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Category: Craft Studies
13.02.2025
Craft Studies MA programme online info session 2025
Craft Studies
EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions from the people behind the programme.
The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.
If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.
Register HERE
More information about the Craft Studies MA programme: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/craft-studies/overview/
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.
Posted by Maarja Pabut — Permalink
Craft Studies MA programme online info session 2025
Thursday 13 February, 2025
Craft Studies
EKA Craft Studies MA programme invites prospective master’s students to join the programme’s online info session on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:00 EET (local Estonian time).
This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the curriculum, and to meet and ask questions from the people behind the programme.
The online info session will be hosted online over Zoom and the link will be e-mailed out to all registrants 2 hours before the start of the event.
If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below.
Register HERE
More information about the Craft Studies MA programme: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/craft-studies/overview/
Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2025 and application deadline is 3rd of March 2025.
Posted by Maarja Pabut — Permalink
03.01.2025 — 17.01.2025
International Group Exhibition “Abundance” in T1 Shopping Center
Craft Studies
On Friday, January 3rd 2025 at 17:00 the group exhibition “Abundance” opens on the second floor of T1 shopping center (next to the central atrium).
The exhibition includes works by Emily Greenwood, Ulvi Haagensen, Cecile Hübner, Heleliis Hõim, Erki Kasemets, Sandra Kosorotova, Gary Markle and Sigrid Viir.
“Abundance” delves into the themes of invisible systems in the age of consumerism. By organizing an exhibition in a shopping center, a question of dealing with the existing surrounding arises. How do we work both with and against the overwhelming presence of consumerism and capitalism? The exhibition acts as a space to take time, observe and briefly escape from the sea of information. It aims to slow down visitors and make them reflect on their surroundings.
The exhibition is curated by Piret Arukaevu, Sylvia Burgess, Maia Hellman, Kaur Järve, Marite Kuus and Mariam Mestvirishvili as part of the Curatorial Studies Seminar, led by Brigit Arop, at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition is open from 03.01–17.01.2025.
Open hours:
Tue–Fri 16:00–20:00,
Sat–Sun 12:00–20:00
Finissage event on Friday, January 17th at 17:00, programming will begin at 17:30.
Information about public programming during the exhibition will be announced on the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/2404807066531874
Graphic design by Andrew Hill.
The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Academy of Arts, department of Art History and Visual Culture and Craft Studies.
Special thanks to T1 Mall of Tallinn and SUHE bar.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
International Group Exhibition “Abundance” in T1 Shopping Center
Friday 03 January, 2025 — Friday 17 January, 2025
Craft Studies
On Friday, January 3rd 2025 at 17:00 the group exhibition “Abundance” opens on the second floor of T1 shopping center (next to the central atrium).
The exhibition includes works by Emily Greenwood, Ulvi Haagensen, Cecile Hübner, Heleliis Hõim, Erki Kasemets, Sandra Kosorotova, Gary Markle and Sigrid Viir.
“Abundance” delves into the themes of invisible systems in the age of consumerism. By organizing an exhibition in a shopping center, a question of dealing with the existing surrounding arises. How do we work both with and against the overwhelming presence of consumerism and capitalism? The exhibition acts as a space to take time, observe and briefly escape from the sea of information. It aims to slow down visitors and make them reflect on their surroundings.
The exhibition is curated by Piret Arukaevu, Sylvia Burgess, Maia Hellman, Kaur Järve, Marite Kuus and Mariam Mestvirishvili as part of the Curatorial Studies Seminar, led by Brigit Arop, at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Exhibition is open from 03.01–17.01.2025.
Open hours:
Tue–Fri 16:00–20:00,
Sat–Sun 12:00–20:00
Finissage event on Friday, January 17th at 17:00, programming will begin at 17:30.
Information about public programming during the exhibition will be announced on the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/2404807066531874
Graphic design by Andrew Hill.
The exhibition is supported by the Estonian Academy of Arts, department of Art History and Visual Culture and Craft Studies.
Special thanks to T1 Mall of Tallinn and SUHE bar.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
30.11.2024 — 12.12.2024
Project “MUUSA” finissage
Craft Studies
On November 30, the presentation of the visually formatted process model and exhibition of the project “MUUSA: Synthesis and Development of Material Research” supported by the Ministry of Culture will take place.
The exhibition in the format of an open studio includes both completed and unfinished material assemblages and supporting structures. The MUUSA project was carried out by lecturers from the Estonian Academy of Arts and the heads of the Craft Studies Master’s programme, Kärt Ojavee and Juss Heinsalu.
One of the goals of the project was to develop a model of creative research based on materials using the co-creation method. During the work period, different versions were tested and synthesized and, for example, the following were studied: how to approach the study of the composition and properties of materials in creative practice; how to apply material as a method in managing the process; how to involve material as a muse to guide creative goals and interpretive solutions? The study of materials through artistic practice involves both meaning-making, sensory approaches, and the discovery and integration of the applicable properties of materials in possible final results. Eik Hermann helped to conceptualize and formulate the process based on the material and the knowledge generated through collaboration.
* moment of appearance – the moment when one production cycle has been completed and the work has reached the draft or rough draft level, when it can either be tried out in reality or temporarily or permanently shared with a smaller or larger audience; if it is a moment of showing the draft phase, then a new production cycle follows the showing.
During the project, collaboration has also been carried out with Marie Vihmari, Fibenol OÜ, Reval Stone and AAA Patent Office.
The project presentation will take place at Kopli 27.
The project space can be visited until 12.12.2024 by agreement with the authors.
MUUSA project space exhibition design: Annika Kaldoja
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Project manager: Anna Lohmatova
Thanks to: Eik Hermann, Piret Valk, Gert Preegel, Janno Rauk, Soldi Rent OÜ, Eesti Killustik OÜ, Villavennad OÜ, Selgase Dolomitit OÜ, Mattias Veller, Estonian Academy of Arts Research and Development Department, Ceramics, Textiles, Jewelry and Blacksmithing, Sculpture Workshops, Bruce Anderson, Joosep Kivimäe, Gary Markle, Andrus Ojavee, Heron Vrubel.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
Project “MUUSA” finissage
Saturday 30 November, 2024 — Thursday 12 December, 2024
Craft Studies
On November 30, the presentation of the visually formatted process model and exhibition of the project “MUUSA: Synthesis and Development of Material Research” supported by the Ministry of Culture will take place.
The exhibition in the format of an open studio includes both completed and unfinished material assemblages and supporting structures. The MUUSA project was carried out by lecturers from the Estonian Academy of Arts and the heads of the Craft Studies Master’s programme, Kärt Ojavee and Juss Heinsalu.
One of the goals of the project was to develop a model of creative research based on materials using the co-creation method. During the work period, different versions were tested and synthesized and, for example, the following were studied: how to approach the study of the composition and properties of materials in creative practice; how to apply material as a method in managing the process; how to involve material as a muse to guide creative goals and interpretive solutions? The study of materials through artistic practice involves both meaning-making, sensory approaches, and the discovery and integration of the applicable properties of materials in possible final results. Eik Hermann helped to conceptualize and formulate the process based on the material and the knowledge generated through collaboration.
* moment of appearance – the moment when one production cycle has been completed and the work has reached the draft or rough draft level, when it can either be tried out in reality or temporarily or permanently shared with a smaller or larger audience; if it is a moment of showing the draft phase, then a new production cycle follows the showing.
During the project, collaboration has also been carried out with Marie Vihmari, Fibenol OÜ, Reval Stone and AAA Patent Office.
The project presentation will take place at Kopli 27.
The project space can be visited until 12.12.2024 by agreement with the authors.
MUUSA project space exhibition design: Annika Kaldoja
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Project manager: Anna Lohmatova
Thanks to: Eik Hermann, Piret Valk, Gert Preegel, Janno Rauk, Soldi Rent OÜ, Eesti Killustik OÜ, Villavennad OÜ, Selgase Dolomitit OÜ, Mattias Veller, Estonian Academy of Arts Research and Development Department, Ceramics, Textiles, Jewelry and Blacksmithing, Sculpture Workshops, Bruce Anderson, Joosep Kivimäe, Gary Markle, Andrus Ojavee, Heron Vrubel.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
29.11.2024 — 26.01.2025
Selected Interventions
Craft Studies
The works of EKA students offer a new look at Estonian design classics at the exhibition Selected Interventions
On the 29th of November, the exhibition Selected Interventions will open at the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design. Selected Interventions is a collection of new works and dialogues within the museum’s permanent exhibitions by the MA students of Craft Studies of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
The MA programme brings together people from various backgrounds and with a deep interest in materials and making. The Craft Studies curriculum expands on understanding contemporary crafts and advances professional development, critical expression, and artistic research into materials, processes, concepts and identities.
Through this unique intervention, the exhibition examines the works of applied art and design classics on display in the permanent exhibitions Collected Works and Introduction to Estonian Design.
Based on their background and interests, each student selected a piece, a series of works, or an artist to have a closer dialogue with. They were encouraged to respond with new pieces based on past techniques, approaches, materials, stories, aesthetics, forms, and more. This project consists of interventions that redirect our attention, study the heritage or add a new layer of meaning.
“I was intrigued by the opposition of qualities Rait Präät’s work gives; the glass was no longer used as glass but as a layered cake, painting each floor with a different life. Prääts’ work made me question the choices we make about storing memory in our bodies and minds. What do we put in the frame? What do we perceive?” explains Craft Studies student Sofiya Babiy.
Selected Interventions includes work by Sofiya Babiy, Iohan Figueroa Rojas, Rait Lõhmus, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Alyona Movko-Mägi, Katariin Mudist, Maarja Mäemets, Kati Saarits, Hannah Segerkrantz, and Elias Sormanen.
The project was supervised by Juss Heinsalu and Kärt Ojavee.
Selected Interventions is a satellite exhibition of the 9th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial.
The exhibition tours conducted by students of Craft Studies will take place on 30.11 at 13:00 (in Estonian), 7.12 at 13:00 (in Russian) and 14.12 at 13:00 (in English).
More information: Sandra Nuut, tel: +372 58717871
Follow the announcements at etdm.ee
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
Selected Interventions
Friday 29 November, 2024 — Sunday 26 January, 2025
Craft Studies
The works of EKA students offer a new look at Estonian design classics at the exhibition Selected Interventions
On the 29th of November, the exhibition Selected Interventions will open at the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design. Selected Interventions is a collection of new works and dialogues within the museum’s permanent exhibitions by the MA students of Craft Studies of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
The MA programme brings together people from various backgrounds and with a deep interest in materials and making. The Craft Studies curriculum expands on understanding contemporary crafts and advances professional development, critical expression, and artistic research into materials, processes, concepts and identities.
Through this unique intervention, the exhibition examines the works of applied art and design classics on display in the permanent exhibitions Collected Works and Introduction to Estonian Design.
Based on their background and interests, each student selected a piece, a series of works, or an artist to have a closer dialogue with. They were encouraged to respond with new pieces based on past techniques, approaches, materials, stories, aesthetics, forms, and more. This project consists of interventions that redirect our attention, study the heritage or add a new layer of meaning.
“I was intrigued by the opposition of qualities Rait Präät’s work gives; the glass was no longer used as glass but as a layered cake, painting each floor with a different life. Prääts’ work made me question the choices we make about storing memory in our bodies and minds. What do we put in the frame? What do we perceive?” explains Craft Studies student Sofiya Babiy.
Selected Interventions includes work by Sofiya Babiy, Iohan Figueroa Rojas, Rait Lõhmus, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Alyona Movko-Mägi, Katariin Mudist, Maarja Mäemets, Kati Saarits, Hannah Segerkrantz, and Elias Sormanen.
The project was supervised by Juss Heinsalu and Kärt Ojavee.
Selected Interventions is a satellite exhibition of the 9th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial.
The exhibition tours conducted by students of Craft Studies will take place on 30.11 at 13:00 (in Estonian), 7.12 at 13:00 (in Russian) and 14.12 at 13:00 (in English).
More information: Sandra Nuut, tel: +372 58717871
Follow the announcements at etdm.ee
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
30.05.2024 — 09.06.2024
Objects or Things exhibition at Krulli Quarter
Craft Studies
The material-led group exhibition “Objects or Things” opens on May 30th at 18:00 in the Krull Quarter.
Objects or Things brings together ten master students from the academy’s new Craft Studies program, presenting works in various materials, including glass, metal, stone, textile and ceramics. The presented works stay on the border between objects and things and question the importance of functionality with their nature, combining different craft disciplines. The group members position themselves in between the worlds of art, design, and craft, brought together by a deep interest in the nature and roles that different materials shaped by humans have and occupy. The crafts represent traditions with long histories that are nevertheless alive and capable of changing with the world.
Participants: Sofiya Babiy, Iohan Figueroa, Rait Lõhmus, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Katariin Mudist, Maarja Mäemets, Alyona Movko-Mägi, Kati Saarits, Hannah Segerkrantz, and Elias Sormanen.
Objects or Things is open from 31.05–9.06.2024, Fri-Sat 13:00–19:00, or by appointment. Address: Kopli 70a, Krulli Quarter, 2nd floor.
This exhibition is part of the TASE satellite programming.
For more information and rsvp, please contact Maarja Mäemets maarja.maemets@artun.ee
The exhibition opening is sponsored by Põhjala Brewery.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
Objects or Things exhibition at Krulli Quarter
Thursday 30 May, 2024 — Sunday 09 June, 2024
Craft Studies
The material-led group exhibition “Objects or Things” opens on May 30th at 18:00 in the Krull Quarter.
Objects or Things brings together ten master students from the academy’s new Craft Studies program, presenting works in various materials, including glass, metal, stone, textile and ceramics. The presented works stay on the border between objects and things and question the importance of functionality with their nature, combining different craft disciplines. The group members position themselves in between the worlds of art, design, and craft, brought together by a deep interest in the nature and roles that different materials shaped by humans have and occupy. The crafts represent traditions with long histories that are nevertheless alive and capable of changing with the world.
Participants: Sofiya Babiy, Iohan Figueroa, Rait Lõhmus, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Katariin Mudist, Maarja Mäemets, Alyona Movko-Mägi, Kati Saarits, Hannah Segerkrantz, and Elias Sormanen.
Objects or Things is open from 31.05–9.06.2024, Fri-Sat 13:00–19:00, or by appointment. Address: Kopli 70a, Krulli Quarter, 2nd floor.
This exhibition is part of the TASE satellite programming.
For more information and rsvp, please contact Maarja Mäemets maarja.maemets@artun.ee
The exhibition opening is sponsored by Põhjala Brewery.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
01.05.2021 — 01.11.2023
Algae in Design education
Craft Studies
Dezeen is featuring our international collaborative project Algae for Design-led Transition Towards Blue Bio-economy and the exhibition Seaweed Ceremony.
Algae for Design-led Transition Towards Blue Bio-economy
“Over the years, the design and architecture faculties of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) have focused on local environments – from post-industrial landscapes to wild forests and the Baltic Sea.
“While focusing on process and experience-led methods in design education, EKA has been involved in the following ongoing project, including summer schools, fieldwork, laboratory experiments, exhibitions and published texts.
“The main objective of the joint projects is to realise the potential of what is emergent – to co-design alternative pathways for bio-economy development in the Nordic-Baltic region – while preserving the health and well-being of ecosystems.
Read more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/27/estonian-academy-of-arts-algae-project-schoolshows/
Blue Bio-economy project is funded by Nordplus.
Posted by Juss Heinsalu — Permalink
Algae in Design education
Saturday 01 May, 2021 — Wednesday 01 November, 2023
Craft Studies
Dezeen is featuring our international collaborative project Algae for Design-led Transition Towards Blue Bio-economy and the exhibition Seaweed Ceremony.
Algae for Design-led Transition Towards Blue Bio-economy
“Over the years, the design and architecture faculties of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) have focused on local environments – from post-industrial landscapes to wild forests and the Baltic Sea.
“While focusing on process and experience-led methods in design education, EKA has been involved in the following ongoing project, including summer schools, fieldwork, laboratory experiments, exhibitions and published texts.
“The main objective of the joint projects is to realise the potential of what is emergent – to co-design alternative pathways for bio-economy development in the Nordic-Baltic region – while preserving the health and well-being of ecosystems.
Read more:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/27/estonian-academy-of-arts-algae-project-schoolshows/
Blue Bio-economy project is funded by Nordplus.
Posted by Juss Heinsalu — Permalink
06.02.2023
Scan Magazine interview
Craft Studies
Craft Studies @ Scan Magazine
Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA): Develop your field at Estonia’s world-leading arts academy
By Lena Hunter
Inside the Craft Studies Master’s programme
The Craft Studies course is spearheaded by the interdisciplinary artists Juss Heinsalu and Kärt Ojavee, whose own practices in ceramics, smart textiles and broader material exploration shape the uniquely inquisitive curriculum. Accepting some ten students per year, the course offers a framework for drafting individual material-based practice and advancing critical thinking.
“It’s a heavily studio-based approach, composed of one-on-one mentoring, collaborative and unconventional learning experiences. In the contemporary world, studio practice is not something fixed. Nomadic aspects have to be considered. The crucial footwork – collective field trips – takes us to the local bogs, wild woods and coastal boundaries here by the Baltic Sea, as well as on journeys further afield,” explains Heinsalu.
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Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA): Develop your field at Estonia’s world-leading arts academy
Posted by Juss Heinsalu — Permalink
Scan Magazine interview
Monday 06 February, 2023
Craft Studies
Craft Studies @ Scan Magazine
Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA): Develop your field at Estonia’s world-leading arts academy
By Lena Hunter
Inside the Craft Studies Master’s programme
The Craft Studies course is spearheaded by the interdisciplinary artists Juss Heinsalu and Kärt Ojavee, whose own practices in ceramics, smart textiles and broader material exploration shape the uniquely inquisitive curriculum. Accepting some ten students per year, the course offers a framework for drafting individual material-based practice and advancing critical thinking.
“It’s a heavily studio-based approach, composed of one-on-one mentoring, collaborative and unconventional learning experiences. In the contemporary world, studio practice is not something fixed. Nomadic aspects have to be considered. The crucial footwork – collective field trips – takes us to the local bogs, wild woods and coastal boundaries here by the Baltic Sea, as well as on journeys further afield,” explains Heinsalu.
…
Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA): Develop your field at Estonia’s world-leading arts academy
Posted by Juss Heinsalu — Permalink