New Brunswick College of Craft and Design

New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
Established	1938
Type	Public
Principal	Michael Maynard
Academic staff	70
Students	300
Location	Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.nbccd.ca/

The New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD) is a centre of creative and artistic excellence, dedicated to the study of fine crafts and design. Its campus is located in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, near the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The College features a studio-based education with an entrepreneurship focus, recognized with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (BAA) offered in partnership with the University of New Brunswick (UNB), a Certificate in Foundation Visual Arts, a Diploma of Advanced Study, and diplomas in Aboriginal Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Fine Craft, Integrated Media, Photography and Textiles. The school has a student body of approximately 300 and close to 70 full-time and part-time faculty members.

The College’s current Director is Michael Maynard,^[1] a practicing graphic designer, former President of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and the Canadian Crafts Federation, and founding Director of the School of Design at George Brown College.

History

In 1938 the New Brunswick provincial government launched an outreach program designed to train its rural population in hand weaving, providing supplemental income to their traditional work in fishing, farming and forestry. The program was suspended during the Second World War, but during the fifties, under the leadership of Dr Ivan Crowell, a summer schedule of handicraft workshops, delivered near the recently created Fundy National Park, drew participants from Atlantic Canada and throughout New England.

In the sixties what was known as The Crafts School moved to more permanent quarters in Second World War huts on the banks of the Saint John River in Fredericton, offering year-round programs in traditional craft disciplines. In the early eighties the school moved into a 1920s-era warehouse in downtown Fredericton, and under the leadership of George Fry, joined the New Brunswick Community College system (NBCC), and expanded its curriculum to include design disciplines.

Michael Maynard was appointed Director in 2007 following the resignation of Principal Robert Kavanagh, and is leading the College through a major transformation process. In 2010, following recommendations related to The Action Plan for Transformation of Post-Secondary Education in New Brunswick, the College left NBCC, remaining within the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, but with a new mandate as a provincial centre of artistic and creative excellence. This designation and vision for a larger, more comprehensive college of the visual arts, has resulted in expanded facilities, new programs, new Canadian and international partnerships, new Continuing Education options, and significant enrolment growth.

Programs

• Bachelor of Applied Arts
• Certificate – Foundation Visual Arts
• Diploma – Aboriginal Visual Arts
• Diploma - Ceramics
• Diploma - Jewellery and Metal Arts
• Diploma - Fibre Arts
• Diploma – Fashion
• Diploma - Textile Design
• Diploma – Graphic Design
• Diploma - Integrated Media
• Diploma – Photography
• Graduate Studies

International partnerships

The New Brunswick College of Craft and Design is one of eight Canadian colleges chosen to lead post-secondary initiatives in Brazil as part of the bilateral "Mulheres Mils" project. The partnership is designed to train disadvantaged Brazilian women, in northern and northeastern states of the country, in fashion, handicrafts, and other skills.^[2]

External links

• Official site
• Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications
• New Brunswick Craft Council
• Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

Reference

1. ^ http://www.nbccd.ca/en/home/aboutus/officeofthedirector.aspx
2. ^ http://portal.mec.gov.br/mec/index.htm?option=com_content&view=frontpage&lang=en&limitstart=195&Itemid=0