A new model of art school led by international art gallery MIMA, and Teesside University.
Gain an exceptional experience working with our local, national and international networks developing skills, knowledge and resilience, building foundations for a creative practice career.
MIMA School of Art & Design, led by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, gives you an exceptional experience, using the gallery as a platform, cultural hub and creative resource. We nurture, develop and support significant new talent for the future.
You are challenged to work across disciplines, sectors, places and locations, learning how to creatively respond to briefs and commissions and building transferrable skills for future careers.
MIMA Director and Dean of MIMA School of Art & Design
Undergraduate
At the heart of this course is the understanding that this is a personal adventure during which you test, unearth and begin to shape a voice that will be the creative foundation for your future.
Postgraduate
You focus on establishing frameworks for developing research through making. The course supports you to expand your methods including reviewing and considering how other artists work. This course is designed to wrap around and support the work of both the established practicing artist and the emerging artist at an early point in their career, including exhibiting
Our design degrees combine artistic flair and creativity with teamwork and a business-like, client-focused approach - and our teaching includes all of these strands.
We support students who are working on a wide range of topics from community engagement through to performance art, drawing or printmaking.
Workshop, studio, gallery and classroom-based learning allows you to explore and experiment with painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and/or new media. You work with skilled technicians to help you create and innovate, and have open access to all media workshops to develop your personally defined project themes.
Our academic team is made up of internationally practicing artists and each member is contributing research within MIMA in the form of exhibitions, debates and special projects.
You develop the skills, knowledge, resilience and networks to sustain a life of creative practice. Our students go on to work in a range of fields - they are digitally able, financially savvy and know how to make things happen in the world.
Associate Dean (Development)
My current role is involves working with creative and cultural organisations at a local, national and international level, as well as working with our network of partner Further Education Colleges.
Charlie Dempster won an interior design project launched by Miller Homes in conjunction with Q Interiors while she was a student - and now two years on, she is working full-time as an interior designer, with the homebuilder being one of her clients.
29 Jan 2020 About us
