Norwich School of Art & Design
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Norwich School of Art & Design is a higher education specialist art and design college, based on a single site in the centre of Norwich, in the United Kingdom. Its Project Space replaces the Norwich Gallery.
[edit] History
The School of Art was founded in 1845. The current institution is the product of a merger between the Norwich School of Art and Great Yarmouth College of Art.
It takes 1,100 higher education students. The School offers a range of courses including FdA, BA, MA, MPhil and PhD. Its degrees are validated by the Anglia Ruskin University.
Current courses include:
Foundation Degree/ BA Games Art and Design
Foundation Degree / BA Graphic Communication
Foundation Degree / BA Film and Video
Foundation Degree / BA Surface Design
BA(Hons) Animation
BA(Hons) Design for Publishing
BA(Hons) Fine Art
BA(Hons) Graphic Design
BA(Hons) Illustration
BA(Hons) Photography
BA(Hons) Textiles
BA(Hons) Visual Studies
MA Animation and Sound Design
MA Art, Design and Education
MA Design
MA Digital Arts
MA Drawing
MA Fine Art
MA Managing Creative Enterprise
MA Motion Graphics
MA Photographic Studies
MA Textile Culture
MA Writing the Visual
The main site itself is located on Redwell Street in Norwich which is a 10 minute walk from the city's train station.
The building on Redwell Street which is given the name Francis House is the main reception for NSAD, while the academic building is another 2 minute walk from this point which offers almost all of the equipment you will need from a large Mac' and PC suite, A1 style printing rooms, animation studios, professional sound booths, academic studios and much more besides.
There are 2 areas of accommodation for first year students, the Beechcroft complex off Sprowston Road and Nicholas Mews which is located on the opposite side of Norwich from the train station, both of which are between 10 and 20 minutes' walking distance to most of NSAD's buildings.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Bernard Meadows, Modernist Sculptor
- Keith Chapman, creator of Bob the Builder
- Tim Stoner, winner of Beck's Futures Prize
- Leafcutter John aka John Burton, experimental musician
- Jamie Durrant, games artist and designer
- Horace Tuck, landscape artist
- Charles Mayes Wigg, landscape artist