Confluence Low Residency MFA University of New Mexico

What if you could study in a living classroom, co-learning with artists, scientists, healers, farmers, activists and craftspeople?

The Confluence MFA field-based curriculum meets twice a year at sites in the Americas including New Mexico, Miami, Minnesota, Oaxaca and El Salvador. The Earth is our college, and bogs, rivers, desert mesas, city halls, cloud forests and water treatment plants have all served as our classrooms. These sites provide an expanded toolkit of experiences and know-how that allow artists to push their own boundaries.

Welcome to the Confluence Low Residency MFA University of New Mexico's New Page! Why apply to the Confluence Concentration?

We are a full-time interdisciplinary MFA that allows students to work from home anywhere in the world, while attending the University of New Mexico. Our field-based residencies in June and January give artists opportunities to learn through an immersive, progressive pedagogy. Most of the credits are completed during residencies. Artists benefit from creating their graduate committee of studies with University of New Mexico faculty members, while also studying with visiting faculty from residency locations. Alumni leave the program with an international network of peers, a revitalized art practice that is informed by regenerative practices, and dynamic relationships with like-minded artists.

We've made a new page! Here are some highlights from the past few years