About the Exhibition
The 2025 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition is the culmination of a three-year program in which artists explore their creative practice with the support of their faculty committee.
The MFA candidate at Michigan State University is characterized by a desire to push beyond the boundaries of existing art and design paradigms, whether focused within or across disciplines. Each person is encouraged to explore the parameters of their creative journey considering material investigation and conceptual questions. Each artist’s process of discovery is unique based on their own integrative media-focused or multidisciplinary inquiry. Under the guidance of a faculty committee selected by the candidate, they develop a rigorous studio practice that is informed by their curiosity of the world around them. While developing their thesis exhibitions, the MFA candidates work with their committees to refine their artistic goals and develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be a contemporary practicing artist. The MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design celebrates the creative research of Claire E. Heiney, Morgan Reneé Hill, and Megan Weaver as evidence of their achievement and continuing artistic, scholarly, and professional promise.
This year the annual Master of Fine Arts Prize will be awarded by guest juror Jessica Hong, Chief Curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, Missouri. Writer and critic Dan Cameron was invited to serve as the 2025 Critic-in-Residence and contribute essays to the exhibition catalog.
The 2025 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition is organized by the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, with curatorial oversight provided by Dr. Rachel Winter, Assistant Curator, and Laine Lord, former Curatorial Research Assistant. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Graduate School at MSU and the John and Susan Berding Family Endowment.
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