Fine Arts part-time

DOGtime Fine Arts focuses on advising and supervising students on the concepts and media preferences they develop, on further development of students’ technical, expressive and conceptual capacities, and on the development of an ‘autonomous portfolio’, providing insight into thinking and acting as a visual artist. During the DOGtime Fine Arts programme, you can use both old and new media, ranging from painting to video. Lecturers will provide individual assignments. You can also join in with various short or long-term projects.

Courses offered

photography, painting, video, mixed media, three-dimensional work, installations, performance and web design.

Study structure

First specialisation year

Here you will focus mainly on the development of concepts and media preferences, the further development of your technical and expressive capacity, and the development of your autonomous portfolio.

Second specialisation year

In this year, you must complete your autonomous portfolio and write your artist’s statement. You will also take part in at least two projects outside school during this year, and take part in excursions within the Netherlands and abroad.

Third specialisation year

This year is the final examination year. The focus in this year is on developing your own work as well as your final examination thesis. You will receive intensive support from a team of regular lecturers and guest lecturers from the cultural field.

Projects

DOGtime FINe Arts students regularly organise group exhibitions. There is also an excursion to an important art centre outside the Netherlands every year. In 2008, DOGtime Fine Arts went to New York, and in 2009 to Beijing. DOGtime also takes part in academy-wide projects, like the annual Open Day and Final Examination Exhibition and Rietveld UncuT. Visits to museums and galleries are a standard part of the curriculum.

Theory

During DOGtime Fine Arts, the theory classes serve as a specialist addition to the research conducted. Visiting important exhibitions and developing an artist’s statement are compulsory. Visiting lectures of the Studium Generale is optional. The Studium Generale provides a general theoretical context concerning current themes in the contemporary international art world. The Studium Generale brings in prominent speakers from the Netherlands and abroad to give lectures. For more information, see Studium Generale

work placement and exchange

Work placements and exchanges are possible within the DOGtime Fine Arts programme, but only in consultation with lecturers.