back to school   :   SEPTEMBER 2013

school of restoration arts

DIPLOMA PROGRAM IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION

willowbank’s full-time three-year program


  • for those who love working with their hands as well as their minds
  • discover the process of bringing new life to old places
  • a tangible hands-on connection to materials and methods
  • engage both the academic and apprenticeship traditions
  • discover continuity between past, present and future
  • respect contemporary methods while embracing traditional wisdom
  • integrate the conservation of natural and cultural resources
  • distrust in authority but trust in skill
  • level the playing feild
  • commit to richly layered places and richly layered communities
  • work with the best practitioners from Canada and further afield
  • explore new modes of teaching and learning