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.
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.