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NSCAD University re-launches Equity Census

NSCAD University has launched its 2024 Equity Census as part of the Seriously Creative Plan to strengthen its commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. This initiative will allow NSCAD to better understand the diversity within its community.

Sheilah ReStack

Sheilah ReStack’s work is a feminist investigation into photography as one of the possible modes for imagining desire, motherhood and queer family into the world.

NSCAD’s Alumni Ring is Getting a Make-over

NSCAD’s alumni ring designed by Karen Konzuk ( BFA 1997) will be updated in 2024 with a brand-new design. What will NSCAD’s alumni be wearing? The competition is open to current NSCAD Jewellery & Metalsmithing students and recent graduates (2018-2022) of the program.

NSCAD at Nocturne 2022

NSCAD University and Nocturne are a natural pairing in a creative city like Halifax. As the province’s leading cultural institution, it is no surprise that

The real history of slavery in Canada

Vritual Fellow Talks Amanda Trager, October 19, 2022, 1-2 p.m. ADT. Since founding and NSCAD’s Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, Tier 1 Canada

Sydney's hand putting a QR code on a plaque outside of the public gardens.

Difficult Histories Database

How often do you stop and reflect on where you’re standing, what difficult historical significance the space may have, or what weight its name may carry? The Difficult Histories Database (DHD) challenges us to question and look closer at the spaces we occupy and consider the impacts of the past on where we exist today. Sydney Wreaks (BFA 2020), Master of Art in Art Education student at NSCAD University, has partnered with Lucy Boyd, History and Early Modern Studies student at University of King’s College, to populate the DHD, an initiative part of the Counter Memory Activism interdisciplinary research-creation project.

hands weaving rope.

NSCAD University re-launches Equity Census

NSCAD University has launched its 2024 Equity Census as part of the Seriously Creative Plan to strengthen its commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. This initiative will allow NSCAD to better understand the diversity within its community.

Sheilah ReStack

Sheilah ReStack’s work is a feminist investigation into photography as one of the possible modes for imagining desire, motherhood and queer family into the world.

NSCAD’s Alumni Ring is Getting a Make-over

NSCAD’s alumni ring designed by Karen Konzuk ( BFA 1997) will be updated in 2024 with a brand-new design. What will NSCAD’s alumni be wearing? The competition is open to current NSCAD Jewellery & Metalsmithing students and recent graduates (2018-2022) of the program.

NSCAD at Nocturne 2022

NSCAD University and Nocturne are a natural pairing in a creative city like Halifax. As the province’s leading cultural institution, it is no surprise that

The real history of slavery in Canada

Vritual Fellow Talks Amanda Trager, October 19, 2022, 1-2 p.m. ADT. Since founding and NSCAD’s Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, Tier 1 Canada

Sydney's hand putting a QR code on a plaque outside of the public gardens.

Difficult Histories Database

How often do you stop and reflect on where you’re standing, what difficult historical significance the space may have, or what weight its name may carry? The Difficult Histories Database (DHD) challenges us to question and look closer at the spaces we occupy and consider the impacts of the past on where we exist today. Sydney Wreaks (BFA 2020), Master of Art in Art Education student at NSCAD University, has partnered with Lucy Boyd, History and Early Modern Studies student at University of King’s College, to populate the DHD, an initiative part of the Counter Memory Activism interdisciplinary research-creation project.