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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.

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Glassblowing

Unleash your artistic potential by molding scorching molten glass into awe-inspiring masterpieces.

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  • Artist Blacksmith

    Discover your passion for the art of blacksmithing and expand your technical skills with 600 hands-on studio hours guided by experienced faculty and technicians.

    Artist Blacksmith
  • Jewellery Essentials

    Work with some of Canada's finest jewellery artists to develop the skills and techniques to showcase your artistic vision.

    Jewellery Essentials
  • Life drawing - Open Studio

    Elevate your skills and passion for life drawing over six weeks in a dynamic independent studio setting.

    Life drawing - Open Studio

Meet our Faculty

April Gates
April Gates
April Gates is a full time ceramic artist and educator. After colourful and long meanderings in travel, work and education, she finally answered the call to study ceramics. A lifelong background in image making married a concern for function and ritual ~ and Blackbird Pottery was born. April's graphic and illustrative work has been nationally exhibited, collected and published. Her current obsession is to marvel the endless potential of the ceramic surface. As a facilitator, April is passionate about helping others to find their voice through artistic explorations. www.blackbirdpottery.ca
Noelia Marziali
Noelia Marziali
Noelia Marziali is a Uruguayan-Canadian maker, schooled in fine arts and shaped by her wanderlust. Artists, writers, rebels, inventors, circus folk and explorers are her people. Her favourite mediums are leather, wood and paint, with digital creation taking the lead in her work in recent years. She has written, illustrated and released her first self-published book, The Fantastical Eyeball Exchange. You can find her art in galleries and shops around Haliburton. Discover how her art comes to life through the lens @leatherwoodandpaint. www.noeliamarziali.com
Mary Pal
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Toronto fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sculpted cheesecloth that is stitched to a textile backing, using a technique she pioneered over a decade ago. The resulting portraits are meticulously detailed and exquisitely textural. Her work has been exhibited and collected throughout the world and published in numerous books and magazines. With over 40 years of teaching experience, she is a sought-after and popular instructor who enjoys sharing her knowledge and skills with her students around the globe. A past director on the board of the international organization, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Mary is an enthusiastic promoter of the burgeoning fibre art movement. www.marypaldesigns.com
Janine Marson
Janine Marson

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Janine Marson is a graduate of the Design Art Program at Georgian College and received a BFA from the University of Guelph. Her 30-year career has established a strong sense of direction, garnered several exhibitions and awards, and has provided the opportunity to influence hundreds of students with her calm, encouraging spirit. Janine loves to inspire others with art, teaching private art lessons in person and online via ZOOM. A trained, professional picture framer, she has provided her services with a keen eye for colour and design for over 25 years. Her commission work includes painting on a canoe for the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, and painting a paddle for the Algonquin Outfitters Paddle Art Contest. She is one of the muralists for The Group of Seven Outdoor Gallery in Huntsville and has painted six murals to date. Janine received a Woman of Distinction Award for Arts, Culture & Creativity in 2018. www.janinemarsonart.com
Fly Freeman
Fly Freeman

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Fly Freeman trained as a sculptor in Scotland, where she started her career as a stone carver, carving everything from gargoyles to gravestones and large-scale public commissions in granite. A mid-career move to Canada led to a radical shift in her sculptural practice: carving has been joined by construction as a sculptural method, and wood and other media are now worked alongside the stone. www.flyfreeman.com
Rob Stimpson
Rob Stimpson

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Rob Stimpson is an internationally published, award-winning photographer who has photographed for Ontario Tourism, Ontario Parks and Parks Canada for many years. Among his notable accomplishments are: nomination and acceptance into the College of Fellows in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society; co-authoring An Artists and Photographers Guide to Wild Ontario; being part of the centenary celebration of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Trans-Antarctic Expedition; and being showcased by the Globe and Mail and Lexus, profiling the professional lives of nine individuals. He was recently profiled as one of Canada's top adventure photographers by Canadian Geographic in 2021. Drop by and visit his gallery, located just outside of Dwight, ON. www.robstimpson.com
Margot Snow
Margot Snow
Margot Snow is a Canadian artist with works exhibited in both private and corporate collections. Educated in fine arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Guelph, she has concentrated on watercolour painting since 1979 and has been teaching it since 1988. She brings life to common objects with her intense use of colour. Margot is featured in the 2013 Artists of Muskoka book. She is constantly exploring new and interesting variations of surfaces and textures to use with watercolours. Hence you will see her work on paper, canvas, birch board, and as watercolour egg tempera, collage, and mono printing. "Colour is the essence of my work - it is uppermost in my mind when I choose a subject and is what challenges and interests me most. Colour can change a viewer's mood, it can stimulate a feeling of peacefulness and well-being and, it can awaken a soul. www.facebook.com/margotsnowfineart
Gunnel Hag
Gunnel Hag

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Gunnel Hag studied textile design in Sweden and England. Her studio, Trees Textile Designers and Printers produces fabrics for film and theatre productions. She taught in the Textile Studio at Sheridan College for 12 years and has been a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmadabad, India. Her fabrics have been represented at international design exhibitions and she has received many grants and awards for her work. Gunnel has published two books: Creating Texture and Creating Texture: Soft Texture. www.colourvie.com www.gunnelhagstudio.com
Debra Krakow
Debra Krakow
Debra Krakow is an artist and architect whose paintings express her deep connection to nature, as seen through the lens of a former urbanite. Her artistic practice has evolved through drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, fibre arts, and ceramics. She paints in layers to create an evocative surface. Debra's work has a quiet energy - a delicate balance between fluidity and structure, transparency and solidity, mystery and clarity. She loves sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with her students. Galleries in Prince Edward County, and Ottawa represent her work. www.debrakrakow.com
Albert Cote
Albert Cote

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Albert Cote graduated from Brock University with BA degrees in Visual Arts and Education. His natural artistic abilities, imagination, visual arts background, and his experience in operating a quilt store for many years has served as a starting point for a very successful longarm and fibre arts career. He has many commissioned pieces in the Niagara area as well as throughout Canada and the US. His innovative classes and trunk shows are an attraction for many people in the quilting world. www.imaginationtextile.com
Amanda McCavour
Amanda McCavour

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Amanda McCavour works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. Through an exploration of line and its 2D and 3D implications, stitch is used in her artwork to explore various concepts such as connections to home, the fibres of the body, and more formal considerations of thread's accumulative presence. Amanda holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing, and in May 2014 she completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. She shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally with solo and two-person exhibitions in 2018 in Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia, Canada), Stratford (Ontario, Canada), Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA), Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Antigonish (Nova Scotia, Canada) and Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). She has recently completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre's Textile Studio in Toronto, at Maison des Metiers D'art de Quebec in Quebec City, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. She has received numerous awards and scholarships from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America, Craft Ontario, The Ontario Society of Artists, The Surface Design Association and The Embroiderers Guild of America.

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