nscad drawing lab
2004: In response to an application from Dalhousie university cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Raymond M. Klein and NSCAD university art educator Bryan Maycock, SSHRC - Canada's Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council - provides funding to equip and sustain a laboratory where teaching observational drawing can be studied by artists, educators and scientists.
2013-14: for eighteen months, the NSCAD Lab is mothballed due to a "lack of funded space". Undeterred, the team expands to include Mathew Reichertz (NSCAD Fine Arts faculty) and research activity is relocated to Dalhousie's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
2015: Dr. John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and the Drawing Lab is reestablished for new SSHRC-funded research projects at NSCAD in the Academy Building.
2018: Amanda Burk (Nippissing University Fine Art faculty) joins the team. Research expands to involve faculty and students at all three universities.
2020-21: Under Covid 19 protocol, Lab discussions continue courtesy of Zoom and FaceTime, and Dr. Tim Fedak (artist and Nova Scotia Museum curator of geology) joins the team.
2021: SSHRC awards a new Insight grant to the Drawing Lab.
2022: I decide that the time has come for me to retire from the Drawing Lab. It's been an enjoyable seventeen years.
2013-14: for eighteen months, the NSCAD Lab is mothballed due to a "lack of funded space". Undeterred, the team expands to include Mathew Reichertz (NSCAD Fine Arts faculty) and research activity is relocated to Dalhousie's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
2015: Dr. John Christie (Dalhousie university neuroscience faculty) joins the team and the Drawing Lab is reestablished for new SSHRC-funded research projects at NSCAD in the Academy Building.
2018: Amanda Burk (Nippissing University Fine Art faculty) joins the team. Research expands to involve faculty and students at all three universities.
2020-21: Under Covid 19 protocol, Lab discussions continue courtesy of Zoom and FaceTime, and Dr. Tim Fedak (artist and Nova Scotia Museum curator of geology) joins the team.
2021: SSHRC awards a new Insight grant to the Drawing Lab.
2022: I decide that the time has come for me to retire from the Drawing Lab. It's been an enjoyable seventeen years.
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