It’s Degree Show time!  If you are thinking of a career in design, expressive arts, photography, architecture or digital media applying to art school might be the route for you.  Not sure?  Take the opportunity to go and see what it’s all about for yourself.  Each year final year students throughout Scotland’s art schools put together an exhibition of their work known as the Degree Show.  These shows are always diverse, sometimes controversial and push viewers to look at things from a different perspective, they also give you a chance to check out the colleges too. Well worth a visit!

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design – 18th – 26th May 2013

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/news/2013/article/degree-show-2013

Edinburgh College of Art – 1st – 9th June 2013

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art

Glasgow School of Art – 8th – 15th June 2013

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/d/degree-show-2013/

Gray’s School of Art – 15th – 22nd June 2013

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/events/gray-s-school-of-art-degree-show1

The Visual Arts Studio is hosting its annual exhibition of work produced as part of their portfolio preparation course.  Many students are successful in gaining places to art schools across the UK on completion of the course.  The exhibition opens at 5pm on Thursday the 23rd of May and runs until the 9th of June.  Further details can be found on the Visual Arts Studio website.

http://www.visualartsstudio.co.uk/events-diary

The second group of S1 pupils made their way to the Riverside Museum yesterday with Miss Kelly, here are a few of the pupils in action!

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Glasgow School of Art are hosting an open day of their Digital Design Studio.  A great opportunity to meet the staff and see the facilities, more information can be found on the link below

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/d/dds-open-days-in-may-2013/

Miss McCarley visited Miss Howard’s S1 class today to see the fantastic work that was being produced as part of the Rapid Response project.  A great team effort, Miss Howard took a few photos of the class in action

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Miss Howard’s S2 class produced some extremely imaginative pins as part of the O-PiN project.  Click on the link below to view the work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stniniansartdepartment/

More information on the project can be found here

http://www.o-pin.org/

Miss Howard took the first S1 trip to the Riverside Museum yesterday, pupils thoroughly enjoyed the day and produced some great drawings.  We have posted a few pictures from the class visit on our online gallery

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Congratulations to the higher photography pupils who have now completed their folios, the work is looking fabulous.  Any pupil that would like their work returned must remember to hand their £6.00 into the art department before the end of term.  Returned folios will be displayed in an exhibition in January next year.   A few examples of the work produced have been posted on our online gallery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stniniansartdepartment/

Take a look at Miss Kelly’s class getting creative with paint, we love the paintings that they produced!

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Ms McLeish did a fantastic screen printing workshop with S1, see them involved in the process by viewing the link below

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