There are six artfully-designed boxes hidden in plain sight in Fredericton’s downtown. This participatory art installation invites the public to leave an object and take an object – an opportunity to play, exchange, and engage with art, craft and design and social issues. The boxes were created by 97 Foundation Visual Arts (FVA) students from [...]

Little known fact: Fundy National Park was once home to a thriving art school. The former location of the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (NBCCD), then known as the New Brunswick School of Arts & Crafts, is now hidden in the park, devoid of buildings and only accessible to a small group of knowledgeable park interpreters. This past summer, through the pioneering efforts of Craft NB and Fundy Park, the park once again hosted artisans for the Beneath the Surface residency. [...]

As featured in The Gem, by contributor Dee Wilkie, with photography by Lance Kenneth Blakney: I remember the exact moment that I decided I was finished feeling sorry for myself. Instead of waiting for an opportunity to come to me and my creative peers, I was going to make that opportunity come to us. In the Spring of 2015 I sat in [...]

The Digital Media studio at NBCCD – a place where you see things that aren’t really there, build structures that have never before existed, and print three-dimensional objects that you designed in the virtual realm. It is a modern day magic show. Luckily, there is no magic going on here. Each of these skills is [...]

The Gem 2nd Edition [Collaboration] Get inspired by these stories of cooperation between established and emerging artists, between institutions, and across diverse mediums. [...]

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