On May 16, 2016 Art Green received an honorary doctorate of fine art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in recognition of his achievements as a member of the artists’ group called the Hairy Who.
In February 2016 guest artist Anita Chowdry visited the University of Waterloo to give a joint Bridges Lecture with mathematical physicist Dr. John Baez. She also worked with Fine Art students to build two working wooden harmonographs to demonstrate at the lecture. A harmonograph is a kinetic drawing device that employs pendulums to create geometric images. A steampunk Spirograph.
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.
Included in Canadian Art's Must-Sees This Week: March 10 to 16, 2016 are two exhibitions by Fine Arts Alumni.
Scott Everingham (MFA 2009) premieres new work in "Mires," opening at General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto on March 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. The show runs until April 23 2016.
Doug Kirton's exhibition "Laurel Creek Derivations" runs until March 26, 2016 at Michael Gison Gallery Gallery at 157 Carling Street, London, Ontario.
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.
Alumna Megan Green (MFA 2014) has been selected as one of 25 artists to be featured in the 2017 Alberta Biennial. Megan was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland and grew up in Northern Alberta.
The upcoming biennial is a partnership between the Art Gallery of Alberta and the Banff Centre’s Walter Phillips Gallery and will open first in the summer of 2017 at the Walter Phillips Gallery and at the Art Gallery of Alberta on September 22, 2017.
The Space Between Your Thoughts
A mixed media exhibition by Fatima Garzan (BA 05) is part of the Exhibits in the Library culture series at Wilfrid Laurier University. The exhibiton runs February 1 to August 1, 2016 in the main floor of the University Library.
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.