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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
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: June 2 - 8
[Down] a Glass of Sunshine
An exhibition by Glass of Sunshine / Paulina Shulga.
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An exhibition by Danielle Friesen.
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An exhibition by Mads Warnica-Powers.
Hunting the Jipijka’m – Treaty Space Gallery
An exhibition by Diane Langevin.
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.