Why Artisteducator in Theater & Media?
What is an artisteducator?
Theater and media bring color to life. They comfort, confront, and move people. As an Artist Educator in Theatre & Media, you learn to use your own artistry to touch, stimulate, and develop that of others. You create work yourself, on stage, with cameras, and on screens and you guide others to do the same. In a classroom, a neighborhood, a community, at a festival, or for a broadcaster. With us, being a creator and a teacher are not two separate things, but one single movement.
Is this programme right for you?
You love being on stage or behind a camera yourself, but it touches you even more when you see someone else shine. You want to create, and you want to trigger something. You look at people and wonder what drives them, what makes them quiet, what moves them. You are critical, curious, and far from finished—and that is exactly the starting point. You dare to begin before you know everything for sure.
This programme is for you if you:
- are curious about the world and want to explore it;
- are entrepreneurial and want to tell stories;
- want to make theatre and get excited about multimedia techniques such as projection, immersive storytelling, and film;
- want to share your vision with others;
- believe in the power of art in our society.
Tools for your vision
Moving between different art disciplines, you will develop a broad perspective on theatre and media from installations and performances to film, dialogue-based formats, and productions. Touching others through your artistic practice is a craft, and the way you do it should fit who you are. That’s why we give you all the tools you need to develop your own style and vision.
You will decide what you want to explore. This way, you shape the programme into something that fits the profession and stays authentic and challenging.
Inspire your community
You will work in all kinds of spaces across the Netherlands and beyond with different communities where you can inspire and energise people. You will be active in neighbourhoods, in schools, at youth theatre schools, and in the educational field connected to established theatre companies.
You will also collaborate often with students from other arts programmes in Zwolle, including students from the ArtEZ Academy of Art & Design and the ArtEZ Academy of Music. In the first three years of your studies, you will work together through a shared programme.
Challenging labs
In our labs, you can experiment, build, research, and create with a strong focus on new technology and immersive storytelling. Using these (digital) tools, you will be able to respond to the growing demand for visual education, graduation films, and media literacy. You will develop into an independent and creative artist educator.