Digital Arts Training Center Relocates To Danbury
Digital Arts Training Center Relocates To Danbury
WATERBURY ââ Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) has relocated its advanced training center for digital arts to downtown Danbury.
NVCCâs collaborative project with the Digital Arts Training Association (DATA) will reopen on November 1 at 12 Crosby Street. The training facility was formerly housed in Danbury on Sugar Hollow Road at the Putnam Imaging Center, which moved to a new location earlier this year.
Starting next month, more than two dozen classes will be offered in digital publishing, imaging, illustration, animation, 3D design, and other specialized topics. Students may sign up for individual courses to enhance their technology skills on an as-needed basis, or work toward a proficiency certificate in digital publishing, Web design, interactive design or video production.
âThis new facility is going to allow us to offer twice as many classes than we were able to before,â said Ingrid McGowan, director of Learning Enterprises in NVCCâs Division of Continuing Education. The larger accommodations will increase instructional space to two Macintosh labs, one PC lab and a multipurpose room.
In addition to digital arts training, the new center will provide instructional space for the collegeâs Center for Business and Industry Training. Working with large and small companies, CBIT offers a variety of workforce training programs and services, including professional development, computer skills, communications, and manufacturing skills.
The building also will house the continuing education divisionâs English as a Second Language program. Three levels of reading and writing courses and two levels of conversation courses will be offered in the spring, and plans are underway to establish an ESL Academy.
Digital arts classes range from one-day workshops to five consecutive sessions. Registration for upcoming classes is underway. For more information or to receive a revised schedule of classes, (ESL) call the NVCC/DATA hotline at (203) 575-8053 or email Teri Smith at tsmith@nvcc.commnet.edu.