Due to weather, we’ve postponed our opening to February 2. Please join us at 4:30 pm for the opening of PHOTOGRAPH, FOTOGRAFIA, LITRATO, תמונה , NAPUIʼGIGN, the 2023 Studio Exhibition featuring work from the students, faculty and staff of the Photography/Videography Studio at NBCCD. Everyone Welcome!
This event now coincides with a Frostival Gallery Hop, so we’ll be open until 8 pm!
THURSDAYS, 12 PM-1 PM ADT TIME ZONE (GMT-3)
December 8th: Judie Acquin-Miksovsky
This year, Advanced Studio Practice’s Guest Lecture Series is partnering with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to celebrate local artisans.
Hosted every Thursday from 12pm to 1pm, guest speakers will deliver an hour-long lecture, speaking to their practice, process, and life as a working artist.
The Guest Lecture Series models successful contemporary practice to NBCCD students. It informs, inspires, and ignites art and design dialogue and engagement within the local arts community.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series is hosted by the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design’s Advanced Studio Practice certificate program each year and is organized, in part, by its students, as well as being part of the program’s curriculum. It brings artists from across New Brunswick to speak to NBCCD students and the greater public.
Advanced Studio Practice students focus on self-directed studio work, in addition to implementing a professional career plan through networking, mentorship, pop-up shows, exhibitions, wholesale opportunities, and more. Students will acquire business skills and enhanced studio practice to launch into self-employment or a successful career in the creative cultural sector.
In 2022, the guest lectures will return to an in-person format allowing the community to gather and engage. Those who attend the lecture will gain free access to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its collections afterwards.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series focuses on New Brunswick and provides:
These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural, and academic achievements of artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
For further information or to receive updates, please contact: Jean.Rooney@gnb.ca
The series is free and open to the public.
THURSDAYS, 12 PM-1 PM ADT TIME ZONE (GMT-3)
December 1st: Kristyn Cooper
This year, Advanced Studio Practice’s Guest Lecture Series is partnering with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to celebrate local artisans.
Hosted every Thursday from 12pm to 1pm, guest speakers will deliver an hour-long lecture, speaking to their practice, process, and life as a working artist.
The Guest Lecture Series models successful contemporary practice to NBCCD students. It informs, inspires, and ignites art and design dialogue and engagement within the local arts community.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series is hosted by the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design’s Advanced Studio Practice certificate program each year and is organized, in part, by its students, as well as being part of the program’s curriculum. It brings artists from across New Brunswick to speak to NBCCD students and the greater public.
Advanced Studio Practice students focus on self-directed studio work, in addition to implementing a professional career plan through networking, mentorship, pop-up shows, exhibitions, wholesale opportunities, and more. Students will acquire business skills and enhanced studio practice to launch into self-employment or a successful career in the creative cultural sector.
In 2022, the guest lectures will return to an in-person format allowing the community to gather and engage. Those who attend the lecture will gain free access to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its collections afterwards.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series focuses on New Brunswick and provides:
These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural, and academic achievements of artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
For further information or to receive updates, please contact: Jean.Rooney@gnb.ca
The series is free and open to the public.
CRAFT SALE HOURS at the George Fry Gallery
Friday, Nov. 25 —— 12-8PM
Saturday, Nov. 26 —— 10-6PM
Sunday, Nov. 27 —— 12-4PM
The highly-anticipated NBCCD Craft Sale showcases New Brunswick’s emerging artists as they sell one-of-a-kind collection pieces to holiday shoppers. Open to the public (masks required), guests can shop uniquely handmade fine crafts in textiles, ceramics, jewellery, fashion accessories, holiday pieces, and more.
Second-year diploma students at the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (NBCCD) spend their first time creating product and preparing for the annual Craft Sale as part of their courses and learning in entrepreneurship.
Shop for yourself or get something special for someone on your holiday list!
This year, Advanced Studio Practice’s Guest Lecture Series is partnering with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to celebrate local artisans.
Hosted every Thursday from 12pm to 1pm, guest speakers will deliver an hour-long lecture, speaking to their practice, process, and life as a working artist.
The Guest Lecture Series models successful contemporary practice to NBCCD students. It informs, inspires, and ignites art and design dialogue and engagement within the local arts community.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series is hosted by the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design’s Advanced Studio Practice certificate program each year and is organized, in part, by its students, as well as being part of the program’s curriculum. It brings artists from across New Brunswick to speak to NBCCD students and the greater public.
Advanced Studio Practice students focus on self-directed studio work, in addition to implementing a professional career plan through networking, mentorship, pop-up shows, exhibitions, wholesale opportunities, and more. Students will acquire business skills and enhanced studio practice to launch into self-employment or a successful career in the creative cultural sector.
In 2022, the guest lectures will return to an in-person format allowing the community to gather and engage. Those who attend the lecture will gain free access to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its collections afterwards.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series focuses on New Brunswick and provides:
These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural, and academic achievements of artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
September 15 – Laura Boudreau
September 22 – Bruce Gray
September 29 – Drew Kennickell
October 6 – Gary Weekes
October 13 – Melissa LeBlanc
October 20 – Erica Stanley & Aidan Stanley
October 27 – Rachel MacGillivray
November 3 – John Geldart
November 10 – Oakley Wysote Gray
November 17 – Melissa Peter-Paul
November 24 – Brigitte Clavette
December 1 – Kristyn Cooper
December 8 – Judie Acquin-Miksovsky
For further information or to receive updates, please contact: Jean.Rooney@gnb.ca
Here’s a great opportunity for tapestry weavers! Join Ixchel Suarez for a 1.5 day contemporary weaving workshop on 2 to 3D techniques on Saturday August 27 10-4 and Sunday, August 28 9-12 in Fredericton NB Canada.
Location TBD. Cost is $250pp.
This includes all supplies, but weavers are encouraged to bring yarn and fibre too; weavers can bring your own small loom or you can use one of Ixchel’s frame looms.
Contact Karen LeBlanc at loomin_weaver@yahoo.ca or by text/phone at 506-447-0594 if you are interested.
Space is limited!
The Artist | Ixchelsuarez.
Ixchel is a dedicated weaver and visual artist that explores different materials that are woven using tapestry techniques in non-conventional ways.
Materials will be provided. Make sure you bring along interesting materials you want to incorporate in your samples. Ixchel will demonstrate how to apply different techniques in weaving to accomplish your project ideas.
https://youtu.be/yUCuniNYD1cNatura
Join us in celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day with a powerful performance by Pokuhulakon Witsehkehsu – Sisters of the Drum, demos by artist from the Wabanaki Visual Arts program (NBCCD), and visit the Petapan 2022 Visual Art Exhibition curated by Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Events will take place at the Gallery and on the Green.
This event is free and open to all!
Explore the art of mosaics using nature as inspiration.
ONE AND HALF DAY WORKSHOP | HONEYBEE FOLK SCHOOL
JULY 9, 9 AM TO 4 PM AND JULY 10, 9 AM TO NOON
A splendour of flowers and greenery surrounds us at this time of year. Capture that energy in a brightly tiled mosaic to savour once the cold weather returns. Tile and glass come in rich and highly polished colours that beautifully echo the vibrancy of a summer garden. We will also use found metal and recycled materials to add a bit of whimsy to our pieces. Feel free to bring your found treasures to incorporate into your mosaic.
Join Sheryl to create your own mosaic garden that will last you a lifetime. You do not need any previous art experience. Just bring your willingness to play and experiment and go home with your own 12 x 12 mosaic art piece. All tools and materials are supplied for the duration of the workshop.
Materials: $ 25 to be paid to the instructor on the day of the workshop. Option to pre-buy tools for your ongoing use.
Instructor: Sheryl Crowley is a painter and a mosaicist who creates works of art reflecting both the whimsy and darkness that she finds in the world. Working since 2005, she has exhibited, taught and created within both public and private spheres. She may be found in Saint John, NB.
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May 13 — June 1, 2022. Join us for the public opening from 10am-4pm on May 13.
Masks required for entrance into Government House, 51 Woodstock Road, Fredericton, NB.
NBCCD announces the 15th annual jewellery/metal arts exhibition, STERLING, generously sponsored by Gallery 78 and hosted at Government House. This year’s exhibition opens to the public at the official residence of New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor on May 13, 2022 and runs until June 1, 2022, Monday-Friday, 10am to 4pm.
“We’d like to welcome you back to Government House and our annual exhibition. It’s always a surprise,” said recent Governor General’s Award winner and longtime NBCCD instructor Brigitte Clavette. “People come and they love it!”
Students from all levels of NBCCD’s jewellery/metal arts program will showcase selected best works from basic production work, silversmithing, collection pieces, sculpture, and fine one-of-a-kind pieces. Select works will be available for sale starting May 13 here. The exhibition will also feature in-progress pieces as an opportunity to educate the public about the creative process and care that goes into the fine craft of metal arts.
The exhibition doubles as a competition with one student winning a solo exhibition show at Gallery 78 and a cash prize.
Studio Head Kristyn Cooper said this year’s diploma graduates have been a dream to work with. “This is one of the hardest working groups of students we’ve ever seen. They’re not only talented in their craft but have become a family. They have a very strong sense of support, friendly competition, and work ethic.”
Clavette agreed, “This group is going to be hard to say goodbye to. They took in everything we brought to them and embraced every challenge. It was hard work.”
Cooper and Clavette look forward to celebrating the success and determination of all jewellery/metal arts students who navigated their studies throughout a pandemic in the mentally- and physically-demanding metal arts program.
To view NBCCD’s upcoming exhibition schedule, click here.
Presenting Still Grounded — a ceramics exhibition at the George Fry Gallery. May 5—May 27, 2022.
Join us for the public opening from 4-6pm on May 5
Masks required for entrance to the George Fry Gallery, 408 Queen Street, Fredericton, N.B.
NBCCD’s first ceramics show in four years is unearthed at the George Fry Gallery on May 5.
Ceramics Studio Head, Liz Demerson and her faculty, technicians, and students are ready to open the doors to the public to reveal new works after a long hiatus due in part to the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, the doors of the college shut when the COVID-19 lockdown hit New Brunswick. This included the George Fry Gallery.
“Our show was slated for May 2020,” said Demerson, “and we were shut down because of the pandemic. Our last showing was in September 2018, and it was called 900 Degrees and Rising. It featured a variety of New Brunswick Artists.”
Each of the eight studios at the college have an exhibition in the George Fry Gallery bi-annually. The studios can choose to exhibit student work, work from alumni to inspire students by showing them successful practice in their field from graduates of their program, or choose to show work from invited professional artists in their field, also to inspire and teach students.
Demerson said this exhibition is about the last two years of learning and in making pots. With many ups and downs throughout our pandemic-ridden ceramics journey, this exhibition presents an overall feeling of that experience.
“Here, you will see the drive to create, the love of the material and the process, the persistence and tenacity in our personalities and the obsession with clay and pots. We all have the ceramics bug, and we just can’t stop,” said Demerson.
The students and staff in the Ceramics Studio are excited for the future and feel proud of our accomplishments, she said. The cultural trend towards local is invigorating and encouraging and we can’t wait to be a part of that trend as people realize the increased quality of life achieved by using local handmade ceramics.
“Here is the heart and soul of the last two years of our lives. Here is what got us through this mess of a time,” said Demerson. “Here are our pots.”
To view NBCCD’s exhibition schedule, click here.