Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
The last 60 years

5th of October at 2.00 p.m. - the opening
The Roundabout Art Gallery in Katowice

International Print Triennial Cracow 2007 BIS

Roundabout Art Gallery in Katowice
7th of August, 7 p.m. – opening
7.30 p.m. Duo Viceprezesi concert
20th of October – closing of the exhibition
and discussion concerning contemporary
graphic.
Curator – Darek Gajewski

Graduates Meeting

Saturday, 6th of October
Raciborska 37

This year Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice is celebrating the 60th
anniversary of foundation and the 5th anniversary of  becoming
independent. For this occasion the Academy invites all graduates
for a whole-day meeting and a ball on Saturday the 6th of October 2007
in the main building of AFA at Raciborska 37.

Meeting agenda:
9.00 a.m. - The start of the Meeting (Raciborska 37)
10.00 a.m. - The official reception and visiting the studios
(at Koszarowa and Raciborska Street)
12.00  - Visiting the studios (Dąbrówki Street)
2.00 – 4.00 p.m. Freetime
4.00 p.m. - The opening of Jubilee Exhibition
(Roundabout Art Gallery, Rondo gen. Ziętka 1)
6.30 p.m. – Coming back to Raciborska Street, Evening Party
8.00 p.m. – The Ceremonial Opening of the Graduates Ball
 
We kindly ask every graduate to pass on the message to the colleagues.

The cost is 130 PLN
Registration: Mrs Stanislawa Goławska, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice,
tel. +48 32 251 69 89, e-mail: dziekanat2@aspkat.edu.pl

Public master's thesis defence

2-6 July 2007, the Roundabout Art Gallery
9-27 July 2007, the Exhibition of Diploma 2007
10 July 2007, 6.00 p.m. the Opening of exhibition
and presenting the prizes for the winners
of the Best Diploma Competition 2007.
The sponsor of the competition is BPSC.

This year, like every year in AFA, the students of 5th year will defend
their master's thesis in public. This is a unique occasion to see how to
become a qualified artist or designer. This time for the title of master
will run 10 students from Painting department, 7 from Graphic Design
dept., 13 from Graphic Art dept. and 8 from Design dept.

Everyone might be a participant of the discussion and ask questions
to young artists, not only the professors. “Undoubtely the master's
thesis defence is a stressful experience, especially for
the young candidates who become surprised with the level
of professionalism of their older friends’ works. We try to explain
this is not what we expect from the candidates but the graduates.
The candidates don’t need to be so skilled” says the Rector of AFA
prof. Marian Oslislo.

Thanks to cooperation with BPSC the Academy could organize the Best
Diploma Competition for the second time. Last year the main prize
was won by Kasia Sokołowska for the project of cardiosurgical robot body.
“We came up with the idea of sponsoring the best diploma projects
in AFA a few years ago during the conversation with already deceased
artist and our friend Tomasz Struk. The competition and publishing
a calendar is just an origin for the idea of the cooperation of art
and business. Our aim is not only to participate in such cooperation
but also encourage our partner companies to do the same” says
the president of BPSC Ignacy Miedziński.

Trust Me

The unique project in Roundabout Art Gallery in Katowice

Between 25th – 30th of June the New Media Studio at AFA in Katowice
and Media Faculty from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany present
the common project related to condition of modern art and defining
the art in a new place in Katowice - Roundabout Art Gallery.
The project will consist of  exhibition, workshops, performance
and concerts. Among the various works concerning the theme
“Trust me” we will see multimedia projects, photographs and many
other interesting enterprises.

The big come back of Andrzej Prusek

The 30th of June in Roundabout Art Gallery there will be a concert
of Andrzej Prusak, the budding pop star of 70-ties whose talent was
devasteted by the communist system. Once forced to emigrate he
comes back after several years to continue his career in the same
place where it stopped in 1974…

Andrzej Prusek has finished conservatory in Kielce where his talent
was revealed during one of the song festivals. Unfortunately he
couldn’t study music in Katowice but he was continuing his education
at classical music faculty in Gdańsk  He was developing his carrer
as a tenor and a choir singer in Szczecin and Gdańsk when he was
chosen among 13 singers to give concerts abroad. After falling
of the berlin wall he settled down in Brandenburgia and currently works
for the National Theatre in Weimar.

Design workshops and Mobile Gallery of Design

Wednesday, 20th of June,
11.00 a.m (workshops), 3.00 p.m. opening of the exhibition

The Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn
The three lecturers from London - Anne Odling-Smee, Adam Brown
and Kenneth Kawamoto will present the works of young british designers.
After the lecture the participants will be allowed to take part
in the free workshops. The places are limited.
Workshops registration: mdg@buscon.com.pl

Every workshops’ participant must prepare some initial works – more details:
http://www.buscon.com.pl/mdg/ or http://www.zamekcieszyn.pl/
The meeting with Anne Odling-Smee, Adam Brown and Kenneth  Kawamoto
is connected with solemn announcement of the results of  International
Competition of Student Mobile Gallery of Design and opening of the
post-competition exhibition.

The visitors of The Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn
will be able to admire the awarded students’ works as well as
the documentation of half-year promotion of European design.
This all-Polish action, known as Mobile Gallery of Design was organized
by Business Consulting from Katowice, AFA in Katowice and The Silesian
Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn and presents the polish
designers’ works displayed on buses and trams in the various cities in Poland.

The patron of the project is British Council.

End-of-year Exhibition

The exhibition opening - Monday 11th of June at 5 p.m.
Roundabout Art Gallery in Katowice

Every academic year in Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice finishes with
the exhibition presenting the most characteristic student’s works
of every studio. This is a perfect occasion for seeing the diversity
of painting, graphic, graphic design and design.

The presented works often have an unfinished character.
The most important feature of the exhibition is a attempt of grasping
the most significant phenomenon and leading tendencies in young
artists creativity.

Education system in AFA in Katowice is a kind of master process.
The student is obliged to choose between various studious situated
in particular artistic field (painting, drawing etc.). Therefore
the forthcoming exhibition is also an important way of presenting
the professors and their teaching methods.

Illustration Rainbow Bridge Walles-Silesia

The conference and 3-days workshops dedicated
to children’s books illustration

31 May – 1 June The Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn
(conference), 4-6 June Roundabout Art Gallery in Katowice (workshops).

The Illustration Rainbow Bridge is a cycle of international meetings
dedicated to children’s book illustration. The organizers are Academy
of Fine Arts in Katowice and Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn.

The conference begins on Thursday 31 May in Cieszyn and it’s dedicated
to children’s book illustration and design. The participants will become
acquainted with british school of children’s book illustration
and the most characteristic features of polish and german children’s book
typography. For the end of the meeting there’s planned an opening
of the exhibition presenting 11 AFA’s students works (The Illustration
and Applied Drawing Studio and Book and Typography Design Studio
at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice) and 11 NEWI’s (The North Wales
School of Art & Design from Great Britain) students.

On Monday 4th of June begins 3-days workshops dedicated to children’s
book illustration. The workshops are conducted by lecturers of North Wales
School of Art and Design: Yadzia Williams and Sue Thornton.

The cost of participating in the workshops is 250 PLN
To enroll please contact via e-mail dkorzekwa@aspkat.edu.pl

Summer art workshops

  Academy of Fine Arts
  in Katowice

    - 60-year tradition

    - Competitive programme

    - Intimate learning environment
      (4 students per faculty)

    - Renowned faculty

    - The best printmaking 
      facilities in Poland

    - Exceptional studios

      for graphic arts,

      painting and drawing

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Summer art workshops

- painting, drawing, graphic art and poster design
in The Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice

(for beginners and advanced students)

The workshops will be hosted by the Academy. They will be held in Academy’s studios
and will be done by professors and their assistants. The students’ preferences
and interests will be also taken into consideration.

The classes will cover three fields:

1) Painting and drawing workshops:

    Painting workshops: 2 days a week – 4 hours of painting classes and 4 hours
    of drawing classes. The whole course comprises of 24 hours of painting classes
    and 24 hours of drawing classes within 3 weeks.

    The programme involves carrying out tasks with a model, still life, landscape 
    and tasks from composition and free creation. Following painting techniques
    available: oil, watercolour, acrylic colour.

2) Artistic graphics workshops

    - elementary level: studying all graphic techniques, 
      preparation of projects in chosen techniques.

    - advanced level: one or more techniques.

    Before preparing the projects students will draw sketches, which will be

    individually analyzed by professors and then transferred to plates.

    Available options:

    Lithography – this technique uses special qualities of limestone (limestone is available
    in the studios). After the oil-based image is put on the smooth surface, acid burns
    the image onto the surface; then gum arabic, a water soluble solution, is applied,
    sticking only to the non-oily surface and sealing it. During printing (using traditional
    printing methods), water adheres to the gum arabic surfaces and avoids the oily parts,
    while the oily ink used for printing does the opposite. This technique was used
    by many famous artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Marc Chagall.

    Engraving, wood print – the simplest and the oldest graphic technique based
    on the principle of a stamp. The raised elements of a block are covered with a paint
    and while pressed upon the sheet of paper they copy the designed image. The inventor
    of print, Johann Gutenberg, used this method in his edition of the Bible in 1455.
    This method was also used by Albrecht Dürer.

    Concave print, etching, copperplate, aquatint, mezzotint – for a long time they remained
    the most refined and most commonly used printing technique. This technique uses hard
    and resistant metal plates in which the lines are engraved. The plates are covered
    with paint and then the paint is wiped up carefully, so that it remains only in the engraved
    metal grooves. Under the pressure of painting press the paper absorbs the paint
    from the grooves. Francisco Goya, Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt
    were masters of that technique.

    Serigraphy, screen printing – a technique is used in the graphic art very often. The image
    is drawn on the screen strained on the framework. Then the image is printed by sieving
    the paint through the screen. Andy Warhol was the most famous artist using that method.
    It’s possible to make considerable number of copies using many colours.

    Digital print – the most modern technique which uses computers and big format printing
    plotters – this technique is more and more often seen at the leading graphics exhibitions.

    Graphics workshops will take place 2 days a week for 8 hours a day.
    The whole programme consists of 48 hour of classes within 3 week course.

3) Poster design – the classes will be held once a week for 6 hours – in total 18 hours
    within 3 week course. The workshops will be done by a renowned specialist in the field
    and will draw inspiration from the “Polish Poster School”. The project (original) will be made
    in traditional painting, drawing and graphic techniques, with further possibility of reproducing
    with the use of digital printing or screen printing.

    At the end of the course all the projects will be presented at the exhibition organised
    by the Academy’s art gallery in Katowice.

As part of the course participants will go on a trip to historically attractive places (including
Cracow, Częstochowa and Auschwitz) with particular attention being paid to the Silesian Area,
which, after being for almost 200 years the most industrialized part of the country is now
undergoing a process of profound changes and is becoming an important cultural and educa-
tional centre. The region’s industrial past can be seen in the historic workers’ housing estates
with their specific architecture, coal mining museum and underground heritage sites.

Total cost includes:

  - accommodation (single and double rooms) in a hotel close to the Academy of Fine Arts

  - full board (meals served in the hotel restaurant of in the vegetarian restaurant)

  - instructors’ fees

  - tuition fees

  - excursions

   The cost of the painting and graphic materials is not included in the course fees,
   but the Academy offers the materials for low prices:

  - cost of preparing a project in a painting studio: ca. 200 USD

  - cost of preparing a project in a graphics studio: ca. 100-250 USD
    (actual cost depends on the quality of paper, size, number of prints and colours)

   If desired the Academy will work with home institution for those students seeking
   transfer credits.

Course fee: 2000 USD per each participant (the travel cost is not included).

Further questions should be sent to: zagranica@aspkat.edu.pl.

Application form available on page: Academy / Materials to load.

The deadline for sending application forms is 31 May 2006.