At 4word Idea our view is that the successful creation and completion of a Master of Fine Arts is an act of self validation; a necessarily messy affair of inspiration, self-discovery, intellectual pursuit with a rich emotional landscape and trajectory singular to each candidate. A uniquely individualized experience, the creation of your MFA thesis should be a strategical process. Simultaneously manifesting your visual portfolio while putting in places the intellectual framework that will lay the foundations of your career. We’re here to help with the granular details of formalizing your words and visual language into a cohesive impactful summation of your body of work.

At any stage in your MFA development, candidates can start enhancing and elevating the outcomes of your creative efforts with feedback and advice from professionals with lived experience in the field. We highly recommend an explorative conversation early in your process to lay out a roadmap that will ease you through the production phases of your thesis.

Wall of Inspiration

“Writing about art is like dancing about science” - unknown

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde 

"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso 

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas 

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” - Arthur Koestler

“If you want to make a thing, then make it perfect. Make it beyond reproach and fit for the Stendhal syndrome. If you can’t make it perfect, so be it, then make it BIG. Overwhelm and impress with the unassailable force of large. If you can’t make it big, then make a lot of them. Make so many they cannot be denied and insist they are meant to exist and be adored. And if you cannot do any of these, then make it in cobalt blue.” - RISD glass shop