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COURSE LOCATION KEY: D = Daventry N = Northampton (Booth Lane) LM = Northampton (Lower Mounts)


If you’re looking to pursue a career in Art and Design, Photography, Graphic Design or Fashion Design, our programmes can provide you with the opportunities to get started.


A wide range of courses is available, both full and part-time, from Foundation Level right up to Level 4. If you’ve studied Art and Design at school, you’ll be able to start on one of our programmes immediately. If you’ve little or no experience, you’ll need to take one of our full-time preparatory courses, depending on your age, experience and ability, and successful completion will enable you to progress to other courses.


• All our Art and Design programmes aim to help you develop observation, creative, technical and academic skills, as well as the ability to understand a wide range of media.


• All courses include visits to galleries and museums.


• Courses range from those offering a more general experience of art and design to those that are more specific in their area of interest.


• Our students have an excellent record in gaining places on Degree, Foundation Degree and Higher National Diploma courses or gaining employment when they leave college.


Our specialist resources include:


• A range of art studios • A ceramics room with two kilns, wheels and spray booths


• A 3D studio with facilities for working with wood, stone and plaster, as well as a range of machinery for cutting and refining


• A print-making workshop for lino prints, silkscreen and monoprints


• Two large fashion studios with cutting tables, industrial sewing machines, excellent millinery equipment and fashion-based computer resources


• An IT Apple Mac suite with 75 Macs loaded with software including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Director and Cinema 4D Go


• Photographic studios.


Foundation Learning Art & Design N


How long? One year


What do I need?


Four GCSEs at Grade E or above and an interest in Art and Design.


What will I study? This is a lively and fun course designed to help you develop skills in the fields of Art and Design as well as improving your literacy and numeracy. You’ll do project work in photography, ceramics, textiles, drawing and graphic design, and will gain a realistic idea about career possibilities in art, design and the media. Dedicated tutorial support will encourage you to develop relevant life and work skills, and build your confidence in your abilities and talents. At the end of the course, you’ll produce a final major project and will mount an exhibition of your work. You will also study for qualifications in Functional Skills and Personal and Social Development.


What can I do next?


If you pass the Level 1 Diploma programme including the Functional Skills and Personal and Social Development elements (at least 37 credits), you can progress to an appropriate BTEC First Diploma in Art and Design.


Course Code: LFLACDARTD FB11


Art, Design & Photography


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