The National College of Arts (colloquially known as NCA) is a

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located in

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, Pakistan.

Overview

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. As of 2016, the college is ranked as Pakistan's top art school. It consists of over 700 students. The college runs faculty and student exchange programs with

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and the

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. It also hosts the

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in architecture.

History

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The institute was originally founded in 1876 as ''Mayo School of Industrial Arts'' and was one of the two art colleges created by the

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in reaction to the Arts & Crafts Movement. It was named in honor of the recently assassinated British

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in 1876.

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became the school's first principal who was also appointed as the first

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of the

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which opened the same year in an adjacent building. In 1958, the school was renamed as the National College of Arts. Designated the premier art institution in the country, it was transferred to the

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from the Ministry Industries in the 1960s. It received a degree-awarding status in 1985 and created its first graduate programs in 1999. In 2011, the college received its own

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and became a degree awarding institute (DAI).Nadeem Omar Tarar, From Primitive Artisan to Modern Artists, Colonialism, Culture and Art Education in Punjab, South Asian Studies
retrieved on September, 2011

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

* Department of Fine Arts * Department of Design ** Visual Communication Design ** Ceramics Design ** Industrial Design ** Textile Design * Department of Film and Television * Department of Architecture * Department of Musicology * Department of Cultural Studies

GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

* Master of Visual Art * Master of Interior Design * Master of Multimedia Art * Mphil in Cultural Studies

Notable alumni

Murtaza Jafri Murtaza Jafri (born 7 March 1958) is a Pakistani painter, draftsman, sculptor and art-educator. He is also principal/Vice Chancellor of National College of Arts, Lahore, a post he has been holding since August 2013. Jafri has been teaching art ...

- Painter and Sculptor *

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- Artist and Curator *

Salima Hashmi Salima Hashmi ( ur, ; born 1942) is a Pakistani painter artist, former college professor, anti-nuclear weapons activist and former caretaker minister in Sethi caretaker ministry. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of Nati ...

- Artist and Educator *

Shahzia Sikander Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-American visual artist. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video. Sikander currently lives ...

- Artist * Faisal Qureshi - Actor and humorist *

Ammar Aziz Ammar Aziz is a Pakistani documentary filmmaker and poet. He's a recipient of the International Federation of Film Critics Award. His debut feature length film A Walnut Tree had its world premiere at IDFA and North American premiere at Hot Docs ...

- Filmmaker and poet *

Anila Quayyum Agha Anila Quayyum Agha (born 1965, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani–American cross-disciplinary artist. Agha explores social and gender roles, global politics, cultural multiplicity, and mass media within drawing, painting, and large-scale inst ...

- Artist *

Satish Gujral Satish Gujral (25 December 1925 – 26 March 2020) was an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist and writer of the post-independent era. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in 1999. His el ...

- Artist *

Affan Waheed Affan Waheed ( ur, ) is a Pakistani television actor, model and RJ. He is best known for his roles as Musaf in '' Aik Pal'' (2014), Atif in '' Khamoshi'' (2017)'','' Shafay in ''Bay Dardi'' (2018), and as Badar in ''Do Bol'' (2019). Waheed wil ...

- Artist/Actor

Rawalpindi sub campus

The college established its second campus in

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...

in 2005.

References

External links

NCA official website
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