We're known for providing unique and flexible programs taught by professionals who have shaped art, craft, design, media and heritage studies in Canada. No other college offers students this breadth of creative programming.
Learn at campuses in Haliburton and Peterborough that provide a one-of-a kind, hands-on studio experience. Our certificate, diploma and post-graduate programs will help you build a solid portfolio to take you to the next step - whether that's continuing education, embarking on a career, or starting your own practice.
An opportunity the advanced painter to grow personally and professionally as you immerse yourself in a deeper investigation of painting.
Explore ProgramWire sculpture is an exciting, expressive art form that can be functional, decorative or both. Instruction introduces the aesthetics, materials, tools, and techniques used in the creation of a variety of wire sculptures.
Sculpture - WireAn aspect of theatre, puppetry is an ancient art form used in the earliest times to animate and communicate the ideas and needs in human societies.
Puppet Design & ConstructionDiscover the art of glassblowing using traditional techniques that date back 2000 years. Glass is first melted in a furnace at 2100 degrees Fahrenheit, at which time you learn how to gather the molten material on the end of a steel blowpipe to form it into vases, bowls, paperweights, goblets and sculpture.
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Susan Watson Ellis followed graduation from the University of Toronto with an apprenticeship to a German Goldsmith. In 1981, she opened Paradigm Designs, creating handcrafted jewellery that sold across Canada. Her work won recognition in 2000 as part of the Craft Ontario's "Looking Forward" exhibition, which was curated by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England and represented contemporary Canadian craft. She was also chosen to be part of their "Craft in the Making II" exhibition in 2003, their juried exhibition "Ontario Craft '07", and to be one of eight jewellers chosen to be part of their "8 X 10 Jewellery" exhibition series in 2012. Her work is part of the permanent contemporary Canadian silver collection at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Ontario and is available from her studio in Haliburton, at the Toronto One of a Kind Shows, the Craft Ontario Shop, and online at www.paradigmjewellery.com.Course Cart (0)