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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.

In her interview Writing Performances, Razan Samara converses with University of Waterloo Fine Arts student Jana Omar Elkhatib over several months discussing a series of recent performative works that Jana developed during her residency at Hamilton Artists Inc.

MELISSA DOHERTY: Losing Ground

As part of Inter Arts Matrix's X-Camera Speaker Series, Fine Arts Alumna Melissa Doherty will speak about her painting and how she plays with the perceptions of both landscape and landscape painting.  The talk is on Friday November 15, 2019 at noon (doors open at 11:30) at Fresh Ground, 256 King St. E., Kitchener, Ontario.

SARAH KERNOHAN: Collections. Deposits. Processing. Making.  

As part of Inter Arts Matrix's X-Camera Speaker Series, Fine Arts Alumna Sarah Kernohan will speak about her approach to the landscape, based on memory and the recall of natural imagery.  The talk is on Friday December 6, 2019 at noon (doors open at 11:30) at Fresh Ground, 256 King St. E., Kitchener, Ontario.

SoFA will be putting up a Holdiay Art Market on November 21 and are looking for your submissions! 

all the world began with a yes marks the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG) premiere of two works recently acquired for the Permanent Collection.

The work of Fine Arts Alumna Sarah Clarke (BA 2011) will be featured in two local shows this year. Sarah is represented by the Paula White Diamond Gallery and will be part of their upcoming show, “Square Foot and Big Ideas,” at the Bauer Lofts in Waterloo, Nov. 21 to Dec.