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Friday, August 28, 2015

Internships and residencies

  • Sara Deeming was at an internship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center at this past summer.
  • Vicky Vainionpaa has been accepted at the Ragdale Foundation residency in Illinois for March 2016.

Professor Emeritus Art Green, along with several other members of the "Hairy Who", is part of the exhibition What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.  "The Hairy Who", a group of six Chicago Imagists who came out of the Art Institute in Chicago, were well known for their comic–inflected art throughout the 1960's.

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.

Soheila Esfahani, a Fine Arts Alumnus and currently a lecturer in the Studies in Islam program at Renison College, has been nominated for the Jameel Prize at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. The Jameel Prize is an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.

Congratulations to Fine Arts-Stratford Professors Jane Tingley and Jessica Thompson and their colleagues in Computer Science – Dan Vogel, Ed Lank, and Michael Terry – on securing a major prestigious Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant to create a facility for Fully Interactive Physio-digital Spaces.