The French Public Higher Schools of Art

Tourcoing

Ecole supérieure d’art du Nord-Pas de Calais | Tourcoing

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 and towards contexts where it is completely engaged, outside of its place of production, as form.

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École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas de Calais/Dunkerque-Tourcoing

options

Art

qualifications

DNA  option Art
DNSEP  option Art

post-graduate

CE2A (Art School Teaching Certificate)

The Art School Teaching Certificate (CE2A) is a university year training course allowing students holding a DNSEP in art to acquire the skills necessary to teach art, in France or abroad. This school certificate confers the know-how of a visual arts instructor, along with transversal and multidisciplinary skills. The teaching, developed over a university year, contains three strategies:
– general teaching in the form of classes introducing the students to the mastery of the European LMD system, the ECTS system and the qualifications;
– a practical teaching: students are put into teaching situations, becoming assistants to titular professors. Students choose two or three courses among the different school workshops: painting, volume, drawing, photography, video, publishing, general culture, art history, TIC, ARC;
– language teaching: English and, eventually other languages, such as Chinese,Russian or Portuguese, provided by specialized teachers.
Students in the CE2A are integrated on an administrative level into a fifth year, developing a different option (mention of the site or the school) to that of their DNSEP or, in the case of foreign students, to that of their school diploma In this way they have full student rights, access to health care and to grants and scholarships. They pay a yearly school fee which gives them access to the full range of the school’s resources. They take part in conferences, study trips and other activities outside of the school in the context of its institutional partners in France and abroad.

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

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.

post-curricular or extracurricular activities

Open workshops: children, adolescents and adults. Tourcoing site.

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, Tourcoing)
Communal gallery of the visual arts campus of Tourcoing (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, encounters with artists and exhibitions are organized… allowing students to be immersed in a stimulating cultural environment that enriches their artistic research and their creation

networks

ANdEA, 50° nord réseau d’art contemporain du Nord-Pas de Calais et de l’eurorégion Nord

administrative team

Ronan Prigent Directeur général
Pascal Leclercq Administrateur
Martial Chmielina Direction des études et direction de site Tourcoing
Catherine Delvigne Direction de site Dunkerque et responsable relations internationales
Christophe Atabekian Responsable communication, éditions et filières d’enseignement
Fabrice Thuillier Paye, comptabilité
Halima Medjahedi Secrétariat de direction et 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

Pierre Yves Bohm
Gérard Briche
Stéphane Cabée
Martial Chmielina-Verschaeve
Magali Claude
Nathalie Delbard
Jean-Claude Demeure
Pascal Duthoit
Gilles Froger
Éric Helluin
Mélanie Lecointe
Hervé Lesieur
Benoît Meneboo
Vassilios Michail
Dominic Ockenden
Daniel Patin
Pierre Petit
Nathalie Poisson-Cogez
Richard Skryzak
Nathalie Stefanov
Janusz Stega
Williams Thery
Ming Tong
Alexis Trousset
Jacques van Gorp

contact

siège et site de Tourcoing
36 bis rue des Ursulines
59200 | Tourcoing
tél. +33 (0)3 59 63 43 20
fax +33 (0)3 20 11 21 81
contact@esa-n.info
www.esa-n.info

students

250 students