Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts

The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMC) is the first institution of its kind within the English Speaking Caribbean to provide professional and technical training in the Arts, offering qualification at the Bachelor, Diploma and Certificate levels. Prior to this establishment the schools of the Arts operated separately, at different locations. In 1976 through an initiative of the Government of Jamaica, the Schools were relocated to one campus to form what was called the Cultural Training Centre (CTC). In 1983 the Organization of American States designated the institution the Inter-American Centre for Caribbean Cultural Development thus recognizing it as a regional cultural resource institution.