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The School of Visual
Arts at BNU was initiated in 2003. In the past five years,
the school has continued to examine modes of teaching Art,
and each year, areas that require modification have been
investigated and improved. This requires exceptionally
conviction and courage, and has been possible due to
complete confidence between faculty, students, the
administration and the founding members of the University.
The Fine Art
Department offers a Bachelor of Visual Arts degree, that
exposes students to a wide range of activities, faculty,
resources and facilities. This experience is further
enriched through frequent visits by many distinguished
visiting artists, scholars and guest critics from all over
Pakistan and abroad. Students work closely with faculty and
visiting artists, through electives, workshops and the Fine
art major studio, a largely independent, practice driven
studio, where they are encouraged to explore individual
concerns.
A
mandatory Foundation Year Program, imparting fundamental
skills in the first semester, and a thematically driven
second semester, equips students from all departments, to
independently become aware of, and resolve their formal,
conceptual as well as socio-political concerns through their
personal art practice.
Crucial to the success of a Program
like ours, is the faculty. The faculty at SVA is drawn from
diverse backgrounds, from Pakistan, U.K., Germany, Iran,
India, Australia, Romania, Canada, Austria, as well as the
Pakistani Diaspora visiting as faculty, or moving back to
teach full time. These are well known practicing
professionals in their respective fields and it is their
hands-on knowledge of contemporary practice that guides the
experience of students, who, from the outset have a choice
of intersecting through disciplines, blurring and
questioning existing lines and engaging in a close dialogue
between the local and the global. This is aimed to help them
develop a position on issues important to them in the
context of their reality. For this, we are indebted to both
the teaching faculty, as well as the extremely dedicated and
competent technical staff.
All of this is accomplished in
conjunction with a strong component of theoretical courses,
both mandatory and elective, which range from lectures and
seminars on art history, to “Beyond Art making”, a course
which familiarizes students with legal aspects of art
practice, alternative practices in contemporary culture,
information on historical and current leanings in curating,
collecting and exhibiting. This equips them with the tools
required to set out into the world with confidence and ease,
and to enable them to continue to evolve a critical
practice.
SVA undergraduate students complete their degrees with an
exhibition and are offered the possibility to continue a
post-graduate diploma. This focuses on courses in Art
Education, along with Studio electives. These candidates are
also given the opportunity to be employed by the school as
Teaching Assistants, working alongside senior faculty. The
PG Diploma from September 2009 will become a full fledged MA
Program, offering a choice of Art History, Art Education and
Professional Studio Electives.
| CAREER
PATHS |
Visual Artist;
Painter, Printmaker, Photographer, Sculptor,
Installation Artist, Video Artist, Performance
Artist, Web Artist, Curator.
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Fields:
Studio/Advertising/Fashion/Editorial Photography,
Lighting Design, Illustration, Arts Administration,
Art Education, Model Maker, Set Design for Theatre,
Film and T.V, Furniture Design, Interior Design,
Exhibition and Events Design, Public Art Projects,
Computer Graphics related professions, Advertising,
Entertainment Industry, Art Education. |
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