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Our Visual Storytelling and Comic Arts Certificate is grounded in the creative power and potential of word and image when they are combined to create a distinct language. There is no conceptual limit to what is possible in the comic arts; the form holds as much possibility as the human imagination, from children’s stories to visual journalism to narratives on education and health.

Students in the Comic Arts certificate refine both their writing and drawing skills, learning to combine the two in a rigorous and accessible approach to the sequential arts. Our program is structured as a community of artists learning in small classes, in close dialogue and critique with MassArt faculty and a wide range of visiting artists and writers.

Students can take classes at their own pace, in any order they choose. To finish in 9 months, take two classes in each 7 week session.

• Fully online
• High profile, emerging, local and national/international visiting artists
• Development of an individualized portfolio
• Eight 7-week classes earns the certificate ( 6 required; 2 chosen electives)