Mount Royal School of Art is a multidisciplinary MFA program that supports student artists in developing an intensive, critical, and imaginative art practice – in an exciting and diverse community enriched by a broad selection of established artists, museum curators, and collectors. By encouraging students to experiment – within one medium or across many media – and to synthesize research from various experiences, interests, and disciplines, the program prepares the cohort to imagine an art for the future.<br><br>Regular meetings with the director and artists and critics-in-residence broaden the definition of and illuminate current and historical ideas about artmaking. In addition, Mount Royal Seminar brings to campus for lectures and studio critiques a diverse array of internationally renowned artists, critics, and curators whose work is shaping the landscape of art and culture-from painting, sculpture, and performance to film, installation, and digital art. The Seminar centers on student presentations about relevant issues and themes in contemporary art. Group critiques, an integral element of the Mount Royal curriculum, are facilitated by the director and one to two other artists-in-residence.<br><br>The resources of Mount Royal extend beyond the walls of the school. These visits take on an intimate and casual feeling as dinners are planned and catered to continue the dialogue with visitors past their lectures and individual studio critiques and often include other guests such as art collectors and dealers. Going further still, the program supplements students' travel to New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington DC to visit gallery and museum shows which have been hand selected by the Director based in relationship to the work of each individual. In this and other ways, graduates are prepared to add to the discourse surrounding contemporary art as exhibiting artists, faculty, and critics.