Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design – Applied Textiles) Gain professional skills in applied textiles. Students focus their interests in the second year and create a major body of work in their final year.
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This programme provides training in applied textiles for the natural fibre primary sector and for self-employed designers and artists. Students are encouraged to explore their own identity; this forms the foundation of the core principles used in creating an active learning environment.
Programme information Year 1 Core papers include: >> Applied studio (full year) >> Context in practice >> Origins >> Drawing 1 >> Digital studio >> Illustration >> Photography Textile techniques taught from year one include sustainable processes, in surface design, dyes on natural fibres, sculptural applications and patternmaking, garment construction. Learning is applied to arts collaborations, exhibition and industry internships.
Year 2 Papers include:
Students are mentored to enter quality works into international textile exhibitions and symposiums
>> Applied studio (full year) >> Contextual practice >> Contextual studies >> Creative enterprise >> Drawing and design >> Exhibition
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ADDITIONAL information Programme information
The learning environment
Year 3 >> Body of work
Collaborative projects across the Arts faculty build skills for internships, e.g. costume design, dyes on fibre, pattern making, felt, screen print and construction techniques. Small batch production skills are taught. This provides students with a pathway to build understanding of industry constraints.
Under intensive workshop mentoring and guidance, students develop a research enquiry leading to a personalised body of works. The conceptual content and research carried out in studio space generates a solo mid-year exhibition and a groupshow organised by students at the end of the year. >> Industry internships as special topics Students may undertake a special topic in negotiation with media tutors and develop collaborative proposals to meet selfdirected study goals. >> Research and presentation >> Creative enterprise The mid-year student presentation, a solo show, includes industry representatives who are invited to give feedback on arts practice.
Qualification Graduates gain the Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design)
Location Porirua campus, Wineera Drive, Porirua
Creative arts entrepreneurial events, e.g. exhibitions, installations, fashion shows and making works for charity and social causes. National and international workshop tutorials and textile events add mentoring in fibre arts and shibori-shape resit methods on textiles, for example, Marjolein Dallinga, a fine arts felt designer from Canada (having designed previously for Cirque du Soleil), held a workshop at Whitireia in 2013 which in turn led to an exhibition at the Bowen gallery, Parliament buildings, Wellington.
Student highlights The inaugural Mana Zonta scholarship award and ceremony in 2012 was won by Whitireia student Kerry Reddy for Textiles, based on her future goals after graduation. The event was organised by Textile alumni Olivia Giles who operates her own events business. Many graduates continue on with successful exhibition practice e.g. Clare Smith who won the Changing Threads award; a curated competition in Nelson which recognises contemporary New Zealand textile arts.
Start dates February
Duration Three years, full-time
Level 7
Fees Fees for next year will be available on the Whitireia website from August.
Entry requirements Domestic: Whitireia degree entry requirements; evidence of suitability based on interview and portfolio International: IELTS 6.0 (no band lower than 5.5)
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Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design – Applied Textiles)
October 2014