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NOVIA University of Applied Sciences
FINE ARTS PROGRAMME
ARTIST [NOVIA]
240 ECTS [4 years]
The Fine Arts Programme offers theoretical and practical skills for a working career within industries with free art. Students are provided with skills for carrying out artistic
assignments and projects. The prime focus of the education is the provision of knowledge for personal creative thinking and artistic creativity. Various expressional methods are used such as printmaking, intermediate expressions (photo-, video-, installation-, performance art etc), sculpture and painting. A new special area is community art, a community-based, socially associated art form. The practical work is continuously balanced up by theoretical reflection regarding art history, art philosophy and analysis of contemporary art.
During the initial part of the studies students are provided with basic skills within visual expression and workshop work.
During further studies students can concentrate on and study their own personal expression more in-depth, supported largely through individual guidance in forms of discussions in studio and joint critical sessions. Workshops and projects are evenly spread out over the whole period of study.
The important periods of practical training are placed at the later part of the studies. The programme and work are principally divided into periods and larger course units in order to create continuity and concentration on the studies. New for this year is that the students are expected to occupy themselves with personal in-depth studies and creativity from the very start of their studies. The aim is to give students the necessary time to concentrate and find and develop their own personal mode of expression, as soon as possible. Students are offered a studio place of their own.
The Fine Arts Programme prioritizes international work and thinking. Students are encouraged to go on exchange to partner schools and do international practical training. The NOVIA campus in Nykarleby maintains a successful Artist in Residence/guest studio activity with many visiting artists from the whole world. The Fine Arts Programme is the only Arts programme on university level offered in Swedish in Finland. After graduation the student can continue with Master’s studies at universities both in the home country and abroad.
The Fine Arts Programme and the main school for Visual Arts at NOVIA is situated in the region Ostrobotnia in the town of Nykarleby, about 80 km north of Vasa.
Contact:
Leif Strengell, Head of Fine Arts Programme
NOVIA University of Applied Sciences
Jakobstadsvägen 24, Fin-66900, Nykarleby
Phone: +358 (0)6-781 5920
Mobile: +358(0)50 517 0546
leif.strengell@novia.fi
Links:
- The School and the spaces
- Images over Nykarleby
- WIKIPEDIA about Swedish-speaking Finns
- Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related..." (WIKIPEDIA)
- (PDF Brochure):
Johanna Saarenpää, painting
Malin Granqvist, papercut (detail) -08
Images from different "Fire Festivals" in Nykarleby