MFA
abbreviation
Master of Fine Arts. Also M.F.A.
MFA
American
M.F.A.
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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She lives in Santa Monica, holds an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and is working on a memoir about having a mystery illness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Auf der Maur insisted that she was happy with her life, that she wanted to finish art school and get her MFA in photography.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
She later attended the California Institute of the Arts and earned an MFA from Yale University, going on to exhibit internationally.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
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
They went to the MFA and picked out a poster of water lilies for her bedroom.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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