Undergraduate and graduate industrial design students from Pratt Institute, who participated in an intensive, year-long collaboration with Herman Miller to design furniture that promotes physical and mental well-being, will present an exhibition of work as part of the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) from May 19–22, 2012, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center at 655 West 34th Street in Manhattan. Pratt was one of six international design schools selected to exhibit at this year’s show by GLM, the producer and manager of the ICFF. This is the fourth consecutive year that Pratt was selected to exhibit. Pratt’s booth number is 1267.

The Pratt and Herman Miller collaboration, themed “Body and Mind,” kicked off in September 2011, when students from Mark Goetz (B.I.D. ’86) and Tim Richartz’s (B.I.D. ’86) graduate and undergraduate furniture design studios were presented with the challenge to create designs that balance body and mind in ways that potentially increase health benefits and elevate mood and productivity while providing a greater degree of personal satisfaction from the user experience. The theme was conceived by Pratt ICFF lead faculty advisor Goetz and design directors at Herman Miller. The nine most successful projects by eleven Pratt students will be on display at the fair as selected by a team of esteemed designers from Pratt and Herman Miller.

“The premise of ‘Body and Mind’ encourages our students to go beyond conventional thinking and consider how their original ideas can have a real benefit to individuals physically, intellectually, and emotionally,” stated Goetz. “Working with Herman Miller, a leader in innovation, inspired our students to think bigger and to consider more of what is needed to improve the physical and mental well-being of individuals and their environment throughout the world,” he added.

Designs include:

A chair design that links posture, physiology, and self-confidence by Scott Jones (M.I.D. ’13)

A stool design that fosters proper bone alignment and a stronger connection between the body and mind by Kelly Proscio (B.I.D. ’12)

A sculptural lighting project with motion sensors that allow the user to alter its form by William Bausback (B.I.D. ’12) and Angela Lin (B.I.D. ’12)

A rocking lounge chair that functions as a cradle for adults that calms and refreshes their minds by Youju Rhee (B.I.D. ’12)

A rocking chair that helps to increase concentration by Melodi Bozkurt (B.I.D. ’12) and Erin Turkoglu (B.I.D. ’12)

Furniture designs for seniors that are functionally and psychologically supportive by Andrea Brown (M.I.D ’13)

A modular shelving design that addresses the organizational needs of users to create a less stressful environment by Heidy Garay (M.I.D. ’12)

Modular project that encourages active engagement with one’s cherished memories by Pete KL (M.I.D. ’12)

A chair design that promotes wellness by prompting the user to sit in the cross-legged position by Fahmida Lam (M.I.D. ’13)

ICFF is North America’s singular showcase for contemporary design. For more information on ICFF, please visit www.icff.com.

About Pratt Institute Globally recognized for its distinguished academic reputation, Pratt Institute is one of the world’s most prestigious independent colleges. Founded in 1887, Pratt offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs to 4,700 students from around the world in architecture, art and design, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Pratt’s programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country, and its faculty and alumni include the most renowned artists, designers, and scholars in their fields who collectively have produced some of the most innovative and iconic works of our time. Pratt’s inspirational campus in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn and in Manhattan on West 14th Street places it in one of the world’s cultural epicenters and provides its students with unparalleled training facilities. Pratt is currently in the midst of a 16-month celebration of its rich 125-year history of creativity. For more information on Pratt’s 125th Anniversary, visit www.pratt.edu/125.

*Images above: Photos credit: Kevin Kunstadt. Not pictured: William Bausback and Angela Lin’s Omoi lighting project, Andrea Brown’s Boom suite of home furniture for senior citizens, and Youju Rhee’s Side-Rocking Lounge Chair.

Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Online offers intensive, custom-curated courses through a clean, simple e-learning interface specifically designed for our students. Taught by leading experts in the field, online courses provide for a deep understanding of key concepts, and interaction with students from around the world creates a truly global learning community.

Our online courses are interactive and use a variety of multimedia resources—audio, videos, image galleries, readings, and web links—as the starting point for written discussions between students and instructors. The interaction is collaborative and engaging and can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Courses are six weeks long with a session beginning on June 18, though registration by June 11 is recommended to participate in the Pre-Course Workshop. All courses are 1,485 USD per course.

To get additional information and to reserve your place, visit our website.

Six-week Online Courses starting June 18th include:

Understanding Contemporary Chinese Art: Key Issues and Concepts
Survey the trends and movements that have shaped the past twenty-five years of Chinese art, leading to the recent rapid development and expansion of its market.

Introduction to Contemporary Art
Survey the trends and movements that have shaped contemporary art and trace how the market has kept pace in this introductory course.

Museums: Past, Present and Future
Examine art museums around the globe from a multiplicity of perspectives, exploring the important trends emerging in the field and delving into the unique challenges they face in the 21st century.

Contemporary Art: Exploring the New
Navigate the complex map that comprises art production today and explore the function and place of art in this fast-changing world from a more informed perspective.

Art as an Alternative Investment
Examine the characteristics of fine art which make it an attractive alternative asset class, by looking at performance statistics, investment strategies, and analytic tools.

Understanding Trends in the Art Market
Learn about the economic principles and statistical tools used to analyze and understand underlying movements and trends in the art market.

Introduction to Art History: The Movements That Mattered
Study the evolution of Western art’s major periods and styles through close consideration of treasured objects and monuments.

For more information, please contact:
T 212.517.3929 / online@sothebysinstitute.com

About Sotheby’s Institute of Art
For more than forty years Sotheby’s Institute of Art has offered object-based, professionally-oriented education that draws creatively upon the resources of important art centers worldwide. At the Institute’s campuses in London and New York graduate-level programs and courses actively engage students in the dynamic international art world. Sotheby’s Institute of Art offers a variety of graduate programs, diplomas, semester courses, and summer study programs in London and New York as well as online courses. Applications are now accepted for entry into September 2012 Master’s program. www.sothebysinstitute.com

 

 

The creative economy is the key driver for all our courses at Escola São Paulo, a school based on multidisciplinary learning, which is crucial to enrich education and training and develop more comprehensive background.

Fuzzy boundaries between different fields and segments increasingly require mastery of languages, technologies, and interventions or initiatives through teamwork. Escola São Paulo offer courses in architecture, art business, film/video, coaching in entrepreneurship, management, cultural arts, design, photography, food and catering management/business, history, literature, fashion, media, music, theater, and visual arts.

Students get a chance to connect with the best and most up-to-date professionals in the market as they interact, share, feel, and learn through hands-on activities.

In June, the school is hosting Professor Michael Bedward, a Creative Economy specialist at Central St. Martins and London College of Communication, to teach two courses for people wishing to enhance their profile in the creative economy: “Tools and Techniques for Smart Thinking” and “Pitching for Creative Professionals.”

If you are interested in these courses or one of these areas and would like to go through experiences that make a difference, learning more about Escola São Paulo is a must. We are located in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest metropolis and most influential city.

Learn more about our courses here.

Courses lined up for our Creative Entrepreneurship season

Presentations
Art Market and Collectors, Trend surveys (Rony’s two talks), Design: Current Market Trends, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Documentary Film – Producing and Marketing

Courses
Managing People, Managing Brands, Managing Finance, Design Thinking, Audiovisual: Projects and Business, Creative Writing, Producing Music for Film, Planning a Fashion Collection, Men’s fashion blogs, Developing and Managing Products, Personal Shopper Training, International Workshop on Innovation and Management

Winter
Trend Surveys – International Seminar (global trends in fashion design, well-being, beauty, natural products, inspiration for patterns and prints), Design Thinking, Fashion Management and Marketing, Personal Stylist Training, Fashion and Communication, Get it Up and Running, Business Plans Startups, Creative Writing, Mass Media Universe, Branding: Brand Management, Digital Marketing, Fashion Journalism, Managing Cultural and Creative Enterprises, Crowdsourcing: Online Cooperation, Funding Cultural Projects, Cool Hunting Workshop, How a Collection is Put Together, Fashion Week, Creativity for Producing and Managing Events

 

 

The ifs internationale filmschule köln is currently seeking to appoint a professor for Directing for Cinema, Television, and New Media (Ref. No. ifs76) for the program’s Directing and Acting Department.

The position offers a full professorship (18 credit hours) in employment under a private law contract following the German “W-Grade” category W2 BBesO and is limited to three years.

The ifs is seeking a candidate with an outstanding director personality who can combine artistic and practical experience in both fiction and documentary with an openness to experimental forms and artistic innovations. The candidate must possess the ability for theoretical reflection as well as the willingness to prepare students for future forms of audiovisual design. In addition, the candidate is also required to possess excellent artistic achievement, experience in teaching and supervising artistic and creative processes, and the willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with students and professors from the Screenwriting, Creative Producing, Director of Photography, and Digital Film Arts programs.

The main tasks and responsibilities are:

• Group-oriented teaching as well as artistic and practical individual support
• Supervising students with developing directing concepts and staging screenplays as well as the interdisciplinary collaboration in a team with students of other programs
• Promoting the students’ personal skills and artistic development as well as supporting artistic innovation based on the aesthetic and film historical, media studies, and social sciences knowledge to be acquired during their studies
• Enabling students to realize their artistic visions, beyond the implementation of screenplays, in a film project together with a team
• Academic self-administration, committee work

For further inquires, please contact Ms. Simone Stewens, Executive Director of the ifs internationale filmschule köln, at stewens@filmschule.de.

Candidates must also fulfill the regulations for employment specified under § 36 HG NRW (North-Rhine Westphalia Higher Education Act). Under the NRW State Equal Opportunity Law, women will be preferentially considered when equally qualified. Handicapped persons will be preferentially considered when equally qualified. We look forward to receiving your application by 7 June 2012 under the reference number to:
President of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne
c/o Ms. Jutta Jung
Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 54
50968 Cologne, Germany

For further information on the position conditions and requirements, application documents, and W-Grade employment, click here.

The ifs internationale filmschule köln in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Cologne also offers the undergraduate Film Studies program with a Bachelor degree.

 

 

Located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, across from Central Park on Museum Mile, the National Academy School offers studio-based classes in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, new media, and art theory. Students work in an intimate and exceptional learning environment in spacious, sky-lit studios. Small classes and individual attention ensure a creative learning environment while workshops, lectures, and panel discussions enrich the experience. Under the guidance of dedicated artists and teachers, the Academy School hopes to nurture and develop your creativity.

The Academy Museum is an integral part of the learning experience, offering free access to inspiring exhibitions, behind the scenes tours with curators, public programs, lectures, and panel discussions. Enjoy New York City’s vibrant arts community, museum and gallery visits, and special outings to meet artists in their studios.

To view our 2012 Summer Catalog please click here.

The two-year programme of the interdisciplinary Master Trajectory for Research in the Arts is the result of a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and is a research path of the interfaculty ArtScience.

In recent years, artists, musicians, and designers have shifted their attention to the discursive aspects of the practice of art and to its cognitive functions. Do artists produce knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? How does art’s knowledge relate to other kinds of knowledge? These are some of the questions that underpin the recognition of artistic research as a specific activity. All of them prompt ways of rethinking the relationship between the arts and other fields and between art and life itself. The Master Artistic Research provides students with the opportunity to develop, strengthen, and reflect on the relationship between practice and theory in their work through artistic research. Participants will have a background as an artist—in the fields of visual art or music. The result of the research is, in the first place, an artistic product in the broadest sense of the word. The Master Artistic Research is first and foremost focused on practice.

Students have individual supervision from core tutors who have a practice-based and/or theoretically-based professional background and who identify with an integrated approach to art and/or music theory and practice. Participants are encouraged to support each other’s development and to be active partners in dialogue in group sessions. Students are provided with a working space and have access to all the general facilities of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire.

The trajectory furthermore comprises of regular group seminars, workshops, and studio visits facilitated by visiting artists, critics, curators, musicians, performers, and academics from various fields. The students and staff as well as guest lecturers are international in scope and origin, as well as being professionally engaged in the Netherlands.

How to apply
If you are interested in applying for the Master Artistic Research, please visit our website. The upcoming application deadline is 23 May 2012. More information on the application procedure, programme, and MAR students and events can also be found on our website.

CAA has published new editions of Graduate Programs in Art History and Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts, directories of 650 graduate programs in six countries. Graduate Programs in Art History covers the following four program types: History of Art and Architecture, Arts Administration, Curatorial and Museum Studies, and Library Science. Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts comprises Studio Art and Design, Art Education, Film Production, and Conservation and Historic Preservation.

The comprehensive directories provide vital information to prospective graduate students and also serve as key professional references for career-services representatives, department chairs, graduate and undergraduate advisors, librarians, and professional-practices educators. Readers can draw important conclusions from these facts, such as the competitiveness of a program based on the number of applications received and accepted. To give you a better sense of the content, look at these three sample entries.

Organized alphabetically by school name within each program type, entries describe:

• Curricula
• Class size
• Faculty and specializations
• Degree requirements
• Library and studio facilities
• Opportunities for fellowships, assistantships, and financial aid
• Availability of health insurance

The directories are available in the following digital and print formats:

• Four-program print volumes, Graduate Programs in Art History and Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts
• Downloadable PDFs of individual entries
• Ebooks of individual program types
• Individual print volumes of the following six program types: History of Art and Architecture, Studio Art and Design, Art Education, Arts Administration, Curatorial and Museum Studies, and Film Production

For more details and to order the directories, visit the CAA website. If you have any questions, please contact Roberta Lawson at 212 392 4404.

 

 

Architecture (60 ECTS)
Resources. Lab
In Search for Common Ground
If we look beyond state and private property driven developments, which have dominated cities during the last fifty years, throughout Europe we can encounter a rich tradition of cities and communities formed on the principles of the commons. Today, when the way out of the debt crises is seen in even more draconic privatization and thus “evaporation” of public property, can the re-constitution of the commons be a viable option pointing to new directions for our cities—beyond the agenda of profit and away from the neo-liberalization that brought us where we are?

We are looking for engaged participants/professionals would be eager to join on a journey throughout Europe and Sweden, to investigate the state of commons, meet protagonists of ground breaking practices, in a quest that would lead to an international conference in the spring of 2013.

For more details about the program and information about the admission requirements, application process and selection criteria, please see www.kkh.se/arkitektur.

Last application date: June 11, 2012
The autumn term starts in mid-September (date to be confirmed).

Architectural Conservation (60 ECTS)
MODERNISM AT RISK – Architecture from the modern movement
Theme: Conservation & transformation of modern architectural heritage
The conservation and development of post-war modernism requires knowledge of societal development, architectural ideas, modern materials, and techniques. We need to actively seek out and classify these valuable objects now, before they disappear. In international style, contemporary modern, and brutalism, there are rational, raw technical, and material solutions and a scale which is not clearly embraced by the builders of society today. Through accumulation of knowledge, practical work, study visits, and original group work, the course lays the foundations for refining and working with the buildings and environments that make up modern urban cultural heritage.

For information about the admission requirements, application process and selection criteria, please see www.kkh.se/restaureringskonst.

Last application date: June 4, 2012
The autumn term starts on September 10, 2012.

About Mejan Arc at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
With a history dating back to 1735, the Royal Institute of Art is one of the oldest and most influential higher education art institutes in Europe, with architectural studies on an advanced level.

Mejan Arc—The School of Architecture—is a forum for architectural and urban studies at the Royal Institute of Art that offers one-year post-graduate courses in three disciplines, including Architecture, Architectural Conservation and Art & Architecture. The goal of Mejan Arc is to engage society through the generation of relevant and tangible projects, as well as the creation of working networks that continue outside the academic realm. Projects generated at the school often become independent platforms that develop on their own.

An increasingly urban world necessitates new perspectives. The three programmes share an interest in the City while differing in their focus—history and identity, social aspects, and future urban possibilities. By utilizing methods of research and design we explore the potential of urban environments in a rapidly changing world.

Read more about Mejan Arc here.

Scholarship to cover the study fee
Please note—for these programmes, applicants from countries outside of the EU/EEA area and Switzerland will have to pay an admission fee of 900 SEK. If admitted, there will then be a study fee of 289 400 SEK per academic year.
The Royal Institute of Art will offer one scholarship, for those who are obliged to pay study fees. This applies to all Swedish Higher Education institutions from the academic year 2011/12. For more information, please see our website.

Visiting address: Flaggmansvägen 1, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Postal address: Box 163 15, SE-103 26 Stockholm, Sweden

T +46 (0)8 614 40 00
F +46 (0)8- 679 86 26

Contact: Study Coordinator Nina Lindgren
T +46 (0)8 614 40 25
nina.lindgren@kkh.se

 

 

The state of Lower Saxony and the Braunschweig University of Art announce eight scholarships for the year 2012. They consist of:

Three “Braunschweig PROJECTS”: scholarships for artists of Sound Art
Five “Braunschweig PROJECTS”: scholarships for artists of Fine Arts

These scholarships are part of the promotion programme for artists of the Braunschweig University of Art and the State of Lower Saxony. This programme is aimed at young artists who are interested in working intensively on artistic projects in the close environment of an art university. The participation of the scholarship recipients in the teaching and research work at the Braunschweig University of Art is an essential part of the support programme for artists at the university.

For more information and application please visit our website. The application deadline is June 6, 2012.

The Braunschweig University of Art is an internationally orientated art university with the right to grant doctorates and the right of habilitation. With 1200 students in Fine Arts, Design as well as Aesthetics & Art History and Media Studies, the Braunschweig University of Art is one of the largest art academies in Europe. Excellently equipped studios and laboratories provide the ideal working conditions for all intellectual, creative, and artistic processes.

*Image above:
Christine de la Garenne, ZABRISKIE, 2010. Video-loop with sound.
© the artist/VG Bild-Kunst (BS Project-scholar 2011).

The School of the Arts | School of Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY presents 8 degrees, the 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Lu Magnus in New York City. The exhibition is curated by Stamatina Gregory and features work by Alex Branch, Courtney Childress, Jen Dawson, Aaron Krach, Jon Price, Margaret Rizzio, Bradford Smith, and Glenn Wonsettler. The reception will take place Saturday, May19th, from 7–9pm, and is free and open to the public.

The MFA Thesis Exhibition is the capstone of the two-year interdisciplinary, pluralistic graduate program at the School. Under the direction of Coordinators Kate Gilmore, Nancy Bowen, and Stamatina Gregory, the small and highly selective program fosters the artistic, intellectual, and professional growth of each student through exposure to a variety of viewpoints represented by faculty, visiting artists and critics, and through independent studio work and academic studies.

The School of Art+Design, part of the School of the Arts at Purchase College, SUNY, offers premiere programs that prepare students for careers in the visual arts and design, as well as lives informed by aesthetic experience. The school honors tradition, encourages experimentation and collaboration, develops critical thinking, and embraces new concepts, materials and technologies. A faculty of working artists is committed to creating a supportive climate in which students are passionate about learning to see, to think, to make, and to reflect. Our graduates are leaders in cultural production throughout the world.