St. Joost School of Art and Design (formerly Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Dutch ''Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost, Breda'') is a Dutch academy of art and design based in

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

and

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

. The school is part of

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with offices in Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg.

Location

The location in Breda is a former seminary on the outskirts of the city. The school's location in 's-Hertogenbosch is a stone's throw from the railway station. It is a remnant of the school that was originally called Royal Academy of Arts and Design, 's-Hertogenbosch. Up to 2017 this school was situated in the former

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-typewriter factory on the Onderwijsboulevard. This building is a remarkable design by architect

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, and especially suitable for a school that requires much natural light. The school was next moved to the EKP building, its current (2018) location. This is a building where mail and packages were handled, located along the railway track just north of the station.

History

Predecessors

The longest part of the history of AKV St. Joost is formed by the history of its two predecessors: the Royal Academy of Arts and Design of 's-Hertogenbosch, and the Academy for Visual Arts Sint-Joost in Breda. The school in 's-Hertogenbosch was founded in 1812 as "Royal and Imperial Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture". The oldest roots of St. Joost were in a drawing school started in Breda in 1825. In 1922 an art school was founded in Breda, and later the Free Academy of Visual Art was founded by the artists Dio Rovers, Gerrit de Morée and Niel Steenbergen.About AKV St. Joost
. 2013. These two schools became locations of the new merged school in 2004.

Bachelor courses

;Full time *

Visual Arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

(Breda and 's-Hertogenbosch) *

Fine arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

(Breda) *

Graphic Design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

(Breda and 's-Hertogenbosch) *

Illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vid ...

(Breda and 's-Hertogenbosch) *

Photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

(Breda) *

Animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

(Breda) * Audiovisual Design (Breda) *

Spatial Design Spatial design is a relatively new conceptual design discipline that crosses the boundaries of traditional design specialisms such as architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, interior design, urban design and service design as well as ...

(Breda) *

Interaction Design Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Beyond the digital aspect, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) produ ...

(Breda) All full-time courses start with a foundation year. ;Part time *

The time courses Visual Arts, Photography and Audiovisual Design are given in 's-Hertogenbosch, the part-time course Graphic Design and Spatial Design in Breda. In addition, the school under the name Post-St. Joost three continued to master: Photography, Fine Art and Graphic Design. Known lecturers or alumni

Masters courses

The school offers four masters programmes through the Masters Institute of Visual Cultures: *

Ecology Futures Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their biophysical environment, physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosy ...

* Situated Design * Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practice

Notable faculty and alumni

* Chris Berens *

Evert Bloemsma Evert Bloemsma (; 1958 – 22 April 2005) was a Dutch photographer, graphic designer, type designer, and art school educator.

Clemens van den Broeck Clemens van den Broeck (born 1943) is a Dutch artist, and goldsmith A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, ...

Wim Crouwel Willem Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel (; 21 November 1928 – 19 September 2019) was a Dutch people, Dutch graphic designer, Type design#Profession, type designer, and Typography, typographer. Early life and education Between 1947 and 1949, he studied ...

Marlies Dekkers Marlies Dekkers (; born 29 November 1965 in Oosterhout) is a Dutch fashion designer known for her lingerie line ''Undressed''. Biography She studied at the Art school in Breda, from which she graduated cum laude (with distinction) in 1991 ...

Jan van den Dobbelsteen Jan van den Dobbelsteen (born 28 September 1954, Waalre) is an interdisciplinary Dutch artist who teaches at Academy St. Joost in Breda and lives and works in Eindhoven. Biography: ''"He has been working with sound and sound installations for mor ...

Eugene Horak Eugene (Eugeniusz) Horak, (Eugene Damara) (March 1914 October 1972) was a Polish painter and woodblock printmaker. He graduated from the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost (Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost, Breda, Netherlands) in 19 ...

Rachel de Joode Rachel de Joode (born 1979) is a Berlin-based sculptor, photographer, and installation artist. Early life and education Rachel de Joode studied art at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in Breda and time-based arts at the Gerrit Rietveld ...

Ruud Kuijer Ruud Kuijer ( Schalkwijk, 8 June 1959) is a Dutch sculptor, particularly known for his ''Water works'', a group of seven large-scale sculptures on the strip between Isotopenweg and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Life and w ...

Johan van Loon Johan Gerard van Loon (Rotterdam, 29 October 1934 – Breda, 24 February 2020) was a Dutch ceramist and textile artist. ...

Geert Lap Gerardus Johannes (Geert) Lap (born Venlo, 24 December 1951- 26 April 2017 ) was a Dutch ceramist, known for his new approach to ceramics characterized as clay minimalism. Life and work Geert Lap studied at the AKV St. Joost from 1974 to 1976, ...

Awoiska van der Molen Awoiska van der Molen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer, living in Amsterdam. She has produced three books of black and white landscape photographs, made in remote places. Van der Molen has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography ...

Jan van Munster Jan Nicolaas van Munster (born 3 July 1939 in Gorinchem) is a Dutch sculptor and installation artist whose work appears in many public places in the Netherlands and Germany.RTV N-H">RTV N-H TV documentary and interview with Jan van MunsterJan Van ...

* Gert Staal

References

External links

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