Application deadline: November 15, 2023
Admissions update
Due to last-minute deferrals, we have one open spot each available in the MFA and PhD programs for a September start. Please email admissions [at] transart.org for more information.
For a July 2024 start, the admissions deadline is November 15, 2023. Please contact phd [at] transartinstitute.org or mfa [at] transartinstitute.org for more information.
Residency update
Transart Institute for Creative Research is excited to share that our January 2024 residency will occur in Nairobi, Kenya. Transart MFA & PhD creative researchers will spend a week meeting local artists and curators, participating in workshops, research discussion circles, studio visits, collective cooking and artist-led excursions. The residency will be hosted at the Untethered Magic space located in Ogata Rongai, on the edge of Nairobi National Park. Untethered Magic fosters research-based conceptual contemporary arts for the Global South and grounds their work in a philosophy of clear mutual responsibility, experimentation, exchange and dialogue.
Upcoming Open Window session
Join online on Thursday July 20, 2023, 12–1pm UTC via this link, for a public talk with Vijay Mathew, Cultural Strategist and Co-Founder of HowlRound Theatre Commons with a focus on social, climate, and disability justice. Vijay (he/him) has been invited into Alessandra Cianetti’s workshop “On Work” at the Transart Summer Residency in Liverpool. He is also the Accessibility Producer of Black Heart, a BIPOC worker-owned cooperative agency specializing in digital communications for progressive organizations and collectives.
In the past decade, Vijay has helped facilitate the solidarity economy characteristics of HowlRound Theatre Commons’ current project design—all within a mainstream educational and arts institution. Through this work, he has contributed to building the organizational capacity for several hundred nonprofit organizations worldwide to livestream their conferences, panel discussions, and performances—with an emphasis on how organizations can prioritize accessibility, inclusion, and degrowth principles in digital work. When using internet technologies, he is passionate about the intersections of accessibility, inclusion, social change, and low-energy, regenerative futures. All of his work in these areas has been informed by solidarity economics and social-justice values.
Open Window Events are a series of online public talks that take place at the last weekend of every month. They are aimed at giving the outside world a moment to connect with the institute’s internal, topic-based intensive sessions.
Find the archive of all our intensives, talks and residencies here.
