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. [...]

The opening of this new gallery and the debut show Frostbite is on March 1st from 4:30-6:30pm. The entrance is beside Endeavours Art. First year students in the Diploma in Photography will be presenting their perspective on the visual wonderland that is winter in Canada. At a moment when many are feeling the doldrums, they remind us that we are lucky to live in a place with such frosty treasures. [...]

For high school students, we know that the road to post-secondary can feel long. Well, we have good news - Dual Enrolment. [...]

This gorgeous new zine is your quarterly dose of art, craft & design news from the NBCCD community in NB and beyond. [...]

Even in this world of fast-moving cars and computers and careers, there are pockets of stillness where people find themselves in the gradual act of making. [...]

Emma Johnson: Launching her Fashion Career with National Ballet School Internship “I didn’t want to do years of theory and write papers for every class. I was ready to get hands-on. When I came on a tour of the College, that sealed it." [...]

What could be better than checking out our new view book, taking a tour, and meeting with our instructors? Living a day in the life of one of our students, of course. [...]

Many people may recognize William Forrestall as an accomplished painter who is committed to a form of meditative realism and careful craftsmanship. His signature work consists of subtle egg tempera paintings of quiet classical still-life arrangements, images of everyday inanimate objects — gourds, fruit, coffee pots, bottles, lilies, chairs, and fragments of broken crockery, that [...]