Events - 2022

Thursday, December 15, 2022 — 8:00 AM EST
Trash day

Any artwork or personal property not picked up by 8:00 AM on December 15, 2022 will be THROWN IN THE GARBAGE.

You will be unable to pick-up your work and/or personal property during or after Trash Day; if you wish to keep your stuff (artwork, personal belongings and raw materials) you must pick up it all up before Trash day! Anything left in the: studios, lockers, hallways, cubbies, alcoves and closets will be thrown out on Thursday, December 15, 2022.

Thursday, December 1, 2022 — 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
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The Longhouse Labs is a program about empowering and creating dedicated space for Indigenous-led experiences and learning. It aims to create sustainable pathways for Indigenous artists that enable Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices to broadly permeate studio art learning.

Monday, November 21, 2022 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
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The Department of Fine Arts would like to invite you to join us on Monday November 21 at noon for our Artist Talk Series featuring the artist collective Hekler. The talk will be available for viewing in East Campus Hall 1219 also available online at https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/94403996547?pwd=SnNoTzRDUzZvS29YOVJWZXFFY2lzZz09.

Monday, November 14, 2022 — 9:00 AM to Friday, November 18, 2022 — 12:30 PM EST
The Longhouse Labs logo

The Longhouse Labs is a program about empowering and creating dedicated space for Indigenous-led experiences and learning. It aims to create sustainable pathways for Indigenous artists that enable Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices to broadly permeate studio art learning.

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Photo of Katja Kobolt standing in a dark room holding a book

The Department of Fine Arts would like to invite you to join us on Tuesday November 8 at noon for our Artist Talk Series featuring Dr. Katja Kobolt. The title of her talk will be "Art and (gendered) reproductive labour: the case of Yugoslav socialist women illustrators".

Monday, October 31, 2022 — 9:00 AM EDT to Tuesday, November 8, 2022 — 4:30 PM EST
Poster for Catch our Rift exhibition in Artery Oct 1-Nov 8.

Join and experience the first exhibition of the school year by the current fourth-year students in the Fine Arts Honours Studio program (FINE 472 & 474) as they deliver their take on a chosen contemporary artist by “riffing” off their style, technique or even personality.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
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The Department of Fine Arts would like to invite you to join us on Tuesday October 25 at 12:30pm for our Artist Talk Series featuring Paul Couillard.  The talk will be a hybrid format with the in-person talk in East Campus Hall 1219 also available online at https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/93716320869?pwd=by85Y1FJd2NSYWZ3WS9GVHRXTTVyZz09.

Thursday, October 20, 2022 — 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) and the Department of Fine Arts invites you to join us for an insightful walk-through of The Further Apart Things Seem with exhibiting artists Atanas BozdarovBarbara Hobot, and Couzyn van Heuvelen discussing their works in-person on Thursday, October 20 from 7-9 pm in the gallery.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 — 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Poster for UW MFA 2022 Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship lecture

The Fine Arts Department invites you to the annual Keith and Win Shantz International Research presentations. Each year, our graduate students spend six weeks studying with a professional artist, and it is the Shantz endowment that makes this possible. 

Everyone is welcome to attend the presentations by Brent Garbett, Christine De Vuono, Clara Laratta, Sarah Martin and Stephanie Florence on Wednesday October 19 from 12:00-1:30 pm in East Campus Hall room 1219

Thursday, September 29, 2022 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
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Please join us for an insightful walk-through of The Further Apart Things Seem exhibition with co-curator Shannon Anderson.  Shannon has curated exhibitions at galleries across Canada and is Curator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. She has also written essays for publications produced by numerous art galleries, as well as feature articles for Canadian Art, C Magazine, Carousel, and EyeMazing Amsterdam. She holds a Specialist BA in Art and Art History (with distinction) from the University of Toronto and an MA in Art History from Concordia University in Montreal.

Thursday, September 15, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT to Saturday, December 10, 2022 — 5:00 PM EST
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) presents The Further Apart Things Seem featuring the work of Anna Binta Diallo, Atanas Bozdarov, Barbara Hobot, Adriana Kuiper & Ryan Suter, Brendan Lee Satish Tang and Couzyn van Heuvelen. The exhibition is co-curated by Shannon Anderson and Jay Wilson.

The exhbition runs from September 15 to December 10, 2022 with a curator’s Walk-Through on Thursday September 29, 12–1 pm.

Thursday, September 15, 2022 — 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) presents The Further Apart Things Seem featuring the work of Anna Binta Diallo, Atanas Bozdarov, Barbara Hobot, Adriana Kuiper & Ryan Suter, Brendan Lee Satish Tang and Couzyn van Heuvelen. The exhibition is co-curated by Shannon Anderson and Jay Wilson.

The exhbition runs from September 15 to December 10, 2022 with a curator’s Walk-Through on Thursday September 29, 12–1 pm.

Thursday, June 2, 2022 — 5:00 PM to Saturday, June 25, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT
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Opening reception: Thursday June 2, 5:00–8:00 pm

The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the third 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.

Thursday, June 2, 2022 — 5:00 PM to Saturday, June 25, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT
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Opening reception: Thursday June 2, 5:00–8:00 pm

The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present an exhibition of the 2020 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) who had their thesis exhibitions cancelled during the first wave of the pandemic.

*Please join us in celebrating the work of our 2020 MFA alumni in-person! Visitors are required to comply with campus safety guidelines

Thursday, May 5, 2022 — 5:00 PM to Saturday, May 21, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT
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Opening reception: Thursday May 5, 5:00–8:00 pm

The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the second 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.

Thursday, April 7, 2022 — 5:00 PM to Saturday, April 23, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT
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Opening reception: Thursday April 7, 5:00–8:00 pm

The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the first 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.

Saturday, April 2, 2022 — 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Poster for epilogue exhibition March 28-April 10, uwepilogue.com launches April 1

The Department of Fine Arts proudly presents epilogue., the 48th Annual Senior Undergraduate Exhibition featuring artwork by fourth year honours studio students completing the Fine Arts undergraduate degree program at the University of Waterloo. Featuring artworks by: Santosh Chandrasekar, Julijana Ciprić, Krista (Kris) Daniels, Maddie Davis, Rebekah Fisk, Taylor Freiburger, Grace Friesen, Madison Grineau, Yuki He, Natalie Rae Jeanson, Hannah Latimer, Zoë Lehoux, Wen Li, Raegan Little, Alyssa Macdonald, Manreet Pabla, Qinwu (Oliver) Pan, Maggie Pekurar, Miranda Schultz, Xiaotong Shen, Jennifer Vallis, Larissa Ward, Sarah Wilkins, Danielle Zhu. 

Thursday, March 17, 2022 — 7:00 PM EDT
Art gallery with exhibition of landscape photographs on the walls and two pillars in the room, each topped with bankers boxes

The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) is pleased to present an online event (register via Eventbrite) featuring artist Raven Davis in conversation with writer Glodeane Brown.

Thursday, March 10, 2022 — 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
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The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) invites you to join them on Thursday March 10 from 9:00-5:00 pm as Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers installs her work, #hopeandhealingcanada, on the greenspace in front of East Campus Hall (263 Phillip Street) on University of Waterloo Campus.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 — 7:00 PM EST
Vessna Perunovich, I Am Still. Travelling (video still), 2020, HD video, 4:01 min. Image courtesy of the artist

The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) is pleased to present an online event (register via Eventbrite) featuring artist Vessna Perunovich in conversation with artist, curator and art historian Bojana Videkanic

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — 12:00 PM EST to Friday, March 25, 2022 — 5:00 PM EDT
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) presents two exhibitions, Here. In Absence by Vessna Perunovich and Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later by Raven Davis.

UWAG will be open to visitors with proof of vaccination from Wednesday to Friday 12-5 PM with a limit of 5 visitors at a time. 

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 — 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
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A panel discussion between BEING+ curator, and University of Waterloo Fine Arts student, Abisola Oni and the exhibiting artists (Biba Esaad, Noah Lima, Miles Ingrassia, Roxana Parsa, and Michelle Rodrigues) will happen February 1, 2022 at 7 pm.  Please register on Zoom in advance

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