents the largest cohort of graduating MFA students in the history of the school, a highly diverse group of artists and designers from across the globe.

Also new for this year, our thesis exhibitions expand beyond BU and the traditional gallery space: in addition to the MFA exhibitions in College of Fine Arts’ galleries at 808 and 855 Commonwealth Avenues, graduating MFA Sculpture students install their exhibition in Allston at 1270 Commonwealth Avenue, working in dialogue with the site of a former big chain drugstore. MFA Graphic Design and Print Media & Photography exhibitions are on view in 808 Gallery, MFA Painting is exhibited in the Stone Gallery, with Visual Narrative nearby in the Commonwealth Gallery, pairing their exhibition with a series of book launches.

Dana Clancy, Director, Associate Professor of Art, School of Visual Arts
Lynne Allen, Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Printmaking
Kristen Coogan, Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Graphic Design
Deborah Cornell, Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Printmaking
Joel Christian Gill, Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Visual Narrative
Josephine Halvorson, Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Painting
Toni Pepe, Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of Department of Photography
Christopher Sleboda, Associate Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Graphic Design
David Snyder, Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Sculpture
Lissa Cramer, Managing Director, Boston University Art Galleries
Nerissa Cooney, Programming and Media Manager
Gus Wheeler, Technical Associate, Sculpture & Painting
Josh Brennan, Technical Associate, Printmaking & Photography
Jesse Finkelstein, Technical Associate, Graphic Design & Visual Narrative

STONE GALLERY

COMMONWEALTH GALLERY

808 GALLERY

1270 COMM AVE.

APRIL 2–20, 2024

Designed by Dhwani Garg, Veridiana Victorelli, Amanda Mundy and Niharika Yellamraju
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Sleboda, Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design
Edited by Bryne Rasmussen