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Fifteen aspiring baking students are benefiting from a freshly risen partnership between UCOL Wairarapa and Masterton baking identity Breadcraft (Wai) Ltd. Once a week, the Certificate in Baking and Pastry students are joined in the UCOL kitchens by Breadcraft bakers Todd Wilton and Motu Sturgeon. Todd and Motu are recently qualified bakers who did their [...]

Photo: He Pikopiko – He Whanau   New work by senior Fine Arts lecturer Marty Vreede will be on show at the Solander Gallery in Wellington from next Wednesday. Marty is exhibiting with Wellington based multi-media visual artist Sheyne Tuffery. The Wellington exhibition follows Marty’s recent success in the Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards.   Not only did he [...]

Four talented Whanganui UCOL Fashion students have made the final of the 20 10 Westfield Style Pasifika NZ Fashion Awards. Graduate Alice Walter, who completed the Bachelor of Fashion degree last year, is also in the final, in the Three Piece Collection category. Garments by the finalists will be featured in the Westfield Style Pasifika show – a two hour [...]

Young and older have flocked to the first polytechnic beauty services programme to be offered in Whanganui. The Certificate in Beauty Services is available at Whanganui UCOL for the first time this year. It was amongst a suite of new programmes introduced in response to community demand. In its inaugural year, it has attracted students ranging in age from 16 [...]

Three UCOL Fine Arts graduates are amongst the finalists in the inaugural Sculpture Wanganui event. Five sculptural works by local and national artists have been shortlisted for installation along the riverfront in Whanganui. The event which starts in mid September and runs for two weeks. The shortlisted artists are: Daniel Clifford, Paul Dibble, Mikel Durel Browne (in conjunction with Kerry [...]

For the first time Palmerston North UCOL will host Top Art 2010 , a travelling exhibition of the cream of Secondary School students’ visual arts portfolios. Two groups of students’ portfolios that achieved Excellence at NCEA level 3 in 2009 will travel to approximately 30 schools, museums, and galleries throughout New Zealand over five months. Top Art is a chance for this year’s [...]

More than 100 local and international artists will be represented at an exhibition at the Federal Hotel Gallery from 20 July. Alternatives 2010 will feature a variety of photographic images that combine old and new techniques. Head of Photography at the Quay School of the Arts Rita Dibert says the exhibition attracted a large number of entries from which the [...]

The newest member of UCOL’s School of Nursing’s teaching staff is likely to spend all day lying in bed but she is destined to play a key role in student learning. Affectionately known as ‘Annie’, the newly purchased state of the art, life-like mannequin is designed for scenario-based training in general patient assessment and care. Complete with [...]

Fine work by three senior UCOL Fine Arts students and graduates goes on show at the Square Edge Gallery in Palmerston North tomorrow (Friday 2 July).  The exhibition – titled Between – features paintings and glassworks by Whanganui UCOL Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate Brenda Banks, and current Glass major students Karen McIntyre and Kate Walker.   It will run from 2 July [...]

UCOL Computer Graphic design graduate Charlie McKay has achieved another top national award.   Charlie, who is Art Director of Metro magazine , was named Best Magazine Designer at this month’s Qantas Media Awards. Judge Matt Martell said: “As I looked at Charlie McKay’s pages, I kept reminding myself that I was looking at design, not reading stories. His [...]