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posted 8th Feb '10
LATEST NEWS
National Student Survey Results
The staff on the BA Ceramics Programme are delighted to announce that this year we received 100% Student Satisfaction in the National Student Survey. This survey is hugely important to us as it best reflects our students experience of the course. Overall the results across the programme were outstanding with staff enthusiasm achieving the highest score of 5 from all respondents. In the 22 areas assessed in the survey 18 were identified as excellent practice, let’s hope we continue to improve on this for next year, and hit all 22!
Successful funding Bid for Ceramic Process Skills and Creativity Project
Ingrid Murphy (Course Director) and Caroline Taylor (Technical Demonstrator), with the technical support of Martin Williams have been busily completing the ceramic skills video project, where short films of ceramic processes from plaster work to raku firing are they are now available to view on a terminal within the workshop and on the university intranet system, this not only allows students to access instructional videos at any time but also see how these process are used creatively through hyperlinks to practitioners websites.
Concurrently Dr Natasha Mayo’s has completed her HEA funded project in “Making the Creative Process Visible” where she has filmed students discussing the creative strategies they have employed in their practice, for example:
Dawn Youll from Natasha Mayo on Vimeo.
We have now received additional funding from the Learning and Teaching Development Unit to combine both projects on an interactive website which will feature a significant amount of student generated content, watch our latest new section for further updates and developments.
National funding Award for 3rd Year Students Ceramic Blog – “sliponline"
Alex Archer Todde a 3rd Year Ceramic Student , has been successful with his blog partner Elly Snare in gaining funding from the Craft Potters Association Charitable trust for their highly rated blog, Sliponline, Alex and Elly propose to use this funding to create Slipoffline which will help extend the activities that sliponline currently engages in. Check out their great blog for all things ceramic related, opportunities, technical advice, reviews, interviews etc at www.sliponline.co.uk You can even join the sliponline facebook group or follow it on twitter for regular updates.
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Latest News
Professor Pepperell involved in neuroscientific study
A neuroscientific study conducted by a team based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and involving Professor Robert Pepperell, Head of Fine Art, has been published in the leading journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
posted 10th Mar '10
BA Illustration Exhibition
An exhibition of second year BA Illustration students' work entitled 'Scatter' will take place from March 14th - 20th, 2010, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Cardiff, CF10 2FC.
For more information, visit the Scatter blog here.
posted 9th Mar '10
'Inner Space' exhibition
‘Inner Space’ is a week-long exhibition (9th-14th March) featuring ten exciting women artists from the Cardiff School of Art and Design.
The ten women investigate various aspects of a woman’s inner life, her identity, and her experiences of the world, using metaphor and symbolism to create an exhibition of fresh, exciting and innovative work.
posted 8th Mar '10
South Korean students enjoy exchange trip
Cardiff School of Art & Design was pleased to have played host to a dozen students from South Korea who came for a six-week stay.
CSAD arranged the exchange programme with Dong-A University in South Korea, after forming collaborative academic links with leading institutions in the country.
Read more on the UWIC website.
posted 8th Mar '10
MA Graduate in touring exhibition
Following the recent completion of his MA in Fine Art, Chris Dennis will be exhibiting alongside 63 postgraduate students, professional and emerging artists from around the world in a touring exhibition called 'A Moving Exhibition'.
More information on the 'Moving Exhibition' website.
posted 8th Mar '10
Howard Gardens Gallery - "Taking Issue"
“Taking Issue” (25th Feb - 18th Mar) is a show especially looking at the work of eight London Print Studio artists whose work is founded on issues, responding to political, sociological and ethical concerns through the medium of printmaking and employing a strong aesthetic language to transmit their ideas and interests.
posted 4th Mar '10
Richard Cox's Touring Exhibition
"Subterranean Architecture, Stepwells in North Western India & the Jagmandir Series" is the title of CSAD Curator Richard Cox's touring exhibition of digital prints and paintings.
The exhibition can be viewed at the Pittville Studios, Cheltenham from 18th March - 9th April 2010.
posted 3rd Mar '10
Exhibition for Haiti at the Chelsea Arts Club
Fine Art lecturer Cherry Pickles is holding an exhibition and sale of her work at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, in aid of Fondation le Mabouya, Haiti.
The exhibition runs from 2nd March - 6th April 2010.
posted 1st Mar '10
Product Design project a great success
Students from CSAD's Product Design programme met with students from 8 other Universities across Europe to take part in a two week long 'Intensive Project' at Howest University in Belgium.
As a result, 8 Product Design students won 2 of the 3 available prizes.
Congratulations to all who took part.
posted 23rd Feb '10
Fine Art Venice trip
BA Fine Art staff and students recently took a trip to Venice to visit the International Biennale, as well as its large collections of churches, museums and cultural sights.
They stayed on the island of La Certosa, which is currently being developed by the Venetian authorities as an educational, cultural and sports facility.
posted 19th Feb '10
The Cardiff Group receive major funding award
The Cardiff Group have received a major funding award from Safle for a forthcoming project and exhibition in March 2010.The Cardiff Group - including Fine Art staff members Mark Halliday, Dallas Collins and Luke Mintowt-Czyz will be exhibiting large-scale work in the ‘Blue Bell’ aircraft hangar in St. Athan.
posted 17th Feb '10
Fine Art Masters Open Events
Feb. 23rd 4.30 - 6.00
April 27th 2.00 - 4.00
Open events for our exciting and innovative Masters programmes in Fine Art will take place at our Howard Gardens Campus and we would be delighted to see you there.
Full details on the Fine Art Masters level website.
posted 4th Feb '10
Call for papers
Super Vision: insight and interaction in graduate art and design research
Tuesday 23 March 2010. Keynote speakers: Suze Adams and Dr Iain Biggs (UWE, Bristol)
CSAD is holding a half-day symposium on graduate research in art and design, focusing on the supervisory process.
For full details click here.
posted 14th jan '10
Research studentship applications 2010
For students considering applying to Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD) to undertake a research degree (MPhil or PhD), commencing October 2010, now is the time to get in touch with us. Early contact is especially important if you are considering applying to research councils, such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for funding to meet the costs of living expenses and tuition fees.
Click here for more information.
posted 17th Dec 09
Cardiff School of Art & Design Masters Degrees
A pdf of CSAD's portfolio of Masters Degree courses is now available to download. Our masters awards are designed to give graduates the opportunity to get to grips with their subject through practice at an advanced level and to do so in a lively community of practitioners and researchers.
Download the Masters Degrees pdf here.
posted 6th Nov 09
