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

Public Lecture: Jesse Jones
This talk will focus on the role of the “Witch” archetype in Jesse Jones’s work and how it has evolved in recent years. Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 7PM. Halifax Central Library

Holiday Craft Market
NSCAD’s Annual Holiday Craft Market is just around the corner. Shop local, handcrafted goods, fine art, textiles, ceramics and more from over 40 student vendors. Saturday, November 29 from 11 a.m. NSCAD Port Campus.

Rise Symposium
The Rise Symposium brings together Black artists, thinkers, and cultural workers in a dynamic gathering that uplifts stories rooted in lived experience and collective knowledge. December 8–12, 2025, NSCAD Academy Campus.

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. 

November 10 - 23

Time Will Remember Us

A film exhibition curated by Nour El Sabeh. Supported by Lebanese Diasporic Atlantic, Curating Change, and SSHRC.

 

In the Deep and On the Shoulders of Giants

An exhibition by J. ARMSTRONG.

 

Performing Nature

A group exhibition by NSCAD Lands and Parks.

 

Sara Wonnacott

An exhibition by Sara Wonnacott. 

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.

Fashion, theatre and sculpture collide at Musée du Louvre.

For Max Newroth (BFA 1992), the chance to work on a large-scale performance art piece at the Musée du Louvre in Paris goes down in his books as a dream come true.

When celebrated Broadway producer and artist Jordan Roth approached Max’s New York multidisciplinary design / build firm, Factioned, with the idea for Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty – a performance that combined fashion, theatre and sculpture, set on the grounds of the Louvre during Paris Fashion Week – the entire team, including Max, reveled in the chance to stretch their design and fabrication skills.