CFAD IN PMB AND CAPE TOWN

The Centre for Fine Art Animation & Design – which operates from Durban - has expanded its operation and has opened up two new campuses – in Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town.

“We are hugely excited about starting up satellite campuses,” enthuses internationally acclaimed cartoonist Dr Nanda Soobben who founded CFAD in Durban in 1994. “It is wonderfully affirming that aspirant animation and design students in these two centres are so keen to study with us that they have prompted us into starting two new venues outside Durban,”

Dr Soobben has developed the Centre for Fine Art Animation & Design into a thriving art school where students can transform their creativity into marketable skills. CFAD offers part time and full-time tuition, and an Integrated Fine Art, Animation and Graphic Design Diploma. This three-year Diploma incorporates animation and TV commercial production.

A Young Artist Programme is also offered for 10 to 18 year old learners. Due to individual attention each student receives, classes are kept small and space is limited

CFAD operates from the gracious old Colonial listed building: Port View, 183 Cowey / Problem Mkhize Rd (originally home to TB Davis – a wealthy businessman who financed buildings on the UKZN campus.)

In Pietermaritzburg, the new campus is situated in a beautiful old building at 291 Prince Alfred Street. They offer both part-time and full-time courses in fine art, animation, digital design, graphic design and web design – as well as corelDRAW. Val Maggs teaches fine art, Casey Dixon (a CFAD Graduate) teaches digital design and animation; and Sandy Dixon (who has been active in the print and design industry for 20 years) is the Director of CFAD Pietermaritzburg.

“We are amazed with the calibre of the newly-enrolled students. They are hugely talented and are already doing beautiful work,” says Sandy Dixon.

In Cape Town, CFAD operates from a studio in Greenpoint. The two lecturers are CFAD Cape Town head Andy Wood, who has worked in the animation industry in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Dominique Bouckaerd also an animation specialist. They offer full-time tuition in fine art, graphic design and animation. The first intake of ten full-time first-year students are all doing really well.

“We anticipate great interest in CFAD Cape Town,” says Andy Wood, “There has been lots of enthusiasm and we are hopeful that CFAD Cape Town will really thrive.”

For more information, contact CFAD on 031 240 8402.