If you believe that creative ideas can build a better world, there’s a place for you here.

NSCAD has shaped visual and material culture in Canada since 1887. Our creative community continues to be recognized globally for its impact on craft, art, and design.

EVENTS

Make Your Mark - Grad Ring Day
Learn how to make your very own custom NSCAD Grad Ring to celebrate your academic achievement.. Thursday,  March 26, 9 –11 a.m. & 1 – 4 p.m. in G219, Fountain Campus. We are also holding an Alumni Ring Design Challenge!!

NSCAD Design Shift Awards 2026 presented by Verecan
The NSCAD Design Shift Awards 2026 are officially open for submissions! We are looking for design that acts as an agent of change with the theme “Catalyzing Future-Forward Design." Deadline: Friday, March 27.

AT THE ANNA

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems house NSCAD’s public exhibition spaces. Its three galleries present shows by curators and professional artists, as well as our MFA Thesis and BFA graduating exhibitions. We mount over 100 exhibitions and host over 70 events a year, attracting thousands of visitors annually.  Visit the Anna Leonowens Gallery site. 

Exhibitions: March 23-29

Wintering: The Art of Radical Slowness

Radical Curating Class of 2026.

 

September

An MFA Thesis Exhibition by Nour El Sabeh.

cohen’s crown jewels

An exhibition by Abby Spooner.

 

Surface Tension: Selected Monoprint Work

An exhibition by Chris P. Sampson.

 

 

ALUMNI

Our graduates are known both locally and internationally for their boundless ingenuity and intense curiosity. Alumni go on to have incredible careers—within and beyond the art world—as artists, entrepreneurs, teachers, administrators, academics, and creative professionals. Their paths may be different but there is one thing they all share, their lives were shaped by their time at NSCAD.

Fashion grad Xinhao Wang in Vogue Runway

Fashion designer Xinhao Wang (BFA 2024) was recently featured in the pages of Vogue Runway for his collection of elegant tennis-inspired menswear, developed as a graduation project at London College of Fashion.

While Xinhao says he learned more about the fashion industry in his post-graduate work, he credits his time at NSCAD for teaching him the characteristics of fabric and how to experiment with textiles as part of the design process.

Xinhao checked in from his latest project to talk more about his time at NSCAD, his latest collection and how his fashion career is evolving.