Course General Description

Study program is aimed to educate a textile artist having comprehensive knowledge of art and humanities, abilities of art projects organisation and management, skills of communication with different social groups, artistic research, strategic thinking, interdisciplinary expression and new technology application, life-long learning skills, the provision of critical evaluation, social and moral responsibility for the influence of their professional activity on art phenomena and processes in an extensive social, economic and culture context. Students entering studies have to comply with VAA admission conditions. Study program is focused on interdisciplinary studies, it provides with the competences necessary for carrying out artistic activity and implementation of novelties in complicated situations, constantly changing professional and social environment, develops orientation in a broad context of contemporary art. The program applies interactive studying methods, educative critical thinking, communicative and representative skills and, teamwork and management skills.

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.