Fountain Campus will be closed to all access Saturday, April 19 from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. due to water line repairs. Given the holiday long weekend, no technicians or student services will be available from Friday, April 18 through Monday, April 21.
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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: April 14 - 19

There was no time, I walk alone

An exhibition by Qiuchen (Echo) Ji.

 

Solidago

An exhibition by Shay Donovan.

 

I See Myself, On My Way

An exhibition by Yue Li.

 

North of North Watch Party – Treaty Space Gallery

Join us for a screening of CBC Gem’s North of North, followed by a Q+A session and live throat singing.

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 alumna and visual artist Letitia Fraser uses painting and textiles to create multidimensional portraits.

Letitia Fraser has always been motivated to capture her personal perspective as an African Nova Scotian woman. She gathers inspiration from old family photos as well as using models to pose. She combines paint with textiles to add meaning and convey emotion with each portrait.

“My passion is to capture and honour important people in my life so others can see them through my eyes and understand how significant they are to me and to my community. It’s how we should be viewed and who we really are.”

Her work has been shown with the Portrait Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, and the Freedom Festival Art Exhibit.