ArtEZ University of the Arts

Want to become a designer, photographer or art director? Discover the Crossmedia Design study at the AKI in Enschede within the Design course. Today's media designer uses all media and media combinations. This requires creative designers who are aware of the entire media landscape and who choose their own path in it. At the Crossmedia Design course in Enschede you will work on a well-stocked toolbox.

In brief:

• You will become a sought-after designer who is familiar with the entire media landscape and chooses their own place within it
• Emphasis on your individual development and choices
• Extremely well-equipped workshops
• Own studio
• Unique course, only available in Enschede

After completing this study programme, you can begin work as an art director or creative strategist in the design team of a large design studio, a publishing house or a broadcasting company. You can also choose to specialise as a photographer, interactive or graphic designer or work as a freelance crossmedia designer.

For more information visit https://www.artez.nl/en/course/crossmedia-design.

Composition for Film and Theatre is a hybrid course for gutsy, wilful composers. Do you want to become the best composer you can be, from wherever you are in the world? Then this is the course for you! You can take this course either online or on campus in Arnhem; you can even switch between the two every year!

In brief

• With the latest techniques and facilities, you will be taking lessons and composing together in real time.
• How does your composition sound when it is performed by a live orchestra? In this course, you can collaborate with renowned artists.
• Do you have any crazy musical ideas you want to experiment with? We love it! Here you can push the boundaries of your creativity.
• This course has been a part of the Jazz & Pop course for 10 years. You will be learning from teachers with plenty of experience.
• We offer all sorts of possibilities to work together with students from other artistic disciplines.

The Moving Image course at the Design Department at the AKI in Enschede focuses on the endless possibilities of the moving image. The focus is on design, film and communication. The four-year Moving Image course in Enschede offers a solid theoretical and philosophical basis and a wide range of practical skills.

In brief:

• You learn to explore and apply the huge potential of moving images.
• You are trained for a top position in the international work field of film, communication and design.
• Contemporary and innovative study programme with strong connections.
• Excellent career opportunities.
• Study in a small but interantional academic community.

After completing your studies, you can work anywhere in the world of communication. You will be well trained for a job in the international world of film, communication and design.

For more information visit https://www.artez.nl/en/course/moving-image.

Product Design challenges you to combine your design ambition with an experimental and global view.

• Depending on your dreams and talents, you'll get to focus on the products you want to design: wearables (around the body), liveables (for the space around you) and useables (based on materials innovation and production process).
• Whilst on the course, you will come into contact with the national/international professional field by learning to design for it and because your lecturers and guest lecturers are active in it.
• We want you to feel at home here as an international student. Which is why you will receive extra guidance from a study career coach.
• You will have the opportunity to work in superbly equipped workshops and studios for woodwork, metalwork, vacuum plastic, prototypes, scanning, milling and more.
• You'll work on innovative assignments that you can pour all your creativity into and get the chance to do unique internships.
• You will become a professional in the vanguard of the international design world. About 50% of our alumni are working in an international context within one year of graduation.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

Following your studies, you can establish yourself as a product designer for a studio, launch your own label or continue your studies with a Master.

Dance Artist, the ArtEZ modern and contemporary dance course, trains you to become a dance artist with your own position in the work field.

Why choose Dance Artist in Arnhem?

• Performance and (co-)creation: Performance, co-creation and creation go hand in hand during your course.
• Interdisciplinarity: You collaborate with other disciplines and courses, including the School of Acting.
• Inter-action: Focusing on how you as a dance artist make an impact on society.
• High-level dance technique classes: Contemporary Styles & Cultures are supported by the Technical Foundation Techniques.
• Proactively to the work field: From the first year onwards, you are aware of the various professional possibilities.
• Good facilities: Make use of modern, spacious studios, theatre rooms, theory rooms and media library.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

After graduation, you can work as an independent dancer and choreographer at (inter)national production and dance companies.

For further information visit https://www.artez.nl/en/course/dance.

Want to become a fashion designer? The Bachelor in Fashion Design at ArtEZ in Arnhem is one of the best fashion courses in Europe.

Why choose Fashion Design in Arnhem?

• Excellent course: Fashion Design in Arnhem is one of the best fashion courses in Europe and has been recognised with the prestigious Grand Seigneur award.
• Tailored programme: Focus on creativity, originality, craftsmanship and work discipline.
• Strong basis: After establishing a broad basis, you will have opportunities to specialise in 2D or 3D.
• Close-knit community: You will be studying as part of a close-knit community in which you will be surrounded by students with the same passion as you.
• Diverse skills: You will learn the skills you will need in the fashion industry, from pattern making to photography.
• Design freedom: You will be given the freedom to discover who you are as a designer and what you want to make.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

After following this course, you will be a fashion designer with a powerful and unique style. You will possess a wide range of tools to carve out a place for yourself in the world of fashion.

Want to become an artist, photographer, filmmaker or curator? Discover the Fine Art course at the AKI in Enschede. In the Fine Art course you develop into a professional and competent autonomous visual artist with your own identity and vision. With this you determine your own position in the contemporary art field.

In brief:

• Small-scale art academy
• Effective preparation for a dynamic professional practice as an independent visual artist
• Focus on finding your own place in art and in the world around you
• Extremely well-equipped workshops
• Own studio
• Plenty of room to explore the various disciplines of contemporary visual art
• Good balance and interaction between making and thinking

For more information visit https://www.artez.nl/en/course/fine-art-enschede.

You can also follow Fine Art at ArtEZ Art & Design Arnhem (www.artez.nl/en/course/fine-art). The educational programs differ greatly from each other. Find out for yourself which program suits you best.

The Bachelor of BEAR Fine Art: Base for Experiment, Art and Research in Arnhem, is a place for experimentation at the heart of society; an international, dynamic community in which everyone learns from each other.

In brief:

• International: BEAR Fine Art is an internationally oriented course in fine art.
• Tutor group: You will study art in a tutor group with students from all years working together in a dynamic, ambitious and inquisitive environment.
• Experienced lecturers: You will be taught by internationally active artists, art critics and exhibitors.
• Own studio: You will have your own studio surrounded by your fellow students and work with experts in multidisciplinary workshops.
• Active community: You will be part of a community that is actively involved in contemporary debates and challenges you to take a stand.
• State-of-the-art facilities: Advanced facilities and well-equipped workshops for all students.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

By the time you graduate, you will have developed into an artist with a distinctive voice and story, who is able to infuse your work and the world with your own meaning.

Do you like the idea of using technology as an artistic medium or for applied designs? Would you like to work as a designer or artist in the digital domain? If so, Design Art Technology is the course for you. Design Art Technology challenges you to combine your technical insight with the artistry of designing.

• Artist or designer: Following a thorough theoretical and practical grounding, there is space to develop your personal profile: artist or designer within digital culture.
• Learn from professionals: An international team of leading lecturers from the professional field, which means they are up to date on relevant developments in the discipline.
• Practice-based course: Joint projects which the department looks forward to all year. Discover the latest theory and developments within design, art and technology.
• Excellent facilities: There is lots of room for experimentation and research in our software and hardware lab and other workshops.
• Trips and internships: Unique study trips and opportunity to do an internship abroad.
• Nice vibes: Small-scale course with a lot of personal contact.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

After graduation, you can start working as a creative coder or start your own business as an interdisciplinary artist. You will learn to think critically about how you design and how you can use this for/in society in order to make a difference.

The internationally-oriented Bachelor Graphic Design Arnhem (GDA) provides a learning environment for students to develop creative skills and acquire critical knowledge, contributing to new vantage points on–, through- and with- graphic design.

Why choose Graphic Design in Arnhem?

• Education at the interface between visual art and design.
• Learn to explore and push back the boundaries of the subject.
• Plenty of scope to develop a personal profile.
• Solid foundation in media theory and philosophy.
• Extremely well-equipped workshops.
• Internationally-oriented but small-scale and personal education.
• Taught by lecturers at the forefront of the discipline.
• Top Rated Programme according to HBO Keuzegids.

With the master's course in Jazz & Pop Arnhem, you deepen your craftsmanship as a music professional and explore innovative ways to tell a story through music. Authenticity, creativity, and artistry are central within this course - complemented with a touch of individuality - allowing you to further articulate your own unique artistic voice.

In brief

• Forge your own path: Craft your personalized study programme, allowing the freedom to cultivate your distinct path of growth.
• Combine research and practice: Take part in the Performance Lab, a unique environment for research and practice-based experience.
• Get the most out of your musical practice: Enhance and enrich your professional musical skills by exploring new ideas and conducting artistic research.
• Learn from the best: You learn from renowned musicians and tutors with hands-on experience and state-of-the-art know-how.
• Dare to be innovative: You will expand traditional genres' boundaries, exploring new music approaches.
• Stimulating and diverse educational programme: This master's course offers a challenging mix of pragmatic education: lectures, workshops, masterclasses and seminars.

Werkplaats Typografie is a two-year experimental master's course in graphic design. It functions as a research environment wherein participants define the content, aims and conditions of their international independent design practice, and develop their artistic, visual, discursive and practical qualities.
In brief:

• Self-motivated research in applied arts, via content plus form, text plus image, theory plus practice
• Collaborating with leading designers, artists, curators and peers from various countries in the programme’s own renowned building
• Multivocal community providing complete freedom for different voices and views, asking questions and seeking answers
• Research-based design with personal questions, interests and motivations as a starting point
• Pushing the boundaries of a rapidly evolving reality and framework of (conceptual) graphic design
• In-depth theoretical research in the form of critical reflection, excursions and theses
• Studio activities providing hands on experiences via practical assignments and projects for internal and external commissioners including (large-scale) presentations at international platforms and venues

During this master's course, you will be part of a learning community where you, together with fellow students and tutors, develop a research-driven spatial design practice aimed at an unknown future. This master's course is also known as 'Corpo-real', since it focuses on the ever-evolving relationship between ‘bodies’ and ‘space’: the body as a place where social reality and spatial truth come together.

Why choose this master?

• Corpo-real: You will work towards a deeper understanding of the interconnection between bodies and space.
• Socially engaged master's course: This master’s course encourages you to reflect, discuss, and act upon recent societal developments.
• Intertwining theoretical and artistic research The synthesis of thinking, making and reflecting is imperative in the Corpo-real research practice.
• International learning community: You will be part of an open, inclusive, international community and build a network of critical, research-driven spatial designers.
• Interdisciplinary setting: You get to work with - and learn from - different disciplines such as sociology, choreography and performing.
• Innovate the professional field: Through speculative and critical thinking, you will innovate and emancipate the field of interior architecture.

As a student at iMAE, you will be part of a new generation of artists and become an artisteducator who puts art to work in the name of equality and social justice. The international Master Artist Educator (iMAE) at ArtEZ, located in Arnhem, is a socially engaged master's course focused on artistic research and Issues-based Art Education.

In brief

• Enable sustainable, social change: Develop your skills, capacities and knowledge to enable sustainable social change based on mutual respect for self and other.
• A community of passionate artisteducators: You will be part of a diverse international learning community that shares your passion for using art to enable positive societal change.
• Work on site, with different communities: You will work on site at residencies in the Netherlands and in Northern Ireland, and team up with artists and cultural workers from communities most affected by social or cultural marginalisation.
• Act locally and globally: Connect your interests and talents to social issues of local and global importance.
• Artivism as activism: You will promote creative action through artistic research, and use your artistic practice as a tool for social change.
• Put theory to practice: You become a unique practitioner and will be a leading agent in the combined field of Socially Engaged Art and Issues Based Arts Education.

This fulltime master's program at ArtEZ Academy of Music in Enschede is for musicians and music therapists who want to enhance and innovate their musical, clinical, and research skills in the creative and international environment of ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Why choose the master's course in Music Therapy at ArtEZ?

• Thrive in an international setting: You will have many opportunities to collaborate with and learn from our national and international lecturers, expert clinicians, guest teachers, and network.
• A unique department: It is a unique music therapy program in the Netherlands with a bachelor's-, pre-master's- , and master's course, and a research group under one roof.
• Learn all about the neuroscience behind music: This master's course includes a foundation in Neurological Music Therapy and certification from the Academy for Neurological Music Therapy.
• Participate in community projects: Focus on cultural sensitivity and music therapy projects for and with the community.
• The only Music Therapy courseat a conservatory: This master's program is embedded in the ArtEZ Academy of Music in Enschede, meaning that music and music technology are strongly integrated into the curriculum.
• Design your own study plan: Within the master's program, your personal and professional growth is central, and you develop a personalized study plan.

The dominant form of fashion is fast fashion. This industry is booming, but it comes at a high price. In this master’s course, you explore alternative, non-industrial modes and frameworks for making, seeing and experiencing fashion and clothes. You will develop your critical fashion practice and redefine what fashion means in our social, cultural and economic realms.

In brief

• Discover fashion’s transformative capacities: You become part of a community of independent, curious, and optimistic individuals working to build a critical fashion practice and create a more equitable fashion industry.
• Diverse and engaging curriculum: This master's course has a project-based curriculum. You'll work with diverse students, gain valuable skills, and prepare for your career.
• Define your own research route: You can formulate, explore, and refine your research objectives.
• Learn from leading critical fashion practicioners: You receive guidance from leading critical fashion practitioners and other professionals from the field of fashion, art and, design.
• Express your research and ideas in your own way: You explore various strategies: writing, podcasting, publishing, activism, reading groups, curation, and performance.
• Interdisciplinary learning community: You get to venture among a network of participants, (guest) tutors, the Fashion Professorship and other master’s courses.

This master is an incubator for artistic research around the body in performance and its wider ecology. The course is based in the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES in Arnhem, Netherlands, harbouring a community of de-disciplined and diverse thinkers who promote performance-making as a strategy for equitable societies.

In brief

• Performance-making and critical thinking: A home base for performance-making and critical thinking that is geared to constructing intersectional, unconventional, and speculative futures for both making and research
• Design your own study programme: Interdisciplinary and flexible programme: you design the trajectory of your own research
• Different residencies throughout the year: Four intensive and collective residential periods (three to five weeks) per year
• Work with artists from all over the world: Close dialogue with a team of experienced lecturers and inspiring guests from an international network in the performing arts
• Create a portfolio of critical and probing performances: Develop a portfolio of performances that critically probe the de-disciplining potential of your practices that engage in – and are entangled with – the Body in Performance

DAI is an internationally acclaimed program that fosters a variety of praxes at the intersections of art and theory, both seen as un-disciplines. The master's course explores the today's challenges: through curating, listening, making, performing, publishing, reading, studying, wandering, thinking, articulating and writing. But also by being a "wilderness". Farewell bricks, farewell walls. Mobilize our bodies, our intelligences.

In brief:

• Variety of praxes at the intersections of art and theory.
• “Wild space” to actually live together and to develope languages that help to change ourselves and our communities for the better.
• Educational process into a wide variety of spaces, navigating between locations, institutions, practices and ideas.
• Monthly DAI Week: an experimental learning environment, think tank, networking platform, theory camp.

Discover your unique artistic identity and elevate your career as a professional classical performer and curator through the master's course Classical Music in Zwolle. With the field of classical music constantly evolving, musicians must stay ahead of the curve and develop new ways to deliver old stories. This course equips you with the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in the field of classical music.

In brief

• Learn to pioneer, inspire and touch: You discover how to communicate with and relate to many different audiences.
• Focus on curating and (per)forming identity: You learn how to develop a concert or programme that considers the specific concerns of musicians rather than just those of a manager.
• Work closely with other master’s students: You will collaborate and do joint projects with other Classical and Jazz & Pop master’s students.
• Learn to do practice-led and artistic research: Get thoroughly acquainted with research during the Performance lab, a unique environment focused on creativity and performance.
• Lecturers that inspire: You learn from teachers and tutors with hands-on experience and state-of-the-art know-how.
• Develop your vision: This course will help you develop your vision and understanding of the social and artistic aspects of classical music, empowering you to take the lead in a rapidly changing industry.