Students come to the International Center of Photography from around the world to study photography in ICP's full-time certificate and ICP-Bard MFA programs. For many prospective ICP students, the cost of living and attending school full-time in New York is prohibitive.
ICP-Bard MFA Program in Photographic Studies
The ICP-Bard MFA program provides an unparalleled photographic education over two years for 18 students annually. The 60-credit program brings together faculty from Bard College and ICP, visiting artists, and accomplished students to actively engage the critical issues facing photography, the fine arts, and technology in a vibrant and stimulating academic environment.
The ICP-Bard MFA program:
- Welcomes students from a diverse array of backgrounds, this year hailing from undergraduate programs in Colombia, Germany, Korea and Spain, and, in the U.S., from Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as a Fulbright Scholar.
- Features a curriculum comprised of seminars, workshops, and a final exhibition, with all students closely mentored by faculty
- Utilizes the resources of ICP's curatorial team and extensive museum collection, in addition to the wide range of workshop offerings already in place at the School
- Hosts Master Classes which have included instruction and critique from accomplished photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Stephen Shore, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Levi Strauss, Clarissa Sligh, and Adam Fuss
- Provides each student with newly renovated studio space in an ICP facility in nearby Long Island City, Queens
- Is chaired by internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and educator Nayland Blake
How you can help:
- Provide general scholarship funds to be distributed to deserving students during the year to defray the cost of tuition, materials, or the production of a special project
- Underwrite named scholarship support for an individual student to cover partial- or full-year tuition
- Create a named endowment to assist in scholarship support in perpetuity
For more information, contact:
Chuck Ferrero
Director of Development
212.857.0036
cferrero@icp.org
