Courses
Undergraduate Programme
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The Bachelor of Fine Arts is a four-year degree programme. The first year is a common foundation course taken by all students, addressing drawing, painting, two- and three-dimensional design, calligraphy and lettering, a practical elective in printmaking or craft, the Fundamentals of Visual Art and the history of art, before any specialisation begins. This shared year ensures that students enter their chosen discipline with the technical and historical grounding that serious practice requires. From the second year, students specialise in painting, sculpture, or applied art, on the basis of first-year examination results and individual preference. Each specialisation is structured around studio practice supported by theoretical study in the history of art and aesthetics, drawing on Indian and Western traditions. Admission is through a competitive entrance examination administered by the Directorate of Technical Education, assessing drawing ability, general knowledge in art and culture, and a practical test in design, painting, or sculpture. The programme is affiliated to the University of Kerala, which conducts the first- and final-year examinations.
BFA Specialisation: Painting
The painting specialisation develops over three years from rigorous study of the figure and the observed world toward composition governed by the student's independent vision. Study from life across varied media and compositional work in still life, interior, landscape, and local subject establish the foundational vocabulary of the discipline. Advanced study attends to the compositional problems particular to each pictorial mode and to the development of an individual visual language. A graphics elective runs throughout the specialisation, alongside sustained theoretical engagement with the history of art and aesthetics across Indian and Western traditions.
BFA Specialisation: Sculpture
The sculpture specialisation is structured to develop both the full technical range of the sculptor's practice and the conditions for original work. Study from life and clay modelling, including moulding and casting, leads to compositional work conceived for bronze, stone, concrete, wood, welded, and mixed media, extending to portrait, relief, and architectural and outdoor sculpture for public contexts. Indian, Oriental, Western, and contemporary sculpture are studied throughout. A craft elective in wood, stone carving, or metalwork grounds the programme in direct material practice.
BFA Specialisation: Applied Art
The applied art specialisation prepares students for professional practice in visual communication, on the premise that design is most fully realised when its public and social dimensions receive as serious consideration as its commercial applications. The programme addresses drawing and illustration, lettering and typography, and graphic design across print, advertising, and public communication, supported by a working knowledge of reproduction processes from letterpress and process engraving to serigraphy and photography. The programme develops through advanced project work in indoor and outdoor media, informed by theoretical study in the history of art, advertising, and visual communication.
Postgraduate Programme
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
The Master of Fine Arts supports advanced studio practice and scholarly research. The programme is designed for practitioners who bring a formed artistic language to a period of sustained investigation, deepening both the work and the critical and theoretical framework that sustains it.
Two specialisations are available, in painting and in sculpture. Both are structured around practice-led research conducted under individual supervision and tested through regular group critique, seminars, and public presentation, concluding in a final exhibition and written articulation of the work. Critical writing and scholarly research are integral to both specialisations rather than supplementary to studio practice.