As per Statistics Canada, 400,000 Canadians over the age of twenty-five have finished post-secondary courses in visual and performing arts programs. This is an astounding figure, but not totally surprising.
Art schools in Canada began as early as 1800s. However, these school are not as recognized as they ought to. Some of the art schools in Canada have maintained traditional programs while others have adopted new and future-facing programs.
Here are some of the unusual courses and approaches that are producing today’s artists, designers, and curators around the globe.
1. BRANDON UNIVERSITY’S ABORIGINAL ART
The Aboriginal arts school is among the few nationally certified schools that provide both a major and a minor in Indigenous design.
The curriculum includes studio-based indigenous art classes and technology workshops with innovative history art courses.
2. MCMASTER UNIVERSITY’S SUSTAINABILITY MINIMUM
Art schools must incorporate sustainable techniques as among society’s biggest threats, global warming. Faculty at McMaster are always researching and incorporating safer and more ecologically friendly materials, techniques, and innovations into all courses.
Their pupils learn techniques for protecting their personal wellness in the workshop while also helping the ecosystem’s health.
3. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY’S COMPUTATION ARTS
According to the curriculum, innovative technologies are always evolving. Its goal is to assist students to comprehend the underlying currents and ideologies of creative technology, as well as art activity in general so that they can adapt to, or even initiate, drastic development.
4. EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN
Socially involved artistic and cultural activities that inspire involvement, question power, and communicate across professions, influenced by a strong awareness of relational sensibilities, are at the heart of Emily Carr University’s Social Practice and Community Engagement minor.
This innovative set of interdisciplinary workshop courses and training restores healthy citizenship to the centre of higher education by establishing connections to a range of community contexts.
