Reception

The work in Prairie Invasions: A Homecoming interlaces abandoned farmhouses with the history of their inhabitants and creates a moment of pause and empathy for the lives that took place in these specific sites, but also for the land that the houses are built upon. Humans are changing our landscape at an increasingly rapid rate.

Borrowing from the title of Leo Tolstoy’s historical chronicle of the Napoleonic Wars and the 1812 invasion of Russia, Sadko Hadžihasanović’s War and Piece is a similarly fragmented view of his homeland in the wake of war. 

We pride ourselves on giving all of our first-year students an entrance scholarship. This commitment demonstrates to our students that they are becoming part of a community where all are welcome and supported to ensure their success. By removing a portion of the financial barrier first-year students often face, St. Jerome's University actively commits to their academic success as they start their journey at the University of Waterloo.

Join the University of Waterloo Art Gallery for an exhibition featuring artist Charlie Star. 

"In The Mix" is an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores music of the Black diaspora. Through a site-specific, interactive installation that combines sound, music, collage, personal family photographs and archives, disc-jockeying, and experimental turntablism, representations of Black identity are explored and reimagined.

Join the University of Waterloo Art Gallery for an exhibition featuring artist Ashley Beerdat.

"Becoming the Poem" is an installation of landscape paintings that consider my relationship to nature and how to foster hope living in an ecological crisis.

UW Fine Arts and UWAG are proud to co-present the second of our MFA Thesis Exhibitions "kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte" is a sculpture and installation-based exhibition which uses materiality and autobiography to question the role and success of self-preservation amid a disruption to identity. The works in this exhibition use materials including those associated with Jewish culture to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of preservation.

UW Fine Arts and UWAG are proud to co-present the first of our annual MFA Thesis exhibitions. "We will lose our beloveds — ما عزیزانمان را از دست خواهیم داد" is a body of interdisciplinary works which uses feminist autotheory to transcribe lived experience under the Iranian theocracy. The works highlight the complexities of migration: what self-exile feels like, along with my connection to the greater Iranian diaspora after moving to Canada in 2018.

The Department of Communication Arts is excited to present Professor Samer Al-Saber as the featured speaker for the 2024 Silversides Theatre Artist Series. This talk entitled Devising Freedom: Lessons from Palestinian Theatre is co-sponsored by the Study of Palestine Research Support Fund, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Studies in Islamic and Arab Cultures.

The Department of Fine Arts invites you to the opening reception for the 50th senior undergraduate exhibition at the University of Waterloo. Hosted by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, the exhibition captures the students’ creativity and the diversity of practices they have been exposed to in the studio arts program.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming annual MacKinnon Dinner on March 15th, 2024, at 6:00 pm. This event, steeped in tradition, is an unforgettable experience for all attendees and is a time to come together to honour one of the department's most influential figures, esteemed professor, Father Hugh MacKinnon, and celebrate the wider University of Waterloo History community.