MFA
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Unlike some other major artists, Rivera never took any formal art classes, let alone attended an elite MFA program.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Some are triumphant—like the time I hosted my entire MFA cohort with a DIY baked potato bar and some donated champagne.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025
The MFA assembled 14 of these, contextualized by self-portraits, Japanese prints, works by artists Van Gogh admired, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, who joined his friend in the south toward the end of 1888.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
I knew exactly what this was - a hacker technique known as MFA bombing.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
When I visited with Ansel Brasseur, a former lead in Truman’s plays, he was partway through an MFA program at New York University, a “theater boot camp,” as he put it, consisting of fourteen-hour days.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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