Throughout your studies, you will regularly take part in projects that go beyond a regular discipline. Sometimes you will spend several weeks exploring a single theme. At times you will work only with your own class, while at other times you will collaborate with students from the Theatre or Dance programmes. These experiences will help you learn to collaborate, push boundaries and expand your perspective.
Discover what is technically possible within art and design. You will explore new tools and use them in creative contact. You will create a concept that relates to a social issue in the area.
In your first year, you will work with students from the Dance and Theatre in Education programmes on the question: What does it actually mean to be an artist educator? You will immerse yourselves in each other’s worlds and go out into the world. Visits to the Bijlmer Parktheater and The Black Archives will give you the opportunity to refine your ideas on art and education.
You will visit a wide range of art institutions in your first year, seeing and reflecting on how they handle education. Afterwards, you will design your own dream academy. You will continue working on this project in the second year, often in an external location. You will join a small team and work towards a presentation or exhibition.
How can you, as an artist, have an impact in a community? In this interdisciplinary project, you will work with students from other programmes as well as students from the International Master Artist Educator. You will develop your vision, practise critical thinking and discover how art can enrich the lives of others without telling them how to live.
In your second year, you will delve into a subculture that feels far removed from your own world. You will research it, make contact and translate your experience into something tangible: a magazine, mini-documentary, photo series or essay. Expect surprises and a new perspective on others.
In your third year, it is time to turn things around: the academy will become your subject of study. Working in small groups, you will develop and present artistic and educational concepts for ArtEZ itself.
Sometimes you will work on a question from the professional field. For example, creating work for an exhibition at Expoplu or working in a care home, where you turn knowledge into visual expression together with the residents. You will learn how art education can also have meaning outside a school setting.
Alongside your studies, there is plenty to do: lectures, exhibitions, debates, symposia, excursions and art fairs such as Unfair. You can also contribute to DBKV Magazine. These activities are not about gaining marks or credits. The focus is on broadening your perspective, deepening your thinking and taking initiative.