Here's a draft description of the SMFA

(draft of tue, 19 jul 94) Welcome to a new collection of directories and files which will appear during the summer of '94 which will represent the history of and course offerings at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), also known as The Museum School and officially abbreviated, The SMFA. Over the years numerous Museum School faculty and students have come to MIT for help with a wide variety of projects, and MIT students, faculty, staff and alum have in turn visited the The Museum School, taken courses there or received the School's diploma. (The Museum School also awards an MFA and the Master of Arts in conjunction with Tufts University, where Museum students take undergraduate and graduate courses in humanities and social sciences, and often more). The Museum School is now also a non-profit client of The MIT Entrepreneurs Club, which is helping The School develop an on-line presence on The Internet and The World Wide Web, in an effort to make The School's history, course catalog, gallery news and examples of student, faculty and alum art work viewable to other schools, colleges and universities and a growing number of municiple, corporate and private libraries, as well as to individuals. The next step is to create the appropriate directories and files at The E-Club's ftp site (mintaka.lcs.mit.edu) and gopher client pointers ... and to follow this with the creation of a pilot Mosaic home page for The Museum School. By the way, if this pilot proves to be useful as a marketing tool for The School, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, the next step shall be to create a budget for, and raise the funds required for, the creation of a computer server site at The School of its own, and of course to get The School on to The Internet, formally. For immediate further information about The Museum School, and if you happen to be an alum or otherwise interested in assisting, and wish to help with a donation of funds to help make all this happen by fall term '94, please contact The Dean of The Museum School, Debby Dluhy, at 617-267-6100, extension 618, or send e-mail to Professor Larry Johnson at or to Professor Tom Norton at or to Board Member Lewis Clapp (MIT'58) at . - richard shyduroff .