MA Craft at Manchester Metropolitan University

This course is at the forefront of craft making practices, and is for materially engaged makers who are looking to explore craft practices across a range of materials and object types. It encourages the development of craft across specialist and multi-material making, investigating and exploring definitions of contemporary craft practice. The programme is an opportunity to pursue a making practice that might already be located within a specific material area or object definition such as glass, ceramics, textiles or jewellery, or to develop and expand the definitions and materials of craft practice.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities  |  Department: School of Art and Design  |  Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

MA Craft is a practice-led masters that combines creative exploration, advanced making and critical research to help you develop a distinctive craft practice. Designed for makers working in ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery and interdisciplinary fields, the course encourages you to investigate contemporary craft through experimentation, innovation and material-led enquiry. Modules core: Design Thinking, Researching, Mapping & Locating, Colour, Material & Finish, Synthesis Project: Craft (MA), Art & Design: Culture & Context (MA:X).

Career pathways

Our graduates are highly motivated, independent and creative makers and thinkers who have a range of portfolio practices working as solo craft makers, artists, community practitioners, curators, specialist technicians, academics and researchers at national and international levels.

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