On Monday, the Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) and NextFab marked the launch of a partnership between the two organizations.
DCAD is Delaware’s independent professional art and design college and offers associate of fine arts degrees in animation, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, interior design and photography.
DCAD is located at 600 N. Market St. in downtown Wilmington. For further details, visit dcad.edu. The institution has been in downtown Wilmington for two decades and was an early player in revitalization efforts in the area.
NextFab, based in Philadelphia, is a network of membership-based makerspaces.
Entities that included the City of Wilmington, Wilmington Renaissance Corp. and the State of Delaware worked with NextFab in expanding to Wilmington.
NextFab provides space makers, artisans and hardware entrepreneurs to turn ideas into products and businesses.. NextFab’s instructors and consultants span disciplines including engineering, arts, business and science. For further details, visit nextfab.com.
The Wilmington location in downtown is the newest of three operated by NextFab.
The partnership provides NextFab memberships to all full and part-time DCAD faculty members so that they may use the makerspace to develop ways of integrating the latest in technology and innovation into DCAD’s curricula while also furthering their own development as practicing artists, a release stated.
Future phases will include field trips to NextFab so students may use the equipment, software and instruction to complete class projects and the provision of full NextFab memberships to all degree-program students.
