CAKFA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area) and Mindful Makers have positions available for students for summer 2021.
The work of Fine Arts faculty member Cora Cluett is part of the Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art for the Art Gallery of Windsor. The exhibition will run until at least October, depending on government restrictions.
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG (University of Waterloo Art Gallery) present the secono thesis exhibitions by Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. MFA Thesis gives the campus and community-at-large an opportunity to see the end result of two years of intensive research and studio production by emerging visual artists.
Each year the Fine Arts Department recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of our students with the Annual Fine Arts Awards Day ceremony. Sadly, this year the ceremony could not take place.
However, the department would still like to publicly recognize the 2020-2021 award winners. Below is a list of the awards and recipients. Congratulations and well done.
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG (University of Waterloo Art Gallery) present the first of two thesis exhibitions by Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. MFA Thesis gives the campus and community-at-large an opportunity to see the end result of two years of intensive research and studio production by emerging visual artists.
Tamarack Drive is a series of images from 1969 taken by Jamaican-born, Waterloo, Ontario-based photographer Roy Francis. Originally captured on Kodak Ektachrome 35mm transparency film and developed by Roy at the family home on Tamarack, the series offers a candid glimpse of early Caribbean-Canadian life in Waterloo Region. Curated by Roy’s grandson Aaron Francis, whose grandmother, mother, and uncles appear here alongside one another outside the family home and on family trips to Niagara Falls and the Canadian National Exhibition.
Logan MacDonald joined the Fine Arts Department in 2019 and was named Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous art last year. In the Faculty of Arts profile article he discusses his background and heritage as well as his research and artistic endeavors which focus on Indigenous, disability and queer perspectives.
The Department of Fine Arts proudly presents FLUX 2021, the 47th Annual Senior Undergraduate Exhibition featuring artwork by fourth year honours studio students completing the Fine Arts undergraduate degree program at the University of Waterloo. This year's exhibition artwork, along with
The Hamilton Spectator has published an article about Hamilton Artist Inc.’s annual Ignition Artist Showcase.
Follow the Bones, a feature-length documentary, unravels the mystery of a 73 million year old bone bed, a place where hundreds of dinosaurs died en masse.