Welcome to the Contemporary Arts Practice Course here at University of Staffordshire!
Mobilise your art practice: from production to encounter. You’ll get to work in our on-campus studio spaces and project spaces, hosting public exhibitions and exploring new forms of public engagement.
This dynamic MA in Contemporary Arts Practice will equip you with transferable and industry-relevant skills, including end-to-end creative project management, enabling you to become resilient and independent as a practitioner.
The course is ideal for students with visual arts backgrounds, but also relevant to other arts-related disciplines. You’ll have scope to use a diverse range of materials, processes and approaches, and will benefit from working in a trans-disciplinary environment.
There will also be plenty of opportunities to spark critical artistic discourse and explore cultural contexts by creating work through public encounters. Artists are instrumental in rethinking social and physical environments, helping to build cultural infrastructure through critical thinking. On the MA you will draw on issues you feel passionate about as a ‘citizen-artist’.
On campus, you will have your own individual studio space, and access to our full range of workshops, enabling you to engage with digital and analogue processes and materials.
We will go through the details of the course, its activities and structure, during the first introductory session, but do drop Ian Brown an email if you have any questions before this date: i.brown@staffs.ac.uk