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Training centers for participating visual artists

A space for thinking, experimentation and exchange of knowledge, the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) is one of the training centers for participating visual artists that has been certified by the Minister for Culture and Communication.
Its goal is to provide a complimentary training to artistic practice, based on the acquisition of didactical skills and capacities for thought applied to contemporary creation.
Provided in Strasbourg, the 280 hour training is to be understood as a preparation for interventions, on the basis of a unique practical experience, with diverse audiences in various contexts: scholastic, extra-curricular, prison, hospital, associative and cultural services.
The CFPI brings together interns coming from diverse origins: young graduates, professional artists, participants, teaching assistants, etc.
Since its inception more than a hundred artists, both from France and adjacent countries, have followed this training.

Visual Communication

From 2013 – 2014 the Haute école des arts du Rhin incorporated a research unit, Visual Communication, backed up by three research programmes (Didactique tangible, De traits et d’esprit, Lignes de front).
Coming from a long tradition of engraving and the printed book in the upper Rhine and from a school of applied arts created in 1892, the Communication option of the Haute école des arts du Rhin is built around three workshops that develop original objects and share the same pedagogy: the graphic communication workshop, the illustration workshop and the visual didactics workshop.
The major axes of research in the option are articulated around evolutions as reformulations of reading practices. Visual communication is little investigated, ill theorized and neglected by the major currents of contemporary visual thought in art schools. This has generated a nonsensical situation: our societies produce more and more images, and yet we have, for the most part, become unable to properly read the world of graphic signs that surround us.

De traits et d’esprit (Of wit)

This programme studies the current state and history of illustration by identifying present and future issues beginning with the steps of its evolution and the conceptual challenges that it has faced since its origins. The laboratory is also involved in contemporary production by inducing specific teaching and graphic experiments.
Co-ordination: Guillaume DÉGÉ & Olivier DELOIGNON

Didactique tangible – Convergences et interactions entre art et sciences (Tangible didactics – Convergence and interactions between art and science)

Involving French and foreign partners, Didactique tangible is concerned with the study of the convergence and interactions between art and science. It questions didactic systems from classical antiquity to the contemporary epoch through the study of different media and the possibilities offered by each of them for the transmission of knowledge through the image. It also claims an applied and experimental dimension of research led by creators and practitioners of the field under study.
Co-ordination: Olivier PONCER

Espaces sonores / Sound spaces

Bringing together the teams working in the field of sound arts in the HEAR, this programme studies the artistic, cultural and social ramifications of the relationships between sound and space since the advent of modernism, and creates new tools that are both practical and theoretical, so as to better understand, analyze and apprehend them in a critical manner. A first report will be presented as part of the main section of the third issue of TACET, the peer reviewed research publication published by the HEAR in 2014.
Coordination : Yvan ÉTIENNE, Bertrand GAUGUET, Philippe LEPEUT, Joachim MONTESSUIS and Matthieu SALADIN.

Exhibition catalogues, artists books, annual degree catalogue, conference proceedings, lectures (Confer collection), prints and posters.

Seminars, lectures, workshops, video projection cycles, exhibitions, study trips. Numerous invited participants and artists in residencies. Exhibitions by DNSEP/Master students during the last weekend of June, the Avant-Première exhibition brings together, one weekend per year, all of the students, covering all options and years.

Courses in drawing, color, drawing the human body, volume, photography, engraving, video, illustration. Introductory visual classes, drawing the human body, color.

Study trips abroad
The HEAR has agreements in place with over 70 foreign schools. These exchanges are open to fourth year students.

Overseas Internships
Though they mainly take place during the fourth year, internships (taking place in the summer) are possible all throughout the curriculum.

Grants and scholarships
Erasmus : 160 €/month for studies and 350 €/month for an internship
The Boussole Grant of the Alsace Region: studies or internships, for a duration of 12 to 35 weeks.
A number of destinations, such as Germany and towns twinned with Strasbourg (Stuttgart, Dresden, Leicester, Boston and Ramat-Gan), giving rise to specific grants.

Postgraduate programmes, overseas residencies
The Department for International Relations accompanies students for different opportunities and assists them in administrative processes after obtaining a DNSEP/Master’s degree.

French as a foreign language
Foreign students wishing to improve their French language skills (written and spoken) have the possibility to follow classes in French as a foreign language with a frequency of 1 and a half hours per week.

La Chaufferie, the exhibition gallery of the Haute école des arts du Rhin (8 contemporary art exhibitions annually).

Workshops: jewelery, wood, earth, book, metal, textiles, glass, volume, electronic media (digital and video), digital printing, photography, animated cinema, engraving, lithography, screen printing, typography, reprography.

ANdEA, Versant Est réseau art contemporain Alsace.

David Cascaro Directeur de l’établissement
Estelle Pagès Directrice adjointe et directrice des études d’arts plastiques
Pascal Humbert Administrateur général
Julia Reth Responsable des relations internationales
Chantal Kunkler Responsable Scolarité Strasbourg
Laurent Doucelance Responsable Communication
Marion Montero Responsable Finances et commande publique
Muriel Boulier Responsable Médiathèque par intérim
Alain Spohr Régisseur général

1 rue de l’Académie
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67082 | Strasbourg cedex
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