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The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis exhibitions give 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.  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting cancellation of the physical thesis exhibitions of the MFA candidates, the Department of Fine Arts and University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) invite you to explore their exhibitions online.

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 2019-2020 award winners. Below is a list of the awards and recipients. Congratulations and well done.

On March 6th 2020, Fine Arts graduate students Karice Mitchell, Carrie Perreault and Racquel Rowe participated in the Faculty of Arts annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) heat.

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis exhibitions give 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.  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting cancellation of the physical thesis exhibitions of the MFA candidates, the Department of Fine Arts and University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) invite you to explore their exhibitions online.

In light of the disappointing cancellation of the 4th Year Undergraduate Exhibition, the Fine Arts department and the 4th year class would like to share the catalogue that was created to accompany the exhibition.

The interlude. catalogue may be viewed online or downloaded.

Due to  concerns surrounding COVID-19, and following the directives given by the University of Waterloo, the Department of Fine Arts has cancelled all events that are not vital to our academic mission for the duration of the Winter 2020 term.

The cancellations include:

• Fine Arts Awards Day 
• 2020 Fine Arts 4th Year Undergraduate Exhibition
• Upcoming Life Drawing Sessions

We take the well-being of our students, staff and faculty seriously and will do our part to help stabilize the situation in our community.

The University of Waterloo Art Gallery, working in conjunction with the Department of Fine Arts, is sad to announce that we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year's senior undergraduate exhibition which was scheduled to open this week. 

In considering public health and University of Waterloo directives to limit the spread of COVID-19 we felt it was necessary to make this difficult decision.

The Kitchener Waterloo Art Galley (KWAG) will present Fine Arts Alumna Aislinn Thomas' commissioned response to The Myth of Consensus.

On Thursday March 12 Kitchener-based artist Aislinn Thomas will give a free Artist Talk about the process behind her commissioned response to the works on display in The Myth of Consensus exhibition. 

Professor Bojana Videkanic's new book is available from McGill-Queen's University Press.  Nonaligned Modernism isan account of the role of Yugoslav socialist art in emerging global modernisms.

Agents for Change| Facing the Anthropocene, co-curated by Nina Czegledy and Jane Tingley, presents ten interdisciplinary women artists working on the theme of ecological change at the intersection of science, technology, and art.