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CALL
FOR APPLICATIONS
MFA Creative
Practice
Transart Institute offers an international MFA program
for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis
with three summer residencies in Berlin; two winter
residencies in New York City and one-on-one advisement during
two school years - wherever you work and live. The
low-residency program leads to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in
Creative Practice. Students are free to pursue work in any
art-related genre and to create their own course of study,
working independently and with the support of faculty and
self-chosen studio advisors. Short periods of intensive
residency permit students to continue with their professional
work and keep a balanced personal life while participating in
the program.
Summer Residencies
The three summer residencies are both milestones and
resources, taking place at the beginning middle and end of the
two year program. Each residency begins with closure to the
previous year’s studies through intensive critiques,
exhibitions, presentation and performances. With new students,
work done prior to commencing the program is presented,
examined and discussed. Residencies open with the graduate
exhibition, performances and a public vernissage. Weeks one
and three consist of studio workshops, week two focuses on
cultural studies seminars, Fridays center on student
presentations. In addition, guest lectures, artist and curator
talks and critiques as well as individual meetings with
faculty take place each week in order for students to plan,
inform and finalize the coming year’s project plans. This
summer's schedule can be found in the
calendar.
Semester work
Between residencies, students work individually
off-site with self-chosen studio advisors in an exchange which
includes a minimum of two intensive critique meetings or
studio visits each semester and with research advisors by
correspondence.
Practice-based PhD
A path to a
studio-based PhD is in progress and practice-based doctoral
programs are currently available through University of
Plymouth. For more information or to subscribe to upcoming
news about a Transart Institute PhD program please contact:
cella@transartinstitute.org
Summer
Certificate
Transart Institute
also offers a summer program for artists who are not seeking a
degree. Participants join MFA students in workshops, lectures
and critiques and leave the residency with input on project
plans for the year ahead. Artists attend the residency to get
a creative surge, get a fresh perspective on their work,
revitalize their practice, take their work in a new direction,
make plans for a focussed praxis in the year ahead and to
become part of an international community of artists,
theorists and curators. Artists who successfully complete the
residency will receive a non-credit certificate of
attendance.
Faculty and Guests for the
summer 2010 residency include:
Wafaa Bilal, MFA,
Iraq/USA
Lynn Book, MFA,
USA
Jean Marie
Casbarian, MFA, USA
Geoff Cox, PhD,
UK/Denmark
Claire Daigle, PhD,
USA
David Dunn, MFA,
USA
Nicolás Dumit
Estévez, MFA, Dominican Republic/USA
Carolyn Guertin,
PhD, Canada/USA
The full summer
program
Students
The majority of
Transart students are emerging and mid-career artists and
teachers at tertiary institutions. Transart Institute's
residencies are a true meeting place for cultural exchange.
Current students will converge for the summer residency from
areas as diverse as Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia,
Ethiopia, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Austria, Egypt, the
Netherlands, the Philippines, the UK and the
US.
Program
Goals
The MFA Creative Practice is a
student-centered postgraduate art program which fosters
independent thinking, risk-taking and the creation of an
informed and sustainable art praxis. The Institute is also a
platform for faculty to expand their teaching praxis by making
space for creativity and experimentation. Beyond it's
educational goals, Transart Institute is engaged in building
an international community in support of students, alumni,
faculty and their artistic and academic goals. The institute
offers its former students a virtual and material basis for
artistic practice, the exchange of ideas, opportunities and
critiques, thus inducing individual and collective growth
beyond the duration of the program. Despite its small size,
Transart Institute has become a place where the diverse and
often incongruous experiences, philosophies and epistemologies
of the post-colonial world can be in contact with each
other.
Summer Residency
2010: July 25 - August 13, 2010 in
Berlin
Application deadline with rolling admissions: June
1, 2010
Online
application
Transart
Institute
www.transartinstitute.org
USA: +1 (347)
410 9905 | Fax: (508) 682 2853
Mail: 228 Park
Ave S. #34726, New York, NY 10003
Summer Residency 2010:
Tanzfabrik, Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin,
Germany
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