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Fine Art MA from a distance
The Open College of the Arts (OCA) launched Europe’s first MA in Fine Art by distance learning in January.
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Joanna Waclawski: The darkroom graduate
2010 Fine Art Photography graduate Joanna Waclawski talks about studying at Glasgow School of Art (GSA), and reflects on how re-sitting a year amplified her perspective on photography as a medium.
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Ryan Riddington: Right course, right time
Ryan Riddington reflects on doing an MFA at The Slade, eight years on from his first degree, his reasons for doing the course, the challenges of working in a communal studio space and where he is now.
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Alfie Strong: In search of the miraculous
As recent graduate Alfie Strong embarks on a journey of self-discovery, he shares highlights of his final year and passage as an artist to the other side.
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Professional preparartion
In the second part of our post-graduate focus we explore the various options open to students at a selection of UK-based universities and art schools.
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Art for All? Radical pedagogy vs a desire for education
In a recent presentation to peers, tutors and her Goldsmiths degree show audience(s), Sarah Rowles asks: Does art education come with a key to understanding art and making more informed judgments about art?
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Further research
Exploring research options on offer to post-graduate students at a selection of UK-based universities and art schools.
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RE Weakening the Foundations 2
Being a first time buyer of your magazine I read your letters page with amazement. Is this really the first time that issues about the pretentiousness of the art world have been raised in such depth?
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RE Weakening the Foundations
Having just read the article about Weakening the Foundations in art and design I am not sure just what is Chris Milton’s gripe.
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Graham Crowley on the state of play for contemporary painting
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
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US artists workforce critical
Last year’s National Endowment study revealed the importance of artists in America’s cultural vitality and economic prosperity.
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State of higher education
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
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Safe art
Is it only me who thinks there is something wrong with art education these days?
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Artists highly qualified
The recent AIR survey that revealed that levels of self-employment were higher amongst artists than the creative industries as a whole also highlighted the high level of qualifications artists hold.
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Arts Reverie
A unique project for artists, creative thinkers and cultural practitioners, Arts Reverie is located in the heart of a traditional pol (neighbourhood) in the historic city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
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MA and post-graduate course index
Further details from a selection of this month’s MA and post-graduate course advertisers
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Spark Plug Curator Award
Crafts Council Director of Programmes, Claire West talks to Jane Watt about why the Spark Plug Curator Award was initiated, the selection process and some of the exciting new curatorial ideas and works that have emerged.
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Creativity and innovation
Although you may not know it, 2009 has been designated European Year of Creativity and Innovation in recognition that Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation, both for social and economic reasons.
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Academic research
Jane Watt looks into the world of academic research and examines research opportunities for artists within institutions and the UK higher education system.
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Schools of creativity
A panel of education experts have selected England’s thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
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Anji Archer
Anji Archer, who featured in a-n’s Degree show supplement 98 publication, reflects on her life and the part art has played in it over the past ten years.
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Young people and the arts
As children and young people are high on the national agenda with a host of new policies and initiatives addressing young people’s services, education and the arts, envision and enquire are hosting additional briefing days in September aimed at gallery and museum educators, artists and others working with these groups.
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Art, Education, Activism
“The process of social change is in desperate need of creativity and imagination, and the aesthetic process in urgent need of social engagement”
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Lines of Enquiry 3: Naomi Doble; Helen Pakeman; Sue Douglas and Suzie Miles
Post graduate exhibition, Swindon College, Wiltshire
1 January 2007 to 4 April 2007
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Graduates surveyed
A survey of 1,500 undergraduates commissioned by the Higher Education Policy Institute on Universities has indicated that the work put in by students in England varies greatly between both subjects and institutions, bringing the value of a degree into doubt.