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Call for applications at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA): Master of Fine Arts

Marilyn Arsem, Marking Time I , November 2012. Durational performance at Nox Contemporary, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo by Kristina Lenzi. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) Call for applications: Master of Fine Arts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 230 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 smfa.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Both rigorous and highly selective, the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program will prepare you for a career as a professional artist. Artistic innovation and creativity are fundamental qualities that are highly transferable to wider areas of society. The curriculum integrates practical and critical skills across diverse media and disciplines; you'll hone your practice through individual innovation, creative collaborations, informal mentorships, and academic discourse. MFA students are enrolled at both SMFA and Tufts University, and graduate in two years with an MFA degree from Tufts. Key aspects of the program: ...

Program Director for new M.A. in Global Contemporary Art visits Chicago for CAA Conference

Program Director Dr. Robin Reisenfeld leads a class discussion on a field study. Image courtesy of Christie's Education. Christie's Education M.A. in Global Contemporary Art Christie's Education 11 West 42nd Street 8th floor New York, NY 10036 T +1 212 355 1501 admissionsUS@christies.edu www.christies.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter Meet the Program Director Dr. Robin Reisenfeld, Program Director of the M.A. in Global and Contemporary Art, will attend the Annual CAA Conference February 12–15, 2014. To meet Dr. Reisenfeld during the conference, please email rreisenfeld@christies.edu or book a meeting here . Read a Q&A with the Dr. Reisenfeld to learn more about the program. The Program Christie's Education's new Master of Arts in Global Contemporary Art is a full-time gra...

Teresa Normile, MASPACE postgraduate work - Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland. © Teresa Normile 2013. Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) Call for applications: MA - Social Practice and the Creative Environment [SPACE] Application deadline: January 31, 2014 Limerick School of Art & Design is a constituent School of Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. www.lit.ie Share this: Facebook | Twitter Over the past number of years, MA SPACE has established an international reputation for delivering a high-level Masters programme which focuses on Social Practice and the Creative Environment [SPACE]. This pioneering programme, the first of its kind in Ireland, is tailored towards the development of a sustainable artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or genres. A grounding in theory, critical thinking and interdisciplinary research supports a multitude of possibilities in socially engaged art practice. MA ...

SVA MFA Art Criticism & Writing: now accepting applications for fall 2014

Photo of Art Criticism and Writing students on a class trip in Chelsea. Photo by Caroline Dumalin. School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Art Criticism & Writing Early application deadline: January 30, 2014 School of Visual Arts (SVA) 209 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 artcriticism.sva.edu Share this: Facebook | Twitter If you have any questions, please contact the department at artcrit@sva.edu , T +1 212 592 2408 , or go to artcriticism.sva.edu . The Art Criticism & Writing program at the School of Visual Arts is one of the only graduate programs in the world that focuses specifically on criticism and art writing. This program is not involved in "discourse production" or the prevarications of curatorial rhetoric, but rather in the practice of criticism writ large, aspiring to literature. We put writing at the center of all our work here. The practice of criticism involves making finer and finer distinctions among like things,...

Sculpture City Saint Louis presents Monument/Anti-Monument

Photo by AfricanGeo. Sculpture City Saint Louis "Monument/Anti-Monument" Conference: April 10–12, 2014 Sculpture City Saint Louis St. Louis, Missouri USA Chase Park Plaza Hotel 212 North Kingshighway Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63108 sculpturecitystl.com Share this: Facebook | Twitter Registration is now open. "Monument/Anti-Monument" is an international conference that will bring together artists, curators, art historians, architects, academics, urban planners, archaeologists and other experts to explore the intersection of sculpture and the public realm. While the public sculpture and monuments of the host city of St. Louis will be used frequently as a catalyst for discussion, the conference will also seek a broader dialogue that will encompass a global perspective on sculpture and its relationship to place. "Monument/Anti-Monument" is being organized as part of Sculpture City Saint Louis 2014, an initiative that brings tog...

Call for applications from Limerick School of Art & Design: MA - Social Practice and the Creative Environment [SPACE]

PICTURE BERLIN summer session 2014: call for applications

Image courtesy of Richard Rocholl. © 2013. PICTURE BERLIN Call for applications: summer session 2014 4 July–16 August 2014 Deadline: 8 March Tête Schönhauser Allee 161A 10435 Berlin Germany PICTURE BERLIN Zehdenicker Strasse 22 10119 Berlin Germany www.pictureberlin.org Share this: Facebook | Twitter PICTURE BERLIN, now in its fifth year, is a six-week summer program designed for emerging artists working in contemporary art and photography. A rigorous studio practice forms the heart of the program and working in community with other artist is its soul. The dynamic programming offers over 15 lectures by Berlin-based artists, one-on-one discussions with over ten international artists and curators, multiple exhibitions, group meals and work reviews, studio visits, a curatorial marathon, and six choreographed artist walks. The city shapes the program and is the springboard naturally flowing into the greater European art scene. As we mark the fif...

MSc Conservation Studies at UCL Qatar – call for applications

Conservation laboratory work at UCL Qatar. © Robert Eagle. Client name MSc Conservation Studies – call for applications Application deadline: 1 May 2014 UCL – London's Global University UCL Qatar PO Box 25256 Georgetown Building, Education City Doha Qatar T +974 4457 8680 admissions.qatar@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/qatar Share this: Facebook | Twitter UCL Qatar is a department of University College London, one of the world's foremost institutions for the study of conservation and cultural heritage. Since opening its doors in August 2012, UCL Qatar has welcomed over 80 students from 33 countries, across four graduate degree programmes in Conservation, Museum Studies, Archaeology and Library Studies. UCL Qatar is currently accepting applications for places on its MSc in Conservation Studies commencing on 25 August 2014. The MSc is a full-time two-year programme that teaches conservation of objects (metals, glass, ceramics, stone), textiles, co...

Van Eyck Open Studios

Image courtesy of Van Eyck. Jan van Eyck Academie Van Eyck Open Studios Van Eyck Academieplein 1 NL - 6211 KM Maastricht T +31 (0) 43 350 37 37 F +31 (0) 43 350 37 99 openstudios@janvaneyck.nl www.janvaneyck.nl Share this: Facebook | Twitter The Van Eyck: Multiform Institute for Fine Art, Design and Reflection, is keeping open house. For a year now the institute has been running its new program. The participants are very keen to show their latest works, which are skillfully supplemented by the projects of Van Eyck Mirror and the Hubert van Eyck Academy, the poet-in-residence program and the Van Eyck Collection. The Van Eyck first welcomes a select group of invited guests on Wednesday the 19th, Thursday the 20th and Friday the 21st of February. On Friday from 3 to 7pm and on Saturday the 22nd from 10am to 5pm, the Van Eyck will be happy to receive everyone for its Open Studios. To find out more, visit www.janvane...

Apply for Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

Photo: Ruth Ehrmann. Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg Summer Academy: Call for applications Apply now 21 July – 30 August 2014 office@summeracademy.at T +43 662 842113 www.summeracademy.at Share this: Facebook | Twitter About the Summer Academy Programme The 2014 Summer Academy offers 21 courses of between one and four weeks—18 in Hohensalzburg Fortress, one in the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn and two in temporary venues in the city. How does the world come into the picture? * This is the motto of the Summer Academy's widely varied programme. It deals with the particular ability of the fine arts to generate "images" of the increasingly impenetrable world, both of its superficial outward appearance and of social and political conditions. Thus Amelie von Wulffen begins her course with the question of how artists appropriate the world, and how it then develops into a picture, and Norbe...