Whanganui UCOL's new Bachelor of Art and Design degree is attracting a varied lot of students who get to try a lot of different skills.
It's the end of the first semester and a rash of exhibitions is happening. The Certificate of Art and Design (CAD) one opens on Tuesday and on Wednesday the 11 students in the visual arts strand of the Bachelor of Art and Design (BDA) open a show of their paintings.
Each had to do four 1800mm x 500mm paintings on brown paper in acrylic paint. They are each showing at least two of those in their Big Painting exhibition, which opens at 1pm in the Community Arts Centre in Taupo Quay and runs till 4pm on June 28.
The students have already tried painting in oils. Next they try sculpture and drawing.
Bayley Kauika came to the three-year degree course straight out of Whanganui City College because he loved painting. He had already done NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 art.