Craft Studies MA at Estonian Academy of the Arts
The Craft Studies MA course at Estonian Academy of the Arts provides students with interdisciplinary skills in ceramics, glass, jewellery, blacksmithing and textiles.
School: Estonian Academy of the Arts
Course: Craft Studies MA
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Course dates: September 2024 to June 2026
Application deadline: 4 March 2024
The Craft Studies MA programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) expands on the discipline and understanding of contemporary crafts.
The course also advances professional development, critical expression, and artistic research into materials, processes, concepts and identities.
Through studio work and craft theory, students take part in recrafting cultural, social, economic and ecological narratives. This programme is a hub for emerging craft makers and thinkers.
The course mainly focuses on material- and process-based autonomous practices, artistic research and creative authorship, integrated traditional know-how and innovation, and meaningful narratives in materials and process.
Craft Studies MA provides students with an educational framework for drafting individual material- and medium-based practices with a focus on studio and research.
This interdisciplinary programme fosters elemental curiosity, critical thinking, cultural phenomena and making.
Rooted within craft research, students undertake material explorations, field trips and theoretical challenges and advance their own specialisation.
The curriculum collaborates with and leans on the competence and traditions of the ceramics, glass, jewellery, blacksmithing, textile, accessories, fashion departments and labs at EKA.
The programme leads students to contextualisation, reflecting on and through their own practice, and places value on knowledge sharing and experiences, merging traditional and contemporary high- and low-tech approaches, and envisioning future craft practices.
EKA international programme promotion is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
Applications to this course have now closed.
Top image: Fuzziness installation by Nga Man Chan (Amie), who graduated in 2021.
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