THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART SINCE 1874
96.6% of students in employment or further education – Number 1 in the country for Art & Design
FREE WORKSHOP PROGRAMME We are pleased to offer an exciting range of creative workshops and inspiring talks for anyone interested in pursuing a creative degree in the future. Cleveland College of Art & Design is THE Northern School of Art - the only specialist independent art and design provider in the North. It’s the place for anyone serious about a creative career.
Cleveland College of Art & Design Church Square Hartlepool TS24 7EX
THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART
SINCE 1874
OUR WORKSHOP PROGRAMME We have a range of FREE workshops that we offer you and your students to take part in. These are:
Portfolio Building Workshop Creative Careers Art as a Business Screen Printing Cyanotype Printing Heat Transfer Printing Visual Arts Lecture Introduction into Oil Painting Leather Moulding Life Drawing Ageing & Distressing Costumes for Film
To make a booking: Call: 01642 288 888 Email: studentrecruitment@ccad.ac.uk
Draping a Corset Pattern Scenic Painting Darkroom Printing and Black & White Film Photography Lingerie for Beginners Dynamic Portrait Producing Finished Props for TV & Film One Production, One Day, One room Design and Create Lighting 3D Computer Modelling Animated Graphics Letterpress Printing
Portfolio Building. Description: Aimed at anyone who is thinking of applying to university and would like advice and guidance on how to build a suitable portfolio. The session will also explore some hints and tips on preparing for interview questions and what key things universities are looking for. Max Numbers: 5-100 students Availability: Monday to Wednesday
Creative Careers. Description. A general talk about the sector, its growth, career opportunities and how CCAD can help support your creative career ambitions. Max Numbers: 10-50 students Availability. Monday to Friday
Art as a Business. Description: An introduction to the business techniques and tools that you need to start a career as a freelance artist or setting up your own business. Max Numbers: 10-50 students Availability: Monday to Friday
crafts contribute
ÂŁ288m to the UK economy
DCMS Creative Industries Economic Estimates - Jan 2016
Screen Printing. Description: Hand painting with procion/acid dyes onto silk screen mesh and then using printing pastes to transfer the image onto fabric, or a product (canvas bag or t shirt). This workshop enables students to bring their own drawings/paintings to work from – so allows them to develop their own portfolio. Max Numbers: 5-20 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday 3 hour session
Cyanotype. Description: Working with photographic imagery to produce a cyanotype image onto paper. This involves using exposure room techniques and results in a distinctive print which can then be embellished further. This workshop enables students to bring their own imagery to work from – so allows them to develop their own portfolio. Max Numbers: 5-20 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday 3 Hour session
Heat transfer printing. Description: Hand painting with transfer dyes onto paper. Printing images/textures onto fabrics and papers. Experimenting with Heat transfer resist techniques. This workshop enables students to bring their own drawings/paintings to work from – so allows them to develop their own portfolio. Max Numbers: 5-20 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday 3 hour session
Visual Arts Lecture. Description: The visual Arts lecture will cover the boundaries between traditional Fine Art disciplines such as painting, sculpture and printmaking as well as exploring photography and digital works. Max Numbers: 10-50 students Availability: Monday to Friday
An Introduction to oil painting. Description: An introductory workshop into how to use oil paints in a creative and expressive manner. Max Numbers: 5-20 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday
Leather Moulding. Description: Leather moulding for Armour and leather embossing techniques. Max Numbers: 15 students per group Availability: Wednesday afternoon
Life Drawing. Description: This workshop will focus on a range of drawing skills to build expressive and confident practitioners. We can work with a variety of media to explore tone, colour and depth within drawing skills. Max Numbers: 15-20 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday
Ageing & Distressing costume for film. Description: Creating stab wounds, bullet holes, mud and sweat effects for costume. Max Numbers: 12-15 students Availability: Wednesday afternoon
Draping a corset pattern. Description: Draping and shaping a corset pattern on the stand from fabric. Max Numbers: 12-15 students Availability: Wednesday afternoon
Scenic Painting. Description: Scenic painting on 8ft by 4ft canvas flats using projection and or gridding Max Numbers: Up to 16 students Availability: Wednesday
Dark room printing & black & white film photography. Description: Equipped with a 35mm film camera and a roll of film. A quick rundown of how the camera works will be followed by a photo walk around Hartlepool town centre where participants are encouraged to seek out the initials of their name amongst the urban landscape. Letter forms can be printed, painted or drawn; or they could be hidden within the structures and patterns of the environment. Cameras and exposed film are then returned to CCAD and the film will be processed by our technician. Participants are introduced to the black and white darkroom and how to make a contact sheet from their negatives. Two prints are then to be made - one of each letter of the participant’s initials. Max Numbers: 12 students per group Availability: Flexible
Lingerie for Beginners Description: The aim of the workshop is to give you an introduction to developing lingerie starting with a basic soft bra design using the technical process of construction. You will be expected to take the original design with the bra components and personalise it with hand/ machine embellishment and applique inspired by research into lingerie. Workshop Length: – 3 hours 3 hours Max Numbers: 12-15 students Availability: Monday - Friday
One production. One day, One room. Description: You will have access to a multi-camera studio environment to produce a 5 minute script, which you will bring with you. The script can be of any genre or style, but we have a few rules: It has to be shot in one room/environment It is no longer than 5 minutes long A maximum of 5 characters to be in front of camera. Any props wanted will need to be already sourced and brought with you. There will be roles to cover in all areas of production, behind and in front of camera. We will go through and break down the script, explain about blocking and lighting the scene before shooting it, and end the day with a live run through, which can be recorded.
Max Numbers: 7-16 students Availability: Wednesday
Design and create lighting. Description: Design and make a piece of lighting from a range of materials including acrylic and plywood to sell on Etsy and similar craft producer websites. The workshop could be based on some existing work or themes you have been working with to help develop your own portfolio. Max Numbers: 5-10 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday
3D Computer modelling. Description: Learn how to use Autodesk 3D Studio Max. Design a 3D model environment of the interior of a restaurant using this industry standard software. We will show you how to set up the scene, apply your own materials, add lighting and even produce an animated ‘walk-through’ your scene. Max Numbers: 5-10 students per group Availability: Monday to Friday
Animated graphics. Description: You will use Mac computers and Adobe software to create a short animated film using text and images. Also known as kinetic typography.
Max Numbers: 12 students per group Availability: Thursday
Letterpress printing. Description: The technology of letterpress is over 500 years old. The introduction of computers meant that its commercial application was eclipsed, leaving the field clear for artists, designers and creatives to experiment with this traditional printing method in new and exciting ways. Letterpress is therefore very much on trend right now, and access to facilities much sought after. CCAD is quite unique in that it has retained its letterpress facility for student use. Max Numbers: 6 students per group Availability: Tuesday or Friday
Screen Printing with Illustration & Graphics Description: An introduction to the screen printing process. During this workshop you will learn how to prep an image, the skill of exposing a screen and also pulling your very own print. Workshop Length: 4 hours Max Numbers: 4 students Availability: Tuesdays
The Dynamic Portrait. Description: Change the Description to ‘A studio portrait workshop on location. Working with digital cameras, wireless triggers and location flash. Workshop Length and Days Available: 2-4 hours N.B. It can also be tailored to requirements. Minimum and Maximum participants: 2-8
Producing Props for TV & Film. Description: The design and development of signage which will be included in production design projects This one-day project will see students looking at developing three different techniques which prop makers will use to produce set decoration. Workshop Length and Days Available: Wednesdays 11:30am-5:00pm Minimum and Maximum participants: 10-20
We are CCAD.
Open Events.
CCAD is the northern school of art. It is not only the leading provider of specialist creative art & design degrees in the north but one of the best across the UK.
Our open day dates are:
It’s the place for people serious about a successful creative career.
Thursday 20th October 2016 Saturday 3rd December 2016 Wednesday 22nd March 2017 Saturday 3rd June 2017 Thursday 6th July 2017
3 pm - 7pm 10 am - 1:30pm 3 pm - 7pm 10 am - 1:30pm 10 am - 1:30pm
We encourage all students to visit us for an open day so that you have the opportunity to see the student accommodation, meet the staff, see the facilities to allow you realise the benefits of studying at our institution. All our open events start at 10am or 3pm prompt. Visit hartlepool.ccad.ac.uk for more information
THE NORTHERN SCHOOL OF ART
SINCE 1874
96.6% of 2015 CCAD graduates were in employment or further study 6 months after graduation.
The creative sector is the UK’s flagshipindustry – as a nation we are world famous for our designers, artists and film makers. This is reflected in the scale and growth of the sector in recent decades – the creative economy employs 2.2 million people and has grown year on year through the recession. By 2022 the sector will need 1.2m new workers. It is an industry that depends on its graduate skills – 58.8% of jobs in the sector are at least graduate level (compared to 31.8% in the wider economy) – by 2022 it will need 900,000 graduates to keep pace with demand.
The creative industries contribute
£9.6m to the UK economy
DCMS Creative Industries Economic Estimates - Jan 2016
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