Congratulations to Fine Arts Alumna Lisa Birke (MFA 2013) on her appointment as Assistant Professor Digital and Extended Media at the University of Saskatchewan!
Artwork by recent graduate Heejung Yi has been accepted for Illuminate the Night at Nuit Blanch Winnipeg 2017.
She will receive an honorarium of $2,000.
The annual Fresh Paint / New Construction exhibition showcases the best in painting and sculpture from Canadian university students. This year forty-four emerging artists were selected from twelve institutions including: the Alberta College of Art and Design, University of Regina, University of Manitoba, University of Waterloo, York Univeristy, OCAD University, University of Ottawa, Concordia University, UQAM, Bishop’s University, Université
ArtYard is pleased to present Ordinary Obsessions, an exhibition in which two playful minimalists encounter the banality and mystery of material culture, lived experience, and time.
Natalie Hunter (MFA 2013) was awarded a commission from the City of Kitchener to create a public art piece.
This exhibition Unsettling seeks to unsettle its site––the Doris McCarthy Gallery, the campus of U of T Scarborough, and the suburb of Scarborough itself.
PLUS Art Fair is the first art fair of its kind that showcases the work of Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) current candidates and alumni artists from across Canada. Their mission is to present the public, and those in the arts and culture profession, with the next generation of artists that will inhabit Canada’s galleries and who will guide generations to come.
(Un)settled is a site-specific exhibition and residency that sets out to investigate and unsettle the history of the Guild Park and Gardens, formerly the Guild of all Arts, in Scarborough.
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.