[6] He immediately moved to remake the college from a provincial art school into an international centre for artistic activity.

Artists who made significant contributions during this period include Vito Acconci, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Eric Fischl, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Beuys and Claes Oldenburg.

The school was renamed the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969, the same year it began granting undergraduate degrees.

[9] In 2002 the school purchased the Granville Street block of heritage buildings it had leased since 1978, known today as the Fountain Campus.

The construction of the Port Campus brought the school's debt to a high of $19 million in 2011 after funding from the federal government fell through.

The school commissioned a report to study the idea, but the consultant found that a merger would not result in cost savings.

[15][16] The gallery hosts exhibitions of the work of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members, visiting artists and curators.

This made NSCAD the only art school in Canada to offer a dedicated commercial gallery, helping students tradition from academia to entrepreneurship.

[19] In 2011 the university moved the gallery from Hollis Street to a more peripheral location at the Seaport, where it had to pay rent for the first time.

[15] NSCAD has a long and distinguished history of offering the public the opportunity to study in a visual arts environment.

These courses are designed to meet personal and professional development interests and to prepare for studies in an undergraduate visual arts degree program.

Children in grades 1 – 6 participate in a variety of fun age-appropriate activities that introduce basic visual arts skills.

[21] An annual Night Shift Exhibition to display student work completed in Extended Studies course is held in the Anna Leonowens Gallery located on the NSCAD Granville campus.

Family and friends are encouraged to attend this popular exhibit and enjoy a variety of different works of art created by all ages.

Under the direction of Kennedy, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design was established as a vehicle to publish books by and about leading contemporary artists.

Between 1972 and 1987, 26 titles by such artists as Michael Snow, Steve Reich, Gerhard Richter and Yvonne Rainer were published.