Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School
Published: 24.07.2017
alchimia.it
There cannot be any true innovation without the knowledge of what came before. Tradition and innovation, like mind and hand, need to move together.
Statement
Alchimia contemporary jewellery school was founded in 1998 by Lucia Massei and Doris Maninger. The expansive two-year BFA and MFA programs have been developed over more than a decade of experience in close collaboration with a team of international teachers and advisors, all leaders in their respective creative realms.Alchimia’s objective is to teach students to express their creativity through contemporary jewelry, developing high-quality technical and theoretical skills. By adopting the technological developments of our time and the most experimental cultural trends, Alchimia encourages its students to enhance their talents. Its focus draws on the revision and adoption of traditional techniques and carefully selected materials combined with experimental and groundbreaking approaches to design, teaching students how to transform ideas and research paths in jewelry and design objects, and how to access the working context.
The students of Alchimia are mentored and tutored by a team of experts in jewellery, design, and the visual arts. While using their own experiences as reference, tutors profess techniques, tendencies, and developments in the field of contemporary jewellery and propound emergences in personal creativity by offering tailored guidance and evaluation over the course of the students’s academic years.
The school has obtained full accreditation of its artistic and pedagogic values and is officially qualified for Europen Bachelor of Fine Arts & European Master of Fine Arts by the the European Accreditaion Board of Higher Education EABHES.
Master Tutors
Lucy Sarneel
Jorge Manilla
Courses
Intensive Jewellery and Design Courses
01Jan2017 - 31Dec2017DEADLINE: 15/Dec/2017
Application
Tags: Open all year
Management person: Lucia Massei
Dates: The courses have open dates throughout the year, beginning each Monday.
The intensive jewellery courses are workshops with personalized curricula, designed to meet today’s needs for intense, specialized, individual coaching. The programs range from a sneak peek into jewellery making to highly specialized professional training. The proposed curricula function as guidelines to be further discussed and fine-tuned with teachers and staff to meet each student’s specific need. A very flexible schedule allows students to individually choose the course dates, beginning on Mondays and ending on Fridays during the entire year. The weekly course schedule comprises 30 hours of practical jewellery making and two hours of analysis and creative advice.
Whom are they made for: Beginners, designers, professors, jewelers who want to specialize on a specific technique, or jewellery artists that necessitate a period of full immersion to have new creative stimulus.
Duration: from a minimum of two weeks to a maximum of three months.
Schedule: 30 hours of class per week / Monday/Friday 9.00–13.00/14.00–16.00; critic session will be plan.
All the materials used for the course (excluding gold and precious stones) are provided by the school as well as all the necessary tools.
For more details visit the Website.
Master of Fine Art: Degree in Contemporary Jewellery and Body Ornament
04Sep2017 - 13Sep2019DEADLINE: 31/May/2017
Application
Tags: Master
Management person: Lucia Massei
Alchimia’s master’s program develops over a two-year period with the aim to expand and deepen the student’s knowledge and skills in studio-based jewellery design. The program is intended to generate further critical understanding in and of the discipline, strengthen individual artistic approaches and positions, and investigate new possibilities for marketing and promotion.
The objective of the course is to render the students independent and qualitatively highly prepared in every aspect of their work, not only including research, creation, and production, but also networking, exhibiting and self-presentation in relation to galleries and collectors. Therefore, in the second year of the program, students are not required to live in Florence, but can choose any city in Europe as their base. A personal tutor appointed by the school will follow their developments, while intensive workshops, seminars, and training periods are held in Florence.
Special attention is put on the ability to position one’s own work within a contemporary context and to critically evaluate and debate one’s progress. The program also involves more collective activities, such as the realization of events, comprising the complete production process-including fundraising, curating, and writing the appropriate texts.
For more detailed information visit the Webiste.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
04Sep2017 - 13Jul2018DEADLINE: 31/May/2017
Application
Management person: Lucia Massei
The two-year BFA program offers a comprehensive grounding in contemporary jewellery and jewellery design to those without prior experience or possession of jewellery-making skills in a relatively short time. The course begins with traditional techniques and skills in the construction and design of jewellery, and then introduces the students to new technologies, creative use of re-sources, and material expression for originality in design. The program is divided into six 14-week modules that provide, through a challenging but organic full-immersion process, a balanced combination of practice and theoretical principles.
In the vein of Alchimia’s philosophy, the program nurtures an approach to learning that merges the theoretical, the pragmatic, and the experiential, tradition and innovation, in order to develop confidence, skill, creativity, and imagination. It is tailored to each student individually, with teachers providing personal coaching, and builds on a variety of differ-ent professional experiences, including carefully selected study trips both locally and abroad.
These two years may function as a self-contained program for those interested in achieving high-level results in the short term, and/or prepare for admission to a master’s program in contemporary jewellery and body ornament.
For more details visit the Website.
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