Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a new graduate college and is the the nation’s only college devoted solely to low residency
fine arts programs including MFAs in Writing, Visual Art and Writing for Children & Young Adults (http://www.tui.edu/pdf/VCFABrochure.pdf).

Established in 1997, The Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program was the nation's first fully-developed MFA program focusing on writing for young readers. 

Since 1991, The MFA in Visual Art program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts has based its educational success on the principle of individualized learning.

The MFA Program was designed as an educational experiment. The Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts allows students to earn a 60-credit MFA degree over a period of two years through a combination of ten-day, on-campus residencies followed by six-month semesters of self-designed studio practice. The VCFA graduate education program is designed to integrate the processes of learning and development into everyday life and students are encouraged to determine their own education through a process of interdisciplinary experimentation.

Established in 1981, the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program was one of the first low-residency programs to offer writers the opportunity to earn an MFA degree through study with accomplished authors and teachers while keeping their commitments to communities, families, and careers. As a low-residency program VCFA brings students together with other writers twice each year for intensive 10-day residencies. With a low faculty ratio for students, each teacher supervisers 5 students through online communication, telephone conferences, written correspondence and oral tapes.

In the July issue of Atlantic Monthly, writer Edward J. Delaney recently named the Vermont College of Fine Arts of Union Institute & University (VCFA) Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program among the strongest low-residency MFA programs in the United States. (http://www.vermontcollege.edu/mfaw/news-1007.asp)

Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni have published over 450 books and won many awards, including the Yale Younger Poets, Iowa Short Fiction, Drue Heinz, Walt Whitman, AWP, Galway Kinnell and Flannery O’Conner prizes, as well as PEN/Faulkner, Whiting and American Book awards and National Poetry Series, Best American Short Stories, and Oprah Book Club selections.

Courses at Vermont College of Fine Arts

Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Arts
painting
sculpture
drawing
electronic media
printmaking
photography
craft as fine art
video/film
performance
installation
site-specific practices

Masters of Fine Arts in Writing

Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults Program

Past students - established and famous artists
Martine Leavitt
Stephanie Green
Deborah Wiles
An Na
April Pulley Sayre

Contact Details for Vermont College of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts,
36 College St., Montpelier, VT  05602
http://www.vermontcollege.edu