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BFA Painting and Printmaking

  • A vibrant community of artists, scholars, and students are brought together within VCUarts Qatar’s four-year BFA Painting + Printmaking program. The curriculum is informed by a practice of studio work and research with a strong emphasis on critical and creative thinking and is designed to impart technical skills and intelligence to build a student’s confidence in their discipline.

    The size and diversity of the faculty guarantee our students' exposure to multiple ideas and stylistic approaches. In addition, the department’s visiting artist and publishing program brings to campus leading figures in the world of contemporary art for discussions of their work, critiques of student work and workshops.

  • To artists working in this century and the globalized world, engaging in our academic studio program in painting and printmaking is akin to entering a workman-like laboratory to investigate and re-define visual culture.

    We welcome you to join us – to bring your intelligence, ambition, and can-do discipline – as we examine our historical precedents, and challenge the future of studio practice.

Why study Painting and Printmaking?

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    Be Part of an Emerging Fine Art Community

    Qatar is now emerging as cultural leader in both the region and beyond. Our students and alumni are part of exciting new developments in Qatar that are creating countless opportunities for young artists. New institutions such as the National Museum of Qatar are joining established cultural centers such as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Islamic Art, and Katara - Valley of Culture. These institutions provide exciting careers for students who see themselves working in the museums sector and exhibition opportunities for those who wish to pursue careers as independent practitioners.

    The recently opened Fire Station residency program provides alumni with studio spaces and offers exhibition opportunities that have seen alumni and their work travel to Berlin, St Petersburg, New York, London and Washington, to name but a few. There are also international residency opportunities through Qatar Museums in New York and Paris that enable alumni to build international careers.

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    Work with a Range of Mediums

    Whilst the program is called Painting + Printmaking, the curriculum offers so much more. Studio offerings include painting, drawing, color theory, screen-printing, etching, lithography, book-binding, digital print media and new media. Students also have the opportunity to use elective options to pursue other areas of interest that may include video, photography, and sculpture as well as electives within the design disciplines of fashion, graphic and interior design. Previous special topics courses have included Eco Arts, Arts and Medicine and DIY printmaking. Students are therefore able to tailor a course of study suited to their professional and personal ambitions.

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    Learn to Work Independently

    Working as an artist means that you are not working with a client, as you may do in a design discipline, and instead you have the opportunity to develop an independent practice. This allows you to pursue interests you think are relevant, be they cultural issues, aesthetic considerations, narratives, or social concerns. The program encourages you to pursue the issues that matter to you and in doing so enable you to offer a unique perspective on what it means to see the world in a particular time and from a particular perspective.

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    A Rigorous, Rewarding, Multi-Cultural Experience

    All graduates complete a liberal arts and science core curriculum in addition to their major program; these courses enrich a student’s understanding of the world and help them frame their art and design studies into a broad intellectual context. High achieving students will also be invited to follow our Honors program to enhance their education.

Curriculum

Painting + Printmaking at VCUarts Qatar follows the curriculum of Painting + Printmaking on the Richmond campus, albeit with added regional relevance. We also offer special topics classes that change regularly. Some recent special topics include Color Theory and Digital Painting, Photolithography, Installations, Ephemeral Printed Matter, and The Graphic Memoir, the Artist Book, Exhibition Design, the Physical Digital 3-D Scaling. In addition, our department houses the photography classes, which offers electives such as Digital Imaging 1, Darkroom, and a Special Topics course on Alternative Photography, such as anthotypes, cyanotypes, and gum bichromate printing.

Degree requirements can be found at this link: http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/school-arts-qatar/painting-printmaking-bfa/#degreerequirementstext

Course descriptions can be found at this link: http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/school-arts-qatar/painting-printmaking-bfa/#coursestext

Faculty

  • Dr. Aissa Deebi

    Director of Painting and Printmaking

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  • Charlene Kasdorf

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Charlotte Rodenberg

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Habeeb Mohammed Abu-Futtaim

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Hussain Buftaim Habeeb Mohammed Ali

    General Administrative/Teaching Assistant

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  • Issam Nassar

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Khalifa Ahmad M A Al-Obaidli

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Michael Perrone

    Assistant Professor

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  • Noora Jassim M A Al-Hardan

    Alumni Artist in Residence

  • Nour Elbasuni

    Studio Teaching Assistant.

  • Dr. Aissa Deebi

    Director of Painting and Printmaking
  • Charlene Kasdorf

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Charlotte Rodenberg

    Adjunct Faculty
BIO

Aissa Deebi is a practicing artist, curator, and writer. His practice deals with issues of art and polities, with an emphasis on cultural migration, diaspora, exile, postcolonialism, history.  His work has been exhibited internationally including The Palestinian Museum, Palestine; Art Dubai, UAE; Space Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland; Birziet University Museum; Darb 1718; 55 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; ...

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Charlene is a visual literacy educator, artist, and illustrator. She earned her MA with distinction in Museum and Gallery Practice at UCL Qatar (2020). Her thesis explored ephemeral drawing-creating, supported by literature research in the neuroscience of sight and memory. Charlene has lived in Qatar for over 10 years and has collaborated on research-driven illustrations and animation...

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Charlotte Rodenberg is an active artist and educator. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. Her recent studio practice includes experimental screenprinting and street art. In addition to being an active artist and educator, Rodenberg is a twice published Author and Illustrator of Children's Books. Rodenberg is...

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  • Habeeb Mohammed Abu-Futtaim

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Hussain Buftaim Habeeb Mohammed Ali

    General Administrative/Teaching Assistant

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  • Issam Nassar

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Khalifa Ahmad M A Al-Obaidli

    Adjunct Faculty

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  • Michael Perrone

    Assistant Professor
  • Noora Jassim M A Al-Hardan

    Alumni Artist in Residence

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Michael Perrone is an American painter who graduated from Muhlenberg College with a degree in Russian Studies and Political Science. He went on to study art and art education at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, and received an MFA in Painting from The University of Pennsylvania in 2004....

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  • Nour Elbasuni

    Studio Teaching Assistant.

  • Peter Welz

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Rola Khayyat

    Assistant Professor

BIO

Peter Welz was educated at the National-College of Art and Design (Dublin), at the Chelsea College of Art and Design (London) and at the Cooper Union (New York). On the one hand, his artistic works are known for their kinetic experimental arrangements; on the other hand, the cinematic plays a central role. In addition to...

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Rola Khayyat is a Lebanese interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts, the Florence Academy of Art and the American University of Beirut. Rola has curated shows in Beirut, Thessaloniki, Havana, and New York, such as the BEYroute for the third Thessaloniki Biennale, Lattice Work at...

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  • Sarah Al-Afifi

    Social Media & Design Assistant

  • Walid Mohamed Taher Mohamed Elsadek Ibrahim

    Adjunct Faculty

Alumni

Campus

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    Our drawing and painting studios are equipped with specialist homasote walls to fill with your drawings and paintings.

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    Etching studios support intaglio techniques with ventilated acid room, rosin box, hotplates, and a Takach press.

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    The lithography studio offers analogue and photographic aluminum plate printing and even uses a solar system to generate distilled water for printing.

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    Make copies of your work using our well equipped screen or digital printing laboratories.

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    Turn your work into a book, by using our book binding facilities.

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Fieldtrips & Workshops

  • Venice Biennale

  • Global Art Forum Dubai-2012

  • Global Art Forum Dubai-2011

  • Sharjah Biennial

  • Cai Guo Qiang

  • Abdul Rahman Katanani

  • National Day Exhibition

  • Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale

October 2011

Painting and Printmaking students and faculty attended the 54th Venice Biennale, which is the largest international exhibition of contemporary art in the world. Founded in 1895 with the aim of establishing a new market for contemporary art, the Biennale hosts contemporary artworks from across the world within National Pavilions. Our students and faculty spent five days browsing over 30 National Pavilions and experiencing art from across the globe

Global Art Forum Dubai-2012

March 2012

The Global Art Forum is a regular fieldtrip for our students. Founded by Art Dubai this Forum brings together the art world for a week of conversation. This year our students attended the annual Global Art Forum 2012 founded by Art Dubai, and listened to lectures, keynotes and presentations around the Forum theme of “The Medium of Media”

Global Art Forum Dubai-2011

March 2011

The Global Art Forum was founded by Art Dubai in 2007 with the aim of bringing together the art world for a week of conversation. Our students and faculty attended in 2011 to listen to lectures, keynotes and presentations around the broad theme of “changing an audience – and how artists see their role in relation to new audiences.”

  • Sharjah Biennial

  • Cai Guo Qiang

  • Abdul Rahman Katanani

Sharjah Biennial

March 2011

Six students attended the 10th edition of the acclaimed Sharjah Biennial, one of the oldest and most respected contemporary art events in the Middle East. 119 artists from 36 countries across the globe exhibited in this curated exhibition entitled “Plot for a Biennial.”

Cai Guo Qiang

October 2011

Chinese artist, Cai Guo Qiang is well known for using gunpowder within his artworks to foster spontaneity. Our students worked with this renowned artist to help him create a new body of work for his exhibition at Mathaf. 20 students took part by helping the artist draw on canvas with gunpowder and then setting it alight to recreate the final pieces. All of the created works were then exhibited in a public exhibition at Mathaf.

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Abdul Rahman Katanani

November 2011

Beirut-born Palestinian Artist Abdul Rahman Katanani's work depicts the tragedy of his fellow Palestinian refugees. Growing up in the refugee camps in Lebanon, he uses found objects gathered within the camps, such as tin, cardboard, bottle caps, old clothes and utensils as materials to create artwork that vividly portrays life in the camps. 20 of our students took part in a workshop with Mr Katanani creating sculptures from trash.

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National Day Exhibition

December 2010

To celebrate National Day 2010 through art, ten Qatari artists worked with ten of our students for ten days to create an exhibition that celebrated Qatar's National Day 18 December 2010. All of the resulting artwork was displayed at the Souq Wakif Art Centre.




Opportunities

Internships

Internships are available for Painting and Printmaking students each semester, giving students the opportunity to work with professionals in the field, learning how galleries are run, experiencing museum work, and assisting artists in their studios and workshops.

The Internships provide hands-on learning for acquiring important skills and knowledge to help students succeed in the art world.  PAPR elective credit and a grade can be assigned for the internships period.

Mathaf Voices Program
Qatar Museums Public Education Department
Fire Station Residency
Katara Art Center
and more.

Artist-in-Residence Program

The post-MFA Artist-in-Residence Program at VCUarts Qatar brings emerging artists to work within the PAPR Department as resident artists, mentors, and teachers. The department supports up to two 10-month fellowships every academic year. Recent MFA graduates from international art masters programs may apply in an international open call during the Spring preceding the fellowship period.

Current Artists-in-Residence: asmaa al-issa and Azim al Ghussein

Previous Artists-in-Residence: Leekyung Kang, Austin Aviles*, Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez, David Withers*, Gina Hunt, Nastassja Swift*, Sage Lewis, James McPherson*, Christine Wang, Kelley Lowe*, Maria Stabio, Emily Stokes*, Vreni Micheline-Castilo, Lauren Prakadooni, Cosima Storz.
*Former post-BFA Artists-in-Residence

More about the program and how to apply »

Fanoon Center for Printmedia Research

In addition to an active and ambitious program of visiting artists, lecturers and artists in residence, the department of Painting and Printmaking also operates a printmaking publishing program. The program collaborates with local, regional and international artists in the publishing of editions of prints, artists books and the realization of research projects within printmaking.

More about the Fanoon Center for Printmedia Research program here »

Inquiries

VCUarts Qatar
Al Luqta Street
Education City
Doha, Qatar
+974 4402 0555
vcuqinfo@vcu.edu

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