VCUarts Qatar sets application deadline as Jan 15

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, has announced that the deadline for submitting applications for the 2023 academic intake is January 15, 2023.

Situated in QF’s Education City, VCUarts Qatar is the branch campus of VCUarts in Richmond, Virginia, a top-ranked public art and design school in the United States.

The university offers four undergraduate degree programmes: Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design, BFA in Interior Design, BFA in Painting + Printmaking and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) programme in Art History.VCUarts Qatar also offers a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Design programme at the graduate level.

VCUarts Qatar is home to the Institute for Creative Research, the country’s, and one of the region’s, first university-level institutes dedicated to advancing creative research.

According to Caitlin Murphy, director of Recruitment and Admissions, interested students can reach out to admissions counsellors for consultations and advice. Additionally, the University’s website includes application requirements, answers to frequently asked questions, and program information.

VCUarts Qatar’s alumni are currently employed throughout the world in roles as varied as art and design, filmmaking, interior design and incubation development. Over the last two decades, many of them have garnered international recognition on the global stage, winning coveted awards such as the Red Dot Award, the International Property Awards, and others.

The creative work and projects of VCUarts Qatar’s students, alumni, staff and faculty have been exhibited at prestigious exhibitions in Dubai, Paris, Moscow, Hong Kong and at the University’s home campus in Richmond, Virginia.

At VCUarts Qatar, students regularly take part in world-class art and design events, and field trips to study, work and network. The university also makes it a point to invite internationally acclaimed designers and artists such as Valentino, Hassan Hajjaj, Richard Serra, Shirin Neshat, Jeff Koons, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Diane von Furstenberg, Reza Abedini, Marina Abramović, Wissam Shawkat, Rami Al Ali, Naeem Khan, and Hector Ayuso, to give talks, lectures and workshops.