Welcoming the 2025–2026 School of Art Community

Fall 2025 Marchutz Core Art Program at the studio!

Welcome back! We are so happy to start the 2025–2026 school year together with the ACM-IAU arts community. We especially extend a warm welcome to the new cohorts of the Marchutz Core Art Program, the Master of Fine Art, and the Master of Art History programs.

Fall 2025 Master of Fine Art & Master of Art History students!

Each fall brings fresh energy—new faces, new projects, and new ideas waiting to be uncovered. This year we invite you to see the School of Art Student Blog as part of that adventure. It’s where student voices take the lead: sharing reflections, creative experiments, field study impressions, and the little moments that remind us how art connects us.

At its heart, the blog is about community—reflecting on life in Aix-en-Provence and the ways our creative work both responds to and grows from this place. We cannot wait to see what this new student cohort will bring to our community, both in their work and here on these pages.

Here’s to a year of curiosity, creativity, and collaboration!

— The ACM-IAU School of Art Faculty

School of Art Faculty, from left: Dr Erin Yunes (Prof. of Art History & Arts Admin), Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff (Prof. of Art History & Curatorship), O’Neill Cushman (Prof. & Director of The Marchutz Core Art Program), Idit Gezin (Prof. of Music), Ayman Khoury (Prof. of Photography & Videography), Dr Guillaume Durand (Assistant Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences & Prof. in Archaeology & Art History), William Ruller (Prof. of Art), and Dr Yumna Marsarwa (Dean of the School of Art).