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Transart Institute Announces Ten Scholarships Application deadline: March 1, 2008 www.transartinstitute.org *** Scholarships Transart Institute is pleased to announce that grants to the institute have been extended and students are eligible for scholarships of up to $2000. Scholarships are given on the basis of artistic merit and financial need to students of all media and genres accepted into the Transart Institute MFA program. The deadline for scholarship applications is March 1, 2008. An online application form can be found at: http://www.friendsoftransartinstitute.org The Transart Institute MFA program consists of three intensive summer residencies with lectures, workshops, critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions in Europe and two shorter, optional winter residencies in New York. In the four semesters between residencies, students create their own course of study realizing individual art and research projects with the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors wherever they work and live. The program is geared towards the development of a sustainable artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or genres, challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively in new ways. Current students work with animation, curating, digital media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting, performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text, video, virtual reality. The low-residency format permits continuing a professional life while participating in the program. Deadlines for application to the MFA program: Advanced admissions: March 1, 2008, rolling admissions (space permitting): May 1, 2008. An online application form can be found at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/ApplicationForm.html Certificate program Transart Institute now offers a summer program for artists who are not seeking a degree. Participants join MFA students in workshops, lectures and critiques and leave the residency with input on project plans for the year ahead. Artists attend the residency to: get a creative surge; get a fresh perspective on their work; revitalize their practice; take their work in a new direction, make plans for a focussed praxis in the year ahead and to become part of an international community of artists, theorists and curators. Artists who successfully complete the residency will receive a non- credit certificate of attendance. Tuition is EUR 2400 for the three week course. An application can be found at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/ApplicationForm.html The deadline for applications to the certificate program is June 1st. The Transart summer residency will take place at the OK Center for Contemporary Art, OK Platz 1, 4020 Linz, Austria from July 13 - August 1, 2008 Graduating students will hold their thesis exhibitions at the OK Center as well. The program and course descriptions can be found here: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/Residencies_Summer.html For further Information please contact: Julie Bush, [log in to unmask] www.transartinstitute.org Transart Institute MFA Program in New Media Summer Residency 2008: OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria Winter Residency 2009: Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Accredited by Donau-Universität Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems, Austria Deadlines Scholarships and advance MFA admissions: March 1, 2008 Rolling admissions MFA (space permitting): May 1, 2008 Certificate admissions: June 1, 2008