| Summary: | The two-year Master of Arts program in Applied Visual Arts was carried out at 2011-2013. The second program will start in the autumn 2015 with a focus combining applied visuals arts and service design. The majority of the study projects in the first training program in Applied Visual Arts were associated with community art, environmental art, both in the spaces between nature and built-up environment and in nature tourism destinations, as well as with exhibit design, the development of art’s operational models to support the well-being of the elderly and arts-based service design. One of the aims of the Master of Arts program in Applied Visual Arts was to increase the employment opportunities of artists with new forms of collaboration, in which the artists can take advantage of their special knowledge as specialists or designers of art and visual culture. On the other hand, the starting point was based on the idea that applied visual arts can also have a significant impact on other business life and society. Expectations were focused especially on social and health care sector collaboration, as well as on the tourism industry. The training included an extensive project studies module where students worked on development projects with other professionals from other fields. The training also contained workshop studies, such as snow and ice sculpting and lighting design, which were integrated as a part of the university's cooperation with business field and its art and cultural events. Thus, the studies were tightly connected to working life. In the student application process, visual artists and art industry professionals were searched for the Master of Arts program in Applied Visual Arts. Four of the sixteen students who started their studies had a basic training in visual arts and one in art education, whereas the other selected students were industrial art designers and designers. In the study project, students worked together supporting collaboration between visual arts and design. The training program’s ...
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