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Fine Arts alumna Karli Campitelli (BA 2016) has been awarded a residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland.

NES Artist Residency is a multidisciplinary residency and accepts applicants from all creative fields and career stages.  It is one of the largest residencies in Iceland and currently hosts between 90-120 artists each year.

The festival organization is currently accepting submissions for artistic contributions to NIGHT\SHIFT 2016. This year’s festival will take place in select downtown Kitchener locations and culminate in a free, multi-venue main event on Saturday, November 5th, 2016. Details about the application can be found on the website.

The submission deadline is Monday, August 22nd.

Scott Everingham (MFA 2009) has been awarded Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Centre for May, 2017.

Fine Arts student Steven Restagno and Fine Arts Alumna (BA 2003) Soheila Esfahani were both winners at the 2016 Waterloo Region Arts Awards. 

Steven received a Leading Edge Award which recognizes young artists 25 years old or under.  Soheila was the winner of the Visual Arts Award.

Amanda Rhodenizer's (MFA 2014) painting Turf & Twig is included in the show "Terroir" at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.  The show runs from June 25, 2016 – January 15, 2017.

Lois's work appear in past PRESENT future at Erin Stump Projects in Toronto.

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.