Collaborative Study and an Expression of Visual Narrative in Three Dimensional (3-D) Art Form in Front of the Main Gate at the Federal College Of Education (Technical) Asaba Towards Tackling the Challenges of Poor Enrolment into the College

Abstract

This is a collaborative study and  visual narrative in three dimensional (3-d) art forms which was mounted at the main gate of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba. It was executed with a view to tackling the challenges of poor enrolment into the college. The study focused on obtaining inputs from various sampled departments in randomly selected Schools, about the design elements and symbols, that best portrays the philosophy and objectives of the programmes mounted, in the sampled Schools in the College, in order to develop preliminary sketches, working drawings. Moreover the study utilized the selected design elements and symbols, to produce a three dimensional (3-D) in front of the college gate. The researchers adopted the art-based action research and a survey to obtain information from various Departments, about the appropriateness of the design elements and symbols, that best portrayed the philosophy and objectives of the programmes mounted, in the sampled departments in the College. Furthermore, various materials, tools and the step-by-step processes were described in details. Findings revealed that the developed preliminary sketches and the working drawing reflected the philosophy and objectives of the programmes mounted, in the various departments of the college and that the selected design elements and symbols,was utilized to produce a three dimensional (3-D) sculpture-on-the-round in the front of the College main gate. It then recommended that More Tetfund research grants should be made available to sponsor similar researches in the feature, and that an assessment to ascertain the extent to which the project was able to achieve its objective should be conducted after a period of five years.