9 Arts Degree Programs in Italy

Today’s spaces, furniture, and products are waiting to be renewed by the talent, intuition, and skills of tomorrow’s designers, RUFA graduates. The designer is the main actor of the contemporary lifestyle. Thanks to his studies in specific subjects, RUFA Designer is a professional able to lend his authorial work to interior architecture, product design, multimedia, and interactive works.

The Master of Arts in Multimedia Arts and Design – the first program of its kind recently set up in central/southern Italy – succeeds in fully embracing this complex area of studies, addressing the increasingly central role played by digital technologies and techniques in the design of multimedia spaces and works.

The international curriculum of the Master in Arts, Museology, and Curatorship is aimed at discussing the different methodologies in the fields of valorization of the arts, museology, and curatorship from an international perspective.

The Florence Academy’s Master of Arts in Studio Art, with its focus on classical methods, provides training in drawing and painting to art educators seeking to use these skill-based techniques in their classrooms, and to anyone interested in learning how to make realistic artwork. MA candidates are not expected to come into the program with high levels of technical skill. Instead, the program is designed to provide the knowledge and develop the skill set of candidates from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience.

East Exit is a program of scholarships open to students of art in Eastern Europe. The program is a semester abroad dedicated to a large range of students' interests and takes place in Spring & Fall terms (Spring semester runs February-May, Fall semester runs September-December). Scholarships offered by the Siena Art Institute for East Exit students cover full tuition or 80% of the tuition expenses.

The students who take this three years course will be awarded a private institutional diploma in Visual Arts. The course is designed for students who are looking to make a career in Visual Arts. The course offers a diversity of skills to students including drawing, painting, composition, perspective, anatomy, color science and sketching.

The Siena Art Institute’s Post-Baccalaureate Program is designed for students who have earned their BFA or BA and desire to spend a period of study honing their skills, exploring their artistic interests, and developing their artistic portfolios in preparation for pursuing an MFA. The program welcomes artists from all disciplines (painting, photography, drawing, video, ceramics, silversmithing, creative writing, and more) who are interested in the intersection of art and civic life, and who wish to explore how our artistic projects can lead to a deeper understanding of the cultures in which we find ourselves.

This program is available for Russian professional artist practicing in the field, aiming to improve their technical level further and broaden their expertise. There are partial and full scholarships distributed according to the yearly competition.

The two-year BFA program offers a comprehensive grounding in contemporary jewelry and body ornament to those without prior experience or possession of jewelry-making skills in a relatively short time. The course begins with traditional techniques and skills in the construction and design of jewelry and then introduces the students to new technologies, creative use of resources, and material expression for originality in design.