me ta f o r a

Some students come to the International Workshop to explore

materials and learn new tools and techniques. The course of-
fers different combinations of classes and technical guidance.

The more experienced students come to immerse themselves

into the flow of the creative process, interested in spending
most of their time on studio-work and exhibition activity. This is
also perfectly possible, and if desired, these students can omit
classes in tools and techniques (Area-electives) and attend
only the talks, seminars and debates (Basic Tuition) which are
absolutely central to the course.

International Workshop
Program overview
Academic year 2015-2016

metafora papin 29, 08028 barcelona spain www.metafora.org admin@metafora.org

Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

When I got into art school, I thought it was

paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that
I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Sean Scully

General classes: Basic Tuition .............. 3

Classes in Tools and Techniques (Area-electives) .............. 4
The word Freedom, September-October 2015 ............. 6
Destil / Purify/ Define, October-November 2015 ............. 8
Chaos and Order, January-February 2016 ............. 10
Eye for Eye, February-March 2016 ............. 12
Space and Time, March-April 2016 ............. 14
Body and Limits, May-June 2016 ............. 16

The International Workshop encompasses a series of short term periods, each lasting 5-7 weeks.
Students can join the course at the beginning of these periods, enrolling on different routes acording to their
level, age and previous experience:

Advanced level: Art Residence (upcoming 2016)

Intermediate level: Discourse and Practice
Starters level: Foundation Studies in Studio Arts

There are two types of classes on the International Workshop: Basic-Tuition classes and Area-electives.
The first are classes are for all students on each route, and the latter are classes in tools and techniques.

The classes included in the Basic Tuition represent the essence of the scheduled activities.
All students can participate in these classes, even if they take no Area-electives or do not have a studio
space. Most of the Basic Tuition activities are designed as parallel activities for the separate groups on the
course (route-specific).

As a shared resource, all students have access to the same classes in Tools & Techniques, which are all
taught on an introductory level. Students are also very welcome to attend each others work-reviews at the
end of each short-term period.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

A typical week on the International Workshop

This structure is interrupted in weeks where a Theme-based Project is introduced or presented to rest of
the students, or at the end of each term, when the studios are converted into exhibition-space.
The definitive program is presented to the student prior to course-start.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekend

0930- Life drawing Tools and Techniques:

Tutorials
1130
or
Object & Space
Studio
Pictorial processes
Assignment Break
1130- Photography and Digital Images
1300
Link-
1300- Seminars /
Break
1330 Group-
Studios
tutorials
1330- open
Assembly
1400 until mid-
night
Artist talk
Studio-visit Studios open
1400-
Recent Art until midnight
1530 Studios
History
open
until mid-
Studios night
After open
hours until
midnight
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Class descriptions: Basic Tuition

Most of the Basic Tuition activities are designed as parallel activities for the separate groups on the course
(route-specific).

Individual and group- tutorials with a professional artist or curator.

Theme-based projects, Studio-projects and work-presentations.
Visiting artists, who come to Metfora to talk to the students about their work.
Visits to galleries, small and big Art-institutions in Barcelona.
Studio-visits around the city.
Exhibitions in small galleries around Barcelona.

Theme- introduction: Input Days (Studio-projects)

Brain-storm and input day
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5
Route C (Starters level) starts every
Theme-based Project with an intro-
duction-day, where students think and
reflect over the proposed theme.
The Theme-based Projects are meant
both as a source of inspiration as well
as an occasion for students to share
their ideas and work on a common
platform.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
Students on Intermediate level choose
their own line of work and thematic
investigation. At the beginning of
every short-term period of 6-7 weeks
of studio-project, students on Route B
undertake an Input Day.
The Input Day is a playful group brain-
storm, where the art investigation of
each student is defined. Each Studio-
project ends with a work review where
students present the work produced.

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Tutorials: Individual / groups

Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute conversation.
The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and ideas around materi-
als and execution of the projects. The following week, students meet with their tutor and the
group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Area-electives: Tools & Techniques / Artist as Professional

Introductory classes and tasters to how to get started with different techniques and materials. Open to all
students on the International Workshop. Students choose the desired classes prior to the start of each
Theme-based project.

The Area of Pictorial Processes is largely two-dimensional and comprises a range of tech-
niques within painting and other kinds of image-making.
Life Drawing Continuing weekly sessions throughout the entire academic year.
Object & Space: A span of sculptural techniques and ways of working through a comprehen-
sive introduction to some of the most basic techniques.
Photography and Digital Media: This area contains both basic artistic applications of digital
photography and video, but also classes in specific tools, mainly in Adobe Creative Suite
(PhotoShop, InDesign) as well as practical tools and other resources on the internet.
Throughout the year, Area-electives are blended with the classes called Artist as Profession-
al, specifically designed for students on Intermediate level.
Program overview
The Word Freedom ...
Expression, Gesture and scale
Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for September-October 2015:
Theme- introduction:
The Word Freedom ...
Expression, Gesture and scale
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5
How to keep playing in the creative
process, without losing consciousness of
the message, the content and the artistic
intention? This theme lets us explore the
idea of freedom and expression in the
first part of the 20th century, following up
this same idea in American art in the first
part of the Cold War period.
Studio assignment:
Joining Materials
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5
Studio assignments are one-morning
classes designed to unblock and
inspire students on beginners level, or
students who simply enjoy playing and
trying out new techniques and materi-
als. This class is about volume.
Studio assignment:
Gesture painting
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5
This studio assignment is dedicated to
playing with composition, scale and gesture
is one of the most important things for any
aspiring painter to try.
Studio assignment: Body Moulds
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5
Playing with plaster and making moulds
of hands, feet etc helps us understand
the potential of this technique.
International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016
Input Day 1 (Studio-projects)
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
We start the academic year trying to de-
fine the basic parameters of an artistic
investigation process.
What do you need to start your own line
of art investigation? How do you know
if you are on the right track? Students
do not work according to a proposed
theme, but choose their own line of
investigation.
Studio Assignment: Open Lab 1
In charge: Quim Packard
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
The Open Lab are playful seminars
and workshops where students gain fo-
cus in their individual studio-work. These
classes consist of practical exercises,
debates and brainstorms and group-
tutorials.
Studio Assignment: Open Lab 2
In charge: Luz Broto
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
----
Studio Assignment: Open Lab 3
In charge: Marc Vives
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
----
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for September-October 2015:

Painting Outdoors
Open to all students. Class hours: 7

Urban landscape: In this class students go to carefully selected areas in barcelona to observe
and portray the urban landscapes.
Students work with dry and wet techniques on paper, focusing on perspective, composition and
visual language.

Paper and wood

Open to all students. Class hours: 7

The title of this workshop hides several experiments of translations between two
dimensions and sculptural thinking. It is a must for any students with aspirations
towards sculpture or installation.

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes is the basics for understanding model drawing: Construction of
the body, anatomy, composition, body expression.

Artist as professional: Art institutions, studio visits and visiting artists

Intermediate level (students from route C are welcome).
Class hours: 10,5

This class is designed for students who are interested in getting to know about the dynamics
of the contemporary art-scene. One of Barcelonas young and upcoming curators will take us
around some of Barcelonas most inspiring institutions and hidden culture corners.

Introduction to CS, Photoshop and InDesign

Open to all students. Class hours: 5

The Creative Suite by Adobe is a toolbox which all artists today must have a fair amount of
knowledge of. Here is a super-short introduction to two of its main programs: Photoshop and
InDesign.

Screen printing
Open to all students. Class hours: 5

Screen printing is a technique which involves a photographic process. Through pro-

cessing the screen it is possible to print images of high resolution on many surfaces in
mono-chrome or colour combinations.

Artist as professional: Formulating your ideas, growing with your work

Intermediate level. Class hours: 10.5

Developing an artistic discourse is one of the main objectives behind the International Work-
shop. This class, designed by the Artist Marc Vives, is an intensive module dedicated to new-
thinking, reflecting and formulating ideas.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Destil / Purify / Define

... filtering ideas and expression
Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for October-November 2015:

Theme- introduction: Distil / Input Day 2 (Studio-projects)

Purify / Define ...filtering ideas and
expression
Class hours: 3,5
The process of distillation is necessary in all
art practice. The artist reflects and inves-
tigates and create accordingly. Then the
production continues and this process starts
over again. In this theme-based project we
focus on the pattern of reflecting and react-
ing as part of the creative process.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
The second Studio-project of the aca-
demic year follows up on trying to de-
fine the basic parameters of an artistic
investigation process.
What do you need to start your own line
of art investigation? How do you know
if you are on the right track? Students
do not work according to a proposed
theme, but choose their own line of
investigation.

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Tutorials: Individual / groups

Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute con-
versation. The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and
ideas around materials and execution of the projects. The following week, students
meet with their tutor and the group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check
up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Applications and Portfolios: Studio Assignment: Open Lab 3

Schools and further training In charge: Marc Larr
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5

We run though examples of differ-
ent art-trainings worldwide, try to go
in-depth with what it means to choose
a specific program within a University.
Do you really want to go to University?
Do you need a degree? What can a
University education offer you?
The Open Lab are playful seminars and
workshops where students gain focus in
their individual studio-work. These class-
es consist of practical exercises, debates
and brainstorms and group-tutorials.

Studio assignment: Understand- Studio Assignment: Open Lab 5

ing your process In charge: Marc Serra
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5

This class is particularly designed in ---

helping students form artistic discours-
es and help them on the right track
in their art-investigation. The class is
designed by Carles Ramos, director of
Metforas Art therapy department.

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for October-November 2015:

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes continues throughout the year. Every Tuesday there is model
drawing on the program: Construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body ex-
pression.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Basic video-editing
Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

With very basic equipment, you can make great video art. Without using professional
programs we go through the process of creating a Video Art piece from the basic idea,
though the different stages to the finished, edited piece.

Metal and Form

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Basic ARC welding technique. With this workshop we aim at giving students their first
contact with metal as such.. Through different exercises, students work with steel
plates, bars and tubes.

Painting the human body

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

This 3-day class offers technical insight into how to paint the human body. Students
work on a long pose with acrylics.

Being in the Art-world

Intermediate level (students from route C are welcome). Class hours: 10,5

Juan Canela is a former in-house-tutor and in independent curator in Barcelona. He

runs the residency program Bar with two other curators and knows the where and
abouts of all the most interesting art places of the city. This workshop is dedicated to
understanding how the art world functions.

Mould making and casting-techniques

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

An introduction to how to transfer objects from one material to another.

We work with plaster moulds, silicone and fibre-glass.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Chaos and Order

... entropy and art

Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for Jaunary-February 2016:

Theme- introduction: Chaos and Input Day 3 (Studio-projects)

Order ...entropy and art
Class hours: 3,5
This theme-based project offers us
the possibility of looking at some of
the bridges between art and science.
We examine some of the ideas which
artists, philosophers and scientists
have attempted to solve over the past
centuries.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
The first Studio-project of 2016 is yet
another opportunity for students to
redefine their discourse.
The continuing students on the course
will by now have a firm understanding
of their own line of investigation.

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
Tutorials: Individual / groups
Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute con-
versation. The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and
ideas around materials and execution of the projects. The following week, students
meet with their tutor and the group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check
up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Studio assignment: Art and Studio Assignment: Open Lab 6

science: Constellations In charge: Quim Packard
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5

Jo Milne has for long worked with the ---

fascinating world of constellations and
string theory. In this studio assignments
she introduces students to the poetics
of science when translated by art.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for January-February 2016:

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes continues throughout the year. Every Tuesday there is model
drawing on the program: Construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body ex-
pression.

Academic drawing and painting

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

An introduction to academic drawing; Still-lives and sessions of model (long pose, full
size drawing). The work produced in this workshop is mostly done with pencil.

Photoshop
Open to all students. Class hours: 6

Photoshop is a wonderful tool which provides you with a wide range of possibilities in
image manipulation, collage and filtering.
This class is necessary for the students attending the animation class, who have little
or no experience in digital images.

Stop-motion animation
Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Basic tools in stop-motion. Students work with images, objects drawings to create
small moving-image videos in different formats.

Art and self-marketing

Intermediate level (students from route C are welcome). Class hours: 10,5

A 3-day class dedicated to understanding the basic notions of marketing: How does
the artists use it, how does self-marketing influence the art process. How do different
art institutions in Barcelona relate to the dynamics of marketing?

Objects and XL sculptures

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Large scale work with a series of different techniques and materials.

Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Eye for Eye

about Vengeance and Forgiveness
Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for February-March 2016:

Theme- introduction: Eye for Input Day 4 (Studio-projects)

Eye.... about vengeance and for-
giveness
Class hours: 3,5
Vengeance and forgiveness can be
seen as primal human instincts, belong-
ing to the earliest moments of civilisa-
tion. War and peace depend on these
primitive urges in political, religious and
cultural structures around the world. We
take the chance to look at political art,
but also to dive down into the deepest
of our instincts and emotions.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
Februarys Studio-project places the In-
ternational Workshop in a period where
we visit one of Spains major art events:
ARCO, a yearly contemporary art fair in
Madrid.
This fact gives students on Intermediate
level the opportunity to get a peak-view
into the real art-world. We learn some
of the reasons why some artists get
their work on show in prestigious galler-
ies and other dont...

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
Tutorials: Individual / groups
Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute con-
versation. The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and
ideas around materials and execution of the projects. The following week, students
meet with their tutor and the group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check
up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Studio assignment: How the art market works (preparing for Madrid)
Open to all students. Class hours: 3,5

Madrid is boiling with art activity this time of year.

We spend an entire morning trying to understand the dynamic of the art market and
get an idea of what is moving in the Spanish capital now.

Studio assignment: Open Lab Studio Assignment: Open Lab 6

Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 In charge: Claudia Pags
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
The Open Lab is a one-day workshop
which challenges your way of working, ---
attacks your established habits and
helps you think in different ways.

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for February-March 2016:

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes continues throughout the year. Every Tuesday there is model
drawing on the program: Construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body ex-
pression.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Screen printing
Open to all students. Class hours: 5

Screen-printing is a technique which involves a photographic process.

Through processing the screen it is possible to print images of high resolution on
many surfaces in mono-chrome or colour combinations. In this workshop, students
learn to prepare the screen with photographic emulsion, expose it to light, print on
paper or fabric and wash down.

Metal and Form

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

This is the 2nd round of introduction to ARC welding. Students can join this class
as a general introduction to metal or as the second contact to learn more about this
material and its possibilities.

Painting the model

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

This class is dedicated to one of the most traditional art-school activities: Painting the
human figure. Students work with acrylics with live model, on long and short poses.

Staged Photography
Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Digital photography is one of the pillars in contemporary art, both as a simple tool for
documentation, but also as a respected medium with worlds of possibilities.

Special activity during the period: Trip to Madrid

Among the common experiences on the International Workshop is a trip to Madrid. On

this yearly returning event, students and tutors travel together in mid-February, coin-
ciding with the prestigious Contemporary Art fair ARCO. At this point of year Madrid
offers a very special range of art-events, all representing the youngest and freshest
tangents of the Spanish and International art scene.
This trip is included in the fees or students who have signed up for 2 semesters or
more.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Space and Time

specific sites
Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for March-April 2016:

Theme- introduction: Space and Input Day 6 (Studio-projects)

Time
Class hours: 3,5
Site-specific art is not only a way of
working in which the art-work relates
specifically to the place where it is
produced. It is an art-work which incor-
porates issues of context in physical,
cultural and social terms.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
As spring is approaching, students on
Intermediate level keep working on de-
fining their artistic discourse and visual
language. The Input-days are designed
for helping out with this process.

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
Tutorials: Individual / groups
Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute con-
versation. The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and
ideas around materials and execution of the projects. The following week, students
meet with their tutor and the group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check
up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Studio assignment: Graffiti Studio Assignment: Open Lab 8

Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 In charge: Anna Dot
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
Graffiti is widely used in contemporary
art practice. Even for artists with no ---
graffiti-aspirations, this workshop offers
curious technical tricks and interesting
information about contemporary (urban)
culture including the history of graffiti,
guided tours of the walls in Barcelona,
technical skills for making stencils and
using spray cans.

Studio assignment: Writing an artist statement

Intermediate level (students from route C are welcome). Class hours: 3,5

Students produce written statements relative to their work for each Theme-based
Project and their book portfolio. Students are expected to work with writing as well as
layout and presentation. This class offers a practical, hands-on solution to getting it
done.

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for March-April 2016:

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes continues throughout the year. Every Tuesday there is model
drawing on the program: Construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body ex-
pression.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Art institutions, studio visits and visiting artists

Intermediate level (students from route C are welcome). Class hours: 10,5

Seeing art, visiting artists studios and talking to other practicing artists is fundamental
for any art student. At Metfora, we are lucky to know many of Barcelonas young and
established artists, as well as the owners and coordinators of a wide range of different
institutions.

Site Specific Art

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

This class is dedicated to one of the most traditional art-school activities: Painting the
human figure. Students work with acrylics with live model, on long and short poses.

Bad painting
Open to all students. Class hours: 3,5

Bad painting was a term used in the 1970s and 80s and represented a new per-
spective on painting as such. We play with our own preconceived ideas about what
good art is and challenge our image about painting as a discipline.

Formulating your ideas, growing with your work

Intermediate level. Class hours: 10,5

Developing an artistic discourse is one of the main objectives behind the International
Workshop. This class, designed by the Artist Marc Vives, is an intensive module dedi-
cated to new-thinking, reflecting and formulating ideas.

Clay sculpting
Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

We learn about volume and shape, about proportions and expression.

Some sessions will be with life model.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Body and Limits

Basic Tuition
Specific classes planned for May-June 2016:

Theme- introduction: Body and Input Day 7 (Studio-projects)

Limits
Class hours: 3,5
The body has been used widely in art
throughout western history. We look at
the meaning of the body in issues of
identity, its physical limits and its signifi-
cance in our world.
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
As spring is approaching, students on
Intermediate level keep working on de-
fining their artistic discourse and visual
language. The Input-days are designed
for helping out with this process.

End-of-theme work presentations Work presentations

Starters level. Class hours: 10-15 Intermediate level. Class hours: 10-15

At the end of each Theme-based Coinciding with the weeks of End-of-

Project students present their work to
the rest of the group. We talk about
intentions and concept, techniques and
choice of materials. The idea is to make
students think and talk, formulate their
ideas and mature artistically.
Tutorials: Individual / groups
Class hours: 30 minutes (every other week) / 2 (every other week)
theme presentations, students on Inter-
mediate level also present their work to
the rest of the group.
Presentations are structured like typical
university critical sessions, where ideas
are tested and brought forward and the
visual language of each student falls in
place.

Every other Monday students meet with their personal tutor for a 30-45 minute con-
versation. The individual tutorials are for discussing ideas and concepts, for tips and
ideas around materials and execution of the projects. The following week, students
meet with their tutor and the group of tutees for an intimate work-review and a check
up on how things are going.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Link Seminars, Starters Level Link Seminars, Intermediate Level

Starters level. Intermediate level.
Class hours: 2 (every other week) Class hours: 2 (every other week)

The Link Seminars on starters level are
student-presentations of different artists
where we compare affinities and resem-
blances to the personal work of the stu-
dent. Though this exercise each student
begins a process of building an individual
visual language.
The Intermediate level also have Link
Seminars which are conducted as group-
tutorials where recent Critical Theory
echoes into the work-review. The Link
Seminars are an occasion for artists to
discover affinities and influences in their
own work from the work and other artists.

Tutors work and Ideas / Recent Art History / Visiting Artist

Visiting artists are for all students.
Recent Art History is specific to Starters level (students from route B are welcome).
Class hours: 1,5 (weekly)

During the autumn term In-house-tutors and visiting artisits show their work and influences.
The spring term offers a blend of classes of recent art history (specific to rouute C) from diffe-
rent periods of the 20th-21st centuries, as well as a series of session where young artists visit
the school to show their work (specific to route B).

Studio asignment: Ciano-types Studio Assignment: Open Lab 9

Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 In charge: Juan Canela
Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5
Ciano-types is a simple image transfer tech-
nique which involves a chemical reaction ---
with daylight. It is possible to transfer high-
definition images to all types of surfaces.

Studio assignment: How to Studio Assignment: Open Lab 10

hang work In charge: Marc Vives
Starters level. Class hours: 3,5 Intermediate level. Class hours: 3,5

The act of hanging and presenting the art ---

work can be almost as complex as produc-
ing it. There are millions of different ways of
showing paintings, drawings, objects and
photographs. This class is dedicated to find-
ing specific solutions a few weeks prior to
the exhibition.
Program overview International Workshop
Academic year 2015-2016

Tools and Techniques / Artist as Professional (Area-electives)

Specific classes planned for May-June 2016:

Life drawing
Open to all students. Class hours: 2 (weekly)

This block of classes continues throughout the year. Every Tuesday there is model drawing on
the program: Construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression.

Constructing with wood

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Wood is a marvellous material with a long tradition and a wide range of possibilities. In this
3-day class students are presented with basic carpentry skills and creative exercises of how to
make the most of this material.

Painting with oil

Open to all students. Class hours: 10,5

Painting with oil is probably one of the most traditional art school activities of all times.
Despite the brief class (3 days), students get introduced to a range of brush tech-
niques, to mixing colours and different ways of working the surface.

Books and Blogs

Open to all students. Class hours: 7

These classes are designed as practical tools with one single objective: That students
finish the semester with a printable book of their work and a web-page published on
the internet.

Special activity for this period: Final show of the year

There are two scheduled end-of-term exhibitions at the Metfora each year; An open
studio exhibition at the end of November and an end-of-year exhibition in June.
Both ar big events, although the June-exhibition is more ambitious in all senses.
It is expected that all students show work and participate in the organisation of the
opening and preparation of the spaces.