Graduate

Facilities
Ryerson’s School of Image Arts contains a full range of production facilities. These include a 32-seat lab equipped with a range of software, colour and black and white darkrooms, nonlinear editing suites, a sound stage and lighting studio. Equipment for location work is also available for sign-out.  For more information see http://imagearts.ryerson.ca/

The Black Star Collection
Ryerson University’s recent acquisition of the Black Star Collection - an archive of nearly 300,000 photographs spanning sixty years of photojournalism - gives MFA students unparalleled access to original source material of established historical significance.http://www.ryerson.ca/collection/index.html

The Mira Godard Study Centre
The Mira Godard Study Centre at the School of Image Arts has a collection of 160,000 slides, films, and media presentations, as well as nearly 3000 photographic prints illustrating the history of art and photography across three centuries. http://imagearts.ryerson.ca/mgsc/

The Ryerson Library
The Ryerson library provides students with access to hundreds of books, journals, film and video, and on-line academic databases. Through the RACER interlibrary loan system, Ryerson students also have access to material from research libraries throughout North America. For more information, see http://www.ryerson.ca/library

The program’s location in downtown Toronto ensures access to a wealth of resources available to program participants, including the City of Toronto Archives, the CBC Archives, the Toronto office of the National Film Board, and the Metro Reference Library. Opportunities for practical work with professionals and companies in all media forms are also available.