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NMIT Visual Arts provides high quality innovative training for the arts industry. The courses offered are practical and are conducted by highly regarded professional artists, designers, photographers and illustrators with an emphasis on individual attention.
Visual Arts Galleries are available for student exhibitions and a visiting artists program featuring high profile practitioners in the arts.
NMIT Visual Arts aims to produce highly trained graduates who possess the skills, knowledge and creativity to succeed within their chosen field.
NMIT Visual Arts offers a variety of industry based courses conducted by professional practicing artists, photographers, designers and illustrators.
Available Courses (3)
Certificate IV in Design
This course aims to provide students with the opportunity to enhance design skills through completion of set projects. The course has a multiple design emphasis leading to specialist areas of product design, graphic art, illustration and other related design areas, addressed through a diverse range of competencies.
Diploma of Graphic Design
The Diploma of Graphic Design trains students to become skilled graphic designers at the highest level.
Visual Arts Basic Introduction
This course provides students with the opportunity to enhance their creative arts skills through the completion of set projects in a range of visual fields.
Available Short Courses (9)
Advanced Screen Printing for Artists
This program is designed to extend the skills of people who have previously completed the Introduction to Screen Printing for Artists course. Building upon the knowledge about different stencils, ink types and printing methods introduced in the earlier course.
Children's Book Illustration - Intermediate
Children's books have entertained readers for centuries. this intermediate course is designed to extend the skills and opportunities of people who have previously completed the "Introduction to Children's Book Illustration course. The course explores development, book composition and text placement.
Folio Preparation - Introduction to Drawing
This six-week course will develop your basic technical and conceptual drawing skills. It is aimed at developing confidence and skills in drawing and exploring a range of techniques across various media.
Folio Preparation - Art and Design
NMIT’s Visual Arts department is offering a customised folio preparation course to meet the training needs of participants who wish to develop skills in the field of graphic design. The course is ideal for people wishing to prepare a comprehensive folio for tertiary study applications. It also functions as a broad art & design educational experience, enabling students to pursue a related career in graphic arts and design.
Introduction to Children’s Book Illustration
Children’s Books have entertained reader s for centuries. This course explores the art of creating images for different types of children’s picture books by exploring basic drawing techniques, page composition and storytelling through pictures.
Introduction to Painting
A six week course aimed at developing technical and conceptual painting skills using a variety of painting techniques with oils or acrylics in a studio environment.
Introduction to Printmaking
A 6-week certificate course designed to develop basic skills required in printmaking, and to develop your confidence and gain skills using relief or intaglio printmaking processes.
Introduction to Screen Printed T-shirts
This workshop program is open to all people wanting to learn how to customise T-Shirts with screen printed designs. Participants will learn how to use non-toxic materials to create layered multi-colour designs that can be accurately printed onto fabric. A fantastic way to learn how screen printing processes are applied to indiviualised T-Shirt design.
Introduction to Screen Printing for Artists
This course has been developed for people with an interest in printmaking, t-shirt design and poster art, and is a valuable introduction to screen printing processes employed by artists, designers and illustrators.
