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MFAA 2023 is June 4-17!
This is the official website of the Missouri Fine Arts Academy on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
You will find all things MFAA 2023 in the hub! Access applications, handbook and all required forms for the upcoming Missouri Fine Arts Academy scheduled in the summer of 2023 on the campus of Missouri State University.
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Visual Arts
In small groups and individually, students will explore the roles that artistic foundations such as context, intention, voice, materials, and content play in contemporary art making.
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Visual Arts
Sculpting is an artistic activity offered in MFAA’s visual arts discipline.
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Visual Arts
MFAA students can take advantage of Missouri State’s art facilities to work with a variety of media to explore artistic expression.
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Visual Arts
The interdisciplinary aspect of MFAA teaches students to stretch their ideas of art and communication through art, which enhances creative thinking and problems solving skills and produces well-rounded individuals.
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Visual Arts
Students create video applications to showcase their talents and personalities.
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Theatre
In the Stage Combat elective course, students learn the fundamentals of unarmed stage violence, including safety, techniques and physical listening.
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Theatre
Students in acting courses are exposed to a variety of different artists and teaching outlooks with the goal of developing self-confidence, improvisation and listening skills, moment to moment awareness, irreverence, and foundational work with text.
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Dance
Dance students not only learn movement techniques and principles, they will also develop physical stamina, strength, flexibility, articulation, coordination, musicality and phrasing.
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Dance
MFAA offers an intensive schedule of classes in discipline-specific arts, including visual arts, theatre, dance, creative writing and music, as well as interdisciplinary with a wide range of co-curricular activities.
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Creative Writing
Creative writing students will focus on personal observation, writing and creating, as well as studying prose, poetry, dramatic dialogue and essay writing forms. Students share their work daily.
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Creative Writing
Student writers find time to let the creative juices flow.
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Creative Writing
Many opportunities are available for students to share and perform their work publically throughout the three-week program.
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Music
Students in the instrumental music discipline will explore topics such as interpretation, practice and performance strategies, and music history, literature and theory.
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Music
Vocal and instrumental music are just two of six disciplines offered at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy.
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Music
The Missouri State campus offers students interested in the electronic arts the opportunity to work with advanced equipment.
Learn about the Missouri Fine Arts Academy, including its disciplines, history and the people who make it happen.