News

Tommy Mayberry (BA 2010 Fine Arts and English Honours and currently finishing a PhD in English Language and Literature at Waterloo) and Tommy Bourque (BA 2017 Fine Arts and currently finishing a MFA in Visual Arts at Western University) are co-presenting three creative sessions at the upcoming Northeast Modern Language Association (NeML

The University of Waterloo’s Department of Fine Arts in association with McGill-University Press invites you to the online book launch of Professor Bojana Videkanic Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetic in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (McGill-Queens University Press, 2020).

Ignition 9: Hamilton Artists Inc.’s Award for Distinction in the McMaster and Waterloo Visual Art Programs

Former Fine Arts students Sherry Czekus (BA 2010) and Steven Restagno (BA 2019) are both featured in the online exhibition Face Value at the Robert Langen Art Gallery at Laurier.

"Mapping artists across the world" was a semester-long project for students in the Fall 2020 class of FINE 209: Introduction to Global Modernisms, an Art History course at the University of Waterloo. Students researched non-Western artists who practiced between the 1930s and the 1970s.

Emily Bickell (BA Studio Art 1998) recently had her painting of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups selected to promote the candy manufacturer's product on a billboard in Calgary.  The painting was chosen from 6,000 submissions, in a variety of art forms.

The Government of Canada has announced the lastest group of Canada Research Chairs (CRC) which includes Fine Arts faculty member Logan MacDonald, a tier two CRC in Indigenous Art.

Fine Arts alumna Lauren Prousky (MFA 2019) has received a 2020 Region of Waterloo Art Fund Grant.  Lauren received one of 48 grants selected from the 102 applications recieved this year, a record number. 

Fine Arts aluma Ioana Dragomir (BA 2018) received one of two Emerging Artist awards presented at the 2020 Arts Awards Waterloo Region event on November 27.

The Arts Awards Waterloo Region webpage includes a list of all the 2020 winners as well as a link to view a recording of the evening's online event and presentations.

Fine Arts Faculty Bojana Videkanic appears in the feature Professor Spotlight in the latest edition of the Arts Computing Newsletter. 

Read the article to learn more about Bojana's background, current research projects and her view of acadmic institutions.