Education
From the office
2011 NSDCC Workshop Schedule TBA
If you wish to register for any NSDCC workshops, please phone 902-423-3837 for more information. Please have your credit card number on hand to secure your place in the workshop, as we require full payment in advance of the workshops.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia and NSDCC have a reciprocal agreement to offer workshops to each membership at membership rates, e.g. NSDCC members can take VANS workshops at VANS membership rates, and vice versa. This could result in a savings of $15-20, depending on the price of the workshop being offered.
NSCCD New Courses Winter 2011!
Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design
Winter 2011 Courses Brochure Now Available Online
Registration Starts on January 5, 2011
Winter highlights include:
Ceramic Garden Ornaments
Needle Felting
Refractory Metals
Weaving
To register/inquire:
Please Note: Registration for winter 2011 courses will start on January 5th.
phone 902.492.2524 / 902.492.2522
fax 902.492.2526
e-mail studiocoordinator@craft-design.ns.ca
mail to: Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1061 Marginal Road, Suite
140, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4P6
in person at either 1096 or 1061 (Suite 140) Marginal Rd, Halifax
To go our webpage on courses and studio rentals:
http://www.craft-design.ns.ca/courses.html
Links for Schools & Series
PEI School of the Arts
http://www.peischoolofthearts.com.
Lunenburg Crafts School
http://www.lunenburgcraftschool.com.
Ongoing
Turnstile Pottery Cooperative
- Figure Sculpting Club: with live model. An informal chance to practice sculpting skills. Drop in. General public welcome. Every Tues 8 – 9 pm, $12 drop in, $10 for illustrators. Includes clay materials and firing, No instruction provided.
- Studio Drop In. An informal chance to try out pottery or work on your own independent projects. General public welcome. Every Thurs 7:30 – 9 pm. $15 drop-in fee. No registration required. Includes clay materials and firing. Minimal instruction provided.
Info: 431-clay (2529), turnstile_potteryclasses@yahoo.com, www.turnstilepottery.com.
Arts & Cultural Management Program
Do you want a career that will allow you to combine your passion for the arts with your business sense and need to make a difference? Grant MacEwan College's dynamic and unique Arts and Cultural Management Program has been the answer for hundreds of grads over the past 25 years who share your passion and business flare. In just ten months, you'll study the following: Advocacy and Lobbying, Marketing Principles and Research in the Arts, Financial Management for the Arts, Computer Applications in the Arts, Communications, Museum/Gallery Management, Fundraising and Grants, plus much more! You can earn your certificate on-line, or through classroom study. Attend full-time or part-time; the choice is yours! Info Alana, (780) 497-4408 or broomfielda@macewan.ca. Grant MacEwan College, Centre of the Arts, Edmonton.
Fleming College’s Haliburton School of the Arts, ON
A forerunner in art and craft education, the school provides an opportunity to pursue studies in a range of media. Info: www.haliburtonschoolofthearts.ca, (866) 353-6464.
Apprenticeship Program, Vetrate Artistiche Toscane
Vetrate Artistiche Toscane is a company based in Siena (Italy ) which specialises in the creation of stained, painted and fused glass. We are offering apprenticeships lasting two months (Jan - Feb; March - April; July - Aug; Nov - Dec) and two lasting one month (May and Oct). Although the scheme is of particular benefit to the beginner and intermediate; advanced and professional glass artists have found the apprenticeship to be useful to enhance their skills and exchange ideas. We help in finding accommodation. English is spoken in the studio. Intensive hands-on course also available. Info: Vetrate Artistiche Toscane, Via della Galluzza, 5, 53100 Siena ( Italy ), edu@glassisland.com ,
