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With stirring views of sea shores and glens, busy towns and historical nooks, Angus is the perfect location for creative minds.
With approximately 45 professional craft workers in Angus, it is a thriving hub of creativity, producing unique, hand-made products from the inspiring; jewellery, kilt- making, knitwear; to the unusual; garden ceramics, painted stone and soap making.
Take a look at our Crafts section or find local crafts businesses by browsing through our Businesses & Organisations Search.
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For more information on the Arts and Crafts industries in Angus, take a look at Angus Crafts Association, a member organisation dedicated to fostering and promoting crafts made in the Angus area. An active Crafts Association, superb further and higher education institutions, and a strong visual arts tradition have long established the area's reputation.
The Association has an active and industrious membership, and markets jointly for enhanced impact, in addition to organising Craft Fairs at visitor attractions and public events. See also our Crafts pages for more information.
Rapid developments in technology, and expanding requirements in the visual arts and media, all contribute to the demand for expertise in visual, audio and screenwriting practices for narrative entertainment and interactive media production. With artists and craftspeople taking advantage of technological advances and the global reach of the Internet, Angus with its excellent communications and transport links, and network of small towns and friendly villages, with access to city facilities nearby, is an ideal environment for the self-employed creative person or small company.
The new media industries depend upon creative skills which can be acquired or developed in excellent courses in Angus, exploring technological, philosophical and cultural themes. Creative thinking, 2D and 3D visual studies, interactive design, audio technology, animation, cinematography and narrative structure are important new areas of development which many sectors of the business world will increasingly find essential.
Angus College is one of the most highly respected Further Education colleges in Scotland and has developed excellent access level, vocational, Higher National level,and leisure artscourses around the whole county. Find out more about Arts and Crafts Courses at Angus College.
Courses in development of artistic skills in visual, sonic, temporal and creative interactive digital art forms are also offered at the University of Abertay in Dundee. Abertay focuses strongly on the application of computer artistry in games and electronic entertainment, interactive music and audio, web and interactive design, digital media, film, TV, and animation sectors
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art - now part of Dundee University - is one of Britain's foremost higher education institutions for the study and advancement of fine art and widely varied design disciplines. The College attracts students from around the worldto its degree courses in a wide range of media, from its prestigious Fine Art and Textile Design courses to Time-based Art and Animation.
