Word: mfa
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...that was something I wanted to do," she says. "Before I could read, my mother will tell stories of how I would just pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter of everyday life...
William Stover, assistant curator for contemporary art at the MFA, writes in an e-mail that the MFA presents contemporary art in a “historical context due to the nature of its encyclopedic collection...
...Department of Contemporary Art at the MFA, for example, deals with all art made after 1955. While the museum does acquire recent work, the department’s strength is its collection of early 1960s color-field painters...
...give the MFA an unreserved thumbs-up, if not for ticket prices hovering at around $20 for a reduced-price student admission. That’s a bit high, especially since the MFA isn’t shackled to the Ticketmaster ball-and-chain...
Still, it’s a high-quality venue, and if you’re a fan of anyone on the concert calendar you’ll appreciate the refined, distraction-free setting that the MFA offers...