-Wednesday, March 9, 2011, from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM
The Villa Arson, an artistic institution resolutely oriented towards contemporary creation, which includes a higher school of art, a contemporary art center, a media library, and an artist residency, is inviting everyone to an open house day: an annual event for all curious people, especially young people interested in art studies.
On the agenda: meetings with the teaching staff and students, welcoming future students and providing practical information about studies and the entrance exam, discovering the school’s workshops, the newly renovated media library, exhibitions, and presentations of student works, visits to
current exhibitions at the BERNARD HEIDSIECK Poésie action art center and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORD Collection (February 17, 2011), exploratory visit of the site, its history, and architecture.
This day will also be an opportunity to welcome, in partnership with the Rectorate, the young elected representatives of the Council of Class Representatives for school life from the Nice academy for a discovery of Villa Arson and an introduction to contemporary art.
► FROM 10:00 AM TO 6:30 PM: DISCOVERY DAY at the national higher school of art
Educational guidance and information on studies and entrance exams
This day is a unique opportunity for young people interested in art studies to meet the Villa Arson team, who are available to provide information about the curriculum, guidance choices, and to assist future candidates in their preparation and administrative procedures to join the school.
Entrance exam for the 1st year: May 3, 4, and 5, 2011
Registration deadline: March 26, 2011
Admission and equivalence committee: May 25 and 26, 2011
Registration deadline for this committee: April 4, 2011
► Meetings at 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM with the director of Villa Arson, the study coordinator, and the teaching team.
Two meetings in a “question-answer” debate format to present the institution, the educational programs, the educational orientations, and the diplomas awarded: the National Diploma in Fine Arts and the
National Higher Diploma in Visual Arts, accredited at the Master’s level starting in 2012.
Discovery of the institution, technical workshops – publishing-photography center (lithography, screen printing, engraving, etc.), sculpture, installation, and ceramics center, painting and drawing center, digital center (computer graphics,
video, sound, etc.) -, visit to the recently renovated media library, presentation of student projects in workshops and in the school’s trial gallery, screening of the film “La Villa Arson, a place, a history, an art school…”, interactive 3D image model of the Villa Arson, etc.
► Visit of the ongoing exhibitions at the art center, around the theme “showing orality”:
BERNARD HEIDSIECK Poésie action and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORD Collection (February 17, 2011).
To provide insights into the exhibitions, visitors are welcomed by art school students,
true interlocutors regarding the stakes of the exhibitions, the artworks, and the artists’ approaches.
► At 4:30 PM: GUIDED TOUR OF THE VILLA ARSON
A comprehensive exploration of the site, its history, its architecture, and its gardens.
Located on a historic estate of over 2 hectares on the heights of Nice, the Villa Arson benefits from an exceptional setting and is presented as an architectural ensemble labeled Heritage of the 20th century.
► Specific welcome for groups / high school and middle school students / schools
On this occasion, the Villa Arson public service offers teachers and their classes
the opportunity to enjoy a combined visit to the School and the Art Center, led by a mediator (lasting 1h30 to 2h).
Visit ongoing exhibitions and discovery tour through the school’s workshops.
-The Villa Arson is a public institution that has been pursuing for nearly 40 years a vocation of training, research, and dissemination of creation, bringing together a higher art school, an art center, a media library,
and an artist residency. The school is organized into 5 centers: painting, drawing; sculpture; publishing, photo; digital center (sound, video, multimedia); general culture and theoretical teachings.
A 3 to 5-year curriculum is sanctioned by 2 state diplomas: the DNAP and the DNSEP.
-The national higher school of art at the Villa Arson is one of the 7 national schools located in the region under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The educational orientations, driven by a team
of artists, historians, and art theorists, offer a progressive path marked by 2 state diplomas: the National Diploma in Fine Arts in the 3rd year (DNAP) and the National Higher Diploma in Visual Expression
(DNSEP) in the 5th year, recognized at the Master’s level (starting from 2012).
-The school offers the possibility of pursuing a curriculum in the immediate vicinity of an art center and benefiting from interaction with artists in
residence. Each year, contemporary creation actors are invited to meet and work with students. Embedded in the European Higher Education Area, the school also provides theoretical education (art history, history of ideas, aesthetics, language) and develops various research programs in art.
Organized into 5 centers (with only one Arts option), the workshops are oriented both towards so-called traditional techniques (painting, engraving, lithography, screen printing, publishing, ceramics, wood, metal, photo) and new technologies. A production and teaching center based on digital technologies offers the possibility of experimenting with all the manipulations related to image and sound production and diffusion, as well as deepening research in the fields of videography, computer graphics, sound, publishing. Students have access to vast workshops where they organize their personal work, and a “trial gallery” allows them to experiment on a large scale with their productions.
The Villa Arson participates in international exchanges by welcoming students and artists from various nationalities. Unique in its kind, the Villa Arson thus actively contributes to the emergence of new talents and the formation of many creators who are essential figures in the contemporary art scene.
-VILLA ARSON – National higher school of art / National center of contemporary art
20 Avenue Stéphen Liégeard – 06105 Nice cedex 2
The Villa Arson is a public administrative institution
under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
