NSCAD University

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The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design ( NSCAD ) is a Canadian art school. She has since its creation lessons in the fine and applied art and industrial design. Teachers are trained for the specialist arts education for public and private schools.

History

The NSCAD is located in the city of Halifax, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. She was one of the first independent cultural institutions in the country, founded in 1887 as the Victoria School of Art and Design ( to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria). Initiator was the British teacher Anna Leonowens, who after living in Asia - it was a private tutor of the King of Thailand Rama IV ( Mongkut ) - settled in Halifax.

The first classes took place ( at the corner of Hollis and Prins Street) in the building of Union Bank. In 1890, the school rented three rooms of the Academy Halifax and moved in 1903 to the Old National School, near the Grand Parade Square, where their location remained 54 years. In 1925, the college was renamed under the direction of the first female head teacher Elizabeth Styring Nutt in Nova Scotia College of Art and converted to a state institution in the province.

After an expansion of educational opportunities and rapidly increasing student numbers, the move of the college to new, larger building was necessary in 1957. The large, four-story Church Hall in Coburg Road (near Dalhousie University ), however, was in 1968 extended to a six-story building for studios and galleries and the university subsequently renamed Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Under the presidency of the 32 -year-old conceptual artist Garry Kennedy, the university has an international focus and recruited teachers from other countries. The German curator Kasper König was from 1972 to 1976 assistant professor at the school. In the German art historian Benjamin Buchloh followed. In 1978, Gerhard Richter as a visiting professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Courses

The university teaches and offers degrees in four departments ( divisions ) to: The " Free Art " includes the topics of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. The Department of Arts and Crafts ( crafts ) deals with ceramics, jewelry design and goldsmithing, textile design, fashion and book design. The tray design is interdisciplinary and focuses on communication and interaction in various media, as well as product design. The fourth department, the media arts, offers courses in photography, film, sound, performance, video, and interactive web pages in design and advertising and brochure advertising.

Course of studies

Undergraduate programs of NSCAD requires a four-year course in which students learn to deal with a variety of tools and techniques of wood and metal and find their personal expression in the visual representation techniques. The third and fourth year of study is the individual research in his own studio and participating in academic projects and concludes with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Older students can participate in studies off-campus program, NSCAD offers among other things, the exchange of students with art schools in fifteen countries. The Post Baccalaureate for free art and art education, two postgraduate courses, complete with a diploma.

Galleries

The university operates three public galleries. In the Anna Leonowens Gallery, named after the founder of the college, be in the weekly rhythm of work of painting and graphic arts, media arts, crafts and designs by students of the college, occasionally also shown by teachers. The curatorial preparation of exhibitions is also done by students as part of two-week projects for the thesis. The 125 exhibitions of the gallery in the center of Halifax are visited annually by over 20,000 users.

The Port Loggia Gallery is housed in an old building in the port area and with its diffuse, natural light and the exposed position overlooking the harbor area of the place of media presentations. The seeds gallery, located in the Downtown campus, the students and alumni offers the commercial marketing of their works.

Organization

The university is attended by 1010 students, support is the province of Nova Scotia. As President officiates David B. Smith (2010 ).

Well-known professors and students

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