After 22 years of practical experience in the metal and craft industry, the Accents & Art Limited (AAL), has launched the Art and Design Institute (ADI), to provide a platform for students to gain industry experience by working closely with artisans on a factory floor.
The Art & Design Institute (ADI) is the engineering and design practice hub at Accents & Art Limited (AAL).
The AAL has provided quality training and internship opportunities to hundreds of students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Takoradi & Koforidua Polytechnics and many other technical institutions across the country.
Founder, Ms. Constance Elizabeth Swaniker, told Citi News in an interview that the lack of requisite skills demonstrated by students from these institutions motivated her to envision this worthy project.
“We are setting this up as an alternative to students who would want to go into arts and design instead of going to a tertiary institution and then coming back into the field. You find a lot of students who say I studied this because my parents didn’t want me to be a fashion designer. So we created this school of international standard so that students will be able to explore their full potentials.”
Launching the institute, General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church, (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil, lauded the initiative as a venture that would go a long way in improving the artistry industry in the country.
He expressed the hope that students will be challenged to push for their dreams instead of giving up.
In November 2014, the institute graduated 120 students in health and safety, engineering, entrepreneurship and product design. It will be a first class institution where students have access to state of state-of-art tools and the right calibre of teaching staff.
The Art and Design Institute currently serve as a workshop to students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Takoradi Polytechnic and other technical institutions across Ghana.
They are involved in both metal & wood fabrication for corporate institutions and homes.
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By: Farida Shaibu/citifmonline.com