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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
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.
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The Anna Leonowens Gallery and Treaty Space Gallery are NSCAD’s public exhibition spaces. Focused on the curatorial, artistic, and educational development of students, the gallery mounts over 125 exhibitions and over 50 events each year, attracting more than 20,000 visitors annually.
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.
Pedro Loredo pushes the boundaries of wearable design
Growing up in Mexico City, Pedro Loredo (MDes 2023) always knew he wanted to do something creative. He was interested in fashion design, but was expected to work within the parameters of the public education system—which fashion was not a part of.
After working on a series of experimental fashion projects, Pedro ultimately came to NSCAD, where he was inspired by his own experience with ADHD to research how textile design can help with emotional management for people with autism.
“I was working with textiles, so it made sense to do a version of the mood ring in that medium. I knew that a lot of people with autism have wearability triggers, but generally, they have to wear clothes (unless they just can’t), so why don’t we embed sensors in the clothing?” says Pedro.
The result led to the development of ‘smart textiles’ as part of his thesis in 2023. Pedro came up with a prototype that integrates a microcontroller and a four-frame loom to create woven textiles that can sense when a meltdown is developing.