MFA in Costume Design - Special Features

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The Salzburg Seminar

Three weeks of fully funded travel and study in Austria. Students and faculty reside in an 18th Century palace that once belonged to the noted German director Max Rheinhart. Some of Europe’s most important designers provide workshops and we see plays and museums in Munich and Vienna

The New York Seminar

Students spend a week in NY learning how to assist NY designers, learning how to shop NY for fabrics and vintage clothing and visiting costume exhibitions. The teachers are former students of the program now living and working in NY.

LORT Theatre Company

The CBT Company. Professional Equity Theatre on campus.

Guest Designers

Students will have the opportunity to work with guest designers at the Clarence Brown Theatre. Often students are paired in design teams with professional guests.

Guest Directors

Most directors for the plays, whether in the lab theatre season or in the main season are professional guest directors.

Twelve Station Computer Lab

The lab is for the exclusive use of graduate design students. A computer is available to each student 24 hours a day. Printers and scanners are included in the lab.

The Design House

The design program has its own house which includes our classroom, a design studio space for each student and the computer lab.

Craft Workshops

Craft workshops are offered annually in skills of various kinds; often as requested by the students.

Designer Workshops

A designer workshop is offered most years with an important American or European professional.

Funded Conference Travel

Students receive $1500. per year in funding for conference travel. Travel funding is also available by application to the graduate school.

Drawing and painting classes in the Art Department

We are fortunate to have drawing and painting professors who take great interest in the design program and who welcome design students into their classes, often even when the classes are closed to their own majors.