Art Education

Lara Kamhi, Chaosmos , 2013. Kinetic video projection installation with plaster and glass sculptures, sizes variable. Photo © Mick Farrell. Slade School of Fine Art, University College London Call for applications: MA/MFA in Fine Art Application deadline : 1 January 2014 Graduate Open Studios: 11 December 2013 Slade School of Fine Art University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/slade Share this: Facebook | Twitter The Slade School of Fine Art is currently welcoming MA/MFA Fine Art applications for 2014 entry. The Slade is a vibrant and dynamic art school at the forefront of art education and with an established history of excellence. Set at the heart of UCL, in the centre of London, the Slade brings together students from countries throughout the world, offering a creative and stimulating environment in which to develop fine art practice. The Slade offers two masters degrees in Fine Art, an MA and an MFA . The MA is ...

Jie Wang, spring 2013. Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design seeks applications for the Master of Urban Design program Application deadline : January 15, 2014 Online application: samfoxschool.wustl.edu/ admissions/graduate Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis 1 Brookings Dr St Louis, MO 63130 www.samfoxschool.wustl.edu/ programs/mud www.samfoxschool.wustl.edu www.wustl.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Founded by Fumihiko Maki and Roger Montgomery in 1960, the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program is the second oldest urban design program in the United States. This innovative post-professional program allows students to pursue advanced design and research work focused on the urban environment while acquiring the theoretical and professional foundation for urban design practice. The program draws from the Sam Fox School's...

Image Courtesy of the Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art 2014–15 Postdoctoral Fellowship Application deadline : January 15, 2014 The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art 1600 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20009 T +1 202 387 2151 www.phillipscollection.org Share this: Facebook | Twitter About the fellowship The Phillips Collection, in partnership with George Washington (GW) University, offers a postdoctoral fellowship to support research and teaching on topics in American, European, or non-western art, including photography, from 1780 to the present. The fellow is expected to be in residence in Washington, DC at The Phillips Collection during the fall and spring semesters throughout the term of the fellowship from July 2014 to June 2015. The fellow is expected to teach one undergraduate or graduate course at the Center for the Study of Modern Art, present at least one public lecture at the Phillips or ...

Courtesy of Goddard College. Goddard College Ongoing call for applications: Low-Residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Spring semester 2014 priority application deadlines Vermont residency: December 15, 2013 Washington residency: March 11, 2014 Heather Bryce, Admission Counselor T 802 322 1613 heather.bryce@goddard.edu goddard.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Goddard College's low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts is now accepting applications for spring Vermont and Washington residencies. Deadlines are December 15 (Vermont) and March 11 (Washington). Established in 1997, Goddard College's low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts is a unique program well suited for mid-career and emerging artists who are looking to deepen their practice, blend theory and practice, and study in a rigorous interdisciplinary context. With notable and innovative faculty and guest artists from the full spectrum of forms, genres, cultures, and socio-political perspectives...

Post-Port: MIARD 2013 Graduation Exhibition . Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.  Piet Zwart Institute Seeking applications for Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) program Deadline for applications: January 31, 2014 Piet Zwart Institute Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design P.O. Box 1272 3000 BG Rotterdam, the Netherlands pzwart-info@hr.nl pzwart.wdka.nl Share this: Facebook | Twitter The Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) at the Piet Zwart Institute is an international postgraduate programme that is part of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University. The programme is full-time and structured over two years. At MIARD, we view the production of the interior as a multidisciplinary practice. Our programme is motivated by a design-research methodology that views interior architecture as an applied synthesis —integrating critical design practice, history, theory and technical skills through both digital and analogu...

Michelle Mercurio, Taller Experimental de la Grafica, Havana, Cuba , 2013. Photograph. School of Visual Arts (SVA) 2014 Arts Abroad programs artsabroad.sva.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Creativity is about more than making; it is about exploration and contemplation as well. For over 30 years, the School of Visual Arts has offered Arts Abroad, a selection of innovative travel and educational programs that provide professionals, teachers and students alike the opportunity to see the world, focus on their work, renew their passions—and possibly earn college credit along the way. Wherever you choose to go, whatever you choose to do, our accomplished faculty will lead you on an inspiring and rewarding adventure. Announcing the 2014 SVA Arts Abroad programs in art, art history, and film: Printmaking in Havana , March 1­–9, 2014 Practice lithography and woodcut techniques alongside Cuban artists in the historic, open-air facility of the Taller Experimental de Gráfica, cons...

Left: Class of 2013 Books , 2013 . Photograph. Courtesy of the class of 2013. Right: Class of 2013 with HAS MFA Photo Staff. Courtesy of Chad Champoux Photography. Hartford Art School Call for applications: MFA in Photography Application deadline: January 14, 2014 Hartford Art School University of Hartford 200 Bloomfield Ave West Hartford, CT 06117 Program Director: Robert Lyons, rlyons@hartford.edu Program Manager: Erica Ann Flood, flood@hartford.edu www.hartfordphotomfa.org Share this: Facebook | Twitter Our approach offers a "blended learning model"—research, independent study, and online critiques—with on-site classroom learning. During the summer sessions students will be in class and have ample opportunity to interact with faculty and make use of the advanced analogue and digital facilities at the Hartford Art School. The faculty is gathered from the United States and international locations and will be augmented by visiting artists, curators, writers ...

Courtesy of Pratt Institute. Pratt Institute MFA in Fine Arts: now accepting applications for fall 2014 Pratt Institute Office of Admissions 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11205 T +1 800 331 0834 admissions@pratt.edu www.pratt.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Pratt Institute's MFA in Fine Arts program is now accepting applications for the fall 2014 semester. Centrally located in Brooklyn's thriving creative community, Pratt's MFA program in Fine Arts immerses students in the cultures of contemporary art, supported by a faculty of working artists and peers. The graduate curriculum is both rigorous and flexible and fosters a deeper understanding of the histories, issues and cultural contexts that inform art-making today. Pratt's faculty members are distinguished by their achievements, exhibiting in New York and internationally, and receiving awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, Joan Mitc...

Ashley Mendelsohn, Widener Waves. Harvard Graduate School of Design Master in Design Studies: Art, Design and the Public Domain Application deadline: January 10, 2014 Harvard University Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 designstudies@gsd.harvard.edu gsd.harvard.edu/designstudies gsd.harvard.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter The phrase "spatial practice" has become a confident and widely used term to describe a variety of architectural and artistic engagements with society and the city. In many ways, it defines the new and moving boundary of the design discipline. Seeking to engage with the public and social realm—physical or virtual—with a view to shaping and transforming human action and historical experience, the Art, Design and the Public Domain (ADPD) concentration of the Masters in Design Studies (MDes) program gathers creative and ambitious individuals from all backgrounds and academic disciplines with a predilection for inte...

Lawrence Wallen, ITALY, International City Dubai UAE , 2009. Digital c-print, 104 x 78 cm. University of Technology, Sydney PhD in Critical Spatial Thinking: Design and Performative Practice Application deadline : 15 December 2013 www.dab.uts.edu.au Share this: Facebook | Twitter The School of Design and the faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB) at UTS are proud to announce a new joint PhD program in partnership with the University of Vienna. We welcome applications in the area of Practice-informed Research (PiR), commencing in early 2014. Critical Spatial Thinking: Design and Performative Practice This PhD program brings together candidates and leading academics from the UTS School of Design and the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna in a trans-disciplinary research cluster. The program leads to a joint PhD degree, managed and taught at both universities. Working across the disciplines of spatial design, architecture,...

Mark Read, The Occupy Wall Street 'Bat Signal,'  2011. © Mark Read. Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) Accepting applications for low-residency MFA in Visual Art, summer 2014 Application deadline : May 1, 2014 Vermont College of Fine Arts 36 College Street Montpelier, Vermont 05602 www.vcfa.edu/visual-art Share this: Facebook | Twitter The first low-residency program in visual art in the country, the MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is accepting applications for its July 2014 residency. The deadline is May 1, 2014 . The MFA in Visual Art at VCFA is a vibrant, local, national, and international community of artists and critical thinkers. The program's precedent-setting pedagogy is based on the understanding that art does not exist in a void, but within a social context. Students emerge from the program with a dynamic new vision of themselves, their art, and the world around them. The program's bi-annual residencies, artistic com...

Photo: Charli Brissey. Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Kinetic Imaging MFA program: call for applications Application deadline : January 15, 2014 VCU School of the Arts 1000 W Broad Street Richmond, VA 23284 arts.vcu.edu/kineticimaging Share this: Facebook | Twitter The MFA in Fine Arts/Kinetic Imaging is not your traditional 'moving image' program, hence the slightly different name. Kinetic Imaging offers an environment for the artist who wishes to pursue a studio practice in moving image and/or sound, and whose direction may not fit traditional film, animation, digital media or media studies programs. We encompass video arts, experimental animation, sonic arts and all the various manifestations and hybrids that these suggest. Exploration and collaboration is encouraged. A theoretical base is developed as students investigate and examine culture and society, and develop their voice as an active participant in contemporary media. The diversity...

Daniel Schaefer, Untitled , 2013. Digital photograph. Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence Call for applications: MFA in Studio Art (painting or drawing), MFA in Photography Application and scholarship deadline: March 15, 2014 Studio Art Centers International (SACI), Florence SACI Admissions Office 50 Broad Street, Suite 1617 New York, NY 10004 T +1 212 248 7225 admissions@saci-florence.edu www.saci-florence.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy, is proud to announce that in addition to our undergraduate and post-baccalaureate programs, students can earn an MFA degree in Studio Art (Painting or Drawing) or Photography. Students in SACI's MFA programs pursue a curriculum integrating practical and critical skills that encourage individual innovation, creative collaboration, mentorships, and instruction from SACI's outstanding faculty. They benefit from interaction with members of the SACI Artists ...

Rene Allen, 2013 MFA Studio Graduate Exhibition.  Portland State University MFA in Contemporary Art Practice/Studio: call for applications Deadline: February 1, 2014 School of Art + Design College of the Arts Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, Oregon 97207-0751 T +1 503 725 3515 T +1 800 547 8887 ext. 3515 F +1 503 725 4541 art@pdx.edu www.pdx.edu/the-arts/graduate- programs www.psumfastudio.org Share this: Facebook | Twitter The School of Art + Design at Portland State University (PSU), Oregon's largest and only urban university, invites applications to its Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Art Practice/Studio degree. Built around a core of research-intensive creative investigation, the two-year, full-residency program is dedicated to interdisciplinary experimentation and the exploration of ideas through the experience of making. Students are supported in a range of production disciplines, from the traditional to the emerging, as they consider the ...