Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais

The Post-Graduation Program in Visual Arts is prominent in its three Research Lines.

• VISUAL ARTS - Lines:

1. Teaching of Visual Arts: in this line, we develop researches on the many contexts of teaching visual arts, considering its communication, intelligible and sensitive, and aesthetic and artistic aspects. The investigations approach the formal and non-formal teaching processes, highlighting the inclusive actions, child drawing, teacher formation, daily life aesthetics, alternative education or in open spaces, as well as education directed at new media and art created from these resources.

2. Contemporary Artistic Processes: this line contemplates researches connected to different artistic means, articulating processes and experiments with a critical and theoretical reflection.

3. Theory and History of Visual Arts: this line contemplated researches on experiences, sensibilities, and artistic and aesthetic perceptions involving a space-time articulation. We recognize the distance between what was once experienced and what can be considered injunctions and unfoldings, assimilations, and redefinitions, emphasizing a conceptual thought, methodologically attentive to the object and senses within reach.

From the undergraduate program in visual arts, al research lines contribute to the formation of a basic repertoire of theoretical and practical information destined for artists and professors. Such a set of knowledge is not offered in Basic Education or High School, neither is it easily accessed in libraries, museums or galleries. Therefore, it serves a need to widen the conditions of access to knowledge and provides researches directed at the artistic complexities and many cultural implications, considering its articulations without losing its particularities.

Regarding the ingressing students, many perform in teaching, overall in undergraduate studies, with many continuing into doctorate studies, confirming the profile of professional researcher. The data collected by Capes in the last three years, we identified that 27 egresses perform in higher education, in universities in Santa Catarina, Parana and other states of the southeastern region. Another six are conducting doctorate studies, and the others are performing in public and private schools, cultural institutions, or as cultural producers and artists, among other activities.

The VAGP/CEART has accepted students from other states, especially from the south and southeastern regions of the country, which demonstrates that the profile of professional researcher and their geographic mobility enhances the need to fulfill this contemporary social and irreversible demand. Considering the program´s evolution, local and regional studies, as well as their interrelations with wider studies, a successful journey in the formation of researchers for the context of visual arts, and the significant intervention of the program over local and regional institutions of the artistic context, we highlight the suitability of continuing the work and its qualification with the creation of the doctorate program.