ABOUT
The Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is the world’s only postgraduate college of art and design.
Many other colleges offer both BA and postgraduate courses, but the RCA is the only one to offer only postgraduate courses. This makes the creative atmosphere of the college unique. Most RCA students have already graduated from another college with a BA degree; they may also have worked in industry or practised as an artist or designer before coming to the RCA, but there is no fixed route. Students come from all over the world, from Japan to America, Iran, Denmark, Ghana, or even London born and bred, to spend two full-time years at the RCA.
Students join one of the following courses to develop their skills and ideas: Animation; Architecture; Ceramics & Glass; Communication Art & Design; Conservation; Curating Contemporary Art; Design Interactions; Design Products; Fashion; Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery; History of Design; Industrial Design Engineering; Painting; Photography; Printmaking; Sculpture; Textiles; Vehicle Design.
At the RCA students make work, research and write about their interests, and take part in discussions and collaborations. They like to experiment, to surprise themselves and others, and can become obsessed by an idea. RCA students sometimes work in ways that cross traditional disciplines; sculptors make films, photographers draw, graphic designers make sculptures. They often test what it means to be a designer or artist, so you might be surprised by the work that you see in the Show RCA, or how the students you meet describe themselves and what they’re interested in.
Graduates from the RCA become part of an international network of creative people who shape the culture surrounding all of us. Some of the world’s most acclaimed artists and designers studied at the RCA including David Hockney, Barbara Hepworth, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Ross Lovegrove, Philip Treacy, James Dyson and Ridley Scott to name just a few.
ReachOutRCA
ReachOutRCA is the Royal College of Art’s schools' outreach programme where RCA students lead a varied and rewarding programme of workshops, projects and exhibitions with London secondary school students.
ReachOutRCA has offered a series of workshops for young people as part of ShowRCA for the last three years. This year, alongside those workshops, we have developed Showzine, a website where young people will share their responses to the ShowRCA.
ReachOutRCA workshops are led by students and alumni from all disciplines and are based around their practice, reflecting the varied nature of the student body and their experience at the RCA. A key part of ReachOutRCA’s work is to highlight the unique traits of a postgraduate environment and to give young people the opportunity to actively engage with a creative process. This contact with a practicing artist, designer or maker is invaluable for school students in contextualising art and design as a potential vocation or area of study.
For more information about ReachOutRCA please click here
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