Art & Fashion Degree Classes, UK

Central Saint Martins College Of Art And Design:
Central Saint Martins provides specialist education and research in the fields of fine art, fashion & textiles, film, video and photography, graphics & communication design, three dimensional design, theatre & performance and interdisciplinary art & design. We have opportunities for study from foundation through undergraduate and postgraduate to research degrees; a vibrant research community and a large short course programme. As well as our permanent academic staff, all of whom are active artists or designers, we employ a large number of associate lecturers who are professional artists, designers or performers. Our students are from diverse cultural backgrounds, 65 different countries and all age groups, many with a broad experience of life and the professions.

Central Saint Martins builds on the distinctive traditions of its four founding colleges: St Martin's School of Art, Central School of Art and Design, Drama Centre London and Byam Shaw School of Art. The College provides specialist education in fine art; fashion and textiles; communication design; media arts; 3D design including jewellery, ceramic, industrial and furniture design; theatre design and performance; and interdisciplinary art and design.

Location and Facilities:

The Central Saint Martins' library is situated on four sites and contains a variety of print, audio-visual and electronic resources in support of teaching, learning and research within the College. The Charing Cross Road (Soho) site provides collections in fine art and fashion, the Southampton Row (Holborn) provides collections in design and architecture, Back Hill (Clerkenwell) focuses on the performing arts and Byam Shaw (Archway) on fine art. A large slide library is located at Southampton Row.

The Library has a wide range of study facilities, including study tables, open-access computers and printers, photocopiers, video/DVD players, listening facilities, and slide viewing areas. It is supported by an online information search and research facility through the LLR Web Gateway ('the i page') which you can use both on and off-site. You will also have full access to all the other University of the Arts London libraries, eight in total, that collectively represent one of the best collections of material on arts, design and communication within the UK higher education sector.
The library at Central Saint Martins specialises in the following subjects:
- Fine Art
- Fashion
- Product Design
- Ceramics
- Interior Design and Architecture
- Graphics and Illustration
- Metalwork
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Jewellery
- Textiles
- Theatre Design
- Animation
- Performing Arts
- Film and Video

Studios:
Each course at Central Saint Martins has its own studio space and facilities where students undertake their personal and group work. Some of the lectures and seminars take place in the course studio spaces. Events and lectures involving larger groups of students take place in the common lecture theatres at Southampton Row.

Workshops:
The College has more than fifty workshops, including ten computer suites using Windows or Macintosh systems, and a centralised computing facility for large group teaching and student open access and has a colour printing bureau.

There are specialist workshops in:
- wood, metal and plastics;
- pre-press and print production;
- printing using silkscreen, lithographic, etching, letterpress and photographic processes;
- weave, knit and garment making;
- glass, ceramics and plaster.