News Release

FREDERICTON (GNB) – Certificates and diplomas were awarded today to 133 graduates of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. The 2013 convocation was held at the Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne in Fredericton.

"I congratulate all graduates on the completion of their programs," said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Danny Soucy. "Graduations celebrate the start of the next stage in life. It is a time to seek new adventures and explore the opportunities that are ahead."

Allison Green was the winner of the 2013 Governor General Medal, awarded to the student with the highest academic standing. She was one of more than 50 students who received scholarships and/or awards.

Green, a textile design student, was the recipient of the 2012 Nel Oudemans Scholarship for the most promising candidate pursuing advanced studies in fine crafts, and she was selected for an internship with the Saint John Sculpture Symposium the same year. She has been involved in several group shows in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, including the recent Nature Trust exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum. She will hold her first solo show at Fredericton's Charlotte Street Art Centre in 2014.

Jessica Roy, a graduate of the photography program, was the valedictorian.

"We have been training for what is to come, and we are lucky to be going to a school in a town that supports us the way it does," said Roy. "We have had the opportunity to participate in exhibits in venues throughout the city. There are opportunities around every corner. We just have to go out and take them."

Convocation marked the opening of the 2013 Graduate Exhibit, which highlights the work of the 60 graduates who received diplomas in fine craft (ceramics, jewellery and metal arts, and fibre arts), photography, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, integrated media and aboriginal visual arts. The exhibit opened June 3 at the University of New Brunswick Art Centre, 9 Bailey Dr., Fredericton, and will run until June 19.
 
Eight students in the Graduate Studies program are exhibiting their work in SPIRITUS, an interdisciplinary exhibition, which opened June 14 at The Gallery of the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. A display of work by students in the one-year Foundation Visual Arts Certificate program is on display in the college foyer. Both exhibitions run until Sept. 12.