Department of Fine Arts
ECH building
Tel 519 888-4567 x36923
Welcome to Fine Arts
Fine Arts teaches the how and the why of making. The how involves a wide-range of material and digital skills from ceramics, painting, print media, and photography, to cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing, digital imagery and DSLR filmmaking. The why helps students develop criticality in visual culture—a rigour that hones an understanding of what things look like and mean within the current global condition. Our faculty is outstanding, and students often work with them one-on-one.
Undergraduate students major or minor in Studio and/or Visual Culture; they can also participate in co-op through Waterloo’s Arts and Business program with a Fine Arts major. Graduate students pursue a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) with its unique Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship.
Fine Arts acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.
News
- Mar. 14, 2018Yours Truly - Fine Arts 4th year undergraduate exhibition
The Fine Arts Department and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) present the 44th Senior Undergraduate Exhibition titled Yours Truly. The exhibition's opening reception is March 15 from 5:00-8:00 pm.
- Feb. 15, 2018Artwork by Fine Arts student Lila Lavereau is in a photography exhibition
The York Lane Art Collective presents a curated exhibition, Creative Nature Photography, featuring work by artists Casandra Merson, Mitchell Evans, Selina Bailey, Barbara Storey, Noura Dehghani, Lila Lavereau, Caryn Dunfield Scott, Matt Brickman, Peyton Marsden, Mark Dickey, Terry Manzo, Diane Rychliski, Ella Paul, Danielle Colclough, Cherissa Kittmer,
- Jan. 31, 2018Cora Cluett receives an Ontario Arts Council grant
Fine Arts Faculty member Cora Cluett has been awarded an Established Artist Grant from the Ontario Arts Council for the Research and Creation of new work.
Events
- Apr. 12 to 28, 20182018 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition I
Opening reception: Thursday April 12, 5:00–8:00 pm
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the first of two thesis exhibitions by Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. MFA Thesis gives the campus and community-at-large an opportunity to see the end result of two years of intensive research and studio production by emerging visual artists.
- May 3 to 19, 20182018 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition II
Opening reception: Thursday May 3, 5:00–8:00 pm
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the second of two thesis exhibitions by Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. MFA Thesis gives the campus and community-at-large an opportunity to see the end result of two years of intensive research and studio production by emerging visual artists.
Gallery One
Aaron MacLeanGallery Two
Tait Wilman