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Eve Kliman passed away peacefully on July 27th, 2015, in her 80th year. Eve taught Art History in the Fine Arts department for twenty years and she contributed significantly, along with Virgil Burnett and Nancy-Lou Patterson, to integrating art history with studio, something that still defines the department and remains fairly unique in Canada.

Obituary and service details are available here.

Professor Emeritus Art Green, along with several other members of the "Hairy Who", is part of the exhibition What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.  "The Hairy Who", a group of six Chicago Imagists who came out of the Art Institute in Chicago, were well known for their comic–inflected art throughout the 1960's.

Caroline Larsen (BA '04) has been selected as one of fifteen finalists for the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

As part of "Pop-Up City", Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (CAFKA) has commissioned MFA graduate Liz Little to create “Song Without Words,” a one-day site-specific installation of folded paper sculpture which will be accompanied by drone music sound art by Space Agency, a Kitchener improvisational drone trio.  The installation can be seen June 27th

Rick Nixon, Fine Arts alumni (MFA 2006) and department Studio Technician, has been chosen as the City of Waterloo’s first Artist in Residence.  The 2015 Artist in Residence Program will be hosted at Albert McCormick Community Centre, 500 Parkside Drive.  Rick will be leading a series of free, hands-on workshops at the Community Centre from the end of June to September.

Soheila Esfahani, a Fine Arts Alumnus and currently a lecturer in the Studies in Islam program at Renison College, has been nominated for the Jameel Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. The Jameel Prize is an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.

Congratulations to Fine Arts-Stratford Professors Jane Tingley and Jessica Thompson and their colleagues in Computer Science – Dan Vogel, Ed Lank, and Michael Terry – on securing a major prestigious Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant to create a facility for Fully Interactive Physio-digital Spaces.

Professor Joan Coutu's second book will soon be available from McGill-Queen's University Press.  Then and Now: Collections and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England is an account of the British aristocracy's relationship with the classical world.

University of Waterloo alumnus wins Oscar for Big Hero 6, announcement from the University of Waterloo Marketing and Strategic Communications.

Howie Tsui's (BA 2002) drawing Unfortunates of d'Arcy Island is featured in the National Gallery’s exhibition Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014.  This exhibition highlights a selection of recent acquisitions to the National Gall