Contemporary Arts Practice MA MA

Mobilise your art practice and take it into the real world. You’ll get to work in our on-campus ProjeCt space or off-site, hosting public exhibitions and exploring new forms of public engagement. You will be supported to build meaningful professional relationships with local and global communities and audiences.

For 25/26 entry.

This dynamic MA in Contemporary Arts Practice will equip you with transferable and industry-relevant skills, including end-to-end creative project management, enabling you to become resilient and independent as a practitioner.

The course is ideal for students with visual arts backgrounds, but also relevant to other arts-related disciplines. You’ll have scope to use a diverse range of materials, processes and approaches, and will benefit from working in a trans-disciplinary environment.

There will also be plenty of opportunities to spark critical artistic discourse and explore cultural contexts by creating work through public encounters. Artists are instrumental in rethinking social and physical environments, helping to build cultural infrastructure through critical thinking. On the MA you will draw on issues you feel passionate about as a ‘citizen-artist’.

The MA encompasses the vital relationships between the local and global, with plans for collaborations with partner institutions. Other forms of public engagement include connecting with groups and organisations in Stoke-on-Trent and London through fieldwork and residencies.

On campus, you will have your own individual studio space, and access to our full range of workshops, enabling you to engage with digital and analogue processes and materials.

You will work alongside our highly-skilled technicians and academic staff, who engage a range of interdisciplinary topics and are national and international artists and researchers.

For 25/26 entry.

This dynamic MA in Contemporary Arts Practice will equip you with transferable and industry-relevant skills, including end-to-end creative project management, enabling you to become resilient and independent as a practitioner.

The course is ideal for students with visual arts backgrounds, but also relevant to other arts-related disciplines. You’ll have scope to use a diverse range of materials, processes and approaches, and will benefit from working in a trans-disciplinary environment.

There will also be plenty of opportunities to spark critical artistic discourse and explore cultural contexts by creating work through public encounters. Artists are instrumental in rethinking social and physical environments, helping to build cultural infrastructure through critical thinking. On the MA you will draw on issues you feel passionate about as a ‘citizen-artist’.

The MA encompasses the vital relationships between the local and global, with plans for collaborations with partner institutions. Other forms of public engagement include connecting with groups and organisations in Stoke-on-Trent and London through fieldwork and residencies.

On campus, you will have your own individual studio space, and access to our full range of workshops, enabling you to engage with digital and analogue processes and materials.

You will work alongside our highly-skilled technicians and academic staff, who engage a range of interdisciplinary topics and are national and international artists and researchers.

The programme offers a sequence of core modules in practice-based research, providing methodological, theoretical and contextual foundations for developing a robust and relevant practice.

Students gain practical experience through direct engagement with places and communities and develop their own creative directions through their final major project.

Faculty and students build close and supportive relationships through structured critiques and tutorials, seminars, and informal conversations.

The programme offers a sequence of core modules in practice-based research, providing methodological, theoretical and contextual foundations for developing a robust and relevant practice.

Students gain practical experience through direct engagement with places and communities and develop their own creative directions through their final major project.

Faculty and students build close and supportive relationships through structured critiques and tutorials, seminars, and informal conversations.