What schools in London have doctoral programs in art education?
I am a certified K-12 art teacher about to complete my master’s degree in art education and am looking for a doctoral program. My husband and I really want to live abroad and love London. I am having difficulties doing searches for schools in the UK that have art education doctoral programs. Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated.
You cna use this site to look up all programs offered at every London University: http://www.studylondon.ac.uk/courses/results?course[subject]=2034
UOL: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/study/PMM9_ART9IM.html
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What computer art programs can I use for Cafepress?
I am interested in starting my own store on Cafepress.com. The only problem is that I don’t have a good art program on my computer to make designs. Could someone tell me a good AFFORDABLE program I could use? I checked for photoshop but the cheapest I could get it was $175. And btw I have a PC. Thanks!!!
Check out inkscape and gimp. Both are open source/freeware programs that are very good and many people use it.
For paid software check on Corel Draw or PaintShopPro.
Are there any high school summer art programs/scholarship offers in Europe?
I wish to go to Europe during the summer of my high school years to better study myself in art and music (violin). Availible housing would be nice, too!
http://scholarship.directdegree.info/
here you can get your desired scholarship
Can anyone offer advice on Graduate Art Programs?
I want to gather information on Graduate programs, specifically in the area of Ceramic Sculpture. Does anyone have advice on schools or know any websites or magazines that rate different programs? Also, advice regarding portfolio’s or any information on the process would be a huge help. Thanks!
check out tyler school of art, its part of temple university in philadelphia. also afred in ny.
as for websites: fastweb.com, gradschools.com, gradschoolsearch.com, anything like that.
one thing i did, was search for colleges on wikipedia. I wanted to stay in my home state of Pa so i searched for colleges in pa and then went to all of their websites. overall, its just a lot of searching and of course going to the campuses to see if you would like the program. a good idea is to talk to former or current students.
as for portfolios, have your best work in it. but make sure to show the full range of what you can do. put in some drawings from life, some sculpture, but mostely ceramics if thats what you do. also, some personal statements help. write a goals statement, a personal artist statment of what you think your work is about and where you want it to go, and of course, add some things that teachers or employers have written about you.
basically, you need to sell yourself. and if your work isn’t as strong as you’d like it to be, you need to show the schools that you can improve! good luck.
What universities have the best art history programs?
I want to major in Art History, and my main interest is in classical European painting and sculpture. What universities have a strong program that will suit my interest? I’d prefer to be on the east coast or in Texas. Chicago sounds nice, too. =)
But basically I’d be interested in learning about schools anywhere.
Oh, and I thought I’d mention that my own artistic abilities are pretty much nonexistant at this point. A program focused solely on art history or one where there’s a lot of help for beginning artists would be good.
For an emerging program, check out Art History at UIC. http://www.uic.edu/depts/arch/ah/
It’s not as prestigious as, say, U of C, but it’s been getting more attention in academic circles recently.
Can you recommend some schools/colleges with Great Studio Art programs here in the United States?
Im looking for some top notch Studio Art classes here in the states. Can you recommend some? Tell me a little bit about your experiences if you have attended any of them.
Thanks!
Have you considered the Art Institutes? They have them all over the country.
wat are some good art programs that will help you become a better artist?
i want to become a better artist wat are some good schools or programs? i live around dallas texas area if that helps.
really no answers?
Art Institutes the school that is and also any on ground campus that offers online art programs throughout the us. If you are looking to go to a campus on ground I would go to Florida,Cali,dc,Pittsburgh,MD they have some of the best schools in the USA. Otherwise just do tutorials online and you will get some good inspiration and perfect outcomes with whatever area you are interested in that’s what I do. I am going to the art institute of Pittsburgh right now and there great. Or go to some famous artist’s museums that you may be interested in.
Is there any art programs or software I can get online for free?
I need to find somewhere to get a free art software for my computer, please help.
Gimp ~image editor,
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en
PhotoPlus
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/
DrawPlus
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/default.asp
Pixia
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/
Synfig Animation Studio
http://synfig.org/Main_Page
Blender3d
http://www.blender.org/
Google SketchUp
http://sketchup.google.com/
ArtRage 2
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
Rendera
http://www.rendera.net/
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