page_title: Art school
section_title: Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Art school / Notable art schools / Canada
caption_attribution_description: Granville shopping area, NSCAD campus on the left, Halifax, Canada
context_page_description: An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-secondary, or undergraduate programs, and can also offer a broad-based range of programs. There have been six major periods of art school curricula, and each one has had its own hand in developing modern institutions worldwide throughout all levels of education. Art schools also teach a variety of non-academic skills to many students.
caption: NSCAD University in Halifax was Canada's first degree-granting art school.
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2010:03:12 13:26:12", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8120", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "392", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "519"}