Huge congrats are in order for NSCAD Media Arts Division professor, video artist Jan Peacock, a winner of a 2012 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Announced yesterday in Toronto, other winners include Margaret Dragu, performance artist; Geoffrey James, photographer; Charles Lewton-Brain, artist-goldsmith (Saidye Bronfman Award); Ron Martin, visual artist; Diana Nemiroff, art gallery […]
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NSCAD president David Smith steps down
As reported today by AllNovaScotia.com, it was announced that NSCAD president David Smith will be stepping down, expected to leave May 15. The March 31 deadline given by advanced education minister Marilyn More to come to a financial solution for the university’s money troubles is still in effect. Statement from the board below: “On behalf […]
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NSCAD’s new year
NSCAD’s 125th anniversary year may not be as much of a party as it should be. On November 29 Howard Windsor released his much anticipated report on NSCAD’s financial future—titled NSCAD: Time To Act—to Marilyn More, Minister of Labour and Advanced Education, NSCAD president David Smith and chair to NSCAD board of governors Michael Donovan, […]
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Ninety Nine problems but a stitch ain’t one
Looking for some divine fashion intervention? Ninety Nine Days In, NSCAD’s intermediate fashion show, will be showcasing the collections of eleven designers Wednesday, December 14 at 8pm at the NSCAD Port Campus (1107 Marginal Road, Tickets $10 at Seeds Gallery, the NSCAD Supply Store or the door). “The name Ninety Nine Days In is because […]
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Sign and share: NSCAD petition
Put your e-signature where your mouth is and take a minute to sign this online petition for NSCAD University. http://www.change.org/petitions/keep-nscad-university-intact-and-independent
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Studio 21’s 20/21 Vision helps the NSCAD student body
Opening to the public on November 4, Studio 21 Fine Art‘s 20/21 Vision exhibit has taken up NSCAD‘s cause. For the run of the exhibition, twenty per cent of the purchase price of any artwork sold will be donated to NSCAD University’s Studio 21 Aspiring Artist Fund, a fund which provides scholarships to promising students. […]
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Save NSCAD
NSCAD University, Canada’s oldest fine art degree granting university, is up against it and needs your help. The Friends of NSCAD University (“an ad hoc group of group of faculty, staff and alumni created to promote the continued existence of NSCAD University as one of Canada’s leading autonomous art and design institution,”) have circulated a […]
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NSCAD grads get rad
[image-1] This Thursday, May 5 at 7pm, come bask in the warming glow of the Starfish Student Art Awards finalists for 2011, Veronika Horlik, Alexander Forbes, Rob P. Blair, Clair Hipditch, Amanda Memme, Ambera Wellman, Eliot Wright, Heath Simpson, Ted Higney and Alissa Kloet. The winners will be announced at that evening’s gala reception at NSCAD University’s Port Campus, 1107 Marginal Road. Tickets are $75/person. To purchase them online via PayPal, click the “Starfish event” button on the NSCAD homepage. You can also reserve tickets by e-mailing jzimmer@nscad.ca. Proceeds from the gala will be applied to the President’s Student Success
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Et Too, Unit II?
Ann Pocket’s “Urban Animals – Part Two: Rabbits…” (detail) To an outsider, the group’s name, Unit II, has an air of mystery to it. “And we are very mysterious,” says one of its members, Tonia DiRisio, playing along. The Anna Leonowens Gallery director is among more than 30 technical staff at NSCAD exhibiting work in […]
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NSCAD students go flying
As you’re lugging that overstuffed bag through Robert Stanfield International Airport, take a breather and check out maquettes from NSCAD’s Sculptural Propositions class (located conveniently just past the Burger King). Led by Steve Higgins, eight students imagined a public sculpture for the airport, taking into consideration appropriate materials and budgets. Above: a piece by Jessica […]
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Best Pressed
“There was a potential threat of NSCAD surrendering our type library and our equipment to another institution,” explains graphic designer, NSCAD grad and Letterpress Gang member Katie Tower. “It was getting used but there wasn’t really enough classes to make it useable by a lot of people.” The Letterpress Gang first met in the fall […]
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CTV reports NSCAD’s financial difficulties
NSCAD’s waterfront campus Last night, as I groggily analyzed Bruce Frisko’s tie on the ATV 11pm news (note to news writers: referring to “starving artists” is as cliche as saying that TV hosts are shallow), he surprised me with a piece about NSCAD University and their current financial situation. The school isn’t saying anything, but provincial (operating costs) and municipal (heritage capital costs) governments confirmed that the school is looking for a major financial injection. Dartmouth councillor Gloria McCluskey suggested that perhaps NSCAD shouldn’t have opened their waterfront campus, which was a major expansion and cost for the school in