The American University Art Department provides students with the tools to ambitiously engage historical and contemporary criteria for making art. Come work with our professional, dedicated, and innovative faculty in a city where you will have access to internationally reknowned museums and galleries. The Katzen Art Center provides students with fully equipped, state of the art facilities where students can thrive in flexible graduate and undergraduate programs that offer sculpture, painting, video, digital photography, drawing, printmaking, expanded media and special topics courses.
MFA students exhibit their work annually in the American University Museum, travel with faculty to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore and may choose to spend a summer in our MFA Berlin program. Our visiting artist series brings high profile artists from around the country to the Katzen Art Center and American University Museum for public lectures, exhibitions and graduate studio visits.
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Washington, DC offers an unsurpassed level of world class museums, most of which offer free admission and are within a 20 minute metrorail ride from our studio facilities. From the Phillips Collection (which was America's first museum of Modern Art and the place where American University's Art programs emerged more than a century ago) to the East and West buildings of National Gallery of Art; From the Hirshhorn and the National Museum of African Art to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, these amazing institutions act as a vital component of our students' experience in Washington, DC. The American University Museum at the Katzen Center has become one of the leading museums of contemporary art in the region. Additionally there are many thriving spaces and fellowship opportunities for emerging artists.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Freer and Sackler National Museums of Asian Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington Project for the Arts
and more!
Damien Davis, Thursday, February 14, 6:00 pm, Katzen Art Center, Room 201
Xenobia Bailey, Monday, March 4, 6:00 pm, Katzen Art Center, Room 201
Loie Hollowell, Thursday, April 11, 2019, 6:30pm, Katzen Art Center, Room 201
MFA Alumnus Mandy Cooper Starts "Sense Gallery" - Click below for more information!
Congratulations to our first year and second year MFA students on their thesis shows. Join us for their respective openings.
1st Year MFA Exhibition, American University Museum, April 6 - 24, 2019
2nd Year MFA Exhibition, American University Museum, May 4 - 26, 2019
Professor Tim Doud has joined with other local artists Caitlin Teal-Price and Linn Meyers to found the new D.C. arts space STABLE. They are featured in the current Wasington City Paper. Read more about the new studios, gallery and programming in the works!
Teju Cole
Ruby Lerner
Beverly Semmes
Lavar Munroe
SPRING 2019
Damien Davis
Xenobia Bailey
Loie Hollowell
