Dunkerque / Tourcoing
5 Rue de l’Esplanade
59140 Dunkerque
T +33 (0)3 28 63 72 93
36Bis Rue des Ursulines
59200 Tourcoing
T +33 (0)3 59 63 43 20
FIELD
Visual arts, continuing education
Class International Art (CIA).
ENTRY LEVEL
Baccalauréat or equivalent
DURATION
5 years
OPTIONS
Art
DIPLOMAS
Diplôme National d’Art (DNA) art – 3rd year
Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique (DNSEP), art – 5th year, MA level
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
300, with 100 on the Dunkirk site
and 200 on the Tourcoing site
TEACHING STAFF
President
Yves Duruflé
Director
Thierry Heynen
Director head of the Tourcoing site
Martial Chmielina
Director head of the Dunkirk site
Anne Rivollet
Administrator
Guillaume Corroënne
Assistant to the director in charge of human resources
Halima Medjahedi
Accountant
Lahoucine Essofi
Pedagogical administrator
Pauline Florent
Library
Eric Harasym: head librarian
Mickaël Tkindt-Naumann : librarian, Dunkirk
Anne Danjou: assistant librarian, Tourcoing
Technical team, Dunkirk
Lucas Dufresne: head of the technical team
Technical team, Tourcoing
Fabrice Desmarecaux: head of the technical team
Yann Hamey : stage manager
Teaching staff, Dunkirk
David Ayoun, vidéo et multimédia
Cassandre Boucher, pratiques de l’estampe et de l’édition
Phoebe Dingwall, peinture
Nicolas Cabos, édition
Audrey Charlet, vidéo
Arnaud Delbeke, photographie
Melissa Ryke, anglais, esthétique, philosophie
Jean-Baptiste Carobolante, histoire de l’art, culture générale et théorie des images
Donovan Le Coadou, volume
Lætitia Legros, dessin
Jean-Claude Mouton, photographie
Julien Pastor, volume/installation
Nathalie Poisson-Cogez, histoire de l’art, chargée de la professionnalisation et de la recherche
Mickaël Tkindt-Naumann, méthodologie documentaire
Teaching staff, Tourcoing
Ruchi Anadkat, vidéo et installation
Maria Cartwright, anglais
Cyril Crignon, esthétique, philosophie
Guillaume Dehaeze, périscolaire
Jean-Claude Demeure, peinture
Hugo Dinër, pratiques numériques
Éric Harazym, pédagogie documentaire
Samir Leksouri, périscolaire
Marie Lelouche, dessin élargi
Benoît Ménéboo, photographie
Leïla Pereira, photographie
Anne-Émilie Philippe, sérigraphie, édition
Nathalie Poisson-Cogez, histoire de l’art, chargée de la professionnalisation et de la recherche
Gregg Smith, anglais
Nathalie Stefanov, histoire de l’art
Williams Théry, vidéo
Ming Tong, céramique
Asli Torcu, dessin
Alexis Trousset, gravure
Silvain Vanot, son
Dominic Virtosu, peinture, périscolaire
Created by the fusion of the higher regional schools of Dunkerque (Dunkirk) and Tourcoing in 2011, the École Supérieure d’Art | Dunkerque-Tourcoing (ESÄ) has sites in these two cities which provide a training leading to the French national arts diploma, DNSEP (Diplôme National d’Expression Plastique), specialising in the visual arts.
In Tourcoing, ESÄ puts the emphasis on practices linked to the performing arts and to sound and digital technologies, encouraged by its closeness to Pôle Image, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Pictanovo, and many other cultural and professional structures working in these areas As for Dunkirk, the city’s exceptional range of contemporary art institutions (FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, LAAC, Musée des Beaux-Arts) made it logical for the site to put the emphasis on exhibition and study of the exhibition as a field of expertise, personal engagement and field of production.
By conceiving teaching models, partnerships and integrated courses of study designed to meet the practical implications of real, contemporary issues in the professional fields of art, culture and creativity in the broad sense, ESÄ sets out to support its graduates in establishing themselves professionally, to help build networks and to consolidate academic and institutional exchanges with its partners and to position itself as a true public resource, in the World and in the City.
Examples of this are the creation of an “art with French as a foreign language” class (FLEA) designed to help non-French speaking students to reach the necessary linguistic level, the creation of a satellite class in Annaba, Algeria, the institution of an integrated ARTIMAGE course preparing students for entry into Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, and the opening of public courses in theory (ALTA).
In anticipation of a future research cycle, the school has set up an “Art and the City” research programme, in line with its constant efforts to promote the values of openness and hospitality to the world and to the other.
