Department of Fine Arts
ECH building
Tel 519 888-4567 x36923
Friday, October 31, 2014 — 9:57 AM to Saturday, November 1, 2014 — 7:00 PM EDT
Over 60 artists from in and around the region are participating in a temporary exhibition in a large warehouse and office space at 151 Weber St. South in Waterloo. The Tri-City Stopgap Pop-up Art Exhibition is organized by Fine Arts alumni Mike Ambedian, Sheila McMath, and Nadine Badran.
Friday, October 10, 2014 — 1:00 PM to 3:20 PM EDT
SculptureNOW brings together early and mid-career Canadian artists representing a range of approaches to the expanded field of sculpture. Organized in tag-team panels with a keynote speaker, this three-day symposium will explore sculptural and installation-based practices by comparing and contrasting various methodologies and approaches to subject matter: from representational to readymade, material to conceptual.
Visit the Facebook event page.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 — 1:00 PM to 3:20 PM EDT
SculptureNOW brings together early and mid-career Canadian artists representing a range of approaches to the expanded field of sculpture. Organized in tag-team panels with a keynote speaker, this three-day symposium will explore sculptural and installation-based practices by comparing and contrasting various methodologies and approaches to subject matter: from representational to readymade, material to conceptual.
Visit the Facebook event page.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
SculptureNOW is a three-day symposium bringing together early and mid-career Canadian artists who represent a range of approaches to the expanded field of sculpture. Cal Lane’s keynote presentation is supported by BMO Financial Group.
Visit the Facebook event page
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 1:00 PM to 3:20 PM EDT
SculptureNOW brings together early and mid-career Canadian artists representing a range of approaches to the expanded field of sculpture. Organized in tag-team panels with a keynote speaker, this three-day symposium will explore sculptural and installation-based practices by comparing and contrasting various methodologies and approaches to subject matter: from representational to readymade, material to conceptual.
Visit the Facebook event page.
Saturday, September 27, 2014 — 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Fine Arts Department activities at the September 27, 2014 Open House.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
SOFA welcome back BBQ
As a welcome back SOFA would like to invite you to a BBQ in front of East Campus Hall. If you are a first year Fine Arts student please come and join the upper year students for delicious free food.
Thursday, September 11, 2014 — 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
relay is a fifteen-year survey exhibition of artworks by celebrated Canadian artist, and Fine Arts faculty member, Lois Andison.
Thursday, September 11, 2014 — 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
FINE 100 Welcome
Please join the department for a welcome reception on Thursday, September 11 at 4 pm just outside the red doors to East Campus Hall (ECH). The rain location will be ECH 1218.
Pizza and beverages will be on hand! Come and meet our faculty, staff and your SOFA (Student of Fine Arts) Reps. You will then have an opportunity to attend the first gallery opening of the fall 2014 term – our very own member of faculty Lois Andison! This begins at 5pm at UWAG and admission is free.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 — 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Fine Arts Abroad - FINE 293 or 393
- Course trip to LONDON (England) over February Reading Break, 2015
- Ten-day trip to London; earn course credit (FINE 293 or 393)
General interest/information meeting will be Wednesday, September 10, 3:30 p.m. in ECH 1219
If you can’t make the meeting, contact Joan Coutu at joan.coutu@uwaterloo.ca or Sharon Dahmer at sdahmer@uwaterloo.ca for details.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 — 7:00 PM EDT
Special Screening at the Princess Cinema
In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists that celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles. Chicago’s diverse artists followed no trend, preferring a path they ferociously cleared for themselves.
Monday, June 2, 2014 — 12:00 PM to Saturday, June 7, 2014 — 5:00 PM EDT
This Could be the Place is a six day public art event on the University of Waterloo campus structured around artist interventions/performances culminating in a symposium on the theme of precarious/immaterial labour and its relationship to contemporary Canadian art.
Friday, May 2, 2014 — 12:00 PM to Saturday, May 17, 2014 — 5:00 PM EDT
Gallery One
Srdjan Segan
Something is Missing
Gallery Two
Ian McMurrich
Thursday, May 1, 2014 — 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the second of two thesis exhibitions by MFA candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo.
Gallery One
Srdjan Segan
Something is Missing
Friday, April 11, 2014 — 12:00 PM to Saturday, April 26, 2014 — 5:00 PM EDT
Gallery One
Amanda Rhodenizer
Turf & Twig
Thursday, April 10, 2014 — 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the first of two thesis exhibitions by MFA candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo.
Gallery One
Amanda Rhodenizer
Turf & Twig
Gallery Two
Megan Green
The Jackalope in the Room
Thursday, March 20, 2014 — 5:00 PM to Saturday, April 5, 2014 — 5:00 PM EDT
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the 40th Annual Undergraduate Exhibition featuring recent artworks by fourth year students from the Fine Arts program at the University of Waterloo.
Thursday, March 20, 2014 — 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the Thirty-ninth Annual Undergraduate Exhibition featuring recent artworks by fourth year students from the Fine Arts program at the University of Waterloo.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 — 3:30 PM EDT
Steven Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations with Jewish heritage and is a curator, scholar, writer and media artist. He had recently taken the position of Coordinator of the Aboriginal Arts Office with the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2010 he was named Trudeau National Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto where he continued his research into Indigenous art and aesthetics.
Thursday, March 13, 2014 — 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
We're having a concert in the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) to raise money for our Fourth Year Grad Show Exhibition! Just $5.00 to see some great performances!
Featuring:
- JoJo Worthington
- Chris Enns
- The Rangers
- Melissa Koehler
- Megan Nicole
- Brandon Stoker
Saturday, March 1, 2014 — 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
The Department of Fine Arts is proud to welcome visitors to their second annual Open House. The public is invited to a full day of events including: the opening of Stefan at The Artery, featuring undergraduate projects from the Fine 222 sculpture class; undergraduate fourth-year Open Studios on the second floor of the building; and MFA Open Studios.