�������� University has received its largest gift from a donor outside Atlantic Canada: $936,050 from Toronto’s Dalglish Family Foundation, which will provide materials for student projects, enhance visiting artist programming, and purchase new photography equipment.

This is a first-time gift to �������� from the Dalglish Family Foundation. The Foundation’s directors recognized �������� as an ideal recipient due to the family’s longstanding commitment to the arts as both practitioners and patrons.

“The Dalglish family is delighted to support �������� University and their work fostering creative thinking and education in Atlantic Canada. Our family has long believed in art as a driver for joy and expression in the Canadian psyche and the students graduating here will have beneficial impacts on our entire country.”

The gift supports three programs and initiatives that will greatly enhance the student experience at ��������. The Dalglish Family Foundation has funded the Photography Equipment Fund ($361,050), the Thesis Project Fund ($250,000), and the Visiting Artist Fund ($325,000).

Erinn Langille, the director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery, says this donation will open doors to a robust catalogue of visiting artists and speakers to the university.

“These individuals supply fresh ideas, perspectives, and techniques to students, the wider �������� community, and the region at large,” she says. “The generous donation by the Dalglish Family Foundation will have a massive impact on our ability to bring in the brightest and best minds, working at the top of their fields. With this gift, we can strengthen our connection to the wider world of contemporary ideas, solidifying �������� as a fountain of art and culture.”

The Thesis Project Materials Fund will be available to undergraduate students with financial need to purchase materials and supplies to complete their final projects. The Fund will support approximately 50 students with an average grant of $1,000 per year. Over the course of five years, up to 250 graduating students will benefit from the Fund.

“This generous donation marks a new chapter in nurturing young talent and the advancement of creative work in the �������� art community,” says Jana Macalik, ��������’s provost and interim vice-president for academics and research. “It not only demonstrates the Foundation’s commitment to developing the future generation of artists, but it also considerably improves our potential to recruit exceptional students who want to push the boundaries of art practice.

“The Dalglish Family Foundation is investing in the future of art by allowing our students to explore, create, and contribute to the art world without financial restraints,” she continues. “We look forward to sharing student success stories with the Dalglish Family Foundation for years to come.”

Noelle Peach, director of teaching and learning, says the Photography Equipment Fund will go a long way to ensure students have access to high-quality equipment and maintaining photography facilities at the university.

“We are very excited and grateful for the opportunities this equipment fund will afford in both augmenting classroom curriculum and individual photo practice,” she says. “Photography requires both old and new technologies to realize conceptual work, and the Dalglish Family Foundation gift will provide an extraordinary opportunity for nearly any concept to be realized by our students. The Photography program serves not only students within the program, but also a wide cross-section of students exploring multi-disciplinary practices, and students needing to document and archive work completed in other disciplines. The impact of this gift will be felt across the university.”

With this generous donation, young and emerging artists from �������� will not only receive a financial boost but also invaluable support to help them lay a solid foundation for their artistic careers, says �������� President, Peggy Shannon. This will empower them to explore their creative potential and contribute meaningfully to our artistic landscape.

“I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the Dalglish Family Foundation for this support,” Shannon continues. “I am thrilled that this investment will have such an immediate and significant impact on our students, faculty, and staff.”

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Your commitment is helping to animate our Institute.

Canada’s relationship to slavery has primarily been understood through the stories of the Underground Railroad while the 200-year history of enslaved people in what is now Canada has not been given the intellectual and social contemplation it so rightly deserves. Our artists in residence will contribute to growing our understanding of the lives of enslaved people in Canada.

Your donation today will have an impact and demonstrate that �������� is committed to this work.

Thank you for your support!

$2,500 – $4,999

Anonymous Donor

$1,000 – $2,499

Kara Holm & Thomas Curran, Dave van de Wetering and Ciena Canada Inc., Wilfred Moore & Jane Ritcey-Moore, Moore Suites, Anonymous Donor

$500 – $999

$250 – $499

Heather Anderson & Aaron Schmidt, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Lydie Dubuisson, Joanne Hames, Zab Hobart, Johanna Mizgala, MNP LLP, Alan & Luann Nesmith, Alyce Wright

$100 – $249

ANA + ZAC, Mary Banks, Donald Burry, Canadian Typography Archives, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Melanie Egan, Graham A. Fowler Peggy Gale, Leslie Gotfrit, Frances Gregor & Ronald Gregor, Louis Grenier, Brian Lilley Alex Livingston & Heather MacLeod, Denis Longchamps, Barbara Lounder & Robert Bean, Meredith MacKinlay, Brian Meehan, Jane Milton, Kate Monro, Mauve Page, David Peters & Rhonda Rubinstein, Steven Peters, Cynthia Petersen, Ginny Holland Perkins, Lelland Reed, Karen Robinson, Robbie & Jean Shaw, Brian & Colleen Sloan, Cheryl Tissington, Martha Townsend, Barb Weatherbee, Kimberlee West, Joe Weil, Rebecca Young, Anonymous Donors

Up to $100

Jacinte Armstrong, Artech Camps Canada, Mary Banks, Gary Castle, Brigitte Clavette, The Coast, Auguste Comtent Imc, Shannon Donovan, Dawn Eyland Reiss & Dariusz Reiss, Scott Everingham, Anke Fox, Pauline Gardiner Barber & Bruce Barber, Sherene Hall-Stevens, Rebecca Hannon, Joshua Harrower, Elizabeth Holloway, Shiralee Hudson Hill, Marlene Ivey, Duane Jones, Laura Kenins, Alexandra Kim, Ronald Kuwahara, Bill & Stella Lord, Lindsey MacCallum, Jessica MacDonald, Allan H. MacKay,�� Laura MacLean, Dawn MacNutt,�� Jenna Marks, Paul McClure, Sarah Mitchell, François Morelli, Mohammed Odusanya, Natalie Olivares, Christine Oreskovich, Lori Pauli, Belinda Peres, Catherine Renouf-Thompson, Sabrina Richard, Pamela Ritchie, Carol Smeraldo, Connor Smithers-Mapp, Alisa Snyder Chris Streling, Bill Travis, Eliot & Liz Wright, Anonymous Donors

Tribute Gifts

Dawn Eyland Reiss & Dariusz Reiss in memory of Cliff Eyland
Anonymous Donor in memory of Cato Cox and John Brown, Black Loyalists; Hannah Chandler, Cato’s wife, and John Brown’s wife, name unknown.
Linda Hutchison & Robert Mullan in honory of Audrey Dear Hesson
Ron Kuwahara in memory of Hiroshi Kuwahara
Dawn MacNutt in honour of Sen. Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard
Wilfred Moore & Jane Ritcey-Moore in memory of David Murphy

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Thank you to our community – faculty, staff, alumni, board, friends – for providing ��������’s students with financial aid to cope to extraordinary expenses resulting from the COVID-19 Crisis.

$5000 +
Margaret McCain Roy and Paul Roy, J&W Murphy Foundation, A.K. Prakash Foundation

$2500 – $4999
Accountant Staffing and Administrative Staffing, Joanne Hames, Donald and Beth Sobey

$1,000 – $2,499
Katherine Anderson, Michael Arno, Kevin and Karen Lynch, Aoife Mac Namara, Wilfred Moore & Jane Ritcey-Moore, Bonnie Patterson, Jan Peacock and Steve Higgins, Hildur Jónasson & Alex Poole, Deborah Tambon and Brian Harrison, Anonymous Donor

$500 – $999
Alexander, Frank Anderson, William Barker & Elizabeth Church, Nicoletta Baumeister, Charles W. Bishop, Amelia Carter, Marco Chiarot, Harry Cook, Elizabeth Currie, Julia Drew-Watt, Martine Durier-Copp, Judy Farnell, Debby Farnell Rudolph & Tom Rudolph, Neil Forrest & Sheila Provazza, Charles A.E. Fowler, Carson Gallagher, Jack Graham, Gregor & Ronald Gregor, Ydessa Hendeles, Grant Hillier, Kara Holm & Thomas Curran, Marlene Ivey, Kim Knoll, Dean Leland, Brian & Paulette Oickle, Alex Pincock, Calla Shank-Hogue, Jeff & Angie Somerville, Southwest Properties Limited, Anonymous Donors

$250 – $499

Barbara Bickle, Brian Clavier, Karin Cope & Marike R. Finlay, Luc Courchesne, Joan Dawson, Deanna Dobrowsky & John Keleris, Leanne Dowe, Paula Fairfield, Paul & Mary Goodman, Tanja Harrison, Eve Hartling,  Diane Hiscox, David & Vivian Howard, Linda Hutchison & Robert Mullan, Robert LeBlanc, Craig Leonard, Neal Livingston, Barbara Lounder & Robert Bean, Tanya Mars, Bryan and Gillian Maycock, Robin Muller & Paul Dunphy, Dave Murphy & Sonia Salisbury Murphy, Van and Babs Penick, Ginny Holland Perkins, Mathew Reichertz, Phil Secord & Wendy Salsman, Virginia Stephen, Mandy Wright, Camille Zakharia, Chris Zimmer, Anonymous Donors

$100 – $249

Annie Abdalla, Abdullah Alfaraj, Valerie Bachynsky, Greg & Susan Bambury, Doug Bamford, Kara Bargmann, James Barmby, Andra Birkerts, Mark Blichert, Kimberly Brenner, Susan Britton, Donald Burry, William Butler, Louise Cerveny, Ray Champlain, Ying-Yueh Chuang, Naomi Clement, Caryn Colman, Louise Anne Comeau, Anonymous Donor, Megan Connors, Catherine Constable, Denise Cormier Mahoney, Pamela Cramond-Malkin, Ava Czapalay, James & Beverly Davies, Thierry Delva, Frances Dorsey, David Drapak, Mary Eaton, Melanie Egan, Kathryn Ellis, Adrian Fish, Graham A. Fowler, Anke Fox, Katherine Frank, Pauline Gardiner Barber and Bruce Barber, Leah Garnett, Christopher Garrison, Becky Gartner, Suzanne Gauthier, Steven Dirk Geense, Meghan Gillan, Leslie Gotfrit, Sharon Gunn, Chantel Gushue, Cynthia Guzner, Katie Hagan, Richard Hines, Elizabeth Holloway, Glen Hougan, Kenneth & Wenda Housego, Yoko Irisawa, Emanuel Jannasch, Katherine Knight & David Craig, Patricia Leader, Ryan Lear, Micah Lexier, Alex Livingston & Heather MacLeod, Evelyn Llyndorah, Frances Long, Denis Longchamps, Jamie & Marnie Loughery, John Lovas, Allan H. MacKay, Margot Mackay, Landon Mackenzie, Meredith MacKinlay, Bruce & Peggy MacKinnon, Laura MacLean, Charlotte Marble & Jeff MacLeod, Rowland C. Marshall, Paul McClure, Sarah McKinnon and Peter Dawes, Erica Mendritzki & Ufuk Gueray, John Merrithew, Jane Milton, Detta Morrison-Phillips, Daiv Mowbray, Richard Mueller, Luke Murphy & Laura Mac Donald, Dr. Jock and Janet Murray, Wilma Needham, Krista Patterson, Renée Penney, Louise & Donald Pentz, Brian Perkins, David Peters & Rhonda Rubinstein, Steven Peters, Ashley Pincock, Vita Plume, Gillian Pullen, Henry Purdy, James Rae, Ann & Jim Read, Colleen Ritchie, J. William Ritchie, Karen H.H. Robinson, Fraser Ross, Ilan Sandler, Daphne Scott, Glenn, Caitlin and Morgan Shaw, Rob Shaw, Laura Siddiqui, Kristin Sinclair, Anisa Skuce, Kye-Yeon Son, Bruce Sparks, CSL, Alice K. Stanfield, Robert Storr, Cheryl Tissington, Martha Townsend, Perry Tymeson, Marthe Vary, Nicholas Wade & Carol Beatty, Ericka Walker, Jayne Wark, Peter Wünsch, Stephanie Yee, Rebecca Young, Carl Youngbluth, Joyce Zemans, Anonymous Donor

Up to $100
Oksana Atwood, Kjerstin Baldwin, Mary Banks, Jordan Baraniecki, Elissa Barnard, Zola Belanger, Ann Bernier, Jack F. Bishop, Nancy Blanchard-MacDonald, Karen Bondarchuk, Curtis Botham, Lorène Bourgeois, Chad Bowie, Meaghan Brierley, Stephen Brookbank, J Brooks, Matthew Brown, Stefanie Bruce, Shelley Burke, Erin Callahan St. John, Wendy L. Cameron, Anonymous Donor, Melanie Colosimo, Denis Connor, Crystal Cox, Diane Daniels, Holly DeWolf, Shannon Donovan, Joseph Elia, Scott Everingham, Kim Farmer, Keith Fillier, Eric Fischl & April Gornik, Joan E. Gallant, Jamie Wilson Goodyear, Owen Gottschalk & Crystal Bona, Donna Green, Leesa Hamilton, Rebecca Hannon, Sian Harris, Linda Hawke, Anna Heywood-Jones, Edith Hicks, Valery Hill, Audrey Hurd, Raluca Iancu, Mark & Navarana Igloliorte, Peggy Issenman, Stephen  Jeffrey, Ingrid Jenkner, David Johnson, Duane Jones, Pamela Jones, Bonita  Kirby, Alison Knott, Deb Kuzyk, Andrée Lachance, Clare Larson, Selina Latour, Judith Leidl, Alex Levy, Bill & Stella Lord, Preben G. Lordly, Jessica MacDonald, Suzanne MacDonald, Joel MacLeod, Susan MacLeod, Dawn MacNutt & Merle Pratt, Kenna Manos, Maggie Marwah, Meagan Mather, John Mathews, Verity Maxwell, Ramona Mazur, Lara Minja & Matthias Reinicke, Owen Murray, Elliot Mussett, Tony Myers, Peter Nelson, Jyri Niemi, Kate O’Connor, Declan O’Dowd, Aisling O’Flanagan, Frances Ornstein and Frederik Wendt, Holly Peterson, Peter Powning, Nadine Purdy, James Quinn, James Rae, Friederike Rahn, Kelli (Randall) Janson, L Reed, Rachel Reeve, Thea Reid, Catherine Renouf-Thompson, Joelle Renzi, Pamela Ritchie, Violet Rosengarten, Lynne Saintonge & David Taiaroa, Kristi Sangster, the Small Monsters, Ruth Scheuing, Stephan Schulz, Alison Seary, Gregory B. Silver, Greg Sims, Erica Small-Coffee, Alisa Snyder, Calvin C. Taplay, Neal G. Thomas, Robyn Thomas, Monika Urbaniak, Betsy and Howard Van Allen, Karina Van Der Linden, Jeremy Vaughan, Lorna & Carmichael Wallace, Emily Wareham, Sara Washbush, Charlotte Wilson-Hammond, Eliot & Liz Wright, Ke Zhu, YYZ, Anonymous Donor

Tribute Gifts
Anonymous in memory of Walter the Photo Lab
Anonymous in memory of Dr. Sandra Alfoldy
Katherine Anderson in memory of Theodore Saskatche Wan
Louise Cerveny in honour of Raymond and Cecile Michaud
Naomi Clement in honour of Naomi Clement
Elizabeth Currie in memory of Teto Elsiddique
Denis Connor in memory of Dr. Elisabeth C. Connor, a long time Board member and supporter of �������� students
Debby Farnell Rudolph and Tom Rudolph in memory of Amy Farnell
Judy Farnell in memory of Edie Silver – My mother and Edie were painting buddies who loved their “Art College” days and told hilarious stories about their life drawing class experiences. Many happy memories for them!
Julia Drew-Watt in memory of Carl Drew – From a grad of the class of 1999; and in memory of my uncle Carl Drew, class of 1968.
Eric Fischl in memory of Bruce W. Ferguson
Pauline Gardiner Barber and Bruce Barber in memory of Gloria Langlands
Meghan Gillan in memory of Dr. Sandra Alfoldy
Marlene Ivey in memory of Seumas Watson
Ingrid Jenkner in memory of Arthur (Mickey) Handy
Kim Knoll in memory of J. Dukelow
Judith Leidl in honour of Isobel Leidl Wilson
Bruce and Peggy MacKinnon in memory of Lou Cable
Aoife Mac Namara in memory of Mark Sark
John Merrithew in honour of the class of 1980
Richard Mueller in memory of Dr. Harold Pearse
Jan Peacock and Steve Higgins in memory of Dr. Sandra Alfoldy
David Peters & Rhonda Rubinstein in memory of Professor Tony Mann
Peter Powning in memory of Peg Powning
Henry Purdy is in memory of Marion Bond who taught painting at the College starting in 1956
Colleen Ritchie in memory of Mary Ritchie
Karen H.H. Robinson in memory of Dr. Sandra Alfoldy
Glenn, Caitlin and Morgan Shaw in honour of Aimee Carroll
Virginia Stephen in memory of Dr. Harold Pearse
Nick Wade in memory of David Lanier
Mandy Wright in memory of Virginia Wright

This list includes all donors who have contributed to the �������� Student Emergency Fund since April 14, 2020.

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�������� University would like to thank the members of our community who responded quickly – and with exceptional generosity – to support our Student Emergency Fund. Your gifts enabled us to exceed our original goal of $10,000 in just one day!

We are absolutely overwhelmed by your care for our students.

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�������� University students have received a generous donation from the Walker Wood Foundation toward scholarships for undergraduate and graduate studies.
The Walker Wood Foundation has committed to providing �������� students $80,000 over four years. This funding will provide entry scholarships to four undergraduates, total value of $16,000 each over four years; and two graduate scholarships, with a total value of $8,000 each over two years.

“We want to thank the Walker Wood Foundation for their generosity and foresight in supporting education. Facilitating the future of art, craft and design students is an investment in the creative economy,” said Kara Holm, Advancement Director, �������� University. “We understand that financial pressures have a direct impact on students. Scholarships such as these are vital to a student’s financial planning and are an important part of achieving academic success.”

The Walker Wood Foundation’s contribution is a welcome addition to the existing scholarships available to students at ��������. Last year, the Halifax-based university awarded 262 scholarships, totaling $435,000.

The was established in 2006 by Neil C.W. Wood and his wife Susan. It is dedicated to funding post-secondary education for candidates who have a high academic standing, demonstrated leadership or similar qualities and whom might have otherwise found it difficult to afford further education. The foundation currently gives awards to numerous universities and colleges across Canada.

“�������� offers distinctive programming in socially important fields, and its students are unique,” said Dr. Kate Wood, vice-president, Walker Wood Foundation. “Our foundation supports students participating in a large range of academic programs. By partnering with ��������, we’re helping to support the next generation of leaders in the creative industries.”

For more information on scholarships available at ��������, contact admissions@nscad.ca

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