Education Partner : Manchester School of Art

We are delighted to welcome Manchester School of Art as an Education Partner.

Manchester School of Art and the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair have forged a three year partnership to give an extra boost to the brilliance of creative talent coming out of Manchester.

Both our organisations are committed to nurturing the best in creativity, material innovation and process, so it makes perfect sense to work together.

The School was originally founded in 1838 to respond to the needs of the Textiles industry in Manchester, and they are proud to continue their long history of developing talented graduate designers and makers, and supporting them into successful creative careers.

Manchester School of Art will be showcasing work from their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Craft and Textiles, where their students develop materially engaged practices that explore designing and making across a wide range of processes, materials, and object types. Their extensive workshops across print, knit, weave, embroidery, wood, metal, ceramics, and glass, support and encourage students to explore and innovate across hand, machine, and digital making.

Creative students join MSA from across the UK and around the globe. Postgraduate full-time and part-time routes enable a wide range of new and established makers to study on their courses, supporting them to develop their practices to a higher level. Their students come to Manchester with a shared ambition to develop work that investigates, questions, and addresses material, social, cultural, environmental, and sustainable contexts, to develop unique and individual creative practices that expand and challenge preconceptions and definitions of contemporary design and making. Manchester School of Art graduates go on to establish and work within highly successful craft, design and manufacturing businesses, selling work nationally and internationally, with many of them showing here at GNCCF. For more information on their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, please go to:

https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/ba-craft

https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/craft/

www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/ma-msc-craft

www.art.mmu.ac.uk/postgraduate/ma-msc-craft/

www.mmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/ba-textiles-in-practice