The Craft Studies MA course at Estonian Academy of the Arts provides students with interdisciplinary skills in ceramics, glass, jewellery, blacksmithing and textiles.

School: Estonian Academy of the Arts
Course: Craft Studies MA
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Course dates: September 2025 to June 2027
Application deadline: 3 March 2025

The Craft Studies MA programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) expands on the discipline and understanding of contemporary crafts – a hub for emerging craft makers and thinkers.

The course also advances professional development, critical expression and artistic research into materials, processes, concepts and identities.

Through studio work and craft theory, students participate in recrafting cultural, social, economic and ecological narratives.

The course mainly focuses on material and process-based autonomous practices, artistic research and creative authorship, integrated traditional know-how and innovation, and meaningful narratives in materials and processes.

Craft Studies MA provides students with an educational framework for drafting individual material and medium-based practices with a focus on studio and research.

This interdisciplinary programme fosters elemental curiosity, critical thinking, cultural phenomena and making, while operating alongside the peripheries and advocating for non-hierarchical material engagements.

Rooted in craft research, students advance their specialisation through material explorations, field trips, workshops, group critiques, and student-led projects. Each semester, students are paired with individual studio advisors.

The curriculum collaborates with and leans on the competence and traditions of the ceramics, glass, jewellery, blacksmithing, textile, accessories, bookbinding, fashion departments and labs at EKA.

The programme merges traditional and contemporary high- and low-tech approaches, aiming to rethink and reimagine the role of the hand and making, envisioning future craft practices.

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Top image: Bog iron smelting workshop in Viljandimaa, August 2023 (photo by Ragnar Saage).

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