Upon graduation

As a master’s student at the international Master Artist Educator (iMAE), you work on building a portfolio you can use in your professional life. It contains unique contexts and agendas, which could help in the professional world or when applying for the funding of projects. Once graduated, you are prepared for the complex reality of your role as an artisteducator in society.

The world as your studio

For an artisteducator, there is no line separating the studio from the world. As a student you gain knowledge, expertise and experience to become a graduate who is ready to respond to societal urgencies, changing every day. Through making transformative art, artisteducators dedicate themselves to asking unanswered questions and how to respond.

View the example of iMAE alumna Caro de Feijter, who used arts based research to develop methods of support that could help people who grieve in her graduation project ‘a tea party with broken teacups’.

IMAE Master Artist Educator Promo — iMAE students during a Site Specific College in the Negev desert in Israel-Palestine

Social and creative entrepreneurship

iMAE graduates will find work in the context of social practice and community arts. They get to be social and creative entrepreneurs, who will keep on influencing this growing field of practice. They create new models of praxis (combinations of practice and theories) that will lead to the production of new ground breaking projects. They work in multiple settings and apply their work to and with international Non-Governmental Organisations, schools, colleges and community education programmes.

The ArtEZ Art Business Centre (ABC) is the centre for entrepreneurship of ArtEZ. ABC provides the links to the work field and the business world. They can navigate you through the work field, and give you more insights in what scholarships or grants are suitable for you.

A work field that is still under construction

iMAE is a professionally recognised certificated master’s course. However, this master’s course alone does not qualify a graduate to teach in formal education sectors in the Netherlands. Even so, many of our alumni have progressed to gain employment in international schools or colleges (which do not require qualified teacher status) or work for galleries, museums and other cultural institutions. Others have developed a professional practice based on project work and grant awards.

It is important to note that the socially engaged arts and education sector is growing but it requires an entrepreneurial approach to developing a professional practice. Therefore, a successful alumnus is progressive and open to the challenges of a yet to be fully established work field. This requires a dynamic approach and vision that is clearly targeted on a subject of current significance – such as climate change, social inequality and migration. In this way a successful alumnus of iMAE constructs a working field and recognises the areas in which they may gain employment.

Title and diploma

Upon successful completion of the international Masters Artist Educator programme, you are entitled to use the academic title Master of Education (MEd).

This course can be found in the Centraal Register Opleidingen Hoger Onderwijs (CROHO) by the code 49117. The formal name of the programme under which this course is CROHO registerd, is Master Education in Arts. This CROHO-name will be on your diploma.

Upon graduation, our artisteducators move forward to define a new field of arts practice research, which will grow into an international movement dedicated to the use of art education as a tool for social change.