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Award-winning research projects, travelling artist book shows and inspiring ted talks – they’re all testament to our challenging, diverse course..

Our postgraduate students go on to secure rewarding work opportunities that push the boundaries of their art practice.

See what’s possible and read about some of our successful students:

"The intellectual and practical demands of the Fine Art degree have enabled me to develop my thought processes and research methodology."

Amy Shelton

Amy won an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust – one of the world’s leading charitable foundations – for her ongoing Honeyscribe project in 2011.

The project

An artistic investigation into the life of the honeybee, Honeyscribe finds ways to communicate the fundamental relationship between the honeybee and human health. Emphasising communication, exchange and diversity, Amy collaborates with scientists, medics, artists, poets, activists, beekeepers, musicians, children and shamanic practitioners to inspire and invigorate her artwork.

“Without the MA Contemporary Art Practice at Plymouth, I wouldn’t have been able to win the award,” she says. “It made me step up to the rigours of how you have to talk about your work, as well as giving me the tools to write a proposal and contextualise my work. I thought the course was exceptionally good.”

“Without the MA from Plymouth, I wouldn’t have been able to win the Wellcome Trust award.” – Amy Shelton, MA Contemporary Art Practice graduate

Florilegium (Spring/ Summer) - Amy Shelton

Light box installation..

Sue’s MA project – a book called Oak Primer – was awarded an honourable mention by the European competition Artists' Books on Tour . Beating 924 other projects across Europe, her book was shown as part of a travelling museum, visiting Vienna, Prague and Ljubljana between October 2011 and May 2012. 

A commission while on the course

Whilst studying her MA, Sue was also commissioned to create artwork for a new GP surgery building in Devonport – one of Plymouth’s most deprived areas.

“The challenge and responsibility of public funding require a considered response that keeps its feet on the ground. Surgery users will include the medical staff as well as thousands of patients living in one of Plymouth’s most underprivileged districts. I need to take all this on board as I develop my ideas for this commission.”

With her MA project focusing on oak trees and their ecology, Sue’s research for the course formed the basis of her artwork for the new building. Her creative plans include a run of photographs of the seasonally changing tree with a series of frames, each concerned with a particular group of tree inhabitants from moths, beetles and fungi to birds and mammals.

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Arts university plymouth: fine art, full-time, 1 years starts sep 2024.

**Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world.** Formerly known as Plymouth College of Art, we were granted full university title in Spring 2022. We are now the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.

In May 2022 we were awarded the **Best Small or Specialist University at the 2022 WhatUni Student Choice Awards** coming top in a list of well-respected specialist UK universities, and in 2023 were awarded Silver in the same category, based on unbiased and honest reviews from students across the UK, in a category that highlights the quality of our provision as a specialist creative university.

**Arts University Plymouth offers both MA Fine Art and Master of Fine Art (MFA), please read the information below to help you decide which course may be best suited to you.**

**MA Fine Art**

**The MA Fine Art programme encourages you to develop an engaged studio practice while gaining critical and contextual skills, developing your approach to the potential of interdisciplinary working, testing and making.**

Not limited by a particular practice or discipline, you are able to work across and through drawing, painting, sculpture, video, sound, printmaking, installation and performance, among others.

We support the development of an ambitious practice that inhabits a range of contexts, from the traditional gallery to site-specific projects and collaborative working that is critically and materially engaged.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to current debates within the subject area, relevant institutional contexts and partners and be encouraged to consider what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

We’ll support you in articulating your ideas, developing your working methods and creating independent work, through individual tutorials, lectures, subject-specific seminars, studio and gallery visits and group critiques, with access to our rich workshop areas and technical resources across the university.

**Master of Fine Art (MFA)**

**Our Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme gives you the opportunity to enhance your creative profile by executing an ambitious, time-limited project that results in significant public exposure for your body of creative work.**

The MFA is a platform for experienced creative practitioners who want access to a dynamic and supportive art school environment when bringing a project to fruition. It provides a framework within which to conceive, refine and consolidate an advanced body of work, which will be shared publicly.

As an MFA student, you will develop a robust research proposal into a substantial and resolved creative outcome that will be exhibited and assessed in a public venue. With the support of staff who are specialists in your area, and with access to regular group critiques 74 Postgraduate Courses and lectures, you will hone your conception of audience and disseminate your work in an appropriate form.

The programme lasts one academic year full-time, or two years part-time, and culminates in an exhibition of creative outcomes.

The models of delivery and support that will apply to your work are built around the negotiated proposal that you will provide on application and that you will refine into a robust project plan during the first weeks of the course. You will work with your tutors to fashion a programme that is tailored to the needs of your project.

We offer a high level of critical debate and industry standard technical facilities, with access to workshop areas across the university.

Part-Time, 2 years starts Sep 2024

Full-time, 1 years started sep 2023.

**Plymouth College of Art has been granted full university status and formally recognised with the new title of Arts University Plymouth, following approval by the Privy Council. This makes us the City of Plymouth’s first specialist arts university.**

The title of Arts University Plymouth signifies a change to the way that the world will see us, our position within the sector and the mobility of our graduates; but not a change in the way that we see ourselves or what we do. Arts University Plymouth will build upon the existing strength of our unique culture and incredible community; we have no plans to change the specialist focus of the work we do together. The name Arts University Plymouth will appear on our qualifications, making it easier for employers and peers to recognise that our students were taught at a leading specialist arts university.

In May 2022 we were awarded the **Best Small or Specialist University at the 2022 WhatUni Student Choice Awards**, coming top in a list of well-respected specialist UK universities, based on unbiased and honest reviews from students across the UK, in a category that highlights the quality of our provision as a specialist creative university.

**Our MA Fine Art offers you an intensive personal programme of creative study informed by debates in contemporary art and critical theory.**

**Ethos** The MA Fine Art encourages diverse approaches to the relationship between theory and practice, emphasising material exploration, collaborative working and the cross-fertilisation of disciplines to open new conceptual spaces. Our programme encourages you to develop hybrid approaches to investigating your experience, while responding to the rapidly changing social contexts that are reshaping contemporary art. Critical enquiry and practice-based exploration are central to the programme, helping you to make dynamic and challenging artwork that is sensitive to new approaches to display.

**Outline** You will be encouraged to develop a personal methodology for drawing, while exploring a range of strategies, materials and technologies. The programme will stimulate connections, debates and new approaches to drawing across varied disciplines in a dynamic studio setting, with access to workshop areas across the college. Throughout the programme, we will support you to seek opportunities to extend your practice, both nationally and internationally.

Taught delivery within the programme provides a mix of discipline-specific methods and cross-disciplinary approaches that can be applied across creative and commercial sectors. Our shared module structure allows you to develop a dialogue with creative practitioners across the Graduate School.

**Supported practices** This programme supports ambitious practices that explore a range of contexts across 2D, 3D and 4D media, including works created for gallery display, site-specific installation and digital distribution.

Part-Time, 2 years started Sep 2023

Master of fine arts - mfa (pg), full-time, 9 months starts sep 2024, full-time, 9 months started sep 2023.

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Master of Fine Art (MFA)

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MFA - Master of Fine Art

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Fine Art Art

Course type

Our Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme gives you the opportunity to enhance your creative profile by executing an ambitious, time-limited project that results in significant public exposure for your body of creative work.

The MFA is a platform for experienced creative practitioners who want access to a dynamic and supportive art school environment when bringing a project to fruition. It provides a framework within which to conceive, refine and consolidate an advanced body of work, which will be shared publicly.

As an MFA student, you will develop a robust research proposal into a substantial and resolved creative outcome that will be exhibited and assessed in a public venue. With the support of staff who are specialists in your area, and with access to regular group critique and lectures, you will hone your conception of audience and disseminate your work in an appropriate form.

The programme lasts one academic year full-time, or two years part-time, and culminates in an exhibition of creative outcomes.

The models of delivery and support that will apply to your work are built around the negotiated proposal that you will provide on application, and that you will refine into a robust project plan during the first weeks of the course. You will work with your tutors to fashion a programme that is tailored to the needs of your project.

We offer a high level of critical debate and industry-standard technical facilities, with access to workshop areas across the college.

Careers & Alumni

Alumni of our Graduate School pursue careers in the fields of fine art, craft and design, as practising artists, teachers, curators, and as gallery, theatre and technical professionals. Others go on to prepare for doctoral study, and set up viable projects as socially engaged and community-based practitioners.

Our programmes offer professional skills development to support our students as they progress within industry, self-employment (in the Creative Industries sector) and further Level 7 and 8 studies. The second module offers an opportunity to test out the practices being investigated by individual students within an appropriate, live setting.

UK fees Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

International fees Course fees for EU and international students

The MFA is suitable for artists, designers and creative practitioners with a well-developed practice, who have completed an MA and wish to refine and consolidate a professional body of work suitable for public dissemination. To enrol on our MFA, a recent MA or 180 level 7 credits in an art, design, crafts or media discipline is required.

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BA (Hons) Fine Art with Foundation

The foundation pathway provides students with non-standard entry points to progress onto the BA (Hons) Fine Art programme. The foundation year allows you to develop skills across a range of media and introduces creative best practice in preparation for the first year of the undergraduate programme. During the foundation year you will have the opportunity to explore creative processes relevant to visual design, animation, illustration, print-making, fine art, and photography.

Careers with this subject

Key features.

• Studio culture . Our main teaching and learning space is the studio and we place emphasis on creating a friendly, supportive, vibrant, creative, critical and reflective studio environment.
• Thinking through doing . This is a practice-based programme, which means that critical enquiry is at the heart of making work. We encourage you to be exploratory and experimental, to think through making and to embrace uncertainty and not knowing. 
• Facilities . You will have inductions in and access to a wide range of specialist workshop facilities to advance your artistic enquiry, including letterpress and printmaking, ceramics, woodworking, metal, video, audio, XR and 3D printing.
• Interdisciplinary . Studio practice modules and the common challenges and dissertation modules offer you opportunities to work in interdisciplinary research areas across the arts, humanities and sciences.
• Degree show . Showcase your final project in a faculty-wide exhibition alongside students from our 12 art and design degrees. The Degree Show is your chance to introduce friends and family, your new creative network and art community, prospective employers and the general public to your work.
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Course details

Foundation year, core modules.

Materials, Methods and Media (ADA001)

This module will introduce students to various techniques, materials and mediums through practise-based experiments, play and problem solving. You will be introduced to different creative processes and methods of working that will help you to develop your ideas and engage in critical and reflective practice.

Image, Type and Narrative (ADA002)

Students will experiment with media, photography and typography to explore the relationship between image and word. This module enables students to gain knowledge within subject areas and explore the importance of developing an independent voice. Projects will become increasingly student driven as they develop their ability to propose ideas and solutions through self-directed inquiry, discovery and production.

Risk and Resolution (ADA003)

Students will consolidate their skills, knowledge and understanding in initiating, researching, developing and presenting a final project and exhibition. This module will also enable students to continue to research and develop their strengths as an independent art and design practitioner and prepare them for their next stage of study.

Critical Themes in Art & Design (ADA004)

This module introduces students to transformative phases within the historical and contemporary context of art, design, photography and media. Students will learn to ask critical questions and find answers through information gathering, reading and research. Through articulating responses, students will be introduced to academic conventions in preparation for progression to further Higher Education.

Fine Art Studio 1: Processes and Materials (ART418)

This introductory module introduces students to the diverse natures of fine art and the role of the studio within it. It aims to provide students with the skills to identify and investigate individual and collaborative interests and concerns through practical engagement in the studio and through interdisciplinary research; to develop students' capacities for self-criticism through informed debate; to develop student confidence in recognising and using processes and materials relevant to their developing practice; and to introduce practices of documentation. Lectures, seminars, and workshops support students to relate examples of contemporary fine art practice to their own, studio-based explorations of relevant concepts, material processes and techniques.

Interdisciplinary Approaches 1 (ART419)

This practice-based module introduces students to interdisciplinarity and to how artists have worked collaboratively in multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ways with researchers and communities. Students will learn a range of approaches and methods and will experiment with and test their artistic responses to themes that draw on interdisciplinary research.

Interdisciplinary Approaches 2 (ART420)

This practice-based module enables students to consolidate their awareness of ideas and approaches to interdisciplinarity and to how artists have worked collaboratively in multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ways with researchers and communities. Students will deepen their approaches and methods and will experiment with and test their artistic responses to a theme that draws on interdisciplinary work and develops out of Interdisciplinary Approaches 1.

Art Writing 1 (ART421)

This module focuses on exhibition visiting and creative review writing to introduce key ideas, methods, and approaches in fine art practice. Students will begin to develop skills in creative-critical writing through being introduced to examples and excerpts of art writing. Students will visit local and online exhibitions as part of this module and will produce a collection of short experiments in art writing.

Creative Reading 1 (ART422)

This module introduces key ideas, methods, and approaches within contemporary art practices through techniques of creative reading of critical texts. The focus is on concepts, methods and approaches that are current in contemporary art and are relevant to students’ emerging practices and will lead to a coherent expanded essay (choice of written, video, or audio) that evidences a sustained research process.

Creative Reading 2 (ART525)

This module will examine key theories and ideas which relate to contemporary fine art practice through close and creative reading of texts collaboratively selected by the tutor and students. These will be used to explore areas of artistic inquiry as well as strategies for researching, writing and engaging in practical research within a group and individual framework.

Art Writing 2 (ART526)

This module focuses on experiments with critical reflection and art writing through key theories and ideas which relate to contemporary art practices. Building on the previous module, selected works, texts, and modes of writing will be used to explore areas of enquiry and textual and print forms as artistic practice.

Fine Art Studio 2: Collaborations and Collectives (ART527)

This module provides an opportunity for students to develop a negotiated art practice through sustained studio experimentation and a DIY/DIWO (Do It Yourself / Do It With Others) culture, including strategies for navigating collaborative practices. The studio-based module will develop an awareness of contextual frameworks in relation to art practice and enable students to research and experiment with materials, processes, concepts and environments in preparation for a public show of art practice.

Artist Placements in Interdisciplinary Settings 1 (ART528)

In this module students will undertake research into interdisciplinary contexts and practices of the artist placement, with a particular focus on questions of socially engaged and participatory work across a range of settings. Students will also develop a detailed proposal for an artistic response to the interdisciplinary placement context they have researched, including designs, drawings, models.

Common Challenge: Artist Placements in Interdisciplinary Settings 2 (ART529)

In this module, students will develop and realise a collaborative research-led practice in an interdisciplinary placement and/or residency setting. There will be a specific focus on strategies for collaboration, community-based practice and socially engaged art. Students will work in groups with interdisciplinary partners to develop collaborative outputs to be disseminated to a public audience.

Common Dissertation: Critical Practices (ADA600)

The module engages students in situating practice through research, contextualisation and critical reflection, in relation to their final stage study and post University aspirations. Programmes can offer: a traditional dissertation; preparation for an extended dissertation; situating existing practice; or the construction of a new body of work as practice-based research.

Fine Art Studio 4: Going Public (ART626)

Students will realise a negotiated conceptual framework for an individual and/or collaborative artistic body of work, with reference to contemporary practices, approaches and theories. The module will enable students to realise independent, practice-based enquiries into source material and appropriate professional practices, linked to critical research. This will be developed into a body of work for final presentation that is suitable for public exhibition. The module also requires students to work together collaboratively to develop a Degree Show, drawing on the full range of professional skills required for the creative industries.

Art Publication (ART627)

In this studio module, students will develop an art publication that aligns with their current art practice and areas of research. The module questions what constitutes 'publication' - from artist books to 'zines to broadsheets to video essays to performance lectures – and explores the theoretical implications for contemporary art within a network of communication and circulation.

Fine Art Studio 3: Resolving Practice (ART628)

Students will develop a negotiated conceptual framework for individual and/or collaborative creative methods, with reference to contemporary practices, approaches and theories. The module will enable the development of student learning towards an increasingly independent enquiry into source material and appropriate practices, linked to critical research and professional practice. The focus will be on further development of research practices to ground and underpin student practice together with the development of detailed proposals and plans for work to be developed for exhibition at the end this module, which will be carried forward to the subsequent module in Semester 2.

Every undergraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the course aims, the course structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.

The following programme specification represents the latest course structure and may be subject to change:

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Providing rewarding experiences.

A wide range of collaborative and independent learning activities are designed to equip you with experience, skills and confidence

A practice-based programme With two-thirds of your time spent in the studio, the facilities for you to create your own artwork need to be exceptional – and they are!

Collaboration, placement and exchanges Progress your skills by working with local artists and arts organisations, taking part in a short placement, residency or international exchange.

Exhibitions, open studios, trips and visiting artists Pop-up shows and exhibitions, open studios and test spaces develop your professional practice and engage with different audiences.

Plymouth art and cultural scene

You are encouraged to connect with these initiatives and develop work with local organisations such as Nudge, Ocean Studios, Leadworks, Plymouth Arts Cinema and Plymouth Art Weekender; galleries such as the Levinsky Gallery, The Box and KARST; and initiatives such as Imperfect Cinema, CAMP, JarSquad, Flock and Take A Park.

Meet your lecturers

Dr Angela Piccini

Associate professor in fine art.

Karen Abadie

Lecturer in fine art.

Mr Martin Brooks

Mr Mike Lawson-Smith

Lecturer for digital & time based fine art.

Dr Anya Lewin

Associate professor (reader) in art and moving image.

Dr Melanie Jackson

Encouraging your individuality.

Increase your knowledge and develop a critical questioning approach through intellectually stretching multidisciplinary learning.

"I have really enjoyed the fact that you learn so many different techniques and disciplines." Laura discusses her work and how research has shaped her as a person – as well as an artist – and inspired her to go on to further study.

"I go into a space with the idea that I’m going to create a mark." Eleanor Neason's 'The Lived Body' explores our subjective experiences and how we perceive and experience ourselves in our surroundings and space.

"The fine art course is one of the most collaborative, open, versatile courses around." Molly McAndrews began collaborating with Laura Rosser during her first year. Four years later, they have collaborated on multiple funded projects.

Our graduates

Curators, arts facilitators, digital designers, lecturers and teachers, sculptural fabricators, film-makers and artists in their own right

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School of Art Fine Arts Doctoral Program (Art)

Fine arts doctoral program (art).

The Art track of the Fine Arts Doctoral Program centers on art praxis, which we define as theoretically informed action aimed at creating change in academic, social, and community contexts. We have chosen the word "praxis" instead of "practice" to signal a different relationship to theory than assumed by the theory-practice binary, and to indicate a fundamental difference between MFA programs in studio practice and the PhD. For Aristotle, praxis meant an action that is valuable in itself, as opposed to that which leads to creation, and for scholars of modernity from Marx to Lefebvre, praxis was, and remains, infused with an ethical and political imperative, and designated a more grounded and intentional mode of social and political transformation.

The Art track is part of a College-wide Fine Arts Doctoral Program , which includes students focusing on music, theatre, dance, and visual art. All areas of the Fine Arts Doctoral Program require a series of core courses that bring together students from across the College for innovative interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry. These core courses support the art area's commitment to blurring disciplinary boundaries through original modes of investigation.

Students conduct interdisciplinary research integrating methodologies from a home discipline related to Art with methodologies from disciplines of Music, Theatre, and Dance housed at other Schools in the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts or the University at large. Such interdisciplinarity is not simply additive, but transformative, blurring the chosen disciplines and even fundamentally altering them.

This program is for

• studio artists who want to transform their approach to making into a methodology for research,
• scholars who want to intervene in their home discipline by proposing novel ways of conducting research,
• curators and cultural practitioners who want to do community-engaged projects, and
• educators who want to rethink inquiry and develop meaningful practices organized around art and images that transform engagement through interdisciplinary initiatives.

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How to apply.

Interested candidates applying for admission to the Fine Arts Doctoral Program for Fall 2023 can do so through the Texas Tech University Graduate School portal.

A complete application - via the Graduate School application portal - will include the following:

• Official transcripts of all previous college-level study
• Official G.R.E. score report (The GRE score requirement has been waived for Fall 2024-entering applicants)
• 3 letters of recommendation
• Current resumé or curriculum vitae
• A scholarly writing sample (10-30 pages of academic writing)
• Art portfolio (optional)
• Statement of intent (800 words maximum; see tips on writing statements of intent). Please indicate in your statement the faculty members in the FADP(Art) program (see below) with whom you would like to work.
• For international students: passport and additional documents that prove your eligibility to study in the United States
• Registration fee

ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS

For acceptance into the doctoral program, the applicant must have completed a master's degree, or its equivalent, with emphasis in some area of the visual arts. Every effort is made to select candidates who show strong scholarship and professional competence.  Applicants who have not taken at least 15 hours of art history, art criticism, art education, arts administration, aesthetics, and/or visual culture courses at the college level may be required to meet the 15-hour minimum in the form of leveling courses taken here at TTU, which will not count toward the 60-hour minimum in the doctoral degree plan.

While the Fine Arts Doctoral Program (Art) takes applications year-round, please take into consideration the following dates:

JANUARY 15th for Fall semester entry, with full financial consideration.

OCTOBER 15th for Spring semester entry, with available/limited financial consideration.

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Student success, school of art alumni.

Class of 2012

Sara Peso White

Class of 2015

Bryan Wheeler, dissertation: “Painting ‘Section' or Painting Texas: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in the Texas New Deal Post Office Murals.” Lecturer in the School of Art and College of Media and Communication.

Class of 2016

Yuan-Ta Hsu

Lina Kattan, dissertation: “Conflicted Living Beings: The Performative Aspect of Female Bodies' Representations in Saudi Painting and Photography.” Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Class of 2017

Norah Alqabba, dissertation: “Globalization and the Role of the Sharjah Biennale in the Transformation of Saudi Contemporary Sculpture”

Class of 2019

Kimberly Jones, dissertation: “Women in Contemporary Israeli Cinema”

Katharine Scherff, dissertation: “The Virtual Liturgy: An Examination of Medieval and Early Modern Ritual Objects as Media Technology.” Full-time Lecturer at TTU, Art History and Global Art Program, Affiliated Faculty Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center.

Jared Stanley, dissertation: “Working Through Grief: Continuing Bonds in the New Golden Age of American Television.” Division Chair, Division of Art and Design, School of Fine Arts and Communication, Bob Jones University.

Class of 2020 

Niloofar Gholamrezaei, dissertation: “Photographic Images, Distanced Realism, and the State of Being Modern in the Works of Mohammad Ghaffari and Otto Dix.” Assistant Professor of Visual Arts and General Education, Regis College.

Class of 2021

Ahmad Rafiei, dissertation: “Objects in Motion: Global Interactions and Cross-Cultural Exchange from Safavid to Twentieth-Century Iran.” Curatorial Fellow, Toledo Museum of Art, 2021-2024.

Sylvia Weintraub, dissertation: “Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Online: Why Making Matters on Pinterest.”

Assistant Professor of Art Education in the department of Visual and Theatre Arts at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Class of 2022

Corina Carmona, dissertation: “Re-membering a Coyolxauhqui Pedagogy: Creative and Cultural Praxis at the Intersection of Ethnic Studies and Fine Art”

Deepika Dhiman, dissertation: “Using Autoethnography and Visual Storytelling to Examine How Identity is Informed by Social Normative Behavior in India and the United States”

Class of 2023

Kathryn Kelley: “Creatives Engage with Spontaneous Self-Affirmation as a Part of Their Writing Practices”

Quest ions?

Contact the interim coordinator.

Andrés Peralta, PhD Interim FADP Coordinator

Fine Arts- Art Doctoral Program Faculty

Klinton Burgio-Ericson, PhD

Kevin Chua, PhD

Theresa Flanigan, PhD

Rina Little, PhD

Jorgelina Orfila, PhD

Andrés Peralta, PhD

Maia Toteva, PhD

Heather Warren-Crow, PhD

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Arts University Plymouth wins Gold in 2022 and Silver in 2023 in the Best Small or Specialist University category of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards, as voted by our students.

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The Complete University Guide ranks Arts University Plymouth in the top 10 of its Arts, Drama & Music League Table 2024.

Arts University Plymouth was the highest scoring arts university in the UK in five of the seven National Student Survey 2023 categories: “Teaching on my course”, “Learning opportunities”, “Assessment and feedback”, “Learning resources” and “Student voice”.

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Inspectors praised the “excellent” behaviour of students and highlighted the benefits for sixth formers of being linked closely to an arts university.