ecole nationale supć©rieure des arts visuels de la cambre
Friends of La Cambre was created in 1979. A non-profit association, it organizes
events and study trips, and helps support young graduates by creating an annual
prize. Link to the document Voyage Henry van de Velde and the Bauhaus.pdf
President's word “In any form of social life, the status of the artist provides
a good criterion for evaluating the general state of culture. »John Dewey The
idea of an association of Friends of La Cambre goes back to the foundation of
the school which was then called the Higher Institute of Decorative Arts. We are
in February 1928. The present association is more recent since it was born in
1979 with a similar object, to support the creation (the investigation) and the
pedagogy of the school by its contribution in material and immaterial means. We
have this ambition, to support students in carrying out exceptional projects, to
support them, more modestly but no less necessarily, in carrying out experiments
linked to the school's pedagogies. Other supports can be envisaged, of a social
nature for example. What are the Friends of La Cambre made of? They are women
and men who have the desire to be linked to the beginning of something that
takes shape in the act of creation, who have the desire to offer their own means
to its realization by being present because they believe in vita nova (there is
creation only because there is life). They are women and men driven by
intranquility, who know the fragility of the creative gesture. These are women
and men who have decided to accompany the paths of expression, because are we
ever sure to say, to show, what we want to say, to show? A school is first and
foremost a place of meetings, experiments and therefore exchanges. The Friends
of La Cambre can be a part of this place. They are able to bring this unique
place that is the school into contact with other worlds, not to be their "sound
echo", but to bring something different.
