Selkirk College will close its Kootenay Studio Arts program in Nelson at the end of the academic year due to what it says are financial pressures following federal cuts to immigration.

In an Oct. 17 announcement on its website, the college stated the campus at 606 Victoria St. will be shut down.

The building houses the arts program, which will immediately suspend its intake for all of its programs including ceramics, textile arts, blacksmithing and metal arts. Ten full-and part-time positions will be lost as a result of the closure.

Starting in 1958 the Victoria Street building was home to the independent Kootenay School of the Arts, whose programs were taken over by Selkirk College in 2006.

After the closure, the college will end its lease of the building, which is owned by the City o

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