19 Notable alumni of
NSCAD University
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NSCAD University is 2109th in the world, 718th in North America, and 44th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from NSCAD University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sarah McLachlan
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- singer-songwriterpianistauthorguitaristfilm producer
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Sarah Ann McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album is Surfacing (1997), for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. She has won three Grammy and twelve Juno Awards in total, and is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians.
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Tagaq
- Occupations
- visual artistfilm directorsingerthroat singer
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Tanya Tagaq CM, also credited as Tagaq, is a Canadian Inuk throat singer, songwriter, novelist, actor, and visual artist from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island.
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Laura Kipnis
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- video artistessayistwriter
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Laura Kipnis is an American cultural critic, essayist, educator, and former video artist. Her work focuses on sexual politics, gender issues, aesthetics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays. She is professor of media studies at Northwestern University in the department of radio-TV-film, where she teaches filmmaking. In recent years she has become known for debating sexual harassment, and free speech policies in higher education.
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Kirby Dick
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Kirby Bryan Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best known for directing documentary films. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith (2005) and The Invisible War (2012). He has also received numerous awards from film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Jenn Grant
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
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Jenn Grant is a Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Chris Hegedus
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- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Chris Hegedus is an American documentary filmmaker. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films.
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Andrew Scott
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriter
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Andrew Walter Gibson Scott is a Canadian musician. Primarily a drummer, he has been a member of the band Sloan since 1991.
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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril MSC is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, in 2017 in recognition of her work as an activist and filmmaker. She currently works part-time at the Qanak Collective, a social project which supports Inuit empowerment initiatives.
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Hedwig Gorski
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- writerchoreographerpoetfilm director
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Hedwig Irene Gorski is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed to her. It originated in press releases for experimental spoken word and conceptual theater Gorski created during 1979. She is a first-generation Polish American academic scholar and accomplished creative writer. The innovative poetry, prose, drama, and audio works are published and produced in a variety of media using standard and experimental forms.
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W. Ford Doolittle
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- university teacherbiochemistmolecular biologist
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W. Ford Doolittle CC FRSC FRS is an evolutionary and molecular biologist. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society (United Kingdom) and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is also the winner of the 2013 Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the 2017 Killam Prize. In June 2025 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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Luc Courchesne
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- sound editorfilm editorphotographerresearcherfilm director
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Luc Courchesne RCA D.F.A. is a Canadian artist and academic known for his work in interactive art.
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Sydney Smith
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- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- illustrator
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Sydney Smith is a Canadian illustrator of children's books. He is the 2024 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his "lasting contribution to children's literature". He earlier won the 2015 Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration for Sidewalk Flowers, a wordless picture book which he illustrated with author JonArno Lawson. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Jack L. Gray
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- painter
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Jack Lorimer Gray was a Canadian artist, known particularly for marine art.
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Melissa Greener
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United States - Occupations
- singercomposersinger-songwriter
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Melissa Greener is an American singer-songwriter who describes herself as a folk crooner. She is based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been described as a "sassy singer, virtuoso guitarist, beguiling songwriter and an imposing stage presence" with an "original blend of quirky lyrics and distinctive voice". Her third album, Transistor Corazón, received a 4.5-starred review in UK national newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
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Meags Fitzgerald
- Enrolled in NSCAD University
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- comics artistillustratoranimatorimproviser
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Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king, illustrator and cartoonist.
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Lorena Ziraldo
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Italy - Occupations
- artist
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Lorena Ziraldo is a Canadian artist based in Ottawa, Ontario. She works mainly in oil and employs bold colors in a loose, gestural style.
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Laurie Swim
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- textile artist
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Laurie Swim is a Canadian visual artist, best known for her quilt art. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Arts and Design, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, and in private collections. She won the Portia White Prize in 2013.
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Jessica Scott Kerrin
- Occupations
- children's writer
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Jessica Scott Kerrin is a Canadian children's writer who is best known for her fiction books for young readers.
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Irene Loughlin
- Occupations
- performance artist
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Irene Loughlin was born on May 20, 1967, in Hamilton, Canada. Loughlin is known for her performance artwork, writings, drawings and cultural work.
