Thursday, March 27, 2008

Art Colleges at Saatchi Gallery

The diversity and versatility of the Saatchi Art Gallery is demonstrated in the large number of colleges that are hosted on the site. Plus, the eclectic nature of Saatchi’s artistic approach to contemporary art is embodied within the cultures and worldviews represented by the diversity of the artistic pool available on the site. This is due to the fact that our open attitude toward universities attracts the most learned and brightest artistic minds around the world. The colleges and universities represented within the pool of academic institutions hosted on this site include some of the most well known and high producing visual and performing arts departments around the world. Such institutions as Yale University, Californian Institute of the Arts and the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig are just a few of the plethora of schools whose information regarding artistic opportunities and events is available on the Saatchi Gallery site.
The Saatchi Gallery also links to various colleges that are dedicated to design, fashion, performing arts and architecture. Such schools as Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, and New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology are hosted within the cyber-halls of the Saatchi Gallery. Other well respected artistic institutions hosted include Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague and College of Visual and Performing Arts in North Dartmouth (United States). The variety of colleges and universities also offer a very large number of study paths along which one may travel toward mastery in the arts. To the colleges and universities themselves, the site provides an invaluable networking opportunity, through which the institutions may build relationships that deepen the artistic resources they offer to their students and to the public at large.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Art Colleges around the World

Art Schools and Art Colleges are the colloquial term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture.

At Saatchi Gallery you can see the List of Main Art Colleges around the World few of those are given as below.

Yale University
Since the mid-twentieth century, Yale has been a leader in the integration of the practice of painting, sculpture, photography, design, and new media into both undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Harvard University
The principal educational goal of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department (VES) is to provide students in a liberal arts college with an opportunity to gain an understanding of visual art and expression through both study and practice. The department aims to foster a dialogue among makers, critics, and theorists, and accordingly its faculty comprises individuals representing all of these areas.

University Of Oxford
Oxford is an historic and unique institution. As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, it can lay claim to nine centuries of continuous existence. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford.

University Of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is rich in history - its famous Colleges and University buildings attract visitors from all over the world. But the University's museums and collections also hold many treasures which give an exciting insight into some of the scholarly activities, both past and present, of the University's academics and students.

Royal College of Art

As the world’s only wholly postgraduate university institution of art and design we specialise in teaching and research, offering MA, MPhil and PhD degrees across the disciplines of fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities. Along with an impressive roll call of visiting professors, lecturers and advisors, our students are given first-class opportunities for major collaborations with cultural and industrial partners.

California Institute of the Arts
The nation's first art institute to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible. Emphasis is placed on new and experimental work and students are admitted solely on the basis of artistic ability.