COLLECTIVE 12! COLLECTIVE 12 is a design collective of 12 MAFAD students in their final year. Their focus is on fashion, jewelry and textile. During the Museum night (Museumnacht Maastricht) they will be prooting their crowdfunding organized together with Voordekunst in order to gather money for a show at Fashionclash Festival 2018

Just less than a month left to apply for study year 2018/2019!

Happy Easter from our staff and students!

Last week, during the municipal elections, two prototype ballot boxes designed by MAFAD students Carolin and Jan-Willem were put into use. The mayor herself came to take a look. Let us know which one you like most!

Opening today @Galeria Ra, Amsterdam, 16 - 18h Jessica den Hartog, Recolored, a new way of recycling Jessica den Hartog graduated in 2017 from the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design. One of her graduation-projects was aiming at a new way of recycling plastics. The industrial recycling process of hdpe-plastics mixes all colours into a basic gray material. Jessica graded all kinds of plastic waste on colour and qualities, and in cooperation with industrial partners she produced samples of recycled materials in different colours and with varying tactile qualities and possibilities for further use. Each sample has its own distinct identity. Jessica processed the new materials into transparent foil, which she combined in layered objects of art that look like contemporary leaded light. A group of these pieces will be presented in Ra Gallery.

Work in progress at the second year Fine Arts department!

Still a month left for designers to submit their creative plans! Deadline: 20 April 2018.

Final work by Marcia Neuner, recently graduated from MAFAD. Prejudice, blemishes and selfreflection are the topics of her graduation work. A series of jewellery and accessories with mirroring stains form the outfit of the judicious warrior of our times.

Alumni Nika Schmitt won the Eurpean award for sound art "Sonotopia 2018" at the Art Museum Bonn. With her installations, performances and joint ventures, the divisions and delimitations of time and space can be experienced through the use of sound, light and movement. She likes to make the presence of the audience part of the work. Congratulations!

Current work by our student Lotte Hendriks from the Material department. How important is the identity of our meat? These wall signs are made for and with the cows portrayed on the plate, since the plates contain ashes of the cow in question. The cows have had a wonderful life, and now get a new life on the wall of the farmer. Maintaining and cherishing the identity of material. Animal material in combination with ceramics in order to memorize the material forever.

We are currently in our second selection round! Keep an eye out for our deadline and register through Studielink! Find all info on the Zuyd website: http://www.zuyd.nl/