Gold Winner Dalhousie Silver Winner Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Bronze Winner Mount Saint Vincent University All hail Dalhousie University, the biggest kid in the class, who dominates this category yet again with its banner-winning varsity teams, grade-A academics, first-rate research and almost 20,000 students hailing from all over the world. But, […]
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Garry Neill Kennedy: The last king of NSCAD
Is it easy to surprise Garry Neill Kennedy? Probably not. The self-described “78-and-a-half”-year-old has seen it all, from his days as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design president through his long years as university professor and artist. But students from Printed Matter at the University of British Columbia, a course he taught with […]
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NSCAD receives $3 million dollar donation
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design has received a $3-million donation, courtesy of arts advocates and philanthropists Margaret and David Fountain. The money will allow NSCAD to undertake a number of major improvements on its downtown Granville Street building, which is now renamed Fountain Campus in appreciation of the gift. Margaret Fountain, who […]
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So Shiso Shop
After six months of pop-up shops and internet temptation at shisoshop.com, Natalie Slater’s Shiso Shop has found a place to call home. The mini shop of local art and objects created made with love by local artists, designers and crafters will open this Saturday, February 1 on the second floor of 1528 Queen Street (its […]
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NSCAD sticks it to ’em
In a city ridden with universities and colleges, it’s hard for every school to share the spotlight equally. At least this is the view of many NSCAD students and alumni who often watch their school’s triumphs and newsworthy accomplishments get cast aside as the light is shone on bigger, more prominent post-secondary spots. Well, the […]
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Don’t settle
Elise Boudreau Graham’s graduate exhibition, Or Best Offer (We’ll Take What We Can Get) opened yesterday at Anna Leonowens Gallery (running to March 16) in the thick atmosphere of tension surrounding the fiscal and political situation that NSCAD University has battled since last year. A narrowly missed strike last week nearly dovetailed with Boudreau Graham’s […]
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Smooth sales at NSCAD
In the spirit of buying local, it’s your duty to peruse two of NSCAD‘s annual department show/sale hybrids. Offering an array of wonderful examples of the talent that lies between the walls of our beloved art school, these two exhibits are perfectly timed for holiday shoppers like me who are all like, “Riiiight, Christmas is […]
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Social distortion
Gabriel Parniak’s NSCAD grad show, Ice Cream Social, (opening November 26 at Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville, 5:30-7pm. Running to December 1) tries to see the good in everyone. Specifically, Parniak’s tongue-in-cheek oversized prints, drawing and sculptural pieces look at how journalistic media lumps people together in ways that only serve to keep people apart […]
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Be an artist for a day at NSCAD
NSCAD is breaking down the classroom walls and letting students and artwork shower into the streets of Halifax. On Saturday, May 12, the NSCAD Alumni Association is inviting the public to join professors and students at Sands at Salter near Bishop’s Landing. The free event is to celebrate the university’s 125th year, and show Halifax […]
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Deadline downtime
Those of you following NSCAD’s financial trials and tribulations may have noticed that March 31 came and went pretty anti-climactically. Last weekend marked the deadline for the troubled university’s board of governors to deliver their sustainability plan to Marilyn More and the Department of Labour and Advanced Education, a plan that the greater NSCAD community […]
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Haligraphika‘s prints charming
Start preparing yourself for the paper cuts you’ll sustain this month. Throwing printed matter all over your gray matter, NSCAD gives you three chances to indulge in inspiring and exciting prints. Starting with the March of Prints—an exhibition and sale of original prints by second, third and fourth-year printmaking students—bringing you lithographs, screen prints, mixed […]
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La Belle Poubelle gets trashed
Carley Hodgkinson and LeeAndra Cianci believe one artist’s trash is another artist’s treasure. Their one day only exhibit at the Dawson Printshop (Monday, March 5, 5:30pm), La Belle Poubelle is a “take on a pop-up store—in fact, a pop-up garbage dump,” says Hodgkinson. “We wanted to borrow the language of a more conventional pop-up store, […]
