Fleming College

A certificate program designed to help artists explore their talent and re-invigorate their practice, and a foundational design diploma program will be offered at the Haliburton School of The Arts in 2014.

Studio Process Advancement
Studio Process Advancement is an intensive four-month graduate certificate program for individuals with a fine arts degree or diploma, or practicing artists with a portfolio submission. The program provides a creative, challenging and supportive environment for new artists who may want to start a studio practice or for established artists who want to focus more exclusively on their work.

“This is the only graduate certificate in the college system that provides students with the opportunity to work independently under the mentorship of professional artists to develop an individual body of work. An advanced program of this nature will really prepare graduates for professional practice,” said Sandra Dupret, Dean of the Haliburton School of The Arts and Principal of Fleming College’s Haliburton Campus.

Through individual and group critiques, guest lectures, exhibitions and gallery visits, students will learn more about portfolios, documents and submission processes for grants, exhibition preparation and applications to other institutions for advanced study programs. Students will graduate with a set of artist documents and a final portfolio.

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Integrated Design
Created by Toronto-based artist and designer Barr Gilmore, and based on five fundamental actions linked to design: Dream; Experiment; Collaborate; Communicate; and Apply, the new Integrated Design diploma program will be offered in a three-semester, compressed format at the Haliburton Campus.

Students will be exposed to a broad range of design categories including communication/graphic; fashion and textile; exhibition and environmental graphic; interiors; architecture; and landscape architecture and public art.

 The program provides a foundation for design in the first semester through design principles, theory, history and process/methodologies. Students then build on that in the second semester with intensive studio time spent experimenting with different materials and methodologies. The third semester is focused on a specific medium – photo arts, ceramics, fibre arts, artist blacksmith, glassblowing, jewellery, painting and drawing, or sculpture.   

“The Haliburton School of The Arts is excited to expand its programming to include design and design analysis. Integrated Design is an important program that will provide our students studying in our specialty certificates the option of focusing their medium in a design stream and increase their opportunities after graduation,” said Dupret.

To learn more, visit: http://flemingcollege.ca/programs/integrated-design.

Located in the heart of Central Ontario, Fleming College has campus locations in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg and Haliburton. Named for famous Canadian inventor and engineer Sir Sandford Fleming, the college features more than 100 full-time programs in Community Development and Health, Continuing Education, Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Justice and Business, Skilled Trades and Technology, General Arts and Science and Visual Arts. Fleming College has more than 5,900 full-time and 10,000 part-time students, and more than 65,000 alumni.

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For more information
Laura Copeland, Communications Officer at laura.copeland@flemingcollege.ca or 705.749.5530 x 1370