The New Hampshire Institute of Arts (NHIA, R.I.P) has been a part of my life since early 1996, nearly 100 years after its inception, when I first studied ceramics and sculpture at the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences.
With the merger between the two institutions official, NEC will be relocating its graduate program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Concord to Lowell Hall in Manchester, as a first step toward expanding graduate offerings in the City. Additionally, the Master of Arts in Public Policy program will be relocating to the Manchester campus.
The two small colleges say the merger should take about four months to complete.
New Hampshire Institute of Art will celebrate a fundraising milestone, having successfully transformed the historic St. Anne Church in Manchester’s center city into a youth arts education lab.