Current undergraduate students

The Annual Fine Arts awards day ceremony begins at 2:30 pm in ECH 1219.

This is followed at 5:00 pm by the opening reception of the 4th Year exhibition Caesura// in the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG). 

Everyone is welcome.  Please come and join us as we recognize the accomplishments of our students from this past year.

Gallery One
Shake-n-Make

Sumaira Tazeen, the 2018-19 Kitchener artist in residence, will give a talk on her work.

Gallery One
Katie Bethune-Leamen
Orchid mantis. Tom Selleck.
Hats. (Gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover.)

UW Fine Arts invites you to our annual Shantz International Research Scholarship presentations. Each year, five Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students spend six weeks of their third term studying abroad with professional artists, and the Shantz scholarships make it possible.

Tony McAulay was born and raised in England. He studied art at college in the late sixties and early seventies and his influences then were Minimalism and Constructivism. In the late seventies and early eighties he developed interests in video and audio.

Come and join us on Thursday September 20 for a Welcome Back Barbecue hosted by the Society of Fine Arts (SoFA) and the Fine Arts Department.  

Join us at 11:30 am on the grass at the front (facing Philip Street) of East Campus Hall to meet the faculty and your 2018 SoFA representatives and to find out what's planned for Fall 2018.  See you there.

Lisa Lipton is a Maritime-born multidisciplinary visual artist and musician who received her MFA from the University of Windsor and BFA from NSCAD University. She has attended multiple residencies and exhibited nationally and internationally in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Windsor, Winnipeg, New York, Detroit, Texas, Berlin, Amsterdam, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Sobey Art Award.

Digital Playground is an exhibition of final projects from CS/FINE 383 Computational Art. This capstone course is the final step in the Digital Art Specialization, where students from Computer Science and Fine Art engage in a set of courses designed to investigate the creative possibilities of art and technology. The interactive artworks on display will engage audiences in playful interactions using facial recognition, gestural input, neural networks and game structures.

Please join the Fine Arts and Computer Science Please departments for the opening reception of Digital Playground at The Critical Media Lab, 44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener.

Fine Arts Award Day begins at 3:00 pm in ECH 1219 and is followed by the opening of the 4th year show at 5:00 pm. 

Everyone is welcome.  Please come and join us as we recognize the accomplishments of our students from this past year.