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News Crawford 100 Throughout 2012, a series of events will be held to commemorate and celebrate 100 years of education at Sharman Crawford Street. The celebrations commenced  officially on Friday January 20th crawford100 CCAD leads the way with the first pilot session 'Enhancing the First Year Experience' drawnOVERdrawn > exhibition of drawings opens Saturday, February 11, 2012 GAIA Projects in association with CCAD present 'Positions' CIT CCAD Textiles participating in Lithuanian Exhibition Design Week 2011 - Graduate Exhibition Art Therapy Graduate Show 2011 Future Makers 2011

The Crawford College of Art & Design is a constituent college of Cork Institute of Technology, providing education in the arts for over 200 years. The Department of Fine Art and the Department of Art & Design Education are based at the Sharman Crawford Street campus, offering programmes in Fine Art, Ceramics and Art Education. The Department of Media Communications and the Department of Art Therapy are based at CIT Bishopstown. The Department of Media Communications became part of the Crawford College in January 2010.

The CIT Crawford College of Art & Design has provided education in the arts for over 200 years. Located in the city of Cork, Ireland, the college has a proud tradition in the fields of fine art, ceramic design, art teacher training, art therapy and adult education in the creative arts. The CIT Crawford College offers full-time courses to Bachelors Degree, Masters and Higher Diploma levels, all validated by CIT and the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC). Both nationally and internationally, we enjoy an excellent reputation for creative education.

Over the past fifteen years the college has established a strong Art Therapy Department, providing opportunities for learning about, and experiencing, the Art Therapy process. Pioneering art therapy training in Ireland, the Summer School was set up followed by the Art Therapy Foundation Certificate. 1998 saw the first intake of Postgraduate Art Therapy students, the first course of its kind in Ireland. The college now offers a taught MA in Art Therapy. The Arts & Empowerment Facilitation Training Certificate, with a more community art remit, was established in 1996, and a number of Art Therapy introductory weekends are offered to meet the huge demand from people wanting to experience the Art Therapy process. The Art Therapy Department is committed to providing creative educational training through experiential workshops, backed up by seminars and lectures. It is actively involved in developing the quality and educational standing of its courses.

The college is sited in its own campus in Sharman Crawford Street, approximately 4 miles from the main CIT campus in Bishopstown. The Crawford College of Art & Design is conveniently located near the primary art centres and schools in Cork, giving our students easy access to the artistic and cultural stimulus they require. The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork School of Music, Triskel Art Centre, National Sculpture Factory, Cork Printmakers workshops, Backwater Studios, and Cork Artists Collective, as well as the commercial galleries, are within walking distance of the college.

Facilities on this campus include studios with personal work spaces for all students, and well-equipped workshops including ceramics, metal and wood fabrication, stone carving, foundry, photography, film and video, digital media, etching, lithography, silk screen and relief printmaking, textiles and stained glass. The library houses over 12,000 volumes, 45 periodicals and newspapers, and over 30,000 slides.

List of CAO full-time courses:
CR210 BA (Honours) in Applied Art, Ceramics
CR220 BA (Honours) in Fine Art

List of Postgraduate courses:
Higher Diploma in Arts for Art & Design Teachers
Master of Arts in Art Therapy (Taught)
MA in Art and Design Education (Taught) 
MA in Teaching Visual Arts in Primary and Early Years Education (Taught)
MA: Art & Process
Master of Arts (by Research)

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Wandesford Quay Gallery Since June 2010, the Wandesford Quay Gallery has been rented by CIT for use as a city-centre gallery, exhibition space and centre of learning. For detailed information, please click here.