The Department of Visual & Media Arts

The Department of Visual & Media Arts offers undergraduate and graduate programs in film, video, television, radio and audio, new media and media studies.

The programs recognize that the visual and media arts are powerful forces that affect the minds, emotions and behavior of humankind, and they seek to educate students to become informed and ethical leaders as well as creative and successful practitioners.

The faculty includes a five-time Emmy Award-winner, a filmmaker-historian who specializes in cinema of the African Diaspora, a former White House speechwriter, and the director of the Prague Summer Experience in Film.

Graduates of the program have risen to the tops of their fields in major media and entertainment organizations in Hollywood, New York and elsewhere.

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View the VMA department missions and learning outcomes.

Entry Forms and applications

• Entry form for submission to the Emerson Channel

NEWS

• National Film Festivals Screen Film Directed by Emerson Artist-in-Residence
• Alum and Sirius Radio Host Joe Mathieu Live from WERS
  
• John Gianvito's film makes it on "Top 50 Films of the Decade" list
• Emerson students curate Next Generation 3 exhibit at the Huret & Spector Gallery
• Senior film student, Jenna Lyng wins $6K grant from the Caucus Foundation
• Emerson students win awards at the National Broadcasting Society's Freedom States Regional Competition

Off Campus Events

• 1/16: Town Called Panic premiere at the MFA
• 1/20: Intro To AMA: Avid Media Access- free workshop at Rule
  
• 1/20: The International Experimental Cinema Exposition at the ICA
  
• 1/20-1/23: Human Rights International Film Festival
• 1/27: Collaborative Editing Solutions- free workshop at Rule
  
• 1/27: Living in a CG World- free lecture at the MOS
  
• 1/28: Sundance Film Festival USA
• 2/3: Conjuring New Moon- free lecture at the MOS
• 2/10: Visionary Visuals- free lecture at the MOS
• 3/1-3/2: Coolidge Award: Director Jonathan Demme
• 3/25-4/1: Boston Underground Film Festival