Links

This page lists some links to useful and interesting sites on the internet. We would welcome any suggestions for further links, particulary if they are recipricol. Please email us.
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Education

Open College of Arts. Whether you study for personal development, career enhancement or sheer pleasure, further education is always a rewarding experience. Some 5,000 students worldwide are currently studying with OCA. Courses include: Creative Digital Art & Art of Photography. See also reviews in Design-IT.

Visit Linda Kemshall's galleries of work, sign up for an Online Workshop or Course, or browse the new online DesignWorks catalogue.

The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art School is the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world.

London College of Fashion is the only college in the UK to specialise in fashion education, research and consultancy. With an international reputation for fashion education, they offer a unique portfolio of courses from fashion design and technology, management and marketing to communication, promotion and image creation. Their aim is to reflect the breadth of opportunity available in this vibrant industry.

West Lothian College offers a range of courses in the Creative sector.

The main purpose of this site is to inspire, encourage and support teachers who are experimenting with the use of computers in Art and Design. The exemplars used demonstrate ways in which colleagues have used information and communication technology within a creative framework through experimentation and exploration.

The ANU School of Art (SoA) specialises in training for professional careers in the visual arts and crafts. It offers PhD, Masters, Honours and Bachelor Degrees and graduate and undergraduate Diploma workshop-based courses in a wide range of disciplines. The School also conducts an active non-award and public lecture program.

The School of Stitched Textiles is a leading, independent textile school, offering craft, design and technical courses at many levels which can be studied from anywhere in the world. Based in the UK and established for over 10 years we specialise in craft qualifications with an extensive and ever expanding range of courses in stitched, constructed and embroidered textiles, validated either by City & Guilds or the School of Stitched Textiles.

The University of Huddersfield has an excellent range of design and multimedia courses. This includes a first-rate assortment of Arts based design and multimedia courses including Fashion Design , Textile Design, Product Design, Animation, Video and Architectural design as well as more technical media such Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Software Development.

Soham Village College is a Foundation Technology & Language College.

Education Online Search is a free college and career education portal, to help you learn about careers and the schools offering education and degrees for the fields you choose. You'll find a collection of more than 400 career articles and education articles to guide you through many aspects of your search, including career descriptions, financial aid tips, advice for adult learners, info on standardized college tests, and more.

Students in our graphic design degree program can examine the theory and practice of design and how emerging technologies can support and enhance the designer's ability to solve complex design problems. They can learn about new and dynamic advancements in the field of graphic design, photographic imaging, computer applications and visual communications.

The University not only provides a wide range of programmes at various levels, but also offers ample education opportunities for mature learners through different channels. Besides our academic departments, various servicing units provide professional and continuing education programmes for mature learners and the working population.

 

Exhibitions

Following the recent highly successful exhibition of Classical Chinese Carpets, 1400-1750 at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, we are curating two exhibitions for the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, 19 April to 19 August 2007: In Praise of God: Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750, and Kaitag Embroideries, Textile Art from Daghestan.

The Museum of Costume in Bath has one of the world's finest collections of fashionable dress and accessories.

The John Rylands University Library has over 4 million printed items and the largest collection of electronic resources in the UK.

Internationally famous for its collections of art and design, the Whitworth Art Gallery which is part of the University of Manchester in northwest England, is home to an impressive range of watercolours, prints, drawings, modern art and sculpture, as well as the largest collections of textiles and wallpapers outside London.

The Textile Museum of Canada is one of eight museums of its kind and the only museum in Canada solely dedicated to the collection, exhibition and documentation of textiles from around the world.

MOCA is host to hundreds of world-class digital artists and thousands of their images, all available for viewing here. It is one of the most heavily-trafficked, comprehensive, frequently-updated and respected computer art museums on the Web.

Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.

 

People

Rosemary Hufton is a mixed media artist whose work has a strong dimensional element.

 

Interest
ART-GALLERY4U
Founded in the fall of 2006, Art-Gallery4u.com is one of the largest online art gallery and retailer on the Internet. With an online catalog of more than 1500 pieces of oil paintings and the most extensive collection of masterpiece replicas, we are your number one choice for oil paintings, artworks and much more.

 

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