Editing NSCAD University (section)

===20th century===
In 1903 the school moved to the old National School.<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|50}} In 1925, it was renamed the Nova Scotia College of Art<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|94–95}}{{efn|“In 1925, thirty-seven years after it first received its charter, the Victoria School of Art and Design was no more.… a legislative act elevated the institution’s status to that of a college.” (p. 94) “Along with the new status came a new name, the Nova Scotia College of Art, and a motto, ‘Heart and Head and Hand.’” (p. 95)}} under the leadership of its president [[Frederick Henry Sexton|Dr. Frederick Sexton]].<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|104}}{{efn|“When Sexton, as President, oversaw the Art College’s new Legislative Act of 1925,…” (p. 104)}}

One of the notable artists to be associated with the school in its early years was [[Arthur Lismer]], who was a member of the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and spent several years as the school president.<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|69–78}} [[Elizabeth Styring Nutt]] succeeded Lismar as president in 1919, serving until 1943.<ref name="cwahi">{{cite web|title=Nutt, Elizabeth Styring|url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=92|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref>

New Brunswick-born artist Donald Cameron MacKay, who prior to World War II had been vice-principal, after war service assumed the role of principal and continued until retiring in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=D.C. McKay Fonds |url=https://memoryns.ca/d-c-mackay-fonds |website=MemoryNS|publisher=Council of Nova Scotia Archives|access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref> Under his supervision, in 1957 the school moved into the former St. Andrew's United Church on Coburg Road.<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|141}} A modern, five-storey addition was constructed in 1968. It was eventually razed to provide space for Dalhousie University's Mona Campbell Building.

{{see also|NSCAD conceptual art}}
The artist [[Garry Kennedy]] was appointed president in 1967 at the age of 31, becoming the youngest ever president of a Canadian university.<ref name="confrontations">{{cite news|last1=Laskey|first1=Heather|title=Confrontations continue at N.S. art college|work=The Globe and Mail|date=4 December 1985|page=C7}}</ref> He immediately moved to remake the college from a provincial art school into an international centre for artistic activity. He invited notable artists to come to NSCAD as visiting artists, particularly those involved in [[conceptual art]]. 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.<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|147}} Kennedy is credited with transforming the school into an internationally recognised centre for cutting-edge art, with ''[[Art in America]]'' suggesting in 1973 that NSCAD was "the best art school in North America".<ref name="confrontations"/><ref>{{cite news|title=School for the avant-garde|work=[[Maclean's]]|date=23 October 1993|page=52}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Levine|first1=L.|title=The best art school in North America?|journal=Art in America|date=July–August 1973|volume=61|issue=4|page=15}}</ref>

The school began to offer graduate programs in 1973.<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|161}} It moved to its current location on Granville Mall in 1978 and the former Coburg Road campus was acquired by [[Dalhousie University]].<ref name=Soucy&Pearce1993 />{{rp|160–161}} Garry Kennedy retired from the school's presidency in 1990 to focus on teaching and making art.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dault|first1=Gary Michael|title=Conceptualism with a human face|work=The Globe and Mail|date=17 January 1998|page=C14}}</ref>