Master of Fine Arts
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Sep 12, 2026
Clara LieuHOST
Kat is teaching at RISD Illustration.
Clara LieuHOST
Lauren has an MFA.
Clara LieuHOST
And it turns out that a lot of self-taught artists who think they need that degree are much better off working with a small group of artists.
Clara LieuHOST
And as I said before, most of our club is over 40.
Clara LieuHOST
And we have found that...
Clara LieuHOST
We've been able to really fill a gap for a lot of people.
Clara LieuHOST
So instead of going on to do an MFA, which is like, my God, in the US it's like $90,000 a year and there's very little funding for it.
Clara LieuHOST
And a lot of people join our club and they're like, yes, this is what I wanted.
Andrea BirnbaumGUEST
And then when we moved up to New Jersey, my kids were older, and I was doing more corporate work and corporate conventions and everything from lawyers, headshots, and all that.
Andrea BirnbaumGUEST
Then I got my MFA.
Andrea BirnbaumGUEST
Where was that? Through Maine Media.
Andrea BirnbaumGUEST
Yep.
Susan H. GordonGUEST
I had this idea that wine could make lifestyle journalism more interesting and more useful in a wider context.
Susan H. GordonGUEST
I had, right around that time also, early 2000s, completed an MFA in creative writing.
Susan H. GordonGUEST
And this seemed like an interesting use of the kind of work I had started there, which was already a little experimental.
Richard HoughHOST
Okay.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
And I continued writing through high school and into college.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
I was an English major, and then I went to graduate school to do my MFA in creative writing.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
from there.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
So I certainly don't think that other writers have to follow the straight shot that I did.
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Chloe BenjaminGUEST
I don't get to do a lot of like nitty gritty talk on in these interviews.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
So no.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
So the book that I wrote during the MFA, I had started in college and it was actually a kind of loosely.
Chloe BenjaminGUEST
I mean, I guess more than loosely connected group of short stories and.
Genevieve RandallHOST
Well, I'd like to mention for our listeners to get to know you a little bit, you've mentioned that your dad was a musician.
Genevieve RandallHOST
You also have an MFA in poetry, I see, from Columbia University.
Genevieve RandallHOST
And I mentioned that you are a professor at Oberlin.
Genevieve RandallHOST
I love the whole cross-disciplinary thing.
Robert WaltersGUEST
I got deeper and deeper into it.
Robert WaltersGUEST
A bunch of poems that I wrote somehow became a play off of Broadway in New York.
Robert WaltersGUEST
Through that experience and working with live theater and actors, I applied to the MFA program at Columbia because I wanted to move to New York and be an oboe player.
Robert WaltersGUEST
If I'd moved to, say, the Iowa Writers Workshop, opportunities for oboe playing would have been diminished.
Mary AnnNARRATOR
Tochman's, uh, own path to the studio was anything but conventional.
Mary AnnNARRATOR
She earned a BA in biology from Yeshiva University before shifting course into the fine arts, completing a BFA in printmaking and book arts and an MFA in studio art at Montclair State University.
Mary AnnNARRATOR
That scientific foundation still shapes her artistic process today.
Mary AnnNARRATOR
Tochman treaties- treats her studio like a laboratory, using the discipline of scientific methodology alongside artistic intuition to push materials and traditional processes past their typical uses in search of new aesthetic possibilities.
Brian AlfredHOST
Kiwa Lee was born in Seoul and raised across four continents.
Brian AlfredHOST
She received her MFA in painting from Hunter College in 2022.
Brian AlfredHOST
Her New York solo debut, Light Punch, a chart in 2024, was selected as Artforums Must See and named by Artsies among five standout exhibitions and small galleries worldwide.
Brian AlfredHOST
Later that year, her first European solo exhibition, Reverse Universe, opened at Montiate in Rome and was selected by Exhibit Art as a Must See exhibition.
Greg MillerGUEST
My teachers were also teaching at Yale.
Greg MillerGUEST
They were teaching people in the MFA program at Yale.
Greg MillerGUEST
So like for me, like I kind of embraced that.
Greg MillerGUEST
I didn't know.
Greg MillerGUEST
I didn't even know about Yale.
Greg MillerGUEST
I didn't even know about the Yale MFA program.
Greg MillerGUEST
So I was a fine artist, like with a capital F.
Greg MillerGUEST
So when I got a kind of assignment, like assignment work was like it was less than it was hack work.
Christopher BrauerGUEST
This was just a liberal arts degree.
Christopher BrauerGUEST
So then I went and did my MFA, Master of Fine Arts in acting at York University.
Christopher BrauerGUEST
That was intense.
Christopher BrauerGUEST
And I learned a lot and again, had a great group of people.
Alisha SavattiGUEST
And then, yeah, then I went in, worked in publishing for a bit and at a bookstore and this was all in New York and just living the dream, working at a bookstore and writing.
Alisha SavattiGUEST
Then I did an MFA in poetry at NYU, which was also very dreamy.
Alisha SavattiGUEST
I got to study with some incredible poets like Sharon Olds and Yusef Kumunyaka and Edward Hirsch and After that, I began teaching, and I really enjoyed that, teaching creative writing.
Alisha SavattiGUEST
But I wanted to do more.
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