National College of Arts
Motto |
کسب کمال کُن کہ عزیز جہان شوی Kasb-e-kamal kun ke Aziz-e-Jahan shavi |
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Motto in English | Seek excellence in your work, so you can be admired by the world |
Type | Public art school |
Established | 1875 (as Mayo College of Arts) |
Principal | Professor. Dr. Murtaza Jafri |
Academic staff | 70 |
Students | 1200 |
Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Campus | Urban |
Affiliations |
HEC PCATP |
Website | nca.edu.pk |
The National College of Arts (Urdu: قومی کالج هنر) or NCA, is a degree-bestowing art university in Lahore, Punjab. Created as the Mayo School of Industrial Arts in 1875, it is the first art college in Pakistan. It became a degree-awarding institution in 1985 and a university in June 2011. The main campus of the school is situated between the Lahore Museum and the town hall. A smaller secondary campus with a more limited class offering is located in Rawalpindi.
History
One of two art colleges created by the British Crown in British India in reaction to the Arts & Crafts Movement, the Mayo School of Industrial Arts was named in honor of the recently assassinated British Viceroy of India Lord Mayo in 1875. Its first principal was Lockwood Kipling, who was also appointed the first curator of the Lahore Museum, which opened the same year in an adjacent building. The school was renamed the National College of Arts in 1958. Designated the premier art institution in the country, it was transferred to the Education Department from the Department of Industries in the 1960s. It received degree-awarding status in 1985 and created its first graduate programs in 1999. In 2006, the school opened a second campus, at Rawalpindi. It became a university in June 2011.[1]
Departments
The school features the following departments:
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Fine Arts
- Department of Communication Design
- Department of Ceramics Design
- Department of Product Design
- Department of Textile Design
- Department of Musicology
- Department of Film and Television
- Department of Multimedia Arts
- Department of YKI
- Department of Interior Designing
Principals
Mayo School of Arts
- 1875-1894 - Lockwood Kipling
- Percy Brown
- 1903-1913: Bhai Ram Singh[2]
- 1913-1930: Hugh Lionel Heath[3]
- 1930-1942: S. N. Gupta
- 1943-1947: Mian Muhammad Hussain[4]
- 1947-1954: Ghulam Nabi Malik
- 1954-1956: Sidney Spedding
- 1949-1965: Qazi Mohammad rafique
National College of Arts (1958 - present)
- Shakir Ali
- Khalid Iqbal (Acting)
- Iqbal Hassan
- Abbasi Abidi
- Salima Hashmi
- Sajida Haider Vandal
- Naazish Ata Ullah
- Fozia Qureshi (Acting)
- Ustad Bashir Ahmed (Acting)
- Sajjad Kousar (Acting)
- Dr. Shabnam Khan (Acting)
- Dr. Murtaza Jafri (2013–Present)
References
- ↑ Nadeem Omar Tarar, From Primitive Artisan to Modern Artists, Colonialism, Culture and Art Education in Punjab, South Asian Studies retrieved on September, 2011
- ↑ Ali, S. Amjad Painters of Pakistan Islamabad: National book Foundation 1995 pg 34
- ↑ Hugh Heath Principle of Mayo School, Lahore. 1871-1938
- ↑ http://www.nca.edu.pk/archives/
External links
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