Diploma in Art & Design - Foundation Studies & Access to HE & Extended Diploma in Art & Design (Year 2)

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We’re thrilled you’ve chosen to become a As soon as we are able, we will let you Welcome to our creative community, and I am delighted to welcome you to the School part of the creative community at University know arrangements for the start of term, to an exciting future ahead. of Further Education at UCA and congratulate for the Creative Arts (UCA). which will include some online modules you on your choice to join what is regarded we would like you to complete before you At the University for the Creative Arts as the top specialist creative university in the To help prepare you for your studies, this arrive on campus, so do keep checking for (UCA), we specialise in individuals, like you, country. guide provides information on equipment communications from us. to discover where your true passions lie and and art materials you will need for workshops turning those passions into incredible work. At UCA, we fully appreciate that recent events and studio activities, details on educational If your offer was conditional on you achieving We’re proud to be the UK’s top specialist have been challenging for all our students, course trips and some campus specific email certain qualifications/grades, please creative university, and hold TEF Gold status both current and new. Some of you will have addresses, all of which we hope you find remember, after results day in August, to scan for our teaching quality, so you’re in the most missed out on the last few months of school useful. and email the requested qualifications to us expert of hands. and maybe concerned that your skill level is at [email protected] quoting your not where you hoped it would be. Please be We understand that this is a worrying time applicant number. With our support and guidance, you’ll discover reassured, we do understand, and are here to for everyone, but rest assured we are working a wealth of creativity, cultures and opportunity support you back into education, whether you hard to ensure we provide the best experience I hope you find the information enclosed within a nurturing environment, full of have been away for a few months or several we can for you. We are currently finalising our helpful but if you have any questions at any excellent resources and facilities, collaborative years. All we ask, is you arrive committed to start date and induction timetable and will be stage, then please do not hesitate to reach out projects and confidence-building showcases. your future, respectful of everyone within sending these to you in the coming weeks. to colleagues on the contact details provided, our community, and throw yourself into your they will be only too happy to help. Your time with us will equip you with the studies. We really want you to begin the next stage of skills, knowledge, and confidence you’ll need your studies as soon as possible and encourage We’re looking forward to welcoming you to to choose the next step in your education or Together, with my colleagues at UCA, I look you to engage with UCA’s culture. To motivate UCA Canterbury. venture into a new career. forward to welcoming you in person after your you to remain creative, you will find in this summer break. Until then, do read through this booklet your first course project brief, “How Kind regards. We’re delighted to welcome you and help you booklet carefully, enjoy your first assignment to become an art student – From Dystopia to reach your full potential. and it goes without saying, stay safe. Utopia”. This should be something enjoyable to Andrew Malone work on over the coming months, and we look Programme Director Best wishes, With kindest regards, forward to seeing your sketch books at the [email protected] start of term. Bashir Makhoul Sarah Clark Vice-Chancellor Head of School, Further Education *All information correct at the time of print – subject to amendment. Pre-arrival

DfE Rise in the Participation Age (RPA) Students who have successfully passed a L2 – Leaving School Functional Skill in Maths and/or English will In England, you can leave school on the last be exempt from studying GCSE Maths and/or Friday in June, assuming your 16th Birthday English on the condition they have previously falls before the end of that year’s summer attempted these GCSE qualifications. holidays. Students unable to provide evidence of If you were born on or after 1 September 2000, attainment of GCSE Maths and/or English at you are required to then stay in some form of Grade 4 or higher (or acceptable equivalent) education or training until your 18th Birthday. will be enrolled and required to attend weekly Your options are: GCSE Maths and/or English classes. Course Trips Contact Information – Full-time education – e.g. at a school or Each year there are a number of course trips Students are responsible for updating their Equipment and Materials college. to museums, galleries and locations that play Course Administrator, Amanda Theodorakis, Your course will pay for, or subsidise, most an important part in your study and serve of any changes throughout their studies. – An apprenticeship or traineeship. of the essential materials used during studio to inform and enrich your studio work and – Part-time education or training – as well activities such as drawing and practical portfolio. as being employed, self-employed or workshops. Amanda Theodorakis The range of trips vary according to availability volunteering for 20hrs or more a week. [email protected] In addition to this, UCA has carefully of venue and entry fees, but trips are for all or For more information you can visit this developed Personal Art Packs for your study, students and the cost, inclusive of transport, Campus Registry at Canterbury Government link: consisting of both specialist equipment and an is £70. [email protected] gov.uk/know-when-you-can-leave-school essential range of consumables. In addition, in your second year, there is a For help and information regarding bursaries, Your pack is currently £110. residential trip to Amsterdam for 5-6 days at a funding, and 16+ travel pass applications, GCSE Maths and English cost of £400* our specialist adviser, Colin Barnes, will Students are required to study Maths and/ These packs can be purchased via our online happily help. or English as part of their programme in each store: store.ucreative.ac.uk Whilst we will do our best to organise academic year. This applies to students: these trips, any of them going ahead will be Colin Barnes – aged 16 to 18 and 19 to 25 with an Education, As you progress through your course and dependent on the COVID-19 Guidelines. Once [email protected] Health and Care (EHC) Plan who do not hold decide which pathway to study, you may organised, these will become available to a GCSE Grade 9 to 4, A* to C (a standard require further specialist materials and purchase on the on-line portal. For help and information regarding student pass grade) or equivalent qualification in equipment. Many will continue to be provided accommodation, please contact our these subjects. free of charge, but the cost of others will vary Parental Consent Forms (for students under Accommodation Officer, David Edwards. depending on the nature and ambition of your the age of 18 at the start of the course) and This requirement is a condition of funding and work. Study Visit Health Declaration Forms are a David Edwards is part of the funding regulations. university requirement and part of the online [email protected] On campus, there is a very competitively enrolment process. The UCA Enrolment Process will require priced art shop, where you can buy additional UCA Online Store confirmation of GCSE attainment in Maths and *Whilst we’ll do our best to organise these notebooks, art materials, mounting materials, Please visit the UCA Online Store during your English or acceptable international equivalent, trips, due to the current situation relating to papers etc. and our Print Bureau offers both online enrolment to pay for your first year in the form of your original certificates (please Coronavirus, we’re unable to guarantee that photocopying and professional quality digital Personal Art Pack (£110). ensure you have these for your enrolment printing at heavily subsidised prices. they’ll run. during induction week). store.ucreative.ac.uk Summer Project How to become an art student – From Dystopia to Utopia

Welcome to Art School! In British Art Schools ideas from the Bauhaus To prepare you for the first few weeks at UCA, ‘Vorkurs’ were explored and adopted. here’s some information to keep you creatively busy over the summer. Artists and teachers such as Harry Thubron at Leeds, Victor Pasmore at Newcastle and The transformative year that you are about Roy Ascott at Ipswich, developed Foundation to embark upon is all about YOU. It’s your courses into the experimental and diagnostic time to indulge in making work that matters courses we know today, and which have to you, your emotions, views and thoughts. influenced generations of artists. It’s your ideas, your opinions, your creativity, your expression, your originality and your ‘(Artists) must learn a new way of seeing and Tasks for the Summer This could be made, depending on what is commitment that will see and steer you through understanding’. These words from the Bauhaus 1. Develop an online presence to show available to you, written, performed, animated, the coming months on this course; are you Manifesto of 1919 were as relevant to Britain in your work – this may be through one of constructed. ready? the 1950s as they were to post WW1 Germany the established platforms such as Flickr, and are as relevant to us today. Instagram or Behance, or you could develop Feel free to add your own activities, use digital Responding to challenging times your own website using WordPress, etc. media, upload, store, share, draw, photograph, Times of crisis provoke changes in outlook The impact of American Art Schools was also make, sew, collage, mix it up, play, keep in culture and society. What was acceptable key, Gropius attended Harvard, Moholy Nagy 2. Research a selection of the artists and mistakes, there’s no right no wrong, response before may no longer be appropriate for a attended the New Bauhaus School of Design sources listed below and record what you to the task, there is no single outcome here, changing world. A new way of thinking and in Chicago and Josef Albers taught at Black think – what do you see, what ideas and it’s a mixture of recordings, investigations, acting may be necessary. Mountain, an experimental college that opened processes are they using, what do you find challenges, explorations. in 1933. effective or moving about the work? This can After the First World War, Art Schools be done in your sketchbook. References for the Manifesto: responded to the upheaval in society, and some A generation of pioneering artists and First things first manifestos: 1960, 2000, 2014 began to search for new creative processes designers, Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly, 3. Make a Manifesto* for yourself. 100 Artists’ Manifestos: Danchev, A. (2011) 100 fit for new times – most notably the ‘Bauhaus’ Franz Kline, WilleM De Kooning, John Cage, What do you want to achieve? Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the in Germany and the ‘Vkhutemas’ in Russia, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, What do you want to change? Stuckists. London: Penguin. that created spaces for cultural and creative Paul Rand and Saul Bass emerged from this How are you going to do it? experiment and dialogue. scene. A utopian manifesto for a brave new year? What are your hopes, dreams and Cortia Kent & John Cage, Manifesto for Art students: They laid the foundations for the Modernist Some questions to consider – aspirations? movement and were a blueprint for Art and – What are your responses to the current https://www.brainpickings. *A manifesto is a published declaration of the Design education in Europe during the 20th crisis? How do you feel about it and how org/2012/08/10/10-rules-for-students-and- intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, Century and beyond. have you adapted to change? teachers-john-cage-corita-kent/ be it and individual, group, political party or – How have you used digital technology to The devastation of the Second World War government. A manifesto usually accepts enable you to continue creating work? What propelled Britain towards a more cooperative a previously published opinion or public value has creative activity now? outlook and produced a welfare state and the concensus or promotes a new idea with NHS. Post-war events such as the 1951 Festival – What are some advantages and prescriptive notions for carrying out changes of Britain promoted a forward-looking and disadvantages of online working? the author believes should be made. It is often dynamic culture inspired by the possibilities of – How do you see your education developing political or artistic in nature, but represent an technology. in the coming years? individual’s life stance. (Wiki) Activities to help you develop your ideas: don’t take your hand off the drawing References/Bibliography: Episode 1: Love and Power Starting points could be: (a continues line drawing). Make a view finder Suggestions for Artists and Creative https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60xjdl to observe, draw and photograph through. Practitioners to research for Task 2: Map: Make a series of maps that relate to your Consider what material you have to draw, paint, Episode 2: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational life: journeys, routes, locations. sew on that could be related to your ideas. Fine art Concepts Richard Billingham, Michael Landy, Shahzia https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60y8sj Memories: Your past; record / collect objects Inspiration for these activities was found in Sikander, Jan Francis, Louise Bourgeois, that relate to your childhood or inspire these books: Cornelia Parker, Lucy Orta, Lygia Clark, Mike Episode 3: The Monkey in the Machine and the memories. “How to be an explorer of the world” by Nelson, Doris Salcedo, Tracey Emin, Hamish Machine in the Monkey https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60y8sn A Day in the Life: Record / collect / Keri Smith Fulton, Richard Serra, Anthony Gormley, James https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Explorer- Turrell, Boyle Family, Stuart Hilton, Sarah write / draw things that happened today. Annely Juda Fine Art, Utopia/Dystopia Conversations / thoughts / journeys / food etc. World-Keri-Smith/dp/024195388X Sze, Tom Friedman, Kiri-Jane Stritton, Fred Tomaselli, Mark Bradford, Andy Jernigan, Willie Revisited – 19th September to 2nd November 2019 Investigate Space: Record your investigations “Sometimes I think, sometimes I am” by Sara Doherty, Helio Oiticica, Michael Clark. Fanelli and of five spaces that you like / dislike / unfamiliar Curated by Yuko Shiraishi and including works Bruno Monguzzi Gordon Matta-Clark to you. by contemporary artists Mariana Bisti, David http://www.sarafanelli.com/docs/ https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/ Greene (Archigram), Tadashi Kawamata, Mike Imaginary City: A Utopian City: green / eco- books/10sometimes/01.html tate-papers/07/towards-anarchitecture- Nelson, Kathy Prendergast, Ben Rivers, Yuko friendly / public spaces / transport systems. gordon-matta-clark-and-le-corbusier Bring your sketchbook full of these Shiraishi, Alison Turnbull, Richard Wilson and Walk: Daily walk: collect objects only on your investigations, findings, drawings, and Leonardo da Vinci Gary Woodley, as well as works by Frederick way / record these finds. explorations as well as your manifesto, https://www.rct.uk/collection/912698/a- Kiesler, Gustav Klucis, Lazar El Lissitzky, Kasimir whatever form that takes, to the first session of cloudburst-of-material-possessions Malevich, László Moholy-Nagy, Liubov Popova Sounds: Record, draw / describe the sounds your new course. and Georges Vantongerloo. The exhibition also that you are hearing now and what you wish to Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery includes a multitude of archival material relating carry on hearing. Why are we asking you to do this? in London, discussing his exhibition Alternative to the Russian constructivist architect Ivan To become an artist or designer, you have to Guide to the Universe, surveying “the work Leonidov, whose work was the starting point for Smell: Make a collection of scents and smells, be aware of the world around you, the context of self-taught artists and architects, fringe Shiraishi to curate this exhibition. try to visualise them. physicists and visionary inventors.” in which art and design is made, and your own http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/ view of the World. These are processes which exhibitions/utopia-dystopia-revisited Construct: Explore and record in three help you discover how you work, what makes https://kadist.org/program/alternative-guide- dimensions, using fabric, paper or found to-the-universe-with-ralph-rugoff/ you tick, and what you want to make work http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/ materials. about and how you want to do that. Adam Curtis - All Watched Over by Machines of downloads/files/online_catalogue_pages.pdf Tips and exercises: Draw with a variety of Loving Grace (thought provoking documentary media new to you: ink, brushes, oil, wax in 3 episodes) coloured pencils, crayons. Draw with sticks, tape, stich. Draw with your opposite hand, Esche, C. and Bradley, W., 2007. Art and Social Lens based media Change - London: Tate Publishing https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL- 8wl-YVyIUWkoIm7fBV7yXdtES9Bwe2kx This generous reader gathers texts, manifestos and proposals by artists and art groups across Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock the world from the last 150 years, who all https://youtu.be/_FMkGEZP3w0 expressed a desire to change society. Includes essays by Lucy Lippard, John Milner and Gerald Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho Raunig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhEgGx- aeCqM Borges, J., Yates, D., Irby, J., Feinstein, A., Maurois, A. and Packer, N., 2007. Labyrinths - The Lighthouse, Robert Eggars London, England: The Folio Society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weeXxqX- KOMw CALVINO, I. (1978). Invisible cities - New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Metropolis, Fritz Lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SArNZEc- Animations Dora Maar Downloadable PDF link below QWH4 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL- https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-mod- https://designopendata.files.wordpress. 8wl-YVyIUWker-EG9lbkzemgou-2jxGN ern/exhibition/dora-maar com/2014/06/calvino_italo_invisible_cities.pdf Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai- Prince Achmed, Lotte Reininger Lee Materazzi – Esche, C. and Bradley, W., 2007. Art and mAeeDx2p4 https://youtu.be/ZXQPZqOqe58 https://leematerazzi.com/ Social Change - London: Tate Publishing. Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau – Kearney, R. 1998. Poetics of Imagining - Animal Farm, John Halas Isabelle Wenzel https://youtu.be/FC6jFoYm3xs Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://youtu.be/XXkicQRl6vg https://www.isabelle-wenzel.com/ – More, T. Logan, G., Adams, R. and Miller, C., Breathless, Godard Fantastic Planet, Rene Laloux John Stezaker 1995. Utopia - Cambridge: University Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV5W- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnO1IO- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-stezak- f5VGVy8 JdfYs er-2000 The Farewell, Lulu Wang Smash and Grab, Pixar Spark Brooke Didonato https://youtube/RofpAjqwMa8 https://youtu.be/A4-G7YpSFb4 http://www.brookedidonato.com/ Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda Model Citizen, James Arsbey Joel Sternfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PN- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLrB- https://www.joelsternfeld.net/ HSkyCew JYGxk4 Ansel Adams Enough, Anna Mantzaris https://www.anseladams.com/ https://youtu.be/cx5z_p21cfs Cao Fei Photographers http://www.caofei.com/news.aspx Dorthea Lange Justine Kurland https://www.moma.org/artists/3373 https://www.miandn.com/artists/justine-kur- land Sonja Braas https://www.sonjabraas.com/ Alfredo Jaar https://alfredojaar.net/ Masahisa Fukase https://www.sonjabraas.com/ Drew Nikonowicz http://www.nikonowicz.com/ Philippe Halsman http://philippehalsman.com/ Man Ray https://www.moma.org/artists/3716 Childrens illustration Emmy Lupin: Fashion textiles Miro; great anti-Spanish Civil War posters Anthony Browne, Shaun Tan, Simon Bartram, Emmylupin.com/portfolio/illustrated-lockdown- Dystopia and Utopia Fashion and Textiles Links diary Annette Messager, Nancy Separo; installation Julia Pott, Gary Larson, Sara Fanelli, Neal and Designers Layton, Oliver Jeffers, Lauren Child, Camilla and banners Jennifer Baer: https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/ Engman dystopian-fashion1 society6.com/jenniferbaer Banksy, Christian Bolltanski, Jeremy Deller, Ken Mixed media Alexander McQueen [early collections] Gareth Garland, Julian Oppie, Bob and Roberta Smith, Artists draw life under coronavirus: Pugh, Anne Demeulemeester, Martin Margiela, Mark Wallinger, Candy Jernigan. Masa, in the Place, Lizzie Finn, Ingo politico.eu/interactive/drawing-our-new-normal Comme des Garcons, Martin Van Strien, Giezenbanner, Dimetrus Psillos, Manfred Typographers Richard Quinn, Rick Owens Pernice, Dave McKean Public Health Tips: https://artsandculture.google.com/ El Lissitzky, Malevich, Rodchenko, Karel Teige posterhouse.org/blog/public-health-tips Collage exhibit/fashion-utopias-international- (all Russian constructivists) fashion-showcase-2016-british-council/ Plastic Kid, Dr Alderete Mexican both in Stay Sane Stay Safe: TwJSXmaMO0XdJQ?hl=en Jan Tschichold, Bauhaus graphic design Illustrator in The Place, Michelle Thompson, stay-sane-stay-safe.com Martin O’Neill, James Gallagher, Cless, Clara Hussain Chalayan, Simone Rocha, Victor Josef Müller-Brockmann, Wolfgang Weingart; Mata, EDUARDO Recife, Jake Tilson, Julian A Social Distance: and Rolf, Stella McCartney, Molly Goddard, Swiss graphic design House vimeo.com/408043343 Christopher Raeburn, Jessica Ogden, Stefan Sagmeister In Good Company: A campaign to bring joy, Julie Arkell Location / Observational Drawing art and colour to the streets so that people can https://www.showstudio.com Paul Davis, Ben Kelly British illustrator / painter Saul Bass (Posters and animations for spread positivity with art. Hitchcock’s film very now retro graphics) also tutor here, Kerrie Jane Stritton, Lucinda Visual communication Rogers, Laura Lees, Oliver Kugler https://ingoodcompany.webshop.fyi/ John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch; anti-Nazi Corita Kent Anti War Fine Acts: Today, more than anything, humanity images Drawing and Painting needs hope and art is hope. That’s why Jamie Reid (Punk) Le Gun, Paul Davis, Billy Jean, Nigel Peak, Fine Acts is starting SPRING OF HOPE. We El Lissitzky, Rodenchenko Russian Hannah Barton, Seb Jarnot, Jon Burgerman, commissioned a selection of amazing artists Constructivists (wonderful political posters), Illustrators David Foldvari, Johnny Hardstaff, Kate Moross from around the world whom we admire – and Fluxus movement, anti-Vietnam War and Ian Pollock, Ralph Steadman, Gerald Scarfe, they gave us their best. globalisation David Hughes, David Shrigley; Satirical Type and Image https://fineacts.co/hope Jonny Hannah, Stuart Kolakovic, Nina Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Hamilton, Chakrabarti, Graham Rawle, Daisy De Patrick Caulfield; Pop Art Villeneuve, Mianne Banjtes Barbara Krugger; photo-montage, billboard ‘Flatten the curve’ animation: type work anti-consumer vimeo.com/414349909 Type and Image Continued 3D Design Posters by Pentagram, Studio Makgill and Le Corbusier, Lucy Orta, Lygia Clark, Ernesto other designers, in response to the pandemic: Netto, Mike Nelson, Stuart Haygarth, James https://layers.design/products/ Turrell, Julie Arkell, Tord Boontje, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Sze, Tom Friedman, Michael Pentagram: Home Poems is a series of ten very Clark, Helio Oiticica, Assemble, Paul Neagu. short films featuring ten very short poems about things we can consider and enjoy inside How to Make with Zoe Laughlin. BBC4 our homes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ https://www.pentagram.com/news/home- m000gwzg poems What Design Can do, New Ideas for a Better British Red Cross, Kindness posters, various World designers and illustrators: www.whatdesigncando.com giftshop.redcross.org.uk/pages/downloadable- limited-edition-prints Grayson Perry: Art Club Channel 4 https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ Jackarts: graysons-art-club jackarts.co.uk/latest-work/community-is- kindness Assemble. https://assemblestudio.co.uk/ Max Siedentopf: Home a loan Surival Guide http://maxsiedentopf.com/home-alone- Lucy Orta. survival-guide/ https://www.studio-orta.com/

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