Visual Arts Division - School of the Arts (Art)
Location: 310 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-4065
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Website: http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/visual_arts/index.jsp
Main Email Contact: visualarts@columbia.edu
Contemporary art has become increasingly interdisciplinary. To that end, the Division of Visual Arts keeps the walls between its disciplines low, offering an M.F.A. degree in Visual Arts, rather than in one specific medium. The two-year studio program taught by internationally celebrated artists allows students to pursue digital media, drawing, new genres, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video art. In addition to rigorous training within a specific discipline, we encourage our students to cross boundaries, both within our Division and outside of it, to take advantage of Columbia's renowned Writing, Theatre, and Film programs. This unique cultural nexus is our signature, distinguishing us from other comparable programs.

Visual Media Center (Media)
Location: 653 Schermerhorn Extension
Phone: 212-854-4606
Affiliation: Department of Art History and Archaeology
Website: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/
Main Email Contact: rc456@columbia.edu
Contact: Robert Carlucci, Director
The Visual Media Center explores material culture, vision, media, and pedagogy in the broadest sense to connect faculty research and student learning through the creative application of technology. Our goal is to examine and extend the ways of interpreting images, objects, buildings, and sites and to reinforce Columbia’s historic strengths in core education for undergraduate students, graduate student training, and faculty research. Our specialized facilities and personnel serve the closely related fields of Archæology, Art History, and Historic Preservation. There are natural affinities with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Teachers College, other Arts and Sciences departments, and the schools of Architecture, Engineering, Journalism, and International and Public Affairs.