Soheila Esfahani is a Waterloo Fine Arts Alumna (BA 2003).
Paddy Johnson is the founding Editor of Art F City and maintains a column on digital art for Artnet.
Sovereign Acts
Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dayna Danger, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas
Curated by Wanda Nanibush
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Canadian & Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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.
The Department of Fine Arts proudly presents Yours Truly, the 44th Annual Senior Undergraduate Exhibition featuring artwork by fourth year honours studio students completing the Fine Arts undergraduate degree program at the University of Waterloo.
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.
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.
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.
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.