Coordinates: 44°15′19″N 72°34′3″W / 44.25528°N 72.56750°W / 44.25528; -72.56750 Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a national center for graduate education in the arts. VCFA educates emerging and established artists through its low-residency model, one of the first of its kind, offering six Master of Fine Arts degrees in the following fields: Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults, Visual Art, Music Composition, Graphic Design and Film. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, Newbery Medal honorees, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Program fellows, and Ford Foundation grant recipients.
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