The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Dunkerque
Ecole supérieure d’art du Nord-Pas de Calais Dunkerque-Tourcoing | Dunkerque
about
The ésa hosts 250 students spread over two sites, favoring a diversified and original pedagogical offer within its art option. Forty artist-teachers, authors, graphic designers, editors, critics, philosophers, theoreticians, art historians and researchers are engaged in a dynamic of teaching art through art.
In Tourcoing, the mention “body and contexts: visual arts and stage arts” is interested in the links between visual and performance arts both in their disciplinary collaborations and in their fusion within innovative artistic propositions. This mention is built with the Center for the Study of Contemporary Art, a research laboratory of the University of Lille 3 and Latitudes Contemporaines, a professional structure for distribution and creation.
In Dunkirk, the mention “exhibition issues” puts the site into contact with the ensemble of partners and territorial projects (Museums – LAAC, Museum of Fine Arts, FRAC, Performance and exhibition spaces (Studio 43, Jazz-Club, Bateau-feu, 4 écluses), the University of the Littoral Côte d’Opale, the municipal Conservatory, companies, the urban community, maisons de quartier, cursive projects, structuring events, etc.) tending to guide the student towards work linked to the notion of projection of the object, the body or speech towards contexts where it is completely engaged, outside of its place of production, as form.
École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque-Tourcoing
options
Art
qualifications
DNSEP option Art
preparatory schools
FLEA Class – French as a Foreign Language / Art
The Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque-Tourcoing Higher School of Art has launched the first FLE Art curriculum, geared towards non french speaking students who wish to follow a preparation for entry competitions of French Higher Art Schools. This FLEA class, set up by the Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque-Tourcoing ESA in collaboration with those of Cambrai and Valenciennes, opened its doors in September of 2013. Classes are taught on the Dunkirk site.
The FLEA proposes a double training to students: an intensive learning of written and spoken French, 16 hours a week and a preparation for integrating into higher art school curricula, in the form of diverse and complete visual arts workshops (drawing, volume, video, photo, painting, publishing, graphic design, space design, computers).
accreditation of prior learning and experience
Centre VAE DNSEP-art
publications
Publication of artists’ books and books on the activities of the ESA.
activities and events
Exhibitions (School gallery, beyond the walls and public space). Lectures.
international cooperation
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China); HISK, Gand, Belgium; University of Ulster, Department of Art and Design, Belfast, Ireland; the Conservatory of arts and trades, Bamako, Mali – Erasmus Charter (Poland, Turkey, Greece, England, Italy, Belgium).
gallery
Gallery (school gallery, Dunkirk)
36 bis Gallery (school gallery, Turcoing)
Communal gallery of the visual arts campus of Turcoing (ESA and the Lille 3 Department)
specific equipment
The equipment on the two sites is comprised of:
– Technical workshops supported by a team of specialized technicians (ceramics, casting, modeling, sculpture, wood, metal, screen-printing, engraving, printing and typography, drawing, painting, film and digital photography, sound, video, computer and multimedia, art of fire workshops);
– Work spaces allowing students to enjoy an adapted space inside the school so as to design and realize their personal projects;
– A center for documentation on each of the two sites offering a bank of reference material (theoretical works, monographs, catalogues, DVD, audio CDs) in the domain of art, of its history and its theories;
– Exhibition galleries where conferences, meetings with artists, exhibitions are organized… allowing students to be immersed in a stimulating cultural environment that enriches their artistic research and their creation
networks
ANdEA, 50° north, a network for contemporary art of the Nord-Pas de Calais and the Northern euro region.
administrative team
Ronan Prigent Directeur général
Leclercq Pascal Administrateur
Martial Chmielina Direction des études et direction du site Tourcoing
Catherine Delvigne Direction du site Dunkerque et responsable des relations internationales
Christophe Atabekian Responsable de la communication, des éditions et des filières d’enseignement
Fabrice Thuillier Paye et comptabilité
Halima Medjahedi Secrétariat de direction, responsable des ressources humaines
Christine Szlezak Secrétariat pédagogique
Éric Harasym Responsable de la documentation et des bibliothèques de l’ESÄ
Maria Volant Bibliothèque
Delphine Riche Bibliothèque
professors
Nicolas Cabos
Audrey Charlet
Albert Clermont
Arnaud Delbeke
Catherine Delvigne
Bertrand Gadenne
Laëtitia Legros
Jean-Claude Mouton
Julien Pastor
Dominique Pautre
Florent Perrier
Jean-Luc Poivret
Philippe Robert
Richard Skryzak
Patrice Smagge
Maria Volant
contact
site de Dunkerque
5 bis, rue de l’esplanade
59140 | Dunkerque
tél. +33 (0)3 28 63 72 93
fax +33 (0)3 28 59 21 96
contact@esa-n.info
www.esa-n.info
students
250 students