February 25 @ 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM AST FREE Explore your creative future at the NBCCD Winter Open House!
See and experience our community first hand! Hear from current students, craft & design instructors, alumni, and staff and participate in demo classes, apply on-the-spot for FREE, tour campus and our gallery, and attend a portfolio workshop.
We can’t wait to welcome you to NBCCD—where sustainable, creative careers are forged!
Click RSVP below to register! Pre-registration required.
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!
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:
A platform for the presentation and advancement of professional artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
A time for dialogue about ideas and opportunities in the fields of contemporary practice.
A celebration of creative and cultural riches that we hold in Atlantic Canada.
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
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:
A platform for the presentation and advancement of professional artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
A time for dialogue about ideas and opportunities in the fields of contemporary practice.
A celebration of creative and cultural riches that we hold in Atlantic Canada.
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
November 25, 2022
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November 27, 2022
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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!
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:
A platform for the presentation and advancement of professional artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
A time for dialogue about ideas and opportunities in the fields of contemporary practice.
A celebration of creative and cultural riches that we hold in Atlantic Canada.
These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural, and academic achievements of artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
2022 Schedule
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
August 27, 2022
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August 28, 2022
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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.
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.
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.
