Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Modern and Contemporary Art and Design from the Museum of Modern Art

Modern art and ideas

• Course 1 • 13 hours • 4.8 (6,446 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn

• Modern Art and Ideas is intended for anyone interested in learning more about modern and contemporary art.
• You will look at art through a variety of themes, including:
• Places and layers
• Art and Identity
• Changing everyday objects
• Art and Society
• Each week begins with a video that connects key works to the theme.
• You’ll also enjoy access to interviews with artists, designers, and others who talk about their materials, processes, and sources of inspiration.
• Through the discussion forum, you will also have the opportunity to connect with other learners and explore how these topics reflect in your own lives.

Skills you will acquire

• Category: Art History
• Category: Art
• Category: History
• Category: Creativity
• Category: Arts Management

Course 2 • 17 hours • 4.8 (4,361 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn

• Understand artists’ work processes and the choices that speak to the creation of photography, including experiments and responses to technological innovation.
• Learn how context affects the production, distribution, and reception of photographic images.
• Understand the relationship between the subject of the image and its meaning, and the differences between photography as an object and photographic images.
• Gain confidence in observing and talking about photography, and find inspiration from the images around you.

Skills you will acquire

• Category: Art History
• Category: Art
• Category: History
• Category: Photography
• Category: Museums

What is contemporary art?

• Course 3 • 11 hours • 4.7 (1,830 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn

• What is contemporary art? In this course, you will consider this question through works of art made since 1980.
• You will hear directly from artists, architects and designers from all over the world about their creative processes, materials and inspiration.
• Look at glass sculptures and 3D printing, performances in factories and museums, portraits (including those made with artificial intelligence) and interventions in television and video games.
• Not only will you develop a deeper understanding of how artists work today, but you will also explore some of their approaches to the pressing problems and questions of our time.
• Through this course, you will build skills to observe contemporary art wherever you encounter it and make connections to your life or your creative process.

Skills you will acquire

• Category: Art History
• Category: Art
• Category: History
• Category: Creativity
• Category: Museums

Fashion as design

• Course 4 • 20 hours • 4.8 (2,875 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn

• Fashion as Design focuses on a selection of clothing and accessories from around the world, from kente fabrics and denim to sweatshirts, swimwear and 3D printed dresses.
• Through these clothes you will take a closer look at what we wear, why we wear it, how it is made and what it means.
• You’ll hear directly from a range of designers, creators, historians, and others who work with clothes every day—and sometimes, reinvent them for the future.
• Studio visits, interviews, and additional resources showcase the history and development of each garment and its changing uses, meanings, and influences over time.

Skills you will acquire

• Category: Art History
• Category: Art
• Category: History
• Category: Creativity