Our Mission

NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design) is an immersive, rigorous and supportive academic community where members are known and celebrated for their creativity and differences. Through active inquiry we identify, define and approach the complexities of our world, challenge conventional thinking, and create value and economic impact through art, media, craft and design.

Our Vision

Informed by the past, engaged by the present, looking to the future, and guided by the intention to make positive change, NSCAD University is a beacon to those who seek to know the world as it is and to create what it might be. 

About NSCAD University

NSCAD offers several graduate and undergraduate degrees, and is home to the Anna Leonownes Gallery, the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, the Creative Entrepreneurship Lab, and the Centre for Inter-Media Arts and Decolonization. Our alumni works in creative roles in over 50 countries around the world.

Gifts to NSCAD University support the next generation of creative thinkers. Your support enables the university to transform the aspirations and values of our students by offering an exceptional art, media, craft, and design education.

Donors  ensure NSCAD is accessible to all talented students by providing financial support through bursaries and scholarships, maintaining and improving facilities, and keeping up-to-date with specialized equipment. Annual undesignated gifts, in particular, give the university flexibility to allocate funds to areas of greatest need.

Gifts to the university are also an indication of active and engaged alumni — a material endorsement for the specialized programs that have launched so many careers over NSCAD’s remarkable history that began in 1887. Through outright donations, endowments, bequests and other forms of planned giving, donors contribute to NSCAD’s excellence now and for the future of this unique university, situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia.