Professional Development
Artist Teacher Scheme
BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham City University
Rewarding both professionally and personally, our courses fit into the lives of busy working people. Based
at the School of Art in the centre of Birmingham, students come from across the Midlands and beyond. We
partner with Ikon and The New Art Gallery Walsall to give you the professional development opportunities
you need: time to think, reconnect with contemporary art-practice and re-energise your teaching. Our
students continue with research at higher levels, are promoted within the world of art education, establish
their own successful art practice or find their study enables them to take a sideways step into another art
related career. We are interested in hearing from experienced or aspiring teachers, artists, learning
curators and informal educators, in educational contexts from early years through to old age.
“The benefits of becoming part of a creative community outside the school challenged my thinking about my role as an
artist and educator. I found the entire experience fulfilling personally and professionally. Becoming engaged in making
my own art work again; thinking and contextualising my work as an artist has encouraged me to extend this into the
classroom and challenge my students to do the same.”
Artist Teacher Scheme 2010/11
The Artist Teacher Scheme
Stage 1 Summer School - £300
July 23rd - 27th 2012. - An intense week that combines practical workshops, lectures and seminars at the
School of Art, Margaret Street with the opportunity to engage with contemporary practice first-hand in the
gallery context.
Stage 2 Saturday Programme - £300
Eight Saturdays from September - July culminating in an exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. Meet
artists, hear from successful and creative practitioners in the field of art education, develop your own
practice, be an artist again, challenge your teaching, network with like-minded teachers, ...Just some of the
outcomes that the ATS provides.
MA Arts and Education
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time - £2250 part-time, £4500 full-time
Our long standing education MA with core modules in historical and current issues in art and design
education, narratives of teaching and learning in art education and independent research into your own
areas of interest.
MA Arts Practice and Education
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time - £2250 part-time, £4500 full-time
Combine an MA in Fine Art or Art and Design with core modules from MA Arts and Education. Taught
alongside peers on the MA Fine Art and MA Arts and Design courses you have full and joint access to the
School of Art workshops and facilities.
The Art Based Masters provides a wide variety of option modules from MA Fine Art, MA Art and Design, MA
History of Art and Design, MA Art, Health and Wellbeing, MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice, MA Arts
and Project Management, MA Queer Studies in Art and Design, MA Digital Arts and Performance.
For more information about our courses please see our website http://www.bcu.ac.uk/biad or contact
Carol.Wild@bcu.ac.uk.
