Top: Professor Robert Bean presents Evan Rensch (MFA 2015) with his Governor General’s Gold Medal in Toronto. Also pictured: Ann Thomas, Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Canada; Angela Grauerholz, winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Photography Award; and Ed Burtynsky. Left: Desbarats & Leggo, brooch by Pam Ritchie.
Antonio, Texas and Accessibility By Design, Vulpes Bastile Gallery, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a visiting artist at the Royal College of Art in London (June 2015), lectured at the Norwegian Artistic Research Program in Kristiansand, Norway (Oct. 2015), and at the Dalhousie School of Architecture (Feb. 2016). He is completing Porøs, an installation that addresses a question of a typologic form that is neither landscape nor building. Awarded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program for the Arts, Porøs follows the tradition of grottos as an artistic expression. The research will culminate in an exhibition at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona in the fall of 2017.
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Vice President, Academic and Research, Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff, co-wrote an article with James Blustein, “alt. hypertext: an early social medium” in Social Media Archeology & Poetics (MIT Press, 2016); presented the conference paper with Dr. Cameron McFarlane, “Eugene Aram: A Fraud, A Fiction, A New Form” as part of VSAO/ACCUTE: Victorians Faking It – Fraud in Form and Fiction at the SSHRC Congress, Calgary, AB in May 2016; and gave a demo (with James Blustein and Daniel Yule), “Return to the Native: From NLS/ Augment to HTML 5” at ACM Hypertext 2016, Halifax, NS in July 2016. Max Haiven, assistant professor, Art History and Critical Studies, had an active year of research, writing and
international travel. He published several articles about the relationship between art and money and artists who use money as a medium of creative expression. For the second time, Haiven taught a well-attended NSCAD course (Introduction to Material Culture) at the Halifax Central Library, which was open to the public for the first hour. He also delivered keynote addresses in Berlin, Amsterdam and Cambridge (UK) and travelled to Melbourne, AU to lead a master class on the relationship between culture and finance. He continues to program public film screenings, lectures and workshops with the Halifax-based Radical Imagination Project and once again curated NSCAD’s “Research Hangouts” seminar series.
Will Robinson is shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award
ME Sparks is the winner of the Nancy Petra Prize
NSCAD University Annual Report 2015–2016
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NSCAD’s Academy Building is open for visitors during Doors Open Halifax