Creative Arts Practice - BA (Hons)

Bath Spa University

**Explore, innovate and push boundaries with this stimulating contemporary arts degree.**- Develop a range of skills, including innovative and expansive approaches to making, alongside professionalism within the creative industries.- Experiment in our inspiring studio spaces and well-equipped workshops, with access to exceptional facilities.- Learn from practising artists and makers with outstanding national and international reputations.This studio-based creative arts degree places making at its heart.You'll gain a practical grounding in a range of creative fields of study. Students are encouraged to explore and develop a range of making skills across these main disciplines: ceramics, print, textiles, wood, metal, plastics. You’ll also explore the critical, conceptual, ethical and environmental issues in contemporary craft through the role of making within social, cultural and historical contexts. Throughout your studies you’ll learn a broad range of skills to help you flourish in the workplace, including social networking, photographing your work, creating digital portfolios, applying for competitions, marketing, creating a web presence, setting up a business, working on commissions, pricing your work, approaching galleries, exhibiting, and fundraising. As we’re an Adobe Creative Campus, you’ll also have free access to a suite of industry-standard creative apps.You’ll graduate with the confidence and transferable skills to establish your own practice as a creative artist or maker, or go on to pursue a career within the creative industries.

Bath School of Art, Film and Media