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Hungry Creek Art and Craft School

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Students come to Hungry Creek to become artists, craftspeople, designers and teachers or to gain employment with associated industries. The mission of Hungry Creek Art and Craft School is to provide a unique, artistically challenging and stimulating environment to assist students in their professional and creative development.

We will encourage you to be innovative rather than imitative. Our school fosters a culture of support amongst the staff, students and graduates and we make every effort to accommodate the individuals learning style and mode of creative expression and to provide training in a manner that best suits their needs.

There is a strong emphasis on technical skills which are taught in our fully equipped jewellery, sculpture, painting and ceramics studios. Class sizes are limited to 15-20 students enabling individual attention. The school has been offering New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) approved qualifications for 17 years and now offers five NZQA approved qualifications. Artistic inspiration, the concept, is the reason for producing artwork and technical skills combined with knowledge, the vehicle. We welcome students of all ages and cultures as we believe everyone has something to offer.

Hungry Creek welcomes international students. We have two campuses located near New Zealands' largest city, Auckland.


Art and Craft qualifications are offered at our Hungry Creek, Puhoi campus, 45 minutes drive north of Auckland. The entry to the school is via the bridge over the "Hungry Creek". The workshops are nestled in 20 acres of beautiful native, kauri, totara, rimu trees, nikau palms, ponga ferns and tree ferns (the silver fern) which are populated with a variety of New Zealand birds providing a unique environment for students to work in. Class sizes are limited to 15-20 students enabling them to gain individual attention from tutors.

Jewellery qualifications are offered at our North Shore campus in Albany, close to public transport and every modern convenience of the Albany shopping mall complex. The campus is situated at Wellpark, a stunning 19 acre property that is a tranquil sanctuary of bush and streams, yet only 15 minutes from Auckland City. Wellpark offers a variety of accommodation options from houses and cottages to secluded sleep-outs, also double and single rooms with shared facilities.

Short courses at Hungry Creek

Courses at Hungry Creek Art and Craft School

CERTIFICATE IN ART AND CRAFT (Foundation) Level 4 - 1 year
This course covers an interrelated range of art and craft disciplines designed to give students the opportunity to discover their strengths, to develop their creativity and to build a firm foundation for further study. Studens who pass this course are accepted into Year Two of the three year Diploma in Art and Craft.

DIPLOMA IN ART AND CRAFT Level 6 - 3 years
To give students the opportunity to refine and develop art making, profession, research and presentation skills. During the year students are encouraged to market and exhibit their work. Year 2, 3 students are each provided with a studio space in which to complete their work.
Major Studies are Painting; Sculpture; Ceramics; Jewellery;  Life Drawing; Design (Year 1 and 2); Art History

DIPLOMA IN ART AND CRAFT (Advanced) Level 7 - 1 year
This course is for those who have completed previous study and wish to refine and develop their art making and jewellery skills. To define and understand the art world and establish their position it. To provide a format for the students to integrate theory, art history, marketing and their studio practice. Students are encouraged to exhibit their work, enter the marketplace and work off-site during the years of study. Students are provided with a studio to complete work.


Programme: Art History; Life Drawing; Marketing & Critical Studies. Major Study: Studio practice can include a number of disciplines which may be integrated within the student's body of work. Off site work experience is encouraged where applicable. Students will refine and develop their artwork working towards a professional standard.

CERTIFICATE IN JEWELLERY Level 4 - 1 year
Students who pass this course are accepted in Year Two of the three year Diploma in Art and Craft.
DIPLOMA IN JEWELLERY Level 6 - 3 years
This course is for those who have completed previous study and wish to refine and develop their art making and jewellery skills. The curriculum is designed to expose students to a varied yet interrelated study program to give each student the skills to enter the industry either as a jewellery designer, manufacturing jeweller, and self employed studio jeweller or to go onto further study. Programme Overview: Technical & Practical Skills; Jewellery Design Skills; Drawing/ Rendering/ Computer Aided Design; Art History; Design (Diploma Year 1 and 2).

Entry Criteria:

CERTIFICATE ENTRY CRITERIA
We welcome those who wish to develop their creative and artistic abilities and develop technical skills. Our concern is with the commitment to study and the standard achieved on completing the courses.

DIPLOMA ENTRY CRITERIA
Those who successfully complete the Certificate in Art and Craft (Foundation) are accepted into Diploma in Art and Craft year two. Those who successfully complete the Certificate in Jewellery are accepted into Diploma in Jewellery year two.

Art and Craft Diploma (Advanced)
Open to those who have completed the Diploma in Art & Craft, Diploma in Jewellery or a similar study at another institution.

TUITION FEE at Hungry Creek Art and Craft School:
All programmes:    NZ$ 16,000

Fee Protection Policy
In accordance with the New Zealand Education Amendment Act 1989, your course fees are protected by being held by the Public Trust in a trust account. The trust account is a multi-deposit account with money held in individual names, and operates on a draw-down procedure on a pro-rata basis each fortnight in arrears.

ACCOMMODATION
Homestay             NZ$ 230-NZ$ 250/week
Albany Campus
Accommodation    NZ$ 135/week plus NZ$ 33 expenses –
Residential
Accommodation    NZ$ 35/night – Backpackers
                             NZ$ 85/night – Bed and Breakfast