20 Notable alumni of
NSCAD University
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NSCAD University is 2108th in the world, 725th in North America, and 44th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 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
- Occupations
- recording artistpaintersingermulti-instrumentalistsinger-songwriter
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Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing (1997), for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians.
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Tagaq
- Occupations
- visual artistfilm directorsingerthroat singer
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- video artistessayist
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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
- Biography
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Jenn Grant is a Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Andrew Scott
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriter
- Biography
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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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Chris Hegedus
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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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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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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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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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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W. Ford Doolittle
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- university teacherbiochemistmolecular biologist
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W. Ford Doolittle 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 (UK] 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.
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Jack L. Gray
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- painter
- Biography
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Jack Lorimer Gray was a Canadian artist, known particularly for marine art.
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Luc Courchesne
- Occupations
- researcherartistfilm editorsound designerfilm 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
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- 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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Melissa Greener
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United States - Occupations
- composersinger-songwritersinger
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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
- animatorimprovisercomics artistillustrator
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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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TJ Norris
- Occupations
- photographerartistinstallation artist
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TJ Norris is an American interdisciplinary artist known for his urban, conceptual photography and installation projects. Hailing from New England, Norris is also a celebrated curator and freelance writer based in Texas.
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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.
