NCAD - Nationaly College of Art and Design
The National College of Art and Design occupies a unique position in art and design education in Ireland, offering the widest range of art & design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
NCAD Student Clodagh Leavy wins the Brown Thomas Arnotts ‘Designer to Watch’ Bursary Award 2025
NCAD Circular Design Masters students won 1st and 2nd place in Dublin City Council’s ENFUSE competition
Join us for the Annual NCAD Works Graduate Exhibitions!
Nikolas Ryan has won the UCD Art Collection Award. This inaugural award represents an exciting new partnership between NCAD and UCD
River Island and NCAD are delighted to announce that the 2025 Fashion Design Bursary Winner is Clodagh Leavy.
This scholarship will support one outstanding student each year in NCAD’s BFA or MFA Sculpture and Expanded Practice programme.
NCAD announce a new Part Time BA in Visual Culture for students who want degree level learning and who canot commit to full time study
NCAD Welcomes Seven New Members and a New Chair Designate to An Bord of the National College of Art and Design
Announcing 6 NCAD Postgrad Futures Scholarships in 2025. Deadline is 30 April. Winners announced in late June.
Applications are now OPEN for all NCAD Masters programmes commencing in September 2025
NCAD alumni and fashion designer Robyn Lynch back on the NCAD Campus
NCAD reaches 53rd in the world and 19th in Europe, QS World University Rankings by Subject ( Art & Design ) 2025.
NCAD and UCD Announce New Collaboration: The UCD Art Collection Award, open to all NCAD fnal year students.
IMMA and NCAD, as part of L’internationale Museum of the Commons, are seeking applicants for the Summer School: Landscape (post) Conflict, July 7–11, 2025.
NCAD has today, Friday, 29 November, conferred their Honorary Doctorate award on Lorna Ross for her commitment to design-led innovation in healthcare.
Ulster University’s Belfast School of Art announces partnership with NCAD, during 175th Anniversary Year
Four student groups from NCAD have been recognised for their innovative and impactful projects at this year's Creative Conscience Awards
NCAD Design graduates receive 27 shortlists for the IDI Graduate Awards. This accomplishment marks NCAD as the most successful institution on the island of Ireland in this year's competition
Writing in the Irish Independent, Professor Sarah Glennie discusses the value of a creative education.
The NCAD Annual Graduate Exhibition Show took place from the 7th of June until the 15th of June. Explore the work here.
NCAD DesignLabs, partners in a consortium led by Tympany Medical, have been awarded €6.8 million in funding under the DTIF award to develop Solascope.
The positive impact that applied design research can have on societies, cultures, economies and environments.
Immerse yourself into NCAD Works. Take a look at this stunning video showing the work of the class of 2023
A 2-day symposium on Art and Activism at NCAD 4-5 Dec 2023
Fully-funded PhD opportunity to explore the knowledge that underpins technology research, development and application. In partnership with CONNECT.
features works by Brian Cooney, Catherine Fay, Anna Keane, Liadh Kelleher, Lois Kelleher, Leda Scully and Isabella Utria Mago, reflecting upon processes of making in contemporary research practices.
Following their recent discussion on collectives as a form of practice at the Creative Futures Academy at National College of Art & Design webinar, GUDSKUL is coming to Ireland!
NCAD is launching DesignLabs, a new interdisciplinary centre for creative, human-centred design research and practice.
Are you interested in undertaking a doctoral study in the fields of art, design, art education, applied arts or Visual Culture?
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