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Students at NSCAD University have been shaping art, craft, media, and design in Canada since 1887. With an approach to education that includes the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engagement, students thrive in a learning and research environment that is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and academic excellence.

About NSCAD

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At NSCAD University, not only will you receive a rigorous, interdisciplinary educational experience, but you will belong to a vibrant creative community recognized globally for its impact on art, craft and design. Connecting you with award-winning faculty, you will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the creative industries, where you will become leaders, entrepreneurs, and experts in your fields.

Shary Boyle and Ed Pien, discussing their contributions to the NSCAD Lithography Workshop Contemporary Editions.

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

Kaitlyn Bourden (MFA 2014)

Featured Alumni

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Todd Saunders
BDES 1992, DFA 2016
Designer and ARCHITECT

ALUMNI

JENN GRANT
BFA 2006
SINGER-SONGWRITER

ALUMNI

URSULA JOHNSON
BFA 2006
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

ALUMNI

LARA MINJA
BDES, BFA 1993
GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND ENTREPRENEUR

ALUMNI

NSCAD EVENTS

events

NSCAD University Film Festival

Our Film Festival featuring student and alumni work will run April 24 - 26, 2023 at Cineplex Park Lane. Tickets on sale now!

NSCAD Career Week 2023

This week (March 21-24th) is NSCAD Career Week! Each day there is at least one talk or workshop in-person in the Learning Commons and available online as Zoom webinars.

Visiting Artist Talk: Anthea Black

Anthea Black will be giving a special lecture on the True Pleasure of the Book, tied to their curatorial project "Embodied Press" at the Mary E. Black Gallery. The talk will be followed by a Q+A and a short dialogue between Professors Black and Hollenbach on contemporary issues in craft theory and care.

NSCAD NEWS

Alumna Hangama Amiri talks about her first solo show in the United States

Textile artist Hangama Amiri (BFA 2012) calls New Haven, Connecticut home now, but her roots are inextricably tied to Afghanistan, which she left as a child — spending her teen years in Halifax after nearly a decade in Pakistan and Tajikistan. With the help of Heather Horsfall (BFA 1978), her art teacher at Halifax West […]

Printmaking professor Ericka Walker receives major award from the Southern Graphics Council

The award has led Walker to reflect on what it means to be a teacher. "It is important we mentor in ways that push past the methods and examples we had, in hopes of achieving something even more progressive or just.”

NSCAD Honorary Degree nomations are now open

Nominate your favourite exceptional individual by April 21! The Honorary Degree Committee is asking the NSCAD community to nominate exceptional individuals to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts (honoris causa) or the honorific Life Fellow.

Professor Jayne Wark is giving her book collection away

Dr. Jayne Wark, a Professor in the Division of Art History and Contemporary Culture, has accumulated hundreds and hundreds of books in her 33-year career as a scholar. Now in her last year at NSCAD, she is giving her book collection away to students.