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  College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Examples are St John's College at the University of Sydney and Emmanuel College at the University of Queensland.
It is also used by tertiary institutions as either part of their names, such as Shue Yan College; to refer to a constituent part of the university, such as the colleges in the collegiate Chinese University of Hong Kong; or to a residence hall of a university, such as St.
The term "college" in Singapore is generally only used for pre-university educational institutions called "Junior Colleges", which provide the final two years of secondary education (equivalent to sixth form in English terms or grades 11-12 in the American system).
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 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), HALIFAX, was established in 1887, largely through the efforts of its founder Anna LEONOWENS.
In 1925 it was incorporated by Provincial Charter as the Nova Scotia College of Art.
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design collaborates in the delivery of a Bachelor of Education: Visual Arts Specialist degree awarded by Mount Saint Vincent University.
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 Alberta College of Art and Design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) is located in Calgary on the North Hill overlooking the Bow River and the downtown skyline, in a 245,000 square foot (23,000 m²) building designed to house the college in 1973.
The Alberta College of Art and Design is one of only four degree-granting, publicly-funded Art and Design colleges in Canada, the others being the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.
Originally part of the Provincial Institute of Technology and Arts (now SAIT), the Alberta College of Art, as it was then known, separated from SAIT in 1985 to become designated by the Alberta Government as an entirely autonomous and free-standing Art and Design college within the public sector.
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 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) is a post-secondary art school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
NSCAD was founded in 1887 as the Victoria School of Art and Design by Anna Leonowens of "Anna and the King of Siam" fame.
It was named the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1925, and "Design" was reintegrated into its name in 1969.
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 NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA - UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The act which established the College in 1887 challenged the institution to improve "the condition of artistic education in such city and elsewhere throughout the province." The College has been further guided by the conviction that it must remain aware of the ideas and professional standards of contemporary art and design world-wide.
The College plays a unique role in Canada and is recognized internationally for its educational innovations and its concern with the visual arts and design of today.
The programs of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design are intended to provide students with the best possible access to the visual arts community, and to prepare students to enter professional life as artists, communication designers, and art educators.
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 Artists
After studying graphic design in the 1980's, she moved to the west coast of Canada to further her studies,and graduated from the Victoria College of Art in 1995.
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1955 and graduated with a Bachelor of Design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1977.
Eve Hartling was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1966.In 1991, she began the fine arts program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she studied under Gerald Ferguson and Garry Kennedy.
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 The Directory of Canadian Universities - NSCAD University
One of Canada’s oldest independent cultural institutions, NSCAD University continues to be regarded as a principal centre for education and research in visual culture in North America.
A prerequisite to further study, these two semesters are designed to lay the groundwork for a wide variety of artistic practices, principles, approaches and issues.
NSCAD has a travel subsidy fund to assist students with travel expenses related to their studies.
www.aucc.ca /can_uni/our_universities/nscad_e.html   (706 words)

  
 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, public, coeducational institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Art Center College of Design, private, coeducational institution in Pasadena, California.
Alberta College of Art and Design, public, coeducational institution in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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 NC State University | College of Design | People
MFA and BFA degrees from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, as well as a diploma from the Sheridan College School of Craft and Design in Mississauga, Ontario.
Plume is currently an Assistant Professor in Art and Design at the College of Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C..
She was the Head of the Textiles Studio at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, N.B. (1999 — 2001) and Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Fibres Programme of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec (1995-1998).
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 Nova Scotia Overview - Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Programs are designed to help students acquire the skills, knowledge, attitudes and habits necessary to enter and progress in their chosen occupations.
In Nova Scotia and throughout Canada, a degree-granting institution is usually called a university.
Nova Scotia's universities offer a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in all the liberal arts and basic sciences, business, education, child studies, computer science, engineering, medicine, dentistry, nursing, law, public administration, public relations, oceanography and so forth.
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 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - Featured on UC411.com
Located in restored historical buildings in the downtown waterfront area of Halifax, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design is internationally recognized.
A NSCAD education is distinguished by attention to diverse academic and practical concerns in a studio environment.
The college fosters close creative relationships among artists, craftspersons, designers, planners, academics and the public at large and assumes leadership in the regional, national and international cultural community.
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 Art Work
She received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2001).
Chrystal Clements holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is an Associate of the College in Graphic Design.
Fisk holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (1997).
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 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design is located in HALIFAX, N.S. It was founded in 1887 by Anna LEONOWENS and achieved university status in 1969 to become the first degree-granting art school in Canada.
The college offers bachelor's degrees in fine arts, design, and arts.
It also offers master's degrees in fine arts and art education, and diplomas in fine art and graphic design.
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 Thistle Dance Publishing Artists
Brought up in a house his paternal grandfather built in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, in the 1880's, he is a recorder of a fast vanishing way of life and a recounter of tales which, without him to tell them, would soon be forgotten.
However, NSCAD was entering its conceptual phase with the result that Neville may have felt like a fish out of water, coming, as he did, from a relatively unsophisticated background and faced with a highly intellectual, international atmosphere.
For John Neville, artistic assimilation of his urban art training with the strong visual imagery derived from an archaic way of life was achieved through formal abstraction and development of a personal rhythmic line.
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 ARTBIOS
His interest in Celtic design began more than a decade ago, but it was not until the early nineties that he became focused on a series of drawings he describes as "iconographic" in the way they are "a visible sign of an invisible reality".
Onni Nordman is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was a nominee for the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship at Yale.
She is a co-founder of the Cobequid Art School and Signatures Gallery of Fine Art, and presently provides art expression programming at the Springhill Institution, the Nova Institution for Federally Sentenced Women, and the Institute for Early Childhood Education.
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 NSCAD Design - Undergraduate Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A: The Honours Major in Communication Design was created for the student who wants a professional career as a communication designer and who intends to pursue accreditation by the GDC (Society of Graphic Designers of Canada).
The Major in Interdisciplinary Design is a general program that emphasizes design process and problem-solving in a range of design-related fields, such as interactive design, three-dimensional design and print media.
The International Major is for the design student who would like to travel, learn a new language, live in a different cultural milieu and go to school at one of Mexico's top private universities.
www.nscadesign.ca /pages/undergraduate_studies.html   (421 words)

  
 Canada Colleges >> Nova Scotia College of Art and Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
One of North America’s first art schools, NSCAD University is also one of its finest.
NSCAD University is a university of the visual arts singularly dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the training of professional practitioners, in the conducting of research and in the production of works of art in all media.
NSCAD University employs 85 regular full- and part-time faculty, more than 50 sessional and individual course instructors, 30 educational resource personnel and large numbers of guest speakers.
www.canadacolleges.ca /portal/cc/content/299.html   (256 words)

  
 University of San Diego Art Department
Artist db smith was born in Toronto Canada in 1965, and graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1992 with a BFA in sculpture.
Currently, Smith is Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of San Diego, and the Chair of the Department of Art.
Saba Oskoui studied art at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Oregon where she completed her BFA and MFA.
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 Allan McCollum Lecture | The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design is pleased to announce the fourth of this year's Public Lecture Series Speakers, Allan McCollum.
The College has a long-standing tradition of inviting visitors and guests to the campus to enhance the creative and critical education and research opportunities for its students, faculty, and interested members of the public.
The College gratefully appreciates the generous contribution of the Craig Foundation, and support by the Canada Council for the Arts for making the 2001-2002 Public Lecture Series possible.
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 Cliff Eyland
It would be impossible to do a comprehensive Nova Scotia College of Art & Design alumni exhibition, but it is possible to initiate a series of shows which bring attention to problems of influence, education and professional art in a Nova Scotia College of Art & Design context.
There is no Nova Scotia College of Art and Design house style and no distinguishing school look; neither is there a secret code -- a kind of Masonic language or secret handshake -- that allows initiates to distinguish some Nova Scotia College of Art & Design sensibility in an art object.
Klabunde, however, choose the gallery of an architecture school (at the Technical University of Nova Scotia where I was curator at the time) to show work which mocked the conventions of architectural representation in several ways, most notably in juxtapositions of immense drawings an tiny objects.
www.umanitoba.ca /schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/alum.html   (3153 words)

  
 Nova Scotia -- Canada's Education Province | NSCAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
One of Canada's oldest independent cultural institutions, NSCAD University continues to be regarded as a principal center for visual culture in North America.
NSCAD University fosters close relationships among artists, designers, academics and the public, and takes on leadership responsibilities in the regional, national and international art communities.
As the university embraces the new century, it is maintaining and intensifying traditional arts and crafts while incorporating the many new technologies shaping the visual world.
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 Art, Fine Arts Graduate Programs in Canada
Designed to emphasize the close relationships between art forms, the MFA program is dedicated to fostering creativity through interdisciplinary explorations, studio training and the integration of new technoologies in the fine and performing arts.
Successful applicants typically have an undergraduate degree, substantial training in at least one art discipline, evidence of an active art practice, and a clear interest in interdiciplinary experimentation and the interrelationships among the arts.
Designed to emphasize the close relationships between art forms, the MFA program is dedicated to fostering creativity through interdisciplinary explorations, studio training and the integration of new technologies in the fine and performing arts.
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 DerekMartin.ca :: Derek Martin's Space in The Voodoo Ether :: Friends
Update 1 -- Ben is now doing his masters in fine art at the school of the art institute in chicago, where he is living in his nice studio space.
He is the one responsible for various altered Nike signs in the chicago subway system :) Original text -- Ben Skinner was born in Petrolia Ontario, and studied art at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Inspired by designs of William Morris, he is currently moving with the flower theme to more graphic flat ‘wallpaper’ type designs.
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 KODAK: Campus Beat - Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) - Halifax, Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On October 3 and 4, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design will hold an Open House to exhibit and celebrate a whole block of downtown historic buildings in Halifax that the College recently bought in July to house their classrooms, studios, and most recently their brand new film department.
Located in a building that was a former nightclub called JJ Rossy's, the department will keep the bar itself to use as a prop in their studio.
The school is getting a lot of local support and encouragement from key industry players such as the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation and the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op.
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 StFX Department of Art | Faculty
Sharon Gregory studied painting and printmaking at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and art history at the University of Calgary and Queen’s University in Kingston.
From 1983 to 1997 she was vice-president of College Grant Pottery, a fine porcelain production studio in Antigonish County, and is presently a principal in Redgull Incorporated, a multi-faceted media and environmental design studio.
Tetu has had eight solo art exhibitions and her detailed botanical studies of insects and birds were exhibited at the Botanical Gardens in Montreal and the Frederiksberg Botanical Gardens in Copenhaen, Denmark.
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 richardmueller.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
RICHARD MUELLER is an artist and Associate Professor in Historical and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
His training includes studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Maryland Institute of Art and Design, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
His art practice engages a wide range of media from drawing and digital imaging to sculptural objects in glass and other materials.
www.richardmueller.ca   (271 words)

  
 KODAK: Campus Beat - Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Printer Friendly Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Although the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design just recently started a film degree program, they have been training filmmakers for 25 years through their media arts classes in sound, video, and film.
In The Hanging Garden, the characters begin to symbolize various types of flora amidst the lush imagery of the beautiful Nova Scotia countryside and gardens.
Up in Nova Scotia, David Middleton and James MacSwain taught a 16mm film course that exposed me to directing a film set for the first time, and I learned how much I enjoy telling other people what to do.
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