Jutland Art Academy
| Det Jyske Kunstakademi | |
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| Type | Public university |
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| Established | 1959 |
| Rector | Jesper Rasmussen |
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Administrative staff
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13 (5 teaching staff and 8 administrative and assistant teaching staff) |
| Students | 35-40 |
| Location | Århus, Denmark |
| Website | www.djk.nu |
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Jutland Art Academy (Danish: Det Jyske Kunstakademi, abbreviated DJK), is a state recognized institute for higher education in Århus, Denmark, offering a 5-year educational programme in contemporary art. The academy is a small school of only about 40 students. The school is located in street of Mejlgade in the Latin Quarter.
Other recognized Art Academies in Denmark comprise the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, and Funen Art Academy in Odense. There are other institutions which also use the name 'art academy', but none of these are state recognized as institutions of higher education.
DJK was established in 1959 as an independent player in the Danish milieu of educations in the arts. In 1964 the academy moved into its current location in the buildings in Mejlgade 32-34. In 1969 DJK entered the state budget, effectively making all students of Danish citizenship eligible for state education stipend SU (Danish: abbr. for Statens Uddannelsesstøtte). In 1999 the academy decided to discontinue the traditional division into media-based departments (painting, sculpture, graphics, etc.) which was characteristic of the classical art academy, and today the academy offers all forms of teaching to all students regardless of year group.
The building in Mejlgade was renovated in 2006.
The objective of the Jutland Art Academy is to teach and research within the visual arts, while developing an artistic and intellectual community of study and creation. It is essential for the academy that its activities reflect the fact that visual art must be in investigative dialogue with the constantly changing world of political, technological and economic conditions that shape our contemporary society. Students are encouraged to work in any given media (painting, sculpting, graphics, performance, new media etc.).
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