NUCA Short Courses
Our Short Course programme covers a wide range of subjects, from drawing and photography through to software training and advanced creative computer skills.
We hope that you will find something to interest you - please let us know if there are additional courses you would like to see us providing - we plan to expand the programme year by year.
To enrol on a Short Course or for more information, please contact Emma Ryder on 01603 610561, or e-mail e.ryder@nuca.ac.uk
Courses and tutors are subject to change without notice. Students will be informed at least a week in advance of any course being cancelled due to low enrolment.
Short Courses at Norwich University College of the Arts 2009 / 2010
Drawing – introductory, developing and experimental
Digital Photography & Post Production
Silkscreen Printing
Digital Design
Photoshop
Web Publication
Courses are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students.
Welcome to the 2009 / 2010 Short Course programme.
Drawing, especially life drawing, is for many people the foundation of art and design study, and our drawing courses remain extremely popular. This year we have continued with the introductory course Exploring Drawing, created a progression course in Developing Drawing, and added an exciting new course in Experimental Drawing which offers an exploration of different techniques and physical objects to discover how drawing might be combined with light, animation and found imagery.
With all our courses, we hope that the wider context of art practice and debate created for our degree students also offers Short Course students a real flavour of the University College experience.
You will receive instructions about where to arrive for the first session, and what, if any, materials or equipment you need to bring.
AUTUMN TERM 2009
Course reference SC1/09
Introduction to Water-based silkscreen printing *
Four Saturdays, 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the print making studio, St Georges Street
October 3rd – 24th
Tutor: Sonja Ruddick
Course fee: £180
* This course is limited to four places
This is a structured introduction to the equipment and techniques of water-based silkscreen printing. The course will start with using simple paper masks to introduce the concept of printing in layers. Then it will concentrate on the way that a multi-coloured image is built up in layers by making light sensitive stencils for more intricate and complex work, using painted marks, linear drawings, and how to incorporate textures, photocopied or digital images, and texts. Students will learn how to print their images into several coloured layers onto paper and card, and explore the effects of colour on colour.
To make a screen print, the silkscreen is attached to a printing press and ink is pushed through the mesh of the screen onto the paper using a squeegee. Each layer is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer on top of previous colours.
No previous experience of screen-printing will be required
Please note:
This course takes place in a professional workshop environment, and will require students to be standing for prolonged periods of time, and to use light industrial machinery.
Students will be operating printing machinery under supervision. Full training and a Health and Safety induction will be given prior to this. Please bring an apron.
Sonja Ruddick is the Printmaking Workshop Manager teaching at Norwich University College of the Arts.
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Course reference SC2/09
Developing Drawing
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.20-3.30, in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
October 3rd – 24th
Tutor: Will Teather
Fee: £150
This course will build upon the Exploring Drawing module, looking in more detail at particular techniques and allowing for the development of fully resolved artworks. The activities included are long pose life drawings, demystifying perspective, creating a sense of narrative and working from multiple life models.
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Course reference SC3/09
Digital Design using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
October 3rd – 24th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £180
This course is ideal for students from a non-graphics background who wish to put together publicity material for small companies or organizations, either as print or web pages.
Students will be introduced to Adobe Creative Suite 4, an integrated suite of graphic and text manipulation and editing programmes. Students will be introduced to photography manipulation in Photoshop, graphics manipulation in Illustrator and page layout with text in InDesign. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
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Course reference SC4/09
Exploring Drawing
Eight Thursday evenings, 5.30-7.30 in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
October 8th – November 26th
Tutor: Will Teather (www.willteather.com)
Fee: £120
An eight-week course exploring different methods of drawing, from traditional approaches through to contemporary trends. Knowledgeable tuition will be at hand alongside some prepared handouts, creating a stimulating and enjoyable range of activities. Sessions will include life drawing, pastels, portraiture, drawing from memory, perspective and layered drawing techniques. Basic materials are supplied.
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Course reference SC5/09
Experimental Drawing
Four Wednesday evenings 5.30-7.30 and one Saturday 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 based in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
November 4th – 25th, and November 28th
Tutor: Caroline Wright
Fee: £150
This course explores drawing from a variety of perspectives and takes the notion of mediating the drawing as the central theme. Students will use a variety of media to challenge the boundaries of drawing using light, photography, textiles and other mark making materials to create work. Students should have a basic understanding of drawing and be keen to expand their knowledge and to experiment with new approaches. The course will be delivered through a combination of taught material, handouts and practical application and there will be some collaborative working.
Caroline Wright is Course Leader MA Drawing
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Course reference SC6/09
Introduction to Photoshop
Four Thursday evenings 5.15-7.15 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
November 5th – 26th
Tutor: Anastacia Tohill
Fee: £80
Photoshop is a brilliant image manipulation program which enables you to digitally transform your pictures. Whether you are an artist, photographer, animator or designer, or you just enjoy transforming images into fantastic works of art, Photoshop will appeal to amateurs of all ages as well as to creative industry professionals.
The course will cover a brief overview of Photoshop and its many tools and is suitable for complete beginners. The course enables students to use Photoshop in an illustrative way with photographic and scanned imagery.
The first lesson will cover an introduction to the tool palette, selections and changing the contrast and enhancement of an image. Subsequent lessons will concentrate on creating an illustrative image from a photograph, which involves many processes including Photoshop masks and using the pen tool to create accurate selections.
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Course reference SC7/09
Digital Photography & Post Production
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
November 7th – 28th
Tutor: Debby Besford
Fee: £150
A four-week course to take you beyond the handbook to the practicalities of making good pictures and to help you find your own subject and style. Technical fundamentals and essential Photoshop tuition are included but this 4 week course is primarily designed to fire the imagination and educate the eye of the aspiring photographer.
Students will gain confidence and knowledge on how to get the most out of the camera with a deeper understanding of the basic technicalities of the digital camera. Also by applying this knowledge with creative project handouts the course offers a healthy variety of approaches and ideas, including the importance of workflow and improving the image using Photoshop.
The final week offers the chance to print a small portfolio of work on archival photo paper. This course is ideal for students who want to explore their ideas in-depth and be creatively challenged.
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Course reference SC8/09
Web Publication
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30
November 7th – 28th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £150
This short course aims to introduce students to web publishing and will cover the preparation of text and graphics for web use and the creation of a simple web site incorporating a range of useful techniques. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
A variety of software will be used including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver and students will learn how these are incorporated within Adobe Creative Suite.
No prior experience is necessary.
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SPRING TERM 2010
Course reference SC9/10
Digital Design
using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
January 9th – 30th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £180
This course is ideal for students from a non-graphics background who wish to put together publicity material for small companies or organizations, either as print or web pages.
Students will be introduced to Adobe Creative Suite 4, an integrated suite of graphic and text manipulation and editing programmes. Students will be introduced to photography manipulation in Photoshop, graphics manipulation in Illustrator and page layout with text in InDesign. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
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Course reference SC10/10
Exploring Drawing
Eight Thursday evenings, 5.30-7.30 in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
January 14th – March 4th
Tutor: Will Teather (www.willteather.com)
Fee: £120
An eight-week course exploring different methods of drawing, from traditional approaches through to contemporary trends. Knowledgeable tuition will be at hand alongside some prepared handouts, creating a stimulating and enjoyable range of activities. Sessions will include life drawing, pastels, portraiture, drawing from memory, perspective and layered drawing techniques. Basic materials are supplied.
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Course reference SC11/10
Developing Drawing
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.20-3.30, in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
January 16th – February 6th
Tutor: Will Teather
Fee: £150
This course will build upon the Exploring Drawing module, looking in more detail at particular techniques and allowing for the development of fully resolved artworks. The activities included are long pose life drawings, demystifying perspective, creating a sense of narrative and working from multiple life models.
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Course reference SC12/10
Introduction to Photoshop
Four Thursday evenings 5.15-7.15 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
January 21st – February 11th
Tutor: Anastacia Tohill
Fee: £80
Photoshop is a brilliant image manipulation program which enables you to digitally transform your pictures. Whether you are an artist, photographer, animator or designer, or you just enjoy transforming images into fantastic works of art, Photoshop will appeal to amateurs of all ages as well as to creative industry professionals.
The course will cover a brief overview of Photoshop and its many tools and is suitable for complete beginners. The course enables students to use Photoshop in an illustrative way with photographic and scanned imagery.
The first lesson will cover an introduction to the tool palette, selections and changing the contrast and enhancement of an image. Subsequent lessons will concentrate on creating an illustrative image from a photograph, which involves many processes including Photoshop masks and using the pen tool to create accurate selections.
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Course reference SC13/10
Web Publication
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30
February 6th – March 6th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £150
This short course aims to introduce students to web publishing and will cover the preparation of text and graphics for web use and the creation of a simple web site incorporating a range of useful techniques. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
A variety of software will be used including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver and students will learn how these are incorporated within Adobe Creative Suite.
No prior experience is necessary.
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Course reference SC14/10
Experimental Drawing
Four Wednesday evenings 5.30-7.30 and one Saturday 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 based in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
February 17th – March 10th, and March 13th
Tutor: Caroline Wright
Fee: £150
This course explores drawing from a variety of perspectives and takes the notion of mediating the drawing as the central theme. Students will use a variety of media to challenge the boundaries of drawing using light, photography, textiles and other mark making materials to create work. Students should have a basic understanding of drawing and be keen to expand their knowledge and to experiment with new approaches. The course will be delivered through a combination of taught material, handouts and practical application and there will be some collaborative working.
Caroline Wright is Course Leader MA Drawing
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Course reference SC15/10
Introduction to Water-based silkscreen printing *
Four Saturdays, 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the print making studio, St Georges Street
January 16th – February 6th
Tutor: Sonja Ruddick
Course fee: £180
* This course is limited to four places
This is a structured introduction to the equipment and techniques of water-based silkscreen printing. The course will start with using simple paper masks to introduce the concept of printing in layers. Then it will concentrate on the way that a multi-coloured image is built up in layers by making light sensitive stencils for more intricate and complex work, using painted marks, linear drawings, and how to incorporate textures, photocopied or digital images, and texts. Students will learn how to print their images into several coloured layers onto paper and card, and explore the effects of colour on colour.
To make a screen print, the silkscreen is attached to a printing press and ink is pushed through the mesh of the screen onto the paper using a squeegee. Each layer is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer on top of previous colours.
No previous experience of screen-printing will be required
Please note:
This course takes place in a professional workshop environment, and will require students to be standing for prolonged periods of time, and to use light industrial machinery.
Students will be operating printing machinery under supervision. Full training and a Health and Safety induction will be given prior to this. Please bring an apron.
Sonja Ruddick is the Printmaking Workshop Manager teaching at Norwich University College of the Arts.
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Course reference SC16/10
Digital Photography & Post Production
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
February 27th – March 20th
Tutor: Debby Besford
Fee: £150
A four-week course to take you beyond the handbook to the practicalities of making good pictures and to help you find your own subject and style. Technical fundamentals and essential Photoshop tuition are included but this 4 week course is primarily designed to fire the imagination and educate the eye of the aspiring photographer.
Students will gain confidence and knowledge on how to get the most out of the camera with a deeper understanding of the basic technicalities of the digital camera. Also by applying this knowledge with creative project handouts the course offers a healthy variety of approaches and ideas, including the importance of workflow and improving the image using Photoshop.
The final week offers the chance to print a small portfolio of work on archival photo paper. This course is ideal for students who want to explore their ideas in-depth and be creatively challenged.
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SUMMER TERM 2010
Course reference SC17/10
Exploring Drawing
Eight Thursday evenings, 5.30-7.30 in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
April 15th – June 3rd
Tutor: Will Teather (www.willteather.com)
Fee: £120
An eight-week course exploring different methods of drawing, from traditional approaches through to contemporary trends. Knowledgeable tuition will be at hand alongside some prepared handouts, creating a stimulating and enjoyable range of activities. Sessions will include life drawing, pastels, portraiture, drawing from memory, perspective and layered drawing techniques. Basic materials are supplied.
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Course reference SC18/10
Developing Drawing
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.20-3.30, in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
April 17th – 15th May (no class on May 1st)
Tutor: Will Teather
Fee: £150
This course will build upon the Exploring Drawing module, looking in more detail at particular techniques and allowing for the development of fully resolved artworks. The activities included are long pose life drawings, demystifying perspective, creating a sense of narrative and working from multiple life models.
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Course reference SC19/10
Continuing with Water-based silkscreen printing *
Four Saturdays, 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the print making studio, St Georges Street
April 17th – May 15th (no class on May 1st)
Tutor: Sonja Ruddick
Course fee: £200
* This course is limited to four places
This course has been designed for students to follow on from our “Introduction to Water-based Silkscreen” course. It is for those who have basic practical experience of screen-printing, to build on their skills, and who wish to be tutored further to a more advanced level. There will be time to experiment, to create a series of different pieces, or to develop and create an edition of prints.
Students may wish to undertake or progress a personal project over the duration of the course, or continue with exploring different techniques and ideas.
This class is kept small to allow for lots of individual guidance from the tutor, and for each student to have use of a printing machine.
• Previous experience of screen-printing will be required.
This course takes place in a professional workshop environment, and will require students to be standing for prolonged periods of time, and to use light industrial machinery.
Students will be operating the printing machines under supervision. Full training and a Health and Safety induction will be given prior to this.
Please bring an apron.
Sonja Ruddick is the Printmaking Workshop Manager teaching at Norwich University College of the Arts.
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Course reference SC20/10
Digital Design using InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
April 17th – May 8th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £180
This course is ideal for students from a non-graphics background who wish to put together publicity material for small companies or organizations, either as print or web pages.
Students will be introduced to Adobe Creative Suite 4, an integrated suite of graphic and text manipulation and editing programmes. Students will be introduced to photography manipulation in Photoshop, graphics manipulation in Illustrator and page layout with text in InDesign. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
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Course reference SC21/10
Introduction to Photoshop
Four Thursday evenings 5.15-7.15 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
April 22nd – May 13th
Tutor: Anastacia Tohill
Fee: £80
Photoshop is a brilliant image manipulation program which enables you to digitally transform your pictures. Whether you are an artist, photographer, animator or designer, or you just enjoy transforming images into fantastic works of art, Photoshop will appeal to amateurs of all ages as well as to creative industry professionals.
The course will cover a brief overview of Photoshop and its many tools and is suitable for complete beginners. The course enables students to use Photoshop in an illustrative way with photographic and scanned imagery.
The first lesson will cover an introduction to the tool palette, selections and changing the contrast and enhancement of an image. Subsequent lessons will concentrate on creating an illustrative image from a photograph, which involves many processes including Photoshop masks and using the pen tool to create accurate selections.
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Course reference SC22/10
Digital Photography & Post Production
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 in the PC Room, St Georges Street
May 15th – June 12th
Tutor: Debby Besford
Fee: £150
A four-week course to take you beyond the handbook to the practicalities of making good pictures and to help you find your own subject and style. Technical fundamentals and essential Photoshop tuition are included but this 4 week course is primarily designed to fire the imagination and educate the eye of the aspiring photographer.
Students will gain confidence and knowledge on how to get the most out of the camera with a deeper understanding of the basic technicalities of the digital camera. Also by applying this knowledge with creative project handouts the course offers a healthy variety of approaches and ideas, including the importance of workflow and improving the image using Photoshop.
The final week offers the chance to print a small portfolio of work on archival photo paper. This course is ideal for students who want to explore their ideas in-depth and be creatively challenged.
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Course reference SC23/10
Web Publication
Four Saturdays 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30
May 15th – June 12th
Tutor: Paul Verity Smith
Fee: £150
This short course aims to introduce students to web publishing and will cover the preparation of text and graphics for web use and the creation of a simple web site incorporating a range of useful techniques. Students will additionally be directed to materials available on the web and self-learning textbooks to provide support and templates after the course.
A variety of software will be used including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver and students will learn how these are incorporated within Adobe Creative Suite.
No prior experience is necessary.
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Course reference SC24/10
Experimental Drawing
Four Wednesday evenings 5.30-7.30 and one Saturday 10.00-12.30 and 1.30-3.30 based in the Drawing Studio, St Georges Street
May 19th – June 9th, and June 12th
Tutor: Caroline Wright
Fee: 150
This course explores drawing from a variety of perspectives and takes the notion of mediating the drawing as the central theme. Students will use a variety of media to challenge the boundaries of drawing using light, photography, textiles and other mark making materials to create work. Students should have a basic understanding of drawing and be keen to expand their knowledge and to experiment with new approaches. The course will be delivered through a combination of taught material, handouts and practical application and there will be some collaborative working.
Caroline Wright is Course Leader MA Drawing
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