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Art Schools Web Extras: NSCAD Past, MFAs Present, Triennial Alumni & More

An online supplement to Canadian Art’s Art Schools issue, in print Winter 2008
The cover of Canadian Art's winter 2008 print edition focusing on art schools
The cover of Canadian Art's winter 2008 print edition focusing on art schools

The cover of Canadian Art's winter 2008 print edition focusing on art schools




Every yearbook editor knows there’s much more that goes on than can ever make it into print. So it is with Canadian Art’s Art Schools issue, which hits newsstands coast to coast on December 15, 2008. Luckily, we’ve found a home for key bonus documents on our website. Click onwards for

Photos and articles on NSCADs past, compiled to accompany Gary Michael Dault’s Winter 2008 article “NSCAD: The once and future art school.”

A who’s who slideshow guide to the Concordia and UQAM alumni and faculty featured in the acclaimed Quebec Triennial in Montreal this summer. For more on these, read Christina Bagatavicius’s take on these top schools in her article “Eastside Westside” in our print edition.

• An extensive portfolio of over works from the 10 top MFAs profiled in Leah Sandals’s print-edition article “Class of 2008”—all of whom one should keep an eye out for in the future.

• A video surveying one of the many recent Canadian shows themed on art school, “Beatrice’s Centre for Student Affairs, or How I Learned my Mother was Right about Making Art in a Prairie Town during the Rise and Fall of Grunge Music,” which focuses on graduates from the University of Manitoba and ran at InterAccess in Toronto from September 26 to November 22, 2008.

This article was first published online on December 11, 2008.

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