 This is the MA Fine Art Program. We are part of School of Art and Design at Prague City University. We are a highly international program. As the school itself, it's a program of two years of law residency, meaning that students have time to work and study as well. What is important for prospective students is the curiosity and I would say stamina to work consistently on a project over a longer period of time to not be bound by the media but more by a kind of a dynamic between research and practice. The program attracts students from across art and design and it is best suited for students who already have experience and strong practice coming from a BA in art preferably but also design and are prepared to on the one hand challenge and also further develop their media and their practice but also learn to work very much with research and with the dynamic between a strongly theoretical kind of research side of the program and highly practical studio-based daily practice within the studios here at Pragueovka where we are filming now. Fine art and future design MAs are both law residency programs and this means that working artists and professionals can join. The teaching happens usually in the afternoons and there is a lot of self-reliance as in any MA program so that the students have studio access 24-7 so they are free to use their studio whenever and as much as they need but the teaching itself is focused to the afternoons, late afternoons and the early evenings in order to allow students to also work during their MA. Especially in the first year where the two semesters are equally divided between theoretical subjects and the practical work in the studio supported by workshops and by teachers who are continually working with our students inside the studio. This relationship between practice and theory continues into the second year where the work is far more focused. It becomes more organized more around students major projects that continue until the final exhibition at the end of the program and at this point each student becomes paired up with a mentor. Mentors are either colleagues who work at the university or sometimes artists, local artists or international artists. Advanced practice is a new feature of the program. It is either a residency or a research project or internship that students undertake between their first and second year of study. It is meant to support their professional outlook, focus them, teach them to communicate with the outside world and gain some experience while studying. The logic of the program follows the idea that we are really building a major project over a long period of time. So sometimes students may change completely what they do but what doesn't change is the relationship between research and practice, the focus on process over product, the focus on context, the idea that they are gradually building a certain practice that they can commit to over a longer period of time. But the results are actually always surprising. To us the students sometimes as well they come as a result of a very long period of thinking, of trying things out in the studio, of showing smaller portions of work publicly, sometimes testing ideas in different media, not the medium that the student is most familiar with. Throughout the program students get a chance to show them work publicly in school and outside of school in small group exhibitions, site specific projects and small showcases that they organize in the second year and that prepare them for the final exhibition which is the major public event that students are fully in charge of and happen at the end of the program. Both our students and our teachers come from a really wide variety of specialisms. We have had students graduate with projects that focus on bio-art, on coding, on video, on sculpture, on painting and it is interesting to see that considering the variety and range of different specialisms, how focused and how intense the dialogue and collaboration can be both within the studio and in the theoretical classes.