Course General Description

Department of Graphics carries out BA and MA study programmes of Applied graphics. It educates artists, able to professionally and creatively use possibilities of expression and technologies of conceptual and functional graphic art. The programmes reveal features of graphics as an independent, multidisciplinary art area as well as flexible visual means of communication. Knowledge of professional graphic art are applied in a broad way. Graphic artists create stamps / prints, participate in art exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad by implementing interdisciplinary creative projects; they work in areas of publishing, visual communication, illustrate books, create posters, visual artistic image, etc. Speciality studies comprise aspects technologies, conceptuality, sociality. Classical, experimental, interdisciplinary creative methods are revealed, as well as graphic art manifestations in public communication media, practical aspects of using graphic, photographic, mixed images, in areas of stamping, book, poster, illustration, calligraphy, typography, digital art. Novelty - a possibility after the first study year to choose the most interesting programme field out of the three: applied graphics, illustration, digital art. In students' capital Kaunas it is easy to blend into lively student community, whereas strong graphic art traditions of this city created excellent conditions to study through communication with recognised artists and theoreticians of this and parallel fields (e.g. photography), become participants of common creative processes. Each year the department invites visiting artists to conduct intensive practical workshops, share individual professional experience and give public lectures (from Sweden, Norway, the US, etc.).

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.