NSCAD University
| NSCAD University | |
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| founding | 1887 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Halifax , Nova Scotia Canada
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| president | Dianne Taylor-Gearing |
| Students | 1028 |
| Employee | 85 |
| Networks | AUCC |
| Website | nscad.ca |
The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) is a Canadian art college based in Halifax . Since its inception, it has offered classes in fine and applied arts and industrial design . Teachers are trained in art education for public and private schools. The president is Dianne Taylor-Gearing.
history
It was one of the first independent cultural institutions in the country, founded in 1887 as the Victoria School of Art and Design (to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden anniversary ). The initiator was the British teacher Anna Leonowens , who after stays in Asia - she was the tutor of the King of Thailand Rama IV. ( Mongkut ) - settled in Halifax.
The first class was held in the Union Bank building (on the corner of Hollis and Prins Streets). In 1890 the school rented three rooms from the Halifax Academy and in 1903 moved to the Old National School , near Grand Parade Square, where it remained for 54 years. In 1925, under the direction of the first female headmistress, Elisabeth Styring Nutt, the college was renamed Nova Scotia College of Art and transformed into a provincial state institute.
After the range of courses had been expanded and the number of students rose sharply, the university had to move to larger buildings in 1957. The large, four-story Church Hall on Coburg Road (near Dalhousie University ) was expanded in 1968 to include a six-story building for studios and galleries, and the college was then renamed the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design . Under the presidency of the 32-year-old conceptual artist Garry Kennedy , the university became internationally oriented and teachers from other countries were recruited. The German curator Kasper König was an assistant professor at the school from 1972 to 1976. The German art historian Benjamin Buchloh followed . In 1978 Gerhard Richter took on a visiting professorship at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Course offer
The university teaches and offers degrees in four departments: “ Free Art ” includes the subjects of drawing, painting, graphic art and sculpture. The arts and crafts department deals with ceramics, jewelry design and goldsmithing, textile design, fashion and book design. The subject of design is interdisciplinary and aims at communication and interaction in different media as well as product design. The fourth department, media art , offers courses in photography, film, sound, performance, video, as well as in interactive website design and advertisements and brochures.
Course of study
Undergraduate programs require four years of study during which students learn to use a variety of tools and techniques made from wood and metal and to find their personal expression in visual display techniques. The third and fourth year of study are used for individual research in your own studio and participation in academic projects and conclude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . Older students can take part in off-campus studies, NSCAD offers student exchanges with art schools in fifteen countries, among other things. The Post Baccalaureate for Fine Art and Art Education, two postgraduate courses, lead to a diploma.
Galleries
The university operates three public galleries. In the Anna Leonowens Gallery , named after the founder of the university, works of painting and graphics, media art, handicrafts and design by students of the university, occasionally also by teachers, are shown on a weekly basis. The curatorial preparation of the exhibitions is also done by students as part of two-week projects for the diploma thesis. The gallery's 125 exhibitions in central Halifax attract over 20,000 visitors each year.
The Port Loggia Gallery is housed in an old building in the port area and, with its diffuse, natural lighting conditions and exposed location with a view of the port area, is the place for media presentations. The seeds gallery , located in the downtown campus, offers students and alumni the commercial marketing of their works.
organization
The university is attended by 1010 students, the provider is the province of Nova Scotia.
Well-known professors and students
- Joseph Beuys - Professor (Sculptor), Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa , 1976
- Luc Courchesne - media artist
- Gerald Ferguson - painter and conceptual artist
- Eric Fischl - Professor (Painter)
- Robert Frank , Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa , 2015
- Dan Graham - Professor (Sculptor)
- Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler , MFA 1992, Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa , 2017
- Sarah McLachlan - singer
- Kasper König - Professor (Curator)
- William James Roué - designed the Bluenose saver
literature
- Peggy Gale (Ed.): Artists Talk. 1969-1977 . The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 2004, ISBN 0-919616-40-2
- Garry N. Kennedy, Kenneth Baker, Eric Cameron, Benjamin Buchloh: NSCAD, The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design . The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1982, ISBN 0-919616-23-2
- Donald Soucy, Harold Pearse: The First Hundred Years: A History of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design , University of New Brunswick, Fredericton 1993, ISBN 0-920114-27-X
- RH Stacey: Eightytwenty: 100 years of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design , Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax 1988, ISBN 0-88871-106-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://nscad.ca/presidents-blog-sample-2/
- ↑ https://nscad.ca/presidents-blog-sample-2/
- ^ Website of NSCAD (Free Art) ( Memento from April 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of NSCAD (arts and crafts) ( Memento from April 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of NSCAD (Design) ( Memento from April 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of NSCAD (media art) ( Memento from April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )