THE ACADEMY
Transart Academy STREAMS
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INDEPENDENT CREATIVES
ACADEMY PRAXIS REFRESHER 1/2
ACADEMY PRAXIS SUSTAINER 2/2
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PHD TRACK CREATIVES
ACADEMY CREATIVE RESEARCH CRASH COURSE
ACADEMY PHD EXPLORER COURSE
ACADEMY PRAXIS propeller COURSE
ACADEMY PREFLIGHT SCHOLARSHIP COURSE
III.
MA/MFA/PHD CREATIVES In OTHER INSTITUTIONS
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OVERVIEW
Transart Institute, the global specialist in low-residency practice-based research, is offering two new innovative certificate courses to our PhD Preflight course to further the development of your creative praxis.
Each course is tailored to align with whichever stage of advanced creative practice you’ve reached. Whether you are simply looking to reinvigorate a longstanding praxis, want to find out more about practice-based research, or you are even actively preparing to apply to our Ph.D. in creative research program, we have precisely the option for you.
Workshops and seminars
Transart transdisciplinary workshops and seminars are topically driven.
Workshops address the development of artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or authoring tools, challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively in new ways. Students respond to assignments and exercises in whatever media they wish.
Seminars, the cultural studies equivalent of the workshops, help students put their work in context and find ways to inform their art projects through research while also getting experience articulating these new ideas, ways of thinking and making connections through readings, discussions, exercises, and assignments.
A THRIVING INTERNATIONAL PRAXIS
Our academy sessions support you individually and incrementally. Sessions advance in three-month trajectories. You may start with a Praxis Refresher course in the spring, continue with a PhD Explorer course in the fall, apply for the PhD, receive a PhD Preflight scholarship for spring, and embark on a PhD in the summer.
Alternatively, consider linking the praxis refresher course serially, exploring new workshops each round, and working with the same or new advisors for fresh input.
Continuing with your advisors privately after your Praxis Refresher course is another way to sustain your creative praxis.
We encourage you to join our peer creative praxis and research groups. Join us for one-week residencies and talks to keep your praxis vital, energized, and informed by connecting with other creatives in our intimate, international community.
Together with regular peer creative research groups, monthly dedicated advisor meetings, bonding and networking at workshops and residencies, and continuing to exhibit, perform, screen, and publish together, our academy and PhD program sessions are all excellent ways of creating a sustainable praxis.
ACADEMY COurses
ACADEMY PRAXIS Propeller COURSE
For artists with long-term praxes who do not want to pursue further degree studies but wish to revive, focus, and deepen their practice, enrich it with new resources, and connect with an international community for a creative surge.
If you’re a creative practitioner with long-term praxis who wants to revive, focus, and deepen your practice, then our Praxis Refresher course is just what you need to kickstart your personal revolution.
During this three-month course, you’ll enrich your praxis with new resources, nourish and strengthen your creativity by building new habits that will sustain and reinvigorate your praxis going forward, and connect with an international creative community for an energetic surge that will open up new artistic horizons for you.
This course includes three workshops, two talks, an optional one-week residency (space permitting), and a series of three one-to-one advisement meetings, and supports peer connection through a creative research and critique peer groups.
You can repeat the course with new workshops, residencies, and advisors, continue with your advisor on your own, or transition to a Practice PhD track to pursue a deep dive into a three-year project with us.
ACADEMY PHD EXPLORER COURSE
If you’ve been wondering about practice-based research and whether your creative praxis would be a good fit for work in this field, then this is the course for you.
You’ll spend time seeing and hearing how creatives just like you have embraced the turn towards practice-based research.
We’ll also show you how the key to unlocking this transformational shift in your praxis already lies within the work that you’re making.
You’ll work with experienced practice-based researchers to gain a deeper understanding of this exciting field, attend presentations by leading practitioners, and develop and share your own unique approach to working in this field with a group of like-minded peers.
This intensive course includes two seminars, one workshop, two talks, a one-to-one proposal meeting, and an optional one-week residency (space permitting).
With an accepted PhD Expression of Interest (EOI) proposal by the early deadline, advance to the Preflight course with a full scholarship in the spring.
ACADEMY CRASH COURSE TO CREATIVE RESEARCH
This fee-free course consists of two weekly online sessions designed to explore what creative research is and does, clarify your direction, and get you ready for your practice-based PhD.
First, come to our online discussion and get the wider picture from our faculty. Then, attend our tried and trusted proposal development workshop to hone your ideas.
Give yourself the luxury of allowing your ideas the time to unfold and emerge from reflection on your practice, and start to prepare for your doctoral project now - you might surprise yourself by being ready to apply sooner than you expect.
This course includes an online round-table panel primer and a proposal development session. With a proposal in the works, request a 30-minute one-to-one meeting with a program leader.
Apply to the early PhD admissions deadline to be eligible for a Preflight scholarship course or apply at the final deadline of March 15th deadline to start your PhD in July.
ACADEMY PREFLIGHT SCHOLARSHIP COURSE
In our current preflight PhD program, the institute is awarding early PhD applicants a three-month jump on their studies. Beginning in February, you’ll meet monthly with a dedicated advisor to refine your proposal, develop your critical vocabulary, and get a head start on readings to pace yourself, while building relationships with current students, faculty and your fellow incoming peers.
This course includes one-to-one meetings with your PhD advisor/s, three meetings with program leader sharing sessions, three meetings with your monthly class peer group ,and the option to participate in the January residency (space permitting). Register as a student by May 1st and attend our annual PhD residency in Liverpool in mid-July.