Admissions

Graduate Admissions


 

 

Otis offers four graduate degrees. While each of these graduate programs is distinct, they share one important resource: the 21st century cultural capital of Los Angeles, which acts as a living laboratory. Art galleries and the major film and design studios of Venice, Santa Monica, and Culver City are minutes away.

L.A.’s major exports have always been imagination and innovation. It has more museums and theaters than any other U.S. city. Its residents come from more than 140 countries, and speak 224 different languages. Los Angeles offers the promise of immense possibility, where the future unfolds daily.

The four remarkable chairs who lead our graduate programs - Roy Dowell (Fine Arts), Paul Vangelisti (Writing), Suzanne Lacy (Public Practice) and Kali Nikitas (Graphic Design) - form a creative partnership, which makes graduate study at Otis distinct from other schools. Together they have created a community where artists, writers, designers, and community activists get to know and interact with each other - often on a daily basis. This interaction produces a unique creative synergy.

Graduate Programs:

Graduate Fine Arts produces artists whose work reflects their individual ideas, needs, and ambitions, as well as the challenges of contemporary issues. Their personal visions are filtered through history, gender, sexuality, culture, and politics.

Graduate Graphic Design is a low-residency 2 1/2 year program that provides a rigorous and challenging academic and studio environment for candidates interested in enhancing their current professional practice.

Graduate Public Practice develops new artistic strategies for practice in the public realm. Students collaborate with each other, community members, interdisciplinary scholars, and visiting artists.

Graduate Writing offers a multidisciplinary curriculum, drawing from the diverse cultures of the city of L.A. Writing is considered in relation to contemporary world literatures, and the emphasis is on international writing, critical theory, and translation.


To request information: Graduate Programs, MFA - Information Request

Graduate Application Process (pdf)

Applications:

* Apply Online for Graduate Programs
* Download a PDF version of the application.