National College of Art and Design

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National College of Art and Design
Coláiste Náisiúnta Ealaíne is Deartha
Established: 1746
Students: 750(full time), 800(part time)
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Former names: National College of Art, The Dublin Metropolitan School of Art
Affiliations: NUI
Website: http://www.ncad.ie

The National College of Art and Design is an art school in Dublin, Ireland.

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[edit] History

Situated on Thomas Street, the NCAD started as a private drawing school and has become a national institution educating over 1,500 day and evening students as artists, designers and art educators. The College was founded in 1746 as a private drawing school set up by Robert West in George's Lane. This school was taken over by the Dublin Society and later the RDS.

Throughout the eighteenth century there were three schools: Figure Drawing, Landscape and Ornamental Drawing and Architectural Drawing. In 1811, the school of modeling was added. The Department of Science and Art, London controlled the institution from 1854 - it was renamed the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1877. Control was taken by the department of education in 1924, and in 1936 it became the National College of Art.

The college was established as the National College of Art and Design in 1971 by an act of the Oireachtas and is now governed by a board (An Bord) appointed by the Minister for Education.[1]

The College has been a recognised college of the National University of Ireland since 1996.

[edit] List of notable alumni


[edit] Controversies

There have been suggestions, that the NCAD move from its Thomas St. location in the Liberties in Dublin city to the UCD campus in Belfield and become a faculty or constituent college of UCD,[2] This met with strong condemnation and demonstrations from students and graduates.[3] The suggestion seems to have been dropped for the foreseeable future.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ National College of Art and Design Act, 1971 Irish Statute Book
  2. ^ NCAD to move to UCD? CIRCA Art Magazine (Friday 21 October 2005)
  3. ^ NCAD News, Summer 2006

[edit] External links

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