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1. The Significance of Four, mixed media, Mary Garoutte 2. I was my baby’s home for 1 year, Jacquard weaving, Nadia Li Chai 3. Tripartite, carrara marble, Peig Abbott Traditionally we’ve had strong ties to the major international art centres, and we’re setting about renewing and strengthening those ties. The next phase of modernity in the visual arts has begun, and globality is one of its dimensions. If we are to train the world’s leading young artists, craftspeople and designers, we have to create the right material and intellectual environment for them. Paul Greenhalgh, President University Highlights N E W N A M E The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was renamed NSCAD University last September, to better reflect its status as Canada’s premier degree-granting university for the visual arts. The new name acknowledges that NSCAD has granted undergraduate and graduate degrees for more than 30 years. It also retains the acronym NSCAD, a powerful brand that is respected internationally. This is the third name change in the school’s 117-year history. NSCAD started out in 1887 as the Victoria School of Art and Design, was renamed the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1925, and became the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969. 1 2 3 W E B S I T E R E D E S I G N We now have a vibrant new face in the virtual world. In April, NSCAD University launched its new website at www.nscad.ca. The site was completely redesigned and rebuilt, to better communicate our exciting new phase of expansion and revitalization. New features include showcases of artwork by students, faculty and alumni, and profiles of artists and friends within the NSCAD community. The new site is much easier to navigate and more interactive, and is frequently updated with campus news and events and other important information. NSCAD’s Advancement office managed the year-long project and provided most of the new content. Team leaders also included John DeWolf of Public Information Design and Robert Currie of Cobalt Communications. Co&Co, a young Halifax company staffed by a number of recent NSCAD graduates, handled much of the design work. The build team included MacMillan Lynch Multimedia and subcontractors Sheer Vision Technologies Inc. Students Regan Kirkland and Scott Conarroe provided photography while Robin Ashton was the graduate student research assistant. I N T E R N AT I O N A L I N I T I AT I V E S NSCAD stepped up efforts to build on its ties to the international art world this year, with special missions to Los Angeles, London (UK), and Ulsan, Korea. This July, we joined Premier John Hamm’s Nova Scotia Trade Mission to Los Angeles, in a delegation of filmmakers, visual artists and music industry representatives. Along with profiling the province’s film locations and other cultural resources in a variety of Canada Day events, Premier Hamm said the trip’s purpose was to showcase “the level of talent that we have, much of which is directly the result of NSCAD and its success.” As a thank-you gift to Canada’s Consul-General Colin Robertson, Premier Hamm presented a vase crafted by recent MFA graduate Stephanie Rozene. Representing NSCAD were Adriane Abbott, Director of Advancement, and Deborah Carver, Executive Director of Development and Special Projects. Alumni Graeme Patterson (BFA 03) and Colleen Wolstenholme (BFA 86) were 4 N S C A D U N I V E R S I T Y A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 3 - 0 4
featured artists in an exhibition at the William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica, while Peter Bustin (BFA 84) showed work at the del Mano Gallery in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Goluch (BFA 76) also joined the group, along with representatives from the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council. From May 13 to 23, the University of Ulsan in Ulsan, Korea, hosted Nice to Meet You, a joint exhibition that was part of an ongoing exchange project with NSCAD University. It featured artworks by 15 of our Fine Arts and Photo faculty at the Hyundai Art Gallery, and work by 35 NSCAD students in a student show at Muger Gallery. Professor Kye-Yeon Son, Chair of our Craft Division, and Professor Suzanne Gauthier of the Fine Arts Division attended the opening, networked at a variety of galleries, and gave recruitment presentations at the University of Ulsan and Kookmin University in Seoul. On November 13, a special meeting of the Board of Governors was held at the V&A in London, England. It was followed by a reception attended by prominent Canadian and British artists, designers, curators, arts administrators and corporate executives. Board members covered their own costs on the trip, as part of their commitment to increasing the university’s international profile, and several students and staff also attended. The voyage was useful for developing NSCAD’s network and strengthening our exchange, fundraising and research opportunities. We also appointed our first honorary governor, Eli Avrahampour, First Vice President of Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited. Other international board members are Canadian businessman Robert Hain, of Invesco (UK) and New York resident, Mr. Harry J. Brown Jr. Associate Professors Bob Bean and Robin Muller led Media Arts and Textiles students on field trips to New York, to visit major galleries, museums, and other sites. Also, we developed a new MFA exchange program with the Sydney College of Art, University of Sydney, Australia. NSCAD offers student exchanges in 14 other countries. S P R I N G 2 0 0 4 C O N V O C AT I O N Renowned sculptor Richard Serra urged 185 graduating NSCAD students to find their own artistic voices and question conventions while drawing from the strong foundation of their art education. Considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the postwar period, Mr. Serra received an honorary doctorate and offered an inspiring convocation address at our 2004 Graduation Ceremony on April 25. “We all have a subject and it’s up to each of us to find the method to pursue it,” said Mr. Serra, who splits his time between homes and studios in New York and Cape Breton. “We are all more than we think we are and today as you graduate, this is the most optimistic sendoff I can think of.” One of Mr. Serra’s current projects is a sculpture for the new Toronto airport, scheduled to open in 2006. His work can be found in the collections of almost every major art museum in the world, including the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and London’s Tate Modern. His set of five WM prints, which relates to his 1992 Weight and Measure exhibition at the Tate, was graciously donated to NSCAD’s permanent collection by the artist. C A N A D A R E S E A R C H C H A I R NSCAD has established a Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies, with funding from the Canada Research Chair program and an infrastructure grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Dr. Darrell Varga, currently at Brock University will be appointed to the position in July 2005. Professor Varga holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University and has research interests in Canadian cinema. This appointment is particularly critical to the development of NSCAD’s Film programs, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as the proposed Master of Arts programs in Art History. Appointed to the Historical and Critical Studies Division, Dr. Varga will also work closely with the Media Arts Division, and his presence will enhance the university’s connection to a significant east coast film industry.His research will advance the study of Atlantic Canada’s cinematic arts in a global context, and hasten NSCAD’s growing momentum as a major national centre for film and cultural studies. U N I V E R S I T Y H I G H L I G H T S 5
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