Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais

Courses 

Master´s Program in Visual Arts (Beginning in August of 2005) 

Doctorate Program in Visual Arts (Beginning in 2013) 

Program Objectives 

To form researchers in Visual Arts for performing in the areas of artistic production, theoretical production, and in the different levels of national education, in a committed and reflexive manner, perceiving and using research as a resource of social transformation. The program seeks to deepen the studied themes, propose knowledge topics and fields, as well as constantly update and dialog with new theories and questions presented in national and international spheres. 

Specific Objectives 

• To stimulate the preparation of professional qualified to produce and reflect on research, education, and extension regarding visual arts; 
• To identify potential areas of research in the scenario of visual arts, especially on social demands; 
• To establish relations between basic and applied research within the context of visual arts; 
• To promote the production and diffusion of knowledge regarding the main problems of the field and strengthen the investigation processes as support for the performance of the professionals in the field of visual arts; 
• To diagnose regional social scenarios in the performance of professionals from the field of visual arts to systematize current problematics that favor the necessary changes to the field of visual arts; 
• To narrow institutional bonds between national and international reality to widen the diffusion and exchange of the production of the VAGP; 
• To qualify professionals capable of performing in higher education in a reflexive and socially active manner; 
• To construct strategies fostering reflection, exchange, and stimulation to the cultural, scientific, and artistic promotion of local productions of the themes emerging in the field. 

Concentration Areas 

Visual Arts 

Research Lines 

1. Teaching of Visual Arts: in this line, we develop researches on the many contexts of teaching visual arts, considering its communication, intelligible and sensitive, and aesthetic and artistic aspects. The investigations approach the formal and non-formal teaching processes, highlighting the inclusive actions, child drawing, teacher formation, daily life aesthetics, alternative education or in open spaces, as well as education directed at new media and art created from these resources. 

2. Contemporary Artistic Processes: this line contemplates researches connected to different artistic means, articulating processes and experiments with a critical and theoretical reflection. 

3. Theory and History of Visual Arts: this line contemplated researches on experiences, sensibilities, and artistic and aesthetic perceptions involving a space-time articulation. We recognize the distance between what was once experienced and what can be considered injunctions and unfoldings, assimilations, and redefinitions, emphasizing a conceptual thought, methodologically attentive to the object and senses within reach. 

Program Differentials (Strengths) 

From the undergraduate program in visual arts, al research lines contribute to the formation of a basic repertoire of theoretical and practical information destined for artists and professors. Such a set of knowledge is not offered in Basic Education or High School, neither is it easily accessed in libraries, museums or galleries. Therefore, it serves a need to widen the conditions of access to knowledge and provides researches directed at the artistic complexities and many cultural implications, considering its articulations without losing its particularities. 

Regarding the ingressing students, many perform in teaching, overall in undergraduate studies, with many continuing into doctorate studies, confirming the profile of professional researcher. The data collected by Capes in the last three years, we identified that 27 egresses perform in higher education, in universities in Santa Catarina, Parana and other states of the southeastern region. Another six are conducting doctorate studies, and the others are performing in public and private schools, cultural institutions, or as cultural producers and artists, among other activities. 

The VAGP/CEART has accepted students from other states, especially from the south and southeastern regions of the country, which demonstrates that the profile of professional researcher and their geographic mobility enhances the need to fulfill this contemporary social and irreversible demand. Considering the program´s evolution, local and regional studies, as well as their interrelations with wider studies, a successful journey in the formation of researchers for the context of visual arts, and the significant intervention of the program over local and regional institutions of the artistic context, we highlight the suitability of continuing the work and its qualification with the creation of the doctorate program. 

Minimum Formation and Other Requirements for Ingress 

The VAGP/CEART annually publishes a notice for the selection of regular students, offering 18 positions for the master´s program in visual arts, and 12 positions for the doctorate program. The Notice is published in December. The selection process occurs in the first semester (calendar year), and classes begin in August. Rules and alterations are provided in the notice. 

Form/Period of Ingress 

Annually (in the first semester – calendar year), with a single ingress in the second semester. Rules and alterations are provided in the notice. 

More Info (Portuguese) 

Selection/Ingress Notice 

Teaching Staff 

Program Website 

Disciplines 

Contact 

Telephone number: +55 (48) 3664-8315 

Program contact e-mail: ppgav.ceart@udesc.br