
NSCAD UNIVERSITY
Halifax, Canada
Particular: Details
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Established: 1887
Total Students: 632
Percentage of International Students: 6%
- NSCAD is ranked 8421 in the world rankings and 133 in the country ranking by webometrics.
- The university is officially accredited and recognized by the Department of Labour and Advanced Education, Nova Scotia.
- NSCAD is of the oldest post-secondary art schools in Canada.
- It offers special programs for teenagers and adults
NSCAD offers bachelor’s degrees in Fine Art (BFA), Design (BDes), and Art History (BA). It also offers Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design degrees at the graduate level.
Faculties
There are 3 campuses with each campus offering different divisions. The campuses are:
The Fountain Campus: This campus offers four divisions.
- Craft
- Design
- Fine Arts
- Media Arts
The Port Campus: This campus is built recently, which houses many of NSCAD’s industrial program components like sculpture studios, a wood shop, metal shop, and product design and ceramics studios. This campus offers 3 divisions:
- Craft
- Design
- Fine Arts
The Academy Campus: This campus is just a short walk away from the main Fountain Campus. It offers Media Arts division.
There is no on campus housing available at NSCAD University. It, however, accommodates its students at the residences of University of King’s College, Saint Mary’s University, Atlantic School of Theology and Granville Hall.
- Vikky Alexander – artist
- Jaime Angelopoulos – sculptor
- Jennifer Angus – artist
- David Askevold – artist, faculty
- Bruce Barber – faculty
- Thomas Bezanson – pottery
- Dara Birnbaum – artist, faculty
- Jennifer Bolande – artist
- Benjamin H. D. Buchloh – editor, art historian
- Cassils – performance artist
- Audrey Dear Hesson – artist and the school’s first black graduate
- Cliff Eyland – artist
- Gerald Ferguson – artist, faculty
- Michael Fernandes – artist
- Eric Fischl – painter and sculptor
- Robert Frank – photographer, faculty
- Wendy Geller – video artist
- Parris &Chloé Gordon – co-owners of Chloécomme Parris
- April Gornik – painter
- Hedwig Gorski – performance poet and artist
- Lonnie Graham – photographer
- Jenn Grant – singer/songwriter
- Susanna Heller – painter
- Steven Holmes – curator
- Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler – artists
- LibbeHubley – Canadian senator[19]
- Ursula Johnson – artist, Sobey Award winner 2017
- John Kahrs – Academy Award-winning director of Paperman
- Garry Kennedy – faculty
- Laura Kipnis – media critic
- Micah Lexier – artist
- Arthur Lismer – artist
- Deirdre Logue – artist
- Toshiko MacAdam – textile artist
- Bruce MacKinnon – editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald
- Kerri MacLellan – musician
- Christopher Manson – children’s book author/illustrator
- Kelly Mark – sculptor, conceptualist
- Sarah McLachlan – singer/songwriter
- Sandra Meigs – artist
- Lisa Moore – writer
- Chris Murphy – musician
- Jimmy Rankin – singer/songwriter
- Julia Rivard – athlete, designer
- William James Roué – designed the Bluenose schooner
- Andrew Scott – musician
- Peter Soucy – comedian
- Michael Snow – artist, filmmaker, faculty
- Tanya Tagaq – singer/songwriter
- Monica Tap – artist, educator
- Krzysztof Wodiczko – artist, faculty
- Laurel Woodcock – artist and academic
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