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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.

Big Draw Night: NSCAD’s two-day drawing marathon

Art history course confronts the history of contemporary art at NSCAD

Design students propose improvements to Nova Scotia colon cancer home screening program

EVENTS

Welcome Weeks
We are thrilled to welcome new students to NSCAD University! The fun continues with our Welcome Weeks events open to all students. See the full schedule.

Visual Artist Sheila Provazza discusses her experience as a scenic artist for opera and theater. Tuesday, January 21 at 1PM.

Join us at the Halifax Central Library for a public lecture with multidisciplinary artist Shary Boyle. Tuesday, January 28 at 7PM.

AT THE ANNA

Exhibitions: January 13 - 19

Woolgathering

Exhibition by Makenna Bugaliski.

Feminine Fantasy

Exhibition by Mia Hazelwood.

The Dance

Exhibition by Sydney Currie.

Frozen Focus

Exhibition by Victoria Hannam.

The entrance is the exit

Group exhibition by Jordan Bennett and BalletCollective. 

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. 

ALUMNI

I thought to myself, ‘I’m done with the digital world, I want to make things that help people in the real world.’

Titu Ayub’s artistic career started in technology and video game development, but his ambitions shifted abruptly when his computer suddenly crashed. 

 

With 14 years of his portfolio gone, Ayub began to question himself: If what he was creating truly existed in the world, shouldn’t it have some lasting value? If it could survive, shouldn’t it still be useful, even a hundred years from now?

 

Ayub started educating himself on industrial design, how to build things, and how apply graphic and 3D design. This began this life-long mission to build affordable electric boats and make them accessible to those who need it the most.

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.