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| Sunday, 25 August 2002 |
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Open Day at New York School of Visual Arts: A glimpse into corridors of art by Jayanthi Liyanage
The Open Day at New York School of Visual Arts (NYSOVA) was a rare glimpse of different corridors of arts. For the metropolitans, as well as the suburbans, who learnt of the school through the press and acquaintances and relished a personal dip in the 360 degree spectrum of "designer" career paths the school splayed at the public's finger tips. The exhibition of the school's first batch studying for their Fashion Design Diplomas could have also been the turning point in the life of many a school leaver, anxiously looking for alternatives to the usual business and information technology study avenues. And the occasional adult career- enthusiast searching for a more fulfilling and creative profession. NYSOVA, the brain-child of its Managing Director, Linda Speldewinde, truly seemed to have created for the local young generations a different foot-step in a truly futuristic direction, and the first step to a quiet revolution in the field of local "designer" education. "Fashion designing is not just cutting a frock; interior designing is not just hanging a curtain; and jewellery designing is not just shaping an ear-drop," Annette Wendling-Willeke, Director-Institutional Development, tried to give a gist of what "fashion language" is about to the curious media personnel trickling into the school. As in testimony, NYSOVA students had hung up on its walls the full palette of how imaginatively a minute fashion idea could unrestrainedly soar to a broader concept - described graphically in hand-drawn figure drawings, computer compositions of digital drawings and neatly done-up Trend Boards. The atmosphere was fashionably cosmopolitan and universal, with arts personalities, parents and young people absorbing its contents while NYSOVA's lecturers, mostly overseas-educated, inspired the prospective students with just the right tilt for a more broadly drawn-out career path stretching beyond 'localised' horizons. NYSOVA will run an exhibition stall at the Career Fair scheduled to be held in the BMICH from September 18-21 and inaugurate a Weekend Art Gallery on September 17 for exhibitions, poetry-reading and other creative activity for artistes who cannot secure another platform. In November, Graduate Diploma courses in Fashion Design and Merchandising; Interior Design; and Jewellery Design and Manufacturing are scheduled to begin, with an intake of 30 students for each course. NYSOVA's first passers-out in the Fashion Design Diploma course are expected to present the best of their creations in a public fashion show in December or the following January. |
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