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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.

I am Sara Deeming, a recent graduate of the honours fine arts studio program. Following the completion of my degree in April, I had the opportunity to move out to Colorado for the summer and intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. The ranch is an arts community located in Snowmass Village, Colorado.

As part of "Pop-Up City", Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (CAFKA) has commissioned MFA graduate Liz Little to create “Song Without Words,” a one-day site-specific installation of folded paper sculpture which will be accompanied by drone music sound art by Space Agency, a Kitchener improvisational drone trio.  The installation can be seen June 27th

Rick Nixon, Fine Arts alumni (MFA 2006) and department Studio Technician, has been chosen as the City of Waterloo’s first Artist in Residence.  The 2015 Artist in Residence Program will be hosted at Albert McCormick Community Centre, 500 Parkside Drive.  Rick will be leading a series of free, hands-on workshops at the Community Centre from the end of June to September.

Howie Tsui's (BA 2002) drawing Unfortunates of d'Arcy Island is featured in the National Gallery’s exhibition Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014.  This exhibition highlights a selection of recent acquisitions to the National Gall

Evening life drawing sessions for winter 2015 (PDF).

Winter term life drawing sessions will be held in East Campus Hall (ECH) 1224A on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm from January 14 until April 8.   There will be no session during reading week (February 18).

October 8 – 10, 2014
Department of Fine Arts