The course unites learning, development and practice of set, costume and lighting design through traditional and new media. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to take total
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The course is devised to support the balance between the development of your practical skills and your vision as a designer. Emphasis lies in the design and practical aspects of costumes
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The course introduces major technical areas of fabrication, construction and modelling for theatre, film and television. It challenges you to develop your individual strengths together with
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Program Description
The photography program at ASU has earned an international reputation for the quality of its instruction and the broad range of course work offered. Students study the medium of photography as a means toward the creation of art and toward visual literacy. This involves the acquisition of technical skills, the development of a sound theoretical base and an immersion in photography’s history. Course work encompasses critiques of creative work, beginning and advanced criticism and theory, practice in gallery management as well as practice in black and white, color, digital, large format, portraiture and 19th-century processes.
Additional Program Fee: No
Second Language Requirement: No
Career Opportunities
A degree in the arts offers students a pathway to a rich and varied choice of careers. The B.F.A. is essential for advanced study leading to the terminal M.F.A. This advanced degree offers opportunities in university teaching, in history or studio areas, curatorial work in galleries, museums and historical collections and nonprofit arts organization management.
Admission Requirements
Students will be admitted to ASU as art exploratory majors. They must complete a series of requirements including successfully passing a portfolio review in order to be eligible for upper-division course work in the major.
Freshmen students applying to the Herberger College School of Art enter ASU as pre-art majors in the School of Art. There is no portfolio review process at the time of admission to ASU for freshmen.
Typically students in their second year interested in studio art and art education will submit a portfolio for review once they have completed their core requirements and are completing the last of the 12 hours of 200-level art requirements; or if they are interested in art history or museum studies, they will submit a declaration form in the semester in which they complete 30 hours.
Transfer students who have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements may submit a portfolio for review before they have been admitted to ASU. To complete an undergraduate degree in four years, it is recommended that community college transfer students, who are completing a two year degree and have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements apply and submit a portfolio in the semester they are completing their community college degree or the semester before they plan to enter Arizona State University.
Direct transfer of courses from other accredited institutions to the Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts are subject to:
the existence of parallel and equal courses in the college’s curriculum, and
departmental or school evaluation of studio courses with respect to performance standards.
Every candidate for the bachelor’s degree must earn a minimum of 30 semester hours in resident credit at ASU. Transfer students enrolled in the college must complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of resident credit in the major as approved by the faculty.
Many art schools are engaged in a national debate on how best to educate emerging artists. Many have devised programs that take certain positions relative to current innovations in the field, or in anticipation of future trends.
At the University of Houston School of Art, we reframed that discussion by focusing not on the contextual fields of practice, but rather on you – the practitioner. You are the only stable and absolutely central component in the equation. The only question worth asking is not how you might fit into our program, but rather how we might fit into yours. This question needs asking of each student who enters our MFA program, and each answer will necessarily be as unique as each individual.
The way we fit into “your program” is by creating the mechanisms to hybridize research; by maintaining an institutional agility; by devising programs that are flexible and dynamic; and by creating the environments that help you to broaden and deepen your investigations.
At the UH School of Art, we have solid MFA concentrations in Painting, Sculpture, Photography/Digital Media, and Graphic Communications. We are adding an MFA concentration in Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms (anticipated Fall 09). Built into each of these concentrations is the ability to extend outward and into the vast resources of a premier research institution. Our MFA program integrates the university and the city of Houston as an extended classroom, in a fundamentally multidisciplinary platform.
Freedom, flexibility and intensive studio practice is supported by a rigorously intellectual environment that recognizes that artists working within the tradition of painting or at the frontier of emerging media need the intellectual, theoretical, conceptual and analytical tools to contextualize their production within larger social contexts.
Critical Studies programs provide a structure for that inquiry. Raphael Rubinstein joins our faculty this year as Professor of Critical Studies, crafting a program that will bridge theory and practice, and function as a conceptual center for contemporary art discourse within the School of Art.
Our outstanding faculty and extensive visiting artist/critic program is supported by a vast expansion of scholarship through our faculty affiliate network. Colleagues from across the University will mentor our graduate students with research interests that extend outside of the atelier and into fields as diverse as biology and physics. And our School is deeply embedded in Houston’s dynamic and established visual arts community – artists, designers, curators, and other professionals provide our students with expertise and a range of unique opportunities. We are rich in human assets.
We are not only looking for candidates who fit neatly within a particular discipline or on a linear academic trajectory. We are looking for students who may be returning to an academic environment after time away. We are looking for students whose undergraduate study was not in the visual arts, or whose work is in transition, or not easily classified. We are looking for students whose practice is idea and project based, and is expressed in forms that necessarily vary.
We are looking for MFA candidates who are highly self-motivated, and would be well served by a program that encourages exploration and risk supported by an innovative curriculum, a critical environment, generous facilities, a renowned faculty, and a world-class city.
This page introduces the research of The European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR), Newport School of Art, Media and Design.
Established in 2000 as the Centre for Photographic Research and designated as European Centre for Photographic Research in 2008, eCPR provides a focus in Wales for high quality research in photography that builds on both its institutional heritage and internationally renowned scholarship. It aims to develop work that addresses both the cultural histories of photography and the contemporary issues and debates informing photographic and film-based art and documentary practices. Based within the School of Art, Media and Design, eCPR builds on an initial pedagogical dynamic between art and documentary that grew out of the teaching of Keith Arnatt and David Hurn in the 1970s. The School has evolved in order to have greater relevance to the shifting relationships and inter-dependencies between art and documentary.
The development of a thriving postgraduate research culture within eCPR has led to the current lively, experimental and contemporary engagement with photography, photography understood not as a fixed discipline but an expanding, multi-faceted field of research, drawing upon a broad range of other academic disciplines, ranging from Art History to Politics. eCPR seeks to be at the forefront of photographic research— research that can be undertaken through practice as well as history and theory. Indeed, with the forthcoming introduction of practice-based Doctorates, eCPR will seek to challenge the existing hierarchies that tend to exist between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ within the study of photography.
The Centre’s staff, Visiting Fellows and associated research students, cover a range of critical interests in photography and these have been concentrated into four areas and:
This page provides further details about the MA/MFA Documentary Photography, Newport School of Art Media and Design.
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This page provides further details about the BA (Hons) Documentary Photography, Newport School of Art Media and Design.
Photographer Magdalena Turner, 2008
Student quotes
“What I appreciate most is the energy and depth in the critical debate which takes place in and around lectures, tutorials and the darkrooms.”
“I looked at courses at several universities but was told that if I was serious about studying documentary photography I had to come to Newport. From the moment I came through the gates and from the warm reception I was given I knew this was the place I had to come to study. I felt at home here – the landscape really reminds me of New Zealand.”