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Apply for Fall 2025

Start at NSCAD this September! Applications are open for undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.

If you believe that creative ideas can build a better world, there’s a place for you here.

NSCAD has shaped visual and material culture in Canada since 1887. Our creative community continues to be recognized globally for its impact on craft, art, and design.

EVENTS

Mayhem Year-End Festival
Mayhem, NSCAD University’s year-end showcase, runs from April 5 – May 11. Come visit us and see what students from fine arts, design, film, fashion, and craft have been working on. Almost all shows are free and open to the public.

Fashion Show
Join an exclusive celebration of a brand new crop of emerging NSCAD fashion makers and jewellers. Sunday, April 27, 2025 at Alderney Landing. Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. Buy your tickets now!

Student Art Award
The Student Art Award exhibitds work by artists across nine disciplines at NSCAD university with vital visibility. The nominated works are exhibited April 23-24 at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. See the winner announced on April 24!

AT THE ANNA

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems house NSCAD’s public exhibition spaces. Its three galleries present shows by curators and professional artists, as well as our MFA Thesis and BFA graduating exhibitions. We mount over 100 exhibitions and host over 70 events a year, attracting thousands of visitors annually.  Visit the Anna Leonowens Gallery site. 

Exhibitions: May 2 - 13

Something Sentimental

2025 NSCAD Graduation Exhibition curated by Nina-Simone Kellman and Alice Shirtliffe.

 

Prayer Ties Workshop – Treaty Space Gallery

Join us this Red Dress Day (May 5) as we honour and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives with prayer tie teachings led by Jude Gerrard.

 

Red Dress Pin Workshop – Treaty Space Gallery

Join us for beading medicine and storytelling with Holly Eggleston from Fort Nelson First Nation.

ALUMNI

Our graduates are known both locally and internationally for their boundless ingenuity and intense curiosity. Alumni go on to have incredible careers—within and beyond the art world—as artists, entrepreneurs, teachers, administrators, academics, and creative professionals. Their paths may be different but there is one thing they all share, their lives were shaped by their time at NSCAD.

NSCAD alumni Brendan Tang shares his journey in ceramics

Vancouver-born NSCAD alumni, Brendan Tang, enjoys working in their home city, but his studies took him to different landscapes like Edwardsville for his MFA at Southern Illinois University, and to NSCAD University for his BFA.

 

“What drew me to the East Coast was the great studio-based, practice-based program at NSCAD,” they say.

 

Now an instructor at Emily Carr University, Tang works with multiple mediums—including a life-size Ford F150 truck constructed out of watercolour paper—but is best known for his sculptural ceramics. This is part of the reason he ended up as a judge on the inaugural season of CBC’s The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown, executive produced by recreational potter and actor Seth Rogen.