The National College of Art and Design occupies a unique position in art and design education in Ireland. It offers the largest range of art and design degrees in the State at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
The National College of Art and Design occupies a unique position in art and design education in Ireland. It offers the largest range of art and design degrees in the State at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
NCAD Vision, Values and Strategic Focus 2019-2024.
Welcome to new and returning students. Semester 1 starts Monday 16th September. Find out information on registration here.
Curious about studying art and design? Open Learning has no entry requirements, all are welcome to apply for a Scholarship.
Places at Workshop on Artistic Strategies for Engagement with Data
NCAD announce a €10,000 research scholarship focused on Design for the Circular Economy as part of its new MA Product Design programme.
Applications now open for postgraduate programmes in Design, Education, Fine Art and Visual Culture.
NCAD graduating students will exhibit their work from Sat 8th June until Sun 16th June. All Welcome! View website here.
This short film captures the student teacher's experience of working on the change lab project.
See the NCAD Fashion 2019 Graduate Collections film.
Public event exploring radical and artists' publishing
The Creative Arts Summer School 2019 is FREE and runs for one week from Monday 24 – Friday 28th June from 10.00am – 4.30pm.
3 and 5 day short courses in Fine Art and Design and three-week portfolio prep. Season runs from 24 June to 11 July. Bookings now open.
Congratulations to NCAD student Kate Dennehy (Dept. Communication Design), who has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Art Student Design Awards.
Wondering how to leverage your Art / Design qualification? See how NCAD graduate and director of design Brenda Delaney did it!
Art in the Contemporary World is a podcast about art, ideas and some other stuff too. The first episode is a conversation about and with artist Liam Gillick.
Applications remain open for International Applicants through our online system.
With a Louise Bourgeois show running at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, NCAD graduate Simone Rocha reflects on the artist.
Imagining your future? See our undergraduate programmes in Design, Fine Art, Education and Visual Culture.
Congratulations to our award winning design staff Emma Creighton, Jamie Murphy, JP Dowling, and Natalie Coleman. Well done all!
Find information on all NCAD programmes, entry requirements and applications. Your Place Is Here
Fine Art Catalogue Launch, NCAD Gallery Foyer, Tues. 29th Jan., 5.30 pm.
This short film captures the student teacher's experience of working on the change lab project.
The School of Fine Art: MFA Fine Art programme is delighted to announce that the recipient of the Studio Award 2018-19 is the artist Jaki Irvine.
View the work of our graduating students of 2018.
The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) is a public research resource dedicated to the documentation of 20th century and contemporary Irish visual art and design.
Welcome to the Alumni section of the website. Here you will find details of opportunities for graduates and how to keep in touch with NCAD.
GDPR Consent form
As you may be aware under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), new rules surrounding Data Protection will come into effect on the 25th May 2018. Because of this NCAD are required to ensure that all data held must be fairly obtained and processed.
To this end we are now requesting that if you wish for your contact details to be included on our Future Emails regarding Updates & Events lists you will need to confirm your consent for us to hold your data.
