Prior to 1995, the College of the Arts was located at Monteith, Glebe, after which it moved to temporary buildings on Smith and Mansfield Streets, in Balmain. Leadership for good starts here. Sydney College of the Arts. "SCA students and the NTEU plan a protest rally next Wednesday, August 17, and a community information session at Callan Park on August 20.Kelsey Munro is Acting Education Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. "I come from a time and a background where education was about education and not money, it wasn't a business. That level of education will no longer be on offer to people wanting to work in that field and that will have an ongoing detrimental effect on the whole field of contemporary art. "Specifically for my area, contemporary jewellery, there is no other school in the state that has our level of facilities. Taught at Visual Arts is focused on providing you with the conceptual, theoretical and technical skills you need to succeed as a practising artist or in a range of careers in the creative industries. The wide-format machines used are based on leading technology and software. Sydney College of the Arts students are unhappy about the decision. We're concerned that our students will no longer have a defined and cohesive contemporary art education," he said. "The VC Michael Spence has said unequivocally that 'at the core of our planning are the current and future students wishing to pursue pure visual arts degrees and education'. Staff numbers will be cut and less space provided to teach visual art students under the University of Sydney's plan to shut down its art school at Rozelle and … Academic staff Galleries and exhibitions Art of influence: in-conversation with Sydney luminaries Portfolio University home Library Current students Staff intranet Give Skip to main content.
Visual Arts is focused on providing you with the conceptual, theoretical and technical skills you need to succeed as a practising artist or in a range of careers in the creative industries. The University of Sydney is a $2 billion business every year and they're saying they can't have glassworks and ceramics because it costs too much money. Our academic staff believe studio-based learning is integral to any visual arts degree and understand the importance of working with practising artists, designers and craft specialists.
Galleries will disappear, the inclusiveness and the breadth of contemporary art will be challenged. More than half the academic and professional jobs will go from Sydney College of the Arts as the University of Sydney downsizes its fine arts program and moves it to the main campus, following the collapse of a planned merger with UNSW's art school.Jewellery, ceramics and glassmaking programs, described as "more resource intensive mediums", will be scrapped, and the university will not accept any commencing students in visual arts degrees in 2017.Senior lecturer in jewellery Dr Karin Findeis, who is expecting now to lose her job, said "there is great sadness" among staff who were surprised by the level of job cuts.The university's plans for its fine arts school have been laid out in detail for the first time in a "change proposal" document that was given to staff and students on Tuesday, indicating 25 of the 43 full-time equivalent positions will be cut.It follows last month's announcement that the planned tie-up between SCA and UNSW's fine arts school had collapsed, with the universities unable to come to agreement over terms of the merger.The university's plans have been highly controversial, with students and many in the arts community including leading philanthropists protesting the move as the work of an administration concerned with profits over arts education.SCA staff "are pissed off, demoralised," said Michael Thomson, branch president of the National Tertiary Union at the university.
"She added that the move to the main campus would "make visual arts practice a more integral part of the educational opportunities at the University of Sydney for all students".The university is seeking to implement the final agreement for the move in mid November – the same week when SCA graduating students exhibit their final works.
Learn more about our staff Faculties and schools_ Sydney College of the Arts For more than four decades we have been the major NSW training ground for exceptional contemporary artists, researchers and curators. Andrew Lavery is a master glassblower who has evolved as a contemporary art practitioner. Give me a break.