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The latest animated film by Fine Arts Alum Chris Williams (BA '90) has been nominated for an Academy award in the Best Animated Feature category. The Netflix feature “The Sea Beast” is the story of legendary sea monster hunter whose life is turned upside down when a young girl stows away on his ship and befriends the most dangerous beast of them all.

Due to  concerns surrounding COVID-19, and following the directives given by the University of Waterloo, the Department of Fine Arts has cancelled all events that are not vital to our academic mission for the duration of the Winter 2020 term.

The cancellations include:

• Fine Arts Awards Day 
• 2020 Fine Arts 4th Year Undergraduate Exhibition
• Upcoming Life Drawing Sessions

We take the well-being of our students, staff and faculty seriously and will do our part to help stabilize the situation in our community.

an accumulated life, Lois Andison's new exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto, opens Saturday, September 7, 2-5 PM.  The exhibition runs from September 7 to October 5, 2019

Zana Kozomora (BA 2015) is part of the exhibition The Tourist / Stained, which is a result of Centre[3]’s Emerging Artist Residency program. Zana Kozomora and Olga Klosowski Schellenberg’s practices explore notions of home, nationhood, and nostalgia through found objects and re-appropriated media forms.

Fine Arts alumna Amara Pope (BA 2015 majoring in English and Fine Arts with a digital media specialization) is currently pursuing her PhD at Western University focusing on Drake and his successful use of self-branding different identities to connect to different communities.

Congratulations to Vickie Vainionpaa (BA 2015) for being awarded first place in the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) Emerging Artist Exhibition. 

The exhibition runs until October 23, 2016 at the Neilson Park Creative Centre, 56 Neilson Drive, Etobicoke.

Musagetes and rare Charitable Research Reserve are pleased to announce Meg Harder as the 2016 Eastern Comma Artist in Residence. Harder was born in St. Catharines, Ontario and completed her BA in Fine Art and Psychology at the University of Waterloo in April 2013, a process that included 6 months at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem.

Jennifer Byrnes in one of two artists to receive the first annual student Thesis Award, a collaboration between Graven Feather, ARTiculations and Akin Collective.  This is a juried award open to graduating students from post secondary universities and colleges.

The winners receive a two week solo exhibition at ARTiculations in Toronto from May 1st to May 15th 2016.

The Iron Genie is a harmonograph, artist Anita Chowdry’s modern re-imagination of a Victorian piece of tech art. It’s an interactive kinetic sculpture driven by pendulum movements.

Congratulations to Lois Andison on the catalogue launch of lois andison: relay at Type Books in Toronto.

The catalogue is co-published by the Doris McCarthy Gallery, Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and accompanies the three exhibitions from 2014 that provided a survey of Andison’s artistic production during the last fifteen years.