Edna Manley College Visual and Performing Arts
Edna Manley College Visual and Performing Arts
The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) is known for a rich tradition of excellence in the arts, and the ONLY choice for higher education in the visual and performing arts, and arts management. The College is housed in the culturally diverse Creative City of Music – Kingston.
The College is invested in promoting the cultural diversity of the Caribbean and enriching the aesthetics sensibilities of its students through quality education and training in the visual and performing arts. With the School of Arts Management, the College further taps into the unlimited potential of the Cultural and Creative industries to bolster economies and create meaningful careers for its graduates.
Steeped in the rich cultural tradition of the Caribbean, the EMCVPA has been developing and preserving arts and culture for over six decades, beginning with the establishment of the School of Visual Arts in 1950.
To enrich the aesthetic sensibilities and promote the cultural diversity of the Caribbean through the highest quality education and training in the Visual and Performing Arts.
The Schools of Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Drama started out at different locations in Kingston but were brought together in 1976 under the aegis of the Cultural Training Centre, an arm of the Institute of Jamaica. In 1979, the schools were identified by UNESCO as pivotal institutions in the Caribbean, and have since developed as a prime agency for cultural development positioning it for the 1983 designation as the Inter-American Centre for Caribbean Cultural Development by the Organization of American State (OAS).
In 1995, all four schools were consolidated, and the institution renamed to Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in honour of Jamaica’s seminal artist, Edna Manley, OM.
Kingston, Jamaica’s capital is a paradox of worlds – quaint yet modern, gritty with an urban finish, culturally vibrant and bursting with life. Kingston is authentic and is alive with arts and culture and the EMCVPA sits in the centre of it all as the training ground for visual and performing artists and arts managers.
The Edna Manley College is committed to the following as an essential part of its purpose as an institution of higher learning:
We value diversity as part of our commitment to academic and aesthetic freedom and respect diverse opinions among faculty, staff and students
We value service as a divine gift to humanity and seek to make it a natural part of our duty to offer the highest quality to all our clients
We value innovation as the key to original thoughts and seek to bring new and innovative ideas to enhance the work of the College, as well as to create new knowledge in the visual and performing arts.
We value transparency as essential to open and accountable governance by seeking to operate in an egalitarian environment that involves all stakeholders in our decision-making.
We value commitment as vital to institutional and administrative loyalty and pledge to be committed to the ideals, mission and objectives of the College, as well as to the services in which we are engaged.
We value partnership as an important condition for stakeholders’ participation and seek to forge alliances to facilitate the development and progress of the College.
We value lifelong learning as a basic philosophy of self-renewal, scholarship and institutional growth and seek to encourage this as essential for all.
We value personal and institutional integrity, and are committed to consistent, justifiable moral and ethical principles.
We value truth as the fundamental gateway to enlightenment and human dignity, and seek to express this in our lives and imparting it to others.
We value respect for self, others and the environment as a critical self-defining element, and a source for building and maintaining good relationships and achieving success, and seek to exercise this at all times.
