Embrace your creative side and develop your skills with a range of art forms, at EKC Dover College.
Creative and Design
Full time courses
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Industry standard facilities
Mac Computer Suite
With access to the Adobe Creative Suite, the Macs are where you’ll create stunning photos, digital designs and mood boards to suit your artistic vision.
Art Room
For those interested in painting, sculpture and drawing, the Art Room is your space.
Paints, easels, clays, and a printing press available for you to use, mean that you can transfer your imagination to a range of physical mediums.
Photography Studio
In addition to interchangeable backdrops and lighting rigs, a collection of analog and digital cameras ensure you’ll learn to take captivating photos.
Explore our Studios
with Level 3 students
In the video, Level 3 Art and Design students Nicola and Amy, show you the facilities and how these are used in College.
They’re in their final year, with Nicola looking at animation, and Amy loving the art of sculpture.
Discover your creativity
At College, you’ll be able to take part in a wide range of specialisms so that you can find the one that suits your artistic passion.
Recently, students collaborated with Artswork and Timothy Smithen, a local doodle artist, to create some pieces for the Student Centre.
Artswork will link closely with you during your time at College, helping you discover your creativity with events such as the Creative Careers Cafe.
Make a difference with your art
Students have been working on two projects to make a difference in the local community this term.
The first was decorating Christmas baubles which will be sold to raise money for the Dover smART Project.
They’ve also helped the Future Foundry create and repair their lanterns ahead of the Winter Festival in December.
Work with industry experts
On the Art and Design courses, you’ll work with local and national companies on exciting briefs and competitions.
This year, students took part in a branding challenged, organised by Blaze Signs.
For this, they had to create a concept and design a new American Football team.
Other industry partners we have recently worked with include:
Present your work at an End of Year Show
Painting
Develop painting skills and techniques using oil, acrylic and watercolour paints.
Ceramics
Build designs with clay to create a unique range of ceramic art pieces.
Animation
Create stunning short and long films using a range of stop-motion, claymation and motion graphics techniques and softwares.
Drawing and Sketching
Turn your craftmanship into artwork that turns heads, with a range of tools available.
Sculpture
Whatever your inspired by, turn your dreams into a 3D reality with the art of Sculpture.
Photography
Take captivating photographs before formatting and editing to your vision, with access to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
Be taught by Professional Artists
Our creative courses allow flexibility for learners to develop their individuality and confidence through hands-on learning, providing a comprehensive grounding in a range of creative and design disciplines.
Our students are taught by highly qualified tutors, who are professional artists that regularly participate in exhibitions.
Jacob Weeks, Programme Director, is a talented and established artist and photographer. He is also the co-founder of photographic collective, ‘Void’.
Ascension Lorente Huguet, Lecturer, is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, who specialises in Fine Art.
The Dover Beacon Project
The Dover Beacon Project is an exciting initiative which is seeing the redevelopment of an area of Bench Street in Dover.
The project will see a creative centre home to a studio and exhibition space for local creatives developed, alongside an educational campus that will provide training opportunities in creative industries.
The project is funded by UK Government.
Career prospects
Example:
Artists
£
£42,640
Annual pay
Annual pay is per year, based on full-time employment and on the South East region.
Role description
Artists create artistic works using appropriate techniques, materials and media; design artwork and illustrations; and restore damaged pieces of art.
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How you apply for a course at EKC Dover College
Step 1 – Find a subject you’re interested in
Explore our subject areas and see which of our courses is right for you.
Step 2 – Apply
Apply for your chosen course via our website.
Step 3 – Come to an applicant day
Come along to an applicant day here at EKC Dover College, where you can meet our team and enrol onto one of our courses.
“I like the opportunities that the course gives me.
“We get taken on trips to places like the Turner Contemporary, so we can see what other artists have produced to help us to feel inspired.
“This has helped me express my feelings and interests well when it comes to my own artwork.”
George
Level 2 Art and Design
“The people here at EKC Dover College are amazing. They have helped me progress in my studies and are always supportive.
“I have enjoyed the course a lot becuase there is always something new to do.
“We are lucky to have the beach nearby so some lessons we go down there and draw what we can see.
“This course has given me the steps to get into a career in animation, and I’m now looking into University courses which is very exciting.”
Nicola
Level 3 Art and Design
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