• G’round Textile Waste Tour & Seminar

    October 23-24, 2024

    G’round Textile Waste Tour & Seminar! Visit the Goodwill Commercial Solutions facility in London to get a behind the scenes look at how donated items and textiles are sorted, managed and recycled. Then the following day join artist Lois Klassen for an exploration of textile circularity at the personal level. Register to attend!

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  • Open Studios | Graduate Program

    October 24 from 8-9pm

    We are hosting our first Open Studios of the year on October 24th from 8-9pm in the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre here at Western. MFAs and PhDs are opening their studios, so come see the creative process, engage in relevant discussions, get inspired, and meet our cohort! This event is free and open to the public.

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  • New publication by Prof. Cody Barteet

    Cody Barteet publishes "Recovering the Lost Histories of the Meredith Family’s Tiffany Windows at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ontario​" in "RACAR at 50" issue 49, no. 1 (Spring 2024).

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  • UAAC-AAUC Conference

    October 24-26, 2024

    The Department of Visual Arts will be hosting the UAAC conference October 24-26. Every fall, UAAC-AAUC hosts Canada's professional conference for visual arts-based research by art historians, professors, artists, curators, and cultural workers. The conference is held at a different location each year, generally at a Canadian university or college. The sessions and panels address issues and subjects in art history, theory, and practice from various methodological approaches.

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  • Review | Recentring visual artist Sheila Butler

    By Jen Zoratti, Winnipeg Free Press, September 18, 2024

    Read the exhibition review "Recentring visual artist Sheila Butler and her female gaze" written by Jen Zoratti and published by the "Winnipeg Free Press". The show "Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances," offers a retrospective look at Butler's practice and is co-curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon. It is currently on view at the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba.

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  • Jaap Blonk | Brown & Dickson Bookstore

    October 11, 2024

    On Friday, October 11 the internationally celebrated Dutch sound poet and performance artist Jaap Blonk will be stopping in London on his North American Tour. This must-see show will take place at Brown & Dickson Bookstore (1025 Elias Street, London) and starts at 7:00PM and tickets are $10 (or PWYC).

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  • Maiz Barbacoa Corn Roast & Book Launch | Museum London

    September 22, 2024 | 1:00 – 4:00pm

    Join us at Museum London to experience Adjunct Professor Ron Benner’s roving corn-roasting wagon, Maiz Barbacoa. At the same time celebrate the launch of "An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art and Activism" published by Embassy Cultural House. Edited by Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner, with design by Olivia Mossuto, this publication includes texts and images by 36 contributors, including alum: Christina Battle, Janice Gurney, Shelley Niro, Andy Patton, Olivia Mossuto, and Ruth Skinner.

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  • GardenShip and State | Thames Art Gallery

    August 23, 2024 - October 20, 2024

    This exhibition brings together 21 artists and writers who engage in decolonial critique, environmental activism, and twenty-first century artistic practices to address what is arguably the problem of our times: environmental catastrophe. Co-curated by Jeff Thomas and Patrick Mahon, the exhibition features a vast array of works, many produced over a two-year period and originally shown at Museum London in 2021-22. Featuring alum Paul Chartrand, Michael Farnan, Sharmistha Kar, Mark Kasumovic, Olivia Mossuto, Quinn Smallboy, Ashley Snook, Andres Villar, Michelle Wilson, Professor Jessica Karuhanga and Ron Benner an Adjunct Professor.

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  • Closing Reception & Artist-led Tour of Lullaby at McIntosh Gallery

    September 6 from 5:00 to 7:00pm

    Join us in celebrating Brittany/Andrew Forrest's MFA thesis exhibition "Lullaby" at McIntosh Gallery and the closing reception and artist-led tour. This event is free and open to the public, all are welcome to attend and no registration is required. Enjoy snacks and refreshments among friends and community members. Remarks and artist-led exhibition tour at 5:30p.m.

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  • Hannah West: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) | artLAB Gallery

    September 5th - September 30th, 2024

    Congratulations to Hannah West whose MFA thesis exhibition is on view "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" in the artLAB Gallery September 5th - September 30th. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, September 5 from 5-7pm!

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  • Sky Glabush: The letters of this alphabet were trees

    By Stephen Friedman Gallery , September 5 - October 17, 2024

    Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 'The letters of this alphabet were trees', an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush, marking his New York debut. Based in the countryside near London, Ontario, Glabush is celebrated for his brilliantly colored landscapes depicting forests, fields, flowers, sea and sky. In these familiar yet stylized scenes, the exploration of color, light and form is mediated through the use of texture, resulting from mixing sand and oil paint.

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  • An Opulence of Squander | The Belkin

    September 3 – December 8, 2024

    Professor Kelly Wood artwork is included in the group exhibition "An Opulence of Squander" at the Belkin at the University of British Columbia. "The group exhibition features artworks from the Belkin’s collection and beyond that critique the imperative for growth at all costs, growth that has contributed to our collective ecological and social conundrum. The works – including those by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Mike MacDonald and Kelly Wood – critique and resist the growth imperative, recognizing both the limits to productivity and the contradictory ideological premises that foster and justify the continued exploitation of labour and nature."

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  • R&Art: Silkscreening a Tote with Soft Flirt | McIntosh Gallery

    Wednesday, September 11 from 12:00pm - 4:00pm

    Rest, restore, and reconnect with our community at McIntosh’s first R&Art event! Kick off the 2024-25 school year on campus with a hands-on printmaking activity at the gallery. The first 100 attendees will receive a free tote bag to personalize and silkscreen with a limited-edition design created by local artist Soft Flirt! All attendees are invited to bring their own item (an old t-shirt, a piece of fabric, bag, etc.) to print on and adorn. No registration is required. Find art in the heart of campus at the McIntosh! All events are FREE and open to students and the public.

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  • Indigenous artist-in-residence uses film and video games to connect with students

    By Jo Jennings, Western News, August 19, 2024

    Theo Jean Cuthand, an experimental and narrative filmmaker and indie game developer, joins Western this fall as the new Indigenous artist-in-residence. Cuthand’s works have been shown in festivals and galleries internationally, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Canada. “Theo is bringing an exciting expertise to Western with his experience in short experimental narrative videos and films about queer identity and love, sexuality, madness and Indigeneity,” said Alena Robin, chair of the department of visual arts. “These are timely topics that are of concern to our students, department, campus and London community.”

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  • Welcome, Theo Jean Cuthand as the incoming Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    August 1, 2024

    The Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts are excited to announce Theo Jean Cuthand has accepted the role as the 2024/2025 Indigenous Artist-in-Residence to start in August! Welcome, Theo Jean Cuthand - we are honoured to have you and look forward to engaging with the work you will pursue during your residency.

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  • Brittany/Andrew Forrest: Lullaby | McIntosh Gallery

    August 6 - September 6, 2024

    Congratulations to Brittany/Andrew Forrest whose MFA thesis exhibition titled "Lullaby" is on view in the McIntosh Gallery August 6 - September 6, 2024. Join us for the closing reception and artist-led tour at the McIntosh Gallery on Friday, September 6 from 5pm to 7pm. This event is free and open to the public, all are welcome to attend.

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  • Jessica Irene Joyce: How can I be OK with the e/and of the world? | artLAB Gallery

    Reception: Thursday, July 18 from 5-7PM

    Congratulations to Jessica Irene Joyce whose MFA thesis exhibition titled "How can I be OK with the e/and of the world?" opens tonight in the artLAB Gallery and is on view until August 1, 2024. Join Jessica Irene Joyce and Ashar Mobeen for an exhibition tour and discussion on Tuesday, July 30 from 12-1PM

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  • Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada

    July 18, 2024

    Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada, co-edited by Dr. Elysia French and CSC postdoctoral fellow Dr. Amanda White is available to purchase through any local bookstore or online via Wilfrid Laurie University Press (with a current discount). This collection includes contributions from Western University alumni and community members including Christina Battle and Tom Cull, as well as many other contributions by artists, scholars, and curators.

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  • Visual Arts Faculty Members Named Canada Research Chairs

    July 1, 2024

    Two faculty members from the Department of Visual Arts have been named Canada Research Chairs (CRC). The CRC program recognizes the country’s top scholars across disciplines. Dr. Kirsty Robertson has been named Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability. Her research aims to develop a better balance between museums’ potential to work with the public on pressing issues and their overuse of resources. Jackson Leween, Two Bears (Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri) has been appointed Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology. His work focuses on researching and creating projects centered around Haudenosaunee land-based histories and embodied cultural knowledge in the context of our digital age.

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  • Leading Canadian Scholar to Visit CEE in 2025

    Centre News, June 27, 2024

    Congratulations to Professor Kirsty Robertson as she has been awarded a Senior Global Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews, where she will be collaborating with the Centre for Energy Ethics.

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  • Anahí González: used as a material in the production of another | Artcite Inc.

    July 12 - August 17, 2024

    Anahí González's PhD thesis exhibition at Artcite Inc. in Windsor, Ontario explores migration, Mexican labour, and identity with questions relating to commerce, systems of power and the event of photography through the mediums of photography, installations, and participatory practices. In “used as a material in the production of another", González engages with different industries that connect today’s Mexico and Canada, such as the automotive industry, agriculture, and others, and highlights how systems of power perceive Mexican labour as mobile, multi-purpose, and temporary.

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  • Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico

    Info session July 24, 2024

    The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to offer a new course in winter 2025, "Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico" is an exciting adventure in learning that combines of Art History and Photography instruction with Professor Alena Robin and Professor Kelly Wood. Students will discover the rich cultural heritage of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico and its fascinating region. Join the online information session at 2pm on July 24. Registration required.

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  • After devastating church fire in Toronto, experts warn hundreds more historic buildings lack proper protections

    By Mariya Postelnyak, Globe and Mail, July 1, 2024

    Professor Cody Barteet was interviewed by the Globe and Mail for this article regarding historic churches and the lack of proper protections.

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  • Call for Applications: Liu Shiming Artist Grants

    Applications due August 31, 2024

    The Liu Shiming Art Foundation is now accepting applications for a new round of Liu Shiming Artist Grants designed to support the work of visual artists during the first decade of their careers. Up to five grants of $5,000 each will support the creation or completion of new projects.

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  • Ten summer reads by Western faculty and alumni

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, June 20, 2024

    New books written by art history faculty members Sarah Bassnett and John Hatch have been included in Western News' top ten books to read this summer. Both books are available for download or in print; order yours today.

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  • National Indigenous Peoples Day: ‘Collective learning and unlearning’

    By Megan Stacey, Western News, June 21, 2024

    Indigenous artist-in-residence Leith Mahkewa recent exhibition and work was featured in an article published by Western News which highlights the Office of Indigenous Initiatives Biindigen 30-day challenge, noting activities, reports, and helpful resources available for the Western community to engage and grow.

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  • Tricia Johnson: Recent Things | Satellite Project Space

    June 19 - July 13, 2024

    Professor Tricia Johnson's solo exhibition "Recent Things" is on view at Satellite Project Space June 19 - July 13. Join us June 20 from 5-7pm for the opening reception. Satellite will have altered hours during this exhibition. Please visit their website for more information.

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  • New publication by Prof. Cody Barteet

    June 24, 2024

    Barteet, “The Retablos of Mani: The Convergence of Maya and Spanish Art,” Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200-1800, edited by Ilene Colón Mendoza and Lisanda Estevez. New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2024, 154-167.

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  • Anahí González: used as a material in the production of another | Artcite Inc.

    July 12 - August 17, 2024

    Save the date! Come celebrate the work of Anahí González, a current PhD candidate and MFA alum, at the opening of her PhD thesis exhibition, "used as a material in the production of another," at Artcite Inc. in Windsor, Ontario, on Friday, July 12. An artist talk and performance will follow on Saturday, July 13, at 2 p.m.

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  • Body: Material, Performative, Absent | Cohen Commons

    June 24 - July 11

    In continuation of DRAFTS 5: Diasporic Bodies research and exhibition, Body: Material, Performative, Absent focuses on Faseeh Saleem’s design research on alternative conceptions of the body from a postcolonial lens. Curated by Soheila Esfahani, in this exhibition Saleem explores conceptions of the body and challenges conventional design methods and design thinking in fashion design processes in order to open up for alternative bodies as a methodological foundation.

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  • New Article Published by John Hatch

    Prof. John Hatch's "Postcards from a Cosmic Traveller: Thomas Ruff’s Images of Space" has just been published in the most recent issue of Culture and Cosmos, which he also co-edited.

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  • Church fire that consumed Group of Seven murals was ‘heart-wrenching’

    Toronto Star, June 10, 2024

    Following the devastating fire at Toronto's historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church, art history professor Sarah Bassnett highlights the significance of the lost Group of Seven murals created as part of an early 20th-century movement to integrate paintings into architecture.

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  • Reilly Knowles: Magic Circle for Earth Communion | Museum London

    June 8 - December 1, 2024

    Inspired by regional folk magic traditions and Museum London’s historical collection of log cabin quilts, London-based artist and BFA alum Reilly Knowles presents his quilt Magic Circle for Earth Communion. This quilt, of his own making, takes the form of a cryptic seal symbolizing living in relationship with and learning from the Earth. It also incorporates dyes created from local plants and has undergone material alteration through direct contact with our region’s soil. Magic Circle for Earth Communion was commissioned as part of Ontario Culture Days 2024 Creatives in Residence program. Image: Reilly Knowles, Magic Circle for Earth Communion, 2024, embroidery with plant-dyed textiles, Collection of the artist

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  • Professor John Hatch Publishes New Book

    Art Canada Institute, June 7, 2024

    Professor John Hatch has published a new book, Doris McCarthy: Life & Work which explores the career of the Canadian painter, writer and educator. Published by Art Canada Institute, it is available now open access online.

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  • like heirlooms | Latcham Art Centre

    Friday May 31 – Saturday July 13, 2024

    Joy Wong a graduate of the MFA program, is featured in a three-person exhibition at Latcham Art Centre. In the exhibition "like heirlooms" the artists present work that uses food ingredients, preparation techniques, and vivid images of shopping plazas that are central to Chinese diaspora communities in Canada. Together, they work within an expanded idea of “heirloom” to consider how aspects of food culture help us understand authenticity, care, and belonging.

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  • Sasha Opeiko: a movement of darkness on darkness | McIntosh Gallery

    June 13 - July 20, 2024

    The McIntosh Gallery presents Sasha Opeiko's PhD thesis exhibition, titled "a movement of darkness on darkness". You're invited to the opening reception on Thursday, June 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

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  • Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time

    April 10, 2024

    PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen delivered a lightning talk titled, “Mapping the Cosmos: Vera Rubin and the Art of Astronomy” at Boston University on Friday, June 14, 2024.

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  • Retrospective Exhibition Showcases the Unique Works and Legacy of London Artist Philip Aziz

    June 3 - 13, 2024

    An exhibition showcasing works by London artist Philip Aziz opens at Satellite Project Space on Monday, June 3rd. Painted By My Hand: Works from the Collection of Philip Aziz features a selection of paintings, lithographs, and photographs from the personal collection of Philip Aziz (1923 – 2009), a renowned London-based artist whose works have been shown in London, Toronto, Detroit, and New York. Curated by Prof. Cody Barteet and Natalie Scola a current PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Arts.

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  • Christina Battle: Under Metallic Skies | Museum London

    June 1 to October 20, 2024

    Christina Battle, who earned her PhD in Visual Art and Culture in the Department of Visual Arts has a solo exhibition upcoming at Museum London. "Under the Metallic Skies" will open to the public on June 1 and will run through October 20, 2024.

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  • Tegan Moore: Condensations | Centre Clark

    May 23 - June 22, 2024

    Congratulations to MFA alum Tegan Moore whose solo exhibition titled Condensations is on view now through June 22, 2024 at Centre Clark in Montreal. Tegan Moore works in sculpture and installation to interrogate the built environment and its relationship with the body through granular, intuitive, and research-based investigations.

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  • Mike Pszczonak: Window Reflections | Michael Gibson Gallery

    June 1 – 29, 2024

    Congratulations to MFA alum Mike Pszczonak whose third solo exhibition at Michael Gibson Gallery, titled ‘Window Reflections’ will be on view from June 1st until June 29th. Join Mike at Michael Gibson Gallery for the opening reception on Thursday, June 6th between 6pm – 8pm.

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  • Department of Visual Arts at INSAP 2024

    May 20-25, 2024

    At the INSAP 2024: Thirty Years of Astronomy, Art and Inspiration conference hosted by the Ionian University of Corfu, Professor John Hatch presented a paper titled "Touching the Universe: Backyard Science Projects in Contemporary Art" along with PhD candidate, Ashar Mobeen who presented a paper titled “Cosmic Echoes in the Art and Architecture of the Islamic Golden Age”.

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  • Leith Mahkewa: Purpose and Intention: Exploration of Creativity | artLAB Gallery

    May 30 - June 20, 2024

    Join us in celebrating the opening of "Purpose and Intention: Exploration of Creativity," an exhibition by Leith Mahkewa, Indigenous Artist-in-Residence. The exhibition will be open in the artLAB Gallery starting May 30th and will run through June 20th, 2024. Don't miss the opening reception on Thursday, May 30th at 5pm, where we'll celebrate the culmination of Leith Mahkewa's time as the 2024 IAiR.

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  • Exhibition Review: Derek Liddington at Contemporary Calgary

    By Marsel Reddick, Akimbo,

    "Derek Liddington’s the trees weep, the mountains still, the bodies rust covers Contemporary Calgary from floor to ceiling, every wall painted with pink, blue, purple, and white – but mostly green – amorphous forms just familiar enough to invite viewers to play with interpretation. At first abstract, the fluid contours generate the visual experience of running through a forest. There emerges a tree, then a stream, then a leg, dancing and jumping. Canvases hanging on the walls are mostly rectangular, with some in shapes that resemble hands and feet..."

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  • Temporal Palimpsests: Curated by Amy Skodak | Cohen Commons

    May 30 – June 20, 2024

    The exhibit showcases the work of artists from the Department of Visual Arts at Western University who address themes such as memory, the passage of time, the impacts of time, and the cataloging of time. Through repurposing material and in multi-media installation, these artists reimagine the palimpsest. This exhibition is curated by Amy Skodak, MA candidate and features artwork by: Jessica Joyce, Rylee Rumble, Chloe Serenko, SiHyun Kim, Anna Riberdy, Danielle Petti.

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  • Sacred spaces: Indigenous Territory and Knowledge-sharing in the digital age

    Canada Foundation for Innovation, Cole Buhler

    Professor Jackson 2bears' creative practice has been funded and featured in an article published by Canada Foundation of Innovation.

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  • A new art exhibit takes you deeper into the history and ecosystem of the Coves in London

    CBC News, May 5, 2024

    'Unclaim. Unsettle. Belong' exhibit is on display at Western University's McIntosh Gallery until June 1

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  • Dong-Kyoon Nam: proce-ss-emblage|distanced-matters

    Exhibition: April 25 – May 16, 2024

    The Artlab Gallery presents Dong-Kyoon Nam's PhD thesis exhibition, titled "proce-ss-emblage|distanced-matters". You're invited to the opening reception on Thursday, April 25 from 5pm to 7pm. Additionally, join us again on Wednesday, May 1 at 2pm to bring your questions, concerns, doubts, and inspirations related to your thoughts, observations, and experiences from the exhibition. Dong-Kyoon Nam will briefly discuss his ideas and practice with Steven Debruyn, an MFA candidate. Following this, we'll open up the floor for a community discussion on everyone's responses to the exhibition.

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  • Annual Juried Exhibition 22: FCG Feature Award Winner

    May 16 - June 1, 2024

    For many years, Forest City Gallery (FCG) has supported the Annual Juried Exhibition (AJE) through the contribution of the FCG Feature Award. The AJE 22 jury, which convened earlier this semester, awarded second-year student Alexai Wilson with this year’s FCG Feature Award because her AJE-exhibited work demonstrated a great deal of conceptual experimentation, technical accomplishment, and attention to the history of her medium. Join us for the opening reception on May 16, 7-9PM at FCG.

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  • In Conversation: Matt Bahen & Matthew Ryan Smith | McIntosh Gallery

    April 27 at 1pm

    Join the McIntosh Gallery on Saturday, April 27 at 1pm for a live discussion between exhibiting artist Matt Bahen & guest curator and PhD alum Matthew Ryan Smith. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome, no registration required!

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  • CSC mentioned in CBC Arts feature

    By Chris Hampton, CBC Arts, April 11, 2024

    The CBC Arts article titled "How do we make public art in a climate crisis?" features the Centre for Sustainable Curating among various Canadian artists and groups who are "dedicated to the exhibition of temporary public art to discuss how they can responsibly do their work — and how the nature of that work changes — in the midst of a climate emergency."

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  • The Coves Collective: unclaim. unsettle. belong | McIntosh Gallery

    April 1 - June 1, 2024

    unclaim. unsettle. belong is on view in the McIntosh Gallery until June 1. This exhibition brings together works by The Coves Collective members Kristin Bennett, Paul Chartrand (MFA '17), Reilly Knowles (BFA '20), Professor Sheri Osden Nault, and Michelle Wilson (PhD '22).

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  • Could we ever know each other...? presented by Jamelie Hassan

    Tuesday, April 16, 2024

    SASAH and The Faculty of Arts and Humanities welcome Jamelie Hassan to Western University on Tuesday, April 16. Jamelie Hassan's work involves interdisciplinary projects. Research in archives, both public and private, has been a significant aspect of her work. Curatorial, collective and collaborative projects based on archival materials as well as some of her artworks will be included in this presentation.

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  • UAAC-AAUC Conference 2024: Call for Papers

    Paper submissions due May 31st, 2024

    The UAAC-AAUC conference will be held in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University from October 24 to 26, 2024. We invite the submission of paper proposals until May 31st, 2024.

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  • Professor Sarah Bassnett recently published an open-access article in Oxford Art Journal

    “Rescue Politics: Richard Mosse’s Thermal Imaging and the Containment of Migration,” Oxford Art Journal 46, issue 3 (Dec. 2023): 471-492.

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  • PhD candidate Blessy Augustine recently published an essay in the journal Photography and Culture

    Blessy Augustine, “The Francis Effect and the Significance of Gestures and Images,” Photography and Culture, 16 no. 3 (2023): 253-256.

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  • PhD candidate Anahí González recently published an essay in the journal Photography and Culture

    Anahí González-Terán, “Exhibiting Migration Stories: An Exploration of Poetics in Moysés Zuñiga’s Photography,” Photography and Culture, 16 no. 3 (2023): 235-242.

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  • Sydney McArthur: Subtitles Speak: Building Bridges Through Text and Image

    Sydney McArthur, MA Candidate in Art History and Museum Studies presents her curatorial project titled “Subtitles Speak: Building Bridges Through Text and Image,” in the JLVAC, April 22-26, 2024. McArthur notes, "This project connects film stills with contemporary art on the use of subtitles to relay deeper meanings. The subtitle has its origins in film for the purpose of translation and accessibility. This mini exhibition uses subtitled film stills as a symbol of otherness, translation, and understanding between the viewer and art."

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  • Studio Tour 2024 | Good Sport

    April 27th to 28th

    Good Sport is delighted to bring you another edition of their highly anticipated Studio Tour this April 27th to 28th as part of Canadian art hop, a nation-wide studio tour event organized by Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC/AMAC)! Good Sport is a member-driven gallery and studio space that exists for the development and exhibition of emerging artists. Come hang out in our art gallery and studios, meet with our resident artists, and purchase art directly from the collective’s vast selection of paintings, prints, drawings, zines, apparel, and so much more!

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  • Sur Gallery is Hiring

    Applications due April 26, 2024

    Reporting to the Director/Curator, the Collection and Database Coordinator (CDC) role will be involved in database enhancement, community programming, and research and documentation of ARCHIVO. Applications due April 26, 2024.

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  • Western grad’s space-inspired artwork leads to 2024 Canada Space Fellowship

    By Emma Hyett, April 04, 2024

    Tassneem Hamed, Visual Arts alum, BSc’22, recently received the prestigious Zenith Fellowship from the Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation (ZCPF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s space sector.

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  • Derek Liddington: the trees weep, the mountain still, the bodies rust | Contemporary Calgary

    April 10, 2024—August 25, 2024

    The trees weep, the mountain still, the bodies rust features a recent body of work by Visual Arts PhD candidate and MFA alum, Derek Liddington in which the genre of landscape is the central focus. This exhibition is on view at Calgary Contemporary until August 25, 2024.

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  • Kirsty Robertson Publishes Review in Momus

    April 4, 2024

    Kirsty Robertson recently published a review of Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects in Momus. "Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws its title from the traditional name of artist Caroline Monnet’s family, prior to the changing of surnames in her traditional territory of Kitigan Zibi by Christian missionaries..."

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  • Grad Open Studios and Research Presentations

    Saturday, April 13, 2024

    Important update - April 11, 2024: PSAC 610 is on strike, and in solidarity, the graduate students of the Visual Arts Department have indefinitely postponed this year's Open Studios and Research Presentations that were to be held on 13 April at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.

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  • Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico

    Winter Term 2025

    The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to offer a new course in winter 2025, "Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico" is an exciting adventure in learning that combines of Art History and Photography instruction with Professor Alena Robin and Professor Kelly Wood. Students will discover the rich cultural heritage of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico and its fascinating region.

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  • Philip Gurrey: Thresholds | Satellite Project Space

    Opening Reception Thursday, March, 27 from 5-7pm

    Congratulations to Philip Gurrey whose PhD thesis exhibition "Thresholds" opens Thursday, March 28, 2024 at Satellite Project Space and is on view until April 6th 2024.

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  • 2024 UAAC-AAUC conference | Western University

    Session submissions due March 31st, 2024

    The UAAC-AAUC conference will be held in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University from October 24 to 26, 2024. We invite the submission of session proposals until March 31st, 2024. We aim to offer a range of panels, roundtables, workshops and creative sessions that reflect UAACʼs diverse constituents, in terms of membership, scholarship, and research-creation practice. Panels, roundtables, workshops and creative sessions are invited that interrogate all time periods and cultural frames of art history, visual and material culture, studio practice, research-creation, design practice, theory and criticism, pedagogy, and museum and curatorial practice.

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  • Prof. Sarah Bassnett and Blessy Augustine | Photography and Culture

    Professor Sarah Bassnett and PhD candidate Blessy Augustine recently guest-edited a special issue of the journal Photography and Culture on 21st-century migration. We are pleased to share the following essays from the special issue...

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  • Soheila Esfahani: Are You Buying These with Loonies or Toonies? | Tom Thomson Gallery

    March 9 - May 25, 2024

    Prof. Soheila Esfahani's solo exhibition "Are You Buying These with Loonies or Toonies?" responds to the question of “where are you from?”, which many immigrants are often asked, by exploring Tom Thomson’s paintings from a diasporic lens. Esfahani explores the notion of being Canadian by commissioning another artist, MFA candidate, Jessica Joyce to create replicas of three Thomson’s paintings in order to destabilize the notion of original through the act of translation.

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  • Ashar Mobeen at EnviroCon 2024

    March 22, 2024

    PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen presented his paper titled, “Planting New Worlds: How Astrobiology and Decolonial Theory Can Reshape Sustainable Farming” at EnviroCon 2024 on March 22.

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  • SOGS 38th Annual Western Research Forum

    March 15, 2024

    PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen presented a poster on his working thesis, “From Stars We Come, To Stars We Return: Exploring Ancient and Indigenous Cosmic Worldviews” at the SOGS 38th Annual Western Research Forum on Friday, March 15, 2024.

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  • Tia Bates and Danielle Petti: Momentarily Unstuck | Satellite Project Space

    March 13 - 23, 2024

    Congratulations to first-year MFA students, Danielle Petti and Tia Bates whose exhibition 'Momentarily Unstuck' is on view now at Satellite Project Space. Please join the artists in the gallery for the closing reception on March 22 from 5pm - 7pm.

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  • Art inspired by advent (or not) of Anthropocene | Western News

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, March 14, 2024

    "Anthropocene or no Anthropocene, that was the question. And last week, a group of international scientists responded, voting against a proposal to declare the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch to reflect how human activity has altered the planet. The possible naming of the time period was the launching point for visual arts professor Kirsty Robertson’s museum and curatorial students’ year-end project and exhibit meromictic..."

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  • Satellite Project Space is Hiring

    Applications due March 25, 2024

    Satellite Project Space seeks a Gallery Coordinator. The successful candidate will be an organized and personable individual with an understanding of gallery procedures and contemporary art. Working under the direction of the Satellite Steering Committee, this position works closely with faculty, students, alumni, promotional avenues, and the general public.

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  • Sincerely, | Artlab Gallery

    March 28 - April 11, 2024

    Western University’s 4th year Studio Arts Practicum course presents their final exhibition titled "Sincerely,". Please join us in the artLAB Gallery on Thursday, March 28 from 6-8PM for the opening reception. Featuring work by Bridget L Beardwood, Laila Bloomstone, Isabella Bruni, Susy Castillo, Kate Chaksfield, Jack Cocker, Kate Dunn, SiHyun Vision Kim, TK, Megan Muir, Bridget Puhacz, Michaela Purcell, Chloe Serenko, Marissa Slack, Emil Stoetzer, Amelie Swayze, Sacha Veillon, Elina Zhou.

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  • Up With Art | Museum London

    Saturday, May 4, 2024

    Join Museum London on Saturday, May 4, 2024 for the 14th annual arty-party and silent art auction! Featuring artwork by many alum and friends of the Department of Visual Arts! Enjoy London’s most impactful and fun-filled social event of the year while supporting Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness and Museum London.

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  • Tahir Karl Karmali, Curatorial Tour and Talk | Artlab Gallery

    March 14, 3-5:30 pm

    Tahir Carl Karmali is a Nairobi-born and Brooklyn-based artist who works across photography, installation, papermaking, sculpture, and sound and concentrates thematically on migration, landscape, geology, labor, and belonging. His series Strata (2017-2019) consists of eight textile sculptures. Each work takes on different forms and styles of sculpture all using dyed raffia stained with cobalt. To create the dye, Karmali performs a ‘reverse mining’ practice whereby old American cell phone batteries—bought one Bay—are dismantled to extract the copper, cobalt oxide, and aluminum. Stratais currently on view as a part of the exhibition Erratic Behaviour(2024) at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, curated by Western PhD candidate Katie Lawson. As a part of programming for meromictic, Karmali will talk about his practice and the nearby exhibition Erratic Behaviour.

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  • Call for Submissions from BIPOC Lens-Based Artists | Latcham Art Centre

    Submissions due March 31st, 2024

    Latcham Art Centre welcomes submissions of lens-based artwork made by Black and Indigenous artists and artists of colour for a small group exhibition on the theme of belonging. The deadline for submissions is Sunday March 31st. All artists who are selected for this small group exhibition will be paid in accordance with CARFAC fees, and there is no fee to apply. Image Credit: Installation view of Jeff Thomas: The Indigenous Map Maker’s Room at Latcham Art Centre, 2021. Artwork by Jeff Thomas. Photo: Dennis Hristovski

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  • Francine McCarthy, Curatorial Tour and Talk Defining the Anthropocene in Sediments from a Meromictic Lake

    March 12, 3-5:30 pm

    Dr. Francine McCarthy is Professor of Earth Sciences also appointed to the Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre at Brock University, Ontario. She is also Research Associate in Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum and a voting member of the Anthropocene Working Group. She will talk about her work investigating the potential of the varved sequence in the hydrologically unique Crawford Lake to define the Anthropocene.

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  • See You There | Forest City Gallery

    March 7 - April 27

    Forest City Gallery announces its first FCG Pier Members’ exhibition for 2024. Featuring works by Shane Ackerly, Marla Botterill, Mary Donlan, Anne Hamilton, and SiHyun Vision Kim, See You There reflects the candid relationships artists have with the places they inhabit, or have experienced, and acknowledges the various ways in which locations and cultures affect our artwork. The exhibition engages with ideas of location, memory, home, people, community, and culture. The resulting works encompass a range of media and approaches. See You There is curated by Gallery Intern and BFA student Jack Cocker.

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  • Museum London: Call for 2024 Scholarship Applications Honouring Colleagues Melanie A. Townsend & Steve Mavers

    Application Deadline April 22, 2024 at 5pm

    Museum London is delighted to announce two prestigious scholarship opportunities for students at Western University: the Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship for Museum and Curatorial Studies and the Steve Mavers Scholarship for Arts Education. To apply for the Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship, eligible students must be enrolled in any Museum and Curatorial Studies module at Western University. To apply for the Steve Mavers Scholarship for Arts Education, eligible students must be enrolled in the Faculty of Education at Western University

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  • Prof. Sarah Bassnett Publishes Article on Trevor Paglen

    Spring 2024

    Professor Sarah Bassnett recently published an open-access article on how Trevor Paglen’s work offers insight into the age of machine vision. “Trevor Paglen’s Border Abstractions in the Age of Machine Vision,” photographies 17, no. 1-2 (spring 2024): 25-42.

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  • 2024 Western Sustainable Impact Fund Success

    Congratulations to Katie Lawson and Ashar Mobeen, PhD candidates, along with post-doctoral fellow Amanda White from the Department of Visual Arts, in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Curating, for securing funding for their projects through the Western Sustainable Impact fund. For more details about each funded project, please visit the Western Sustainability website.

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  • Anthropic | Cohen Commons

    February 29 through March 14, 2024

    The group exhibition "Anthropic" is on view in the Cohen Commons Exhibition from February 29 through March 14, 2024. The artworks in Anthropic ask of viewers: What does it mean to be in relationship with the self, other, and environment in the Anthropocene? Organized by Professor Sheri Osden Nault and featuring artworks by undergraduate students: Payton Atkinson, Patricia Barwicz, Genevieve Buchanan, Mariah Cowan, Stephanie Davey, Anastasia Fedorova, Cheyne Ferguson, Arlen Griffiths, Hannah Khiavi, Megan Lee, Venus Nwaokoro, Niyati Sahdev, Maggie Shook, Natasha Tacconelli, Mady Teeter, Emma Whitehouse.

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  • Professor Sarah Bassnett Co-Publishes Article on Retrieving Images From Tarnished Daguerreotypes

    Professor Sarah Bassnett collaborated with Chemistry Professor T.K. Sham and colleagues on an open-access article about retrieving images from tarnished daguerreotypes titled “Retrieving Images from Tarnished Daguerreotypes using X-ray Fluorescence with an X-Ray Micro Beam with Tunable Energy,” in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, May – June 2024 issue.

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  • tba journal, PLASTIC, volume launch

    February 8, 2024

    The editorial team at tba journal is thrilled to launch the 5th peer reviewed volume, PLASTIC, that has been digitally published on their platform at tbajournal.ca

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  • Rylee Rumble: Achy Awfulness | Ascent Gallery

    February 28 – May 2, 2024

    In this solo exhibition by alum Rylee Rumble (MFA 23), colour is explored as a means of documenting the artist’s raw and vulnerable experiences with depression, anxiety and ADHD. 'Achy Awfulness' continues through May 2, 2024 at Ascent Gallery in Toronto.

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  • Bruno Belli Crafts an Awesome Personal Project at the Art Gallery of Ontario

    By Lexi Taciak, Architectural Photography Review, February 9, 2024

    "Today we’re taking a little trip to Ontario with architectural photographer Bruno Belli! Bruno has sublimely photographed Frank Gehry’s expansion of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). “I shot these over the course of three days there, trying to get the right light and mood for each of the angles. Some of the interesting challenges were incorporating the vibrant life outside the gallery and having to shoot all of the interiors handheld,” Bruno starts off. Let’s jump on in and see his (very cool) images!"

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  • Tracing Labor Territories | Sur Gallery

    January 25 to March 30, 2024

    The artists in the exhibition deconstruct the politicized spaces that lie between territory and labor, outlining the imperial and colonial relationship of the North and the South. Four artists listen and interpret migratory flows between borders, they shift the margins and narratives with various artistic proposals and mediums. From photography to video installation to sound art, the artists Anahí González, María Hoyos, Martín Rodríguez, and Victor Vargas offer counter-narratives and a perspective of the migrant worker who is often marginal, silenced, and exploited, within a settler colonial state that profits of their labor force while making their presence invisible.

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  • Pasts Refracted: Indigenous Histories on Film Beyond the Cinema by Prof. Christine Sprengler

    December 18th, 2023

    Professor Christine Sprengler recently published a chapter titled "Pasts Refracted: Indigenous Histories on Film Beyond the Cinema" in "The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image". This volume addresses moving image history through a theoretical lens; modes and genres; representation, race, and identity; and evolving forms and formats.

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  • Patrick Thibert | TAP Centre for Creativity

    February 6th to February 17th, 2024

    Patrick Thibert will be showing a selection of works on paper at TAP Centre for Creativity covering a period from 1971 to 2023. The exhibition will continue until February 17th. There will be 41 framed drawings from various periods over the decades that were made in tandem with his sculptures

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  • Prof. Mohammad Reza Moridi presents "Carpet as Cultural Text"

    February 6, 2024 at 9:30 AM

    Join the upcoming talk by Western Visiting Scholar, Prof. Mohammad Reza Moridi titled "Carpet as Cultural Text". This talk is presented by the Department of Languages and Cultures, the Department of Visual Arts and Western International.

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  • AJE 22 | Artlab Gallery

    February 1 to 15, 2024

    Celebrating twenty-two years the "Annual Juried Exhibition" continues to be one of the Department of Visual Arts most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions. This diverse show supports the production of new work made in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, print, video, and photography. Exhibited works were selected by a professional jury who consider creativity, concept, materiality and technique. This year’s show is indicative of the resilience and dedication our students continue to demonstrate. The AJE 22 is on view from February 1 to 15, 2024. Please join us for the opening reception, People's Choice voting and award announcements on February 1st from 6 - 8pm.

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  • DRAFTS 5: DIASPORIC BODIES | Artlab Gallery

    January 11 - 25, 2024

    Curated by Soheila Esfahani & Faseeh Saleem, this exhibition features work by: Anahí González, Anna Lidström, Erika Blomgren and Faseeh Saleem , Jessica Karuhanga, Karin Landahl & Stefanie, Malmgren de Oliveira, Leith Mahkewa, Racquel Rowe, Vidmina Stasiulyte. This exhibition brings together a group of artists from the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, London, Canada, and design researchers from the Body and Space Research Lab at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden. Please join us for the closing reception of DRAFTS 5: DIASPORIC BODIES on Thursday, January 25 from 12-2PM in the Cohen Commons. Image: Jessica Karuhanga, Photo Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

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  • Paul Walde: Glacial Resonance | McIntosh Gallery

    January 19 - March 16, 2024

    Join Victoria-based artist and alum Paul Walde (BFA '94) for a guided tour of his solo exhibition Glacial Resonance at Western University's McIntosh Gallery. This event is free and open to the public, although space is limited. Registration is required to attend. Event registrants and members of the public are invited to attend the opening reception of Glacial Resonance shortly following the artist's guided tour on Friday, January 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. at McIntosh Gallery. Find out more:

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  • bread, butter, tea, soup | Artlab Gallery

    January 11 - 25, 2024

    Presented by The Creative Food Research Collaboratory, 'bread, butter, tea, soup' is a gathering place and a series of food-based artistic interventions presented by the Creative Food Research Collaboratory. In the darkness of winter, before the light begins to return incrementally, we invite all to share in the warmth, comfort and complexity of food; to eat, learn, digest and imagine together. Please join us for a series of artistic activations throughout January. More information about these live events can be found through the link below.

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  • Phillip Gurrey: Enclosures | Birch Contemporary

    January 18 – February 24, 2024

    Enclosures is an immersive installation of paintings and wall and floor-based sculpture by PhD candidate Phillip Gurrey. This exhibitions opens with a private viewing at Birch Contemporary on January 18 from 6pm - 8pm.

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  • Masha Kouznetsova: coordinates / sweeping | The End Project Space

    January 5 – February 25, 2024

    'coordinates / sweeping' showcases new work by Masha Kouznetsova, current candidate of Western University’s PhD program in the Visual Arts department. Masha Kouznetsova’s multidisciplinary work and writing foreground sonic, visual, and imperceptible signals as modes of searching for grounding and interconnectedness.

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  • External Now at Satellite Project Space

    January 10 - 20, 2023

    Congratulations to MFA candidates Hannah West and Jessica Joyce whose exhibition 'Eternal Now' opens at Satellite Project Space on January 10 and runs through January 20. Please join us at the closing reception on January 20 from 3-5pm. Closing Reception: January 20, 3-5pm

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  • Adi Berardini: Live Stream | Good Sport

    January 12 - 27, 2023

    'Live Stream' an exhibition by alum Adi Berardini (MA '20) looks at love, loss, and disenfranchised grief and how time and distance affect the grieving process through a series of paintings. The exhibition addresses the interconnectedness of emotions, everyday life and spirituality, and how technology can both connect us and isolate us. The opening reception at Good Sport is on January 12 from 7pm to 9pm.

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  • Creative Writing Workshop: RIma Sater and Laura Acosta | FCG

    January 7 at 1pm

    In tandem with their two-person exhibition, You Can't Have Honey Without An Onion, Rima Sater and Laura Acosta will present a community engagement activity to connect with the local public of London,Ontario. The artists will open a space for individuals who want to reflect on their own experiences of visibility, longing, displacement and belonging through fictional story-telling.

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  • Welcome, Professor Mohammad Reza Moridi

    December 21, 2023

    Western University is pleased to welcome Professor Mohammad Reza Moridi as a visiting scholar in the Department of Visual Arts for the winter 2024 term. Prof. Moridi is faculty member at Tehran University of Arts (Iran). His research is focused on the complex relationship between art and society in the Middle East.

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  • Gardenship and State: Thinking with creativity

    By Busra Copuroglu, December 1, 2023

    How can artistic projects disseminate knowledge about complex socio-cultural and environmental issues? Conceived at the intersection of environmental critique, decolonial theory, and artistic practice, GardenShip and State engages this question to examine environmental catastrophe and its impact on the lives of colonized peoples by bringing together artists and scholars to mobilize knowledge through interdisciplinary work.

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  • Are (Sommes Sonnes) 12-HOUR EVENT | Organized by Christof Migone

    December 12, 2023 from 12 noon to 12 midnight (EST)

    Fourth in a series of 12 annual events taking place on December 12 from noon to midnight. Each year the event focuses on a word of the 12-word phrase ‘You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death’ and activates it in myriad ways. This year the focus is on plurals: multiplicities leading to infinities, polymorphs and polyglots, surrounded sounds, layers upon layers, etceteras upon etceteras. It started with ‘You’ in 2020, then ‘And’ came to connect you to anything and everything. Last year that point of connection was ‘I’. This year with ‘Are’ action enters the fray. What are you and I to do? What are we up to? Well, let’s begin with being, simply being; however contentious that might be, and however tenuous we may be. Curated by Myriam Lambert, Christof Migone, and Alexandre St-Onge

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  • Visual Pleasure with Dr. Jeff Preston and Erin Clark | artLAB Gallery

    Monday, December 11 from 2-3PM

    Join us for a mind-blowing evening of captivating visuals and delightful insights with Dr. Jeff Preston and aerialist Erin Clark. "Visual Pleasure is an innovative hybrid aerial dance/lecture. Facing off against Associate Professor Dr. Preston aerialist and performance artist, Erin Clark, plays with a tension between academic authority and personal experience as ways of knowing oneself —in particular when the self is marginalized and positioned in society as an object of study and novelty. Visual Pleasure is a performance that asks how people experience themselves as ‘viewers’ —can our gaze bring life and nourishment to that upon which we gaze? Where is the authority —in the one who draws attention, or the one who gives it?" Presented in partnership with the artLAB Gallery and The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Registration required.

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  • Participants Needed: Research in Examining Apprenticeship in Tattooing in Ontario

    PhD candidate Ana Moyer and professor Dr. Cody Barteet, researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, are seeking participants for a study titled Apprenticeship in Canadian Tattooing. The purpose of this study is to document the experience of Ontario 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or disabled tattoo artists during their apprenticeship or other methods to learn tattooing. We are recording oral history interviews, concentrating our work in the Greater Toronto Area, London, and Guelph district.

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  • Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide | ECH

    December 10, 2023

    On International Human Rights Day and part of Queer Cinema for Palestine: No Pride in Genocide, the Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is proud to present a screening of the powerful, experimental documentary, Photo Booth (2022) by Canadian director, activist, and artist John Greyson. To follow is a conversation between Greyson and Michael Lynk, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law at Western University and Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 2016 to 2022. The program will also include a screening of Razan Al-Salah’s 2017 short film, أبوكي خلق عمره ١٠٠ سنة، زي النك your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba.

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  • Practicum Fundraiser: Mail Art Postcards

    Donations by Dec 10, 2023

    Would you like to receive a surprise, postcard-sized artwork in the mail? The Practicum class has organized a fundraiser and with even a small donation will get you a surprise, postcard-sized, one of a kind, original artwork in the mail! Postcard Artwork is made by one of the members of this year’s Practicum class: Bridget Beardwood, Laila Bloomstone, Isabella Bruni, Susan Castillo Peraza, Kate Chacksfield, Jack Cocker, Kathryn Dunn, Vision Kim, Victoria Kyriakides, Megan Muir, Bridget Puhacz, Michaela Purcell, Chloe Serenko, Marissa Slack, Emil Stoetzer, Amélie Swayze, Sacha Veillon, Elina Zhou.

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  • Western Performs! | artLAB Gallery

    December 6, 2023 at 12:30pm

    Please join us in the artLAB for a musical performance, featuring choir and piano on Wednesday, December 6 from 12:30-1:30pm. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with Don Wright Faculty of Music and SASAH

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  • Exploring Modern and Craft Art in London’s Cathedral’s | Cohen Commons

    November 23 - December 7, 2023

    "Exploring Modern and Craft Art in London’s Cathedral’s" is on view in the Cohen Commons Gallery until December 7, 2023. In our exhibit “Exploring Modern and Craft Art in London’s Cathedral’s” we consider the art and purpose of two chapels within our community. The chapels, Our Lady and St. Aidan’s, are small sites of worship that are part of the larger Catholic and Anglican cathedrals of St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s, respectively. Contrasting the larger Gothic and Romanesque inspired century-old cathedrals, the mid to late twentieth-century chapels adopt more modern aesthetics in their design and adornment.

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  • Practicum Bake Sale Fundraiser | JLVAC

    February 14, 2024 from 12pm - 4pm

    Save the date for another epic bake sale!! On Valentine’s Day! Get something for you and someone special and support the Practicum class and their upcoming exhibition. Cash and e-transfers accepted. Tables will be set up in the main hallway of the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.

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  • Practicum Bake Sale Fundraiser | JLVAC

    Wednesday, November 22, 2023

    Satisfy your sweet tooth on November 22 from 10am-3pm at the Practicum Bake Sale! Proceeds benefiting the BFA 4th year Practicum Class' travel to New York and Year-End Exhibition. Tables will be set up in the main hallway of the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.

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  • "We, the Self" Group Exhibition | The Next Contemporary

    October 14 - December 9, 2023

    The Next Contemporary gallery is pleased to present "We, the Self" featuring works by Kim Neudorf (MFA '12), Jay Krakower, Natalie King, Laurence Philomène, and Sasha Cousins, the show explores queer notions of self-portraiture and what collective ideas of self might look like.

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  • ArtNow! Speakers' Series: Evond Blake (MEDIAH)

    Thursday, November 16, 2023 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

    The ArtNow! Speakers Series and Museum London are proud to welcome London-based artist Evond Blake (MEDIAH) to Museum London on Thursday November 16. MEDIAH will discusses his creative practice which weaves contemporary graffiti/street art forms with painterly techniques and digital media to create large-scale, immersive cinematic environments. Registration is not required for this free event.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Sam Wagter | Artlab Gallery

    November 23 - December 7, 2023

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present "Non-Stop Digital Flickerings" an exhibition of work by MFA candidate Sam Wagter. "Non-Stop Digital Flickerings looks between the binaries, into the ‘void’, and explores the glitches which reside inside. ‘Void’ is the space found within the gaps of these coded structures. It is the in-between space." Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, November 23 from 5-7pm.

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  • McIntosh Gallery is hiring Community Engagement Coordinator

    Applications due December 1, 2023

    Are you an enthusiastic arts professional eager to develop engaging and collaborative community programming initiatives in London, Ontario? Do you have impressive communication and organization skills, with a proven track record of managing multiple projects at once? If so, McIntosh Gallery's recent posting for a new Community Engagement Coordinator may be of interest!

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  • Partnership brings Chinese sculptor’s work to Western for first stop on Canadian tour

    By Jo Jennings, Western News, October 31, 2023

    Sculptures created by one of the most influential modern Chinese artists are now on display for the first time ever in Canada, at an exhibition in the ArtLAB Gallery at Western. In the Heart of the Bronze: A Liu Shiming Experience showcases 25 bronze artworks crafted by the late renowned Chinese sculptor, Liu Shiming. The exhibition at Western is the first leg of a nationwide tour. Organizers say it gives audiences the opportunity to engage with non-Western artforms and provoke deeper questions around the purpose of art and how we engage with other cultures. 

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  • Call for Applications: 2024/2025 Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    Applications due January 15, 2024

    The Department of Visual Arts at Western University is seeking applications from emerging to established Indigenous artists, including individuals and collectives, for the one-year Indigenous Artist-in-Residence (IAiR) program. This program will support a First Nations, Métis, or Inuk artist in the research, creation, and production of new artistic work. The IAiR will work closely with the Department of Visual Arts and undertake community engagement or other outreach activities, that could include (but are not limited to) artist talks, workshops, studio visits, collaborating with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, or exhibiting at the artLAB. Applications from artists with connections to, or living in, the region are particularly encouraged. Projects that incorporate distance or remote components, or other innovative virtual forms of residency, are welcome. Image: Continuing Accountability, Kelly Greene, Artlab Gallery, April 21 - May 17, 2022

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  • GardenShip and State: A Book is a World | Museum London & Words Fest

    Sunday, November 5, 2023 from 3:00PM - 5:00PM

    Museum London and the Words Festival are pleased to host a visit with the artists and curators of GardenShip & State for a launch of their exhibition catalogue. This gathering of curators, artists, designer/editors and writers will address the ways art projects can lead to the production of catalogues and books as archives of cultural materials that act as references and touchstones for ongoing work towards positive change and transformation. Attend in-person or online. Registration required,

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  • 彷徨 [páng huáng] | to pace | Cohen Commons

    October 26 – November 16, 2023

    Curated by Elina Zhou " 彷徨 [páng huáng] | to pace" is on display in the Cohen Commons, October 26 – November 16, 2023. Featuring work by: Sophie Wu, Gratiana Chen and Elina Zhou. This exhibition explore the experiences of Chinese Canadians/Americans who undergo difficulties around finding belonging and coming to terms with their intersectional identity.

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  • Advocating for Creativity: Patricia Bovey on Arts Activism & Cultural Policy

    Friday, November 10, 2023 at 10am

    How can we better advocate for artists in Canada? What role can cultural policy play in securing artists’ material conditions and advancing their interests? And, how can we build broader coalitions to support arts and culture initiatives? Join us for a presentation and discussion considering these pressing questions. Featuring author, museum professional, and former Senator Patricia Bovey, this event will focus on strategies for arts activism, address the current cultural policy landscape in Canada, and identify pressing areas for future policy advocacy. Open to the public, all welcome. Free admission.

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  • Prof. Christof Migone performs at Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival

    Saturday, October 21, 2023

    Christof Migone was in performance with Alexandre St-Onge of Snow Storm, seize me by the horns, and l’étranglement at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) in Switzerland on Saturday, October 21, 2023.

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  • "In the Heart of the Bronze: A Liu Shiming Experience" | Artlab Gallery

    October 26 to November 16, 2023

    Ashar Mobeen, PhD candidate is curating an exhibition of work by renowned Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming. The show, In the Heart of the Bronze: A Liu Shiming Experience will run in the artLAB from October 26 to November 16, 2023. Many members from the Liu Shiming Foundation are travelling from New York to attend a special opening reception and panel discussion -- we hope you can also be present! Opening Reception will take place on Thursday, October 26 from 5-7PM and will continue with a panel discussion with Yam Lau from 7-8PM. Image: Liu Shiming, Looking at Each Other Through the Cage 隔笼相望, 1990. Opening Reception: Thursday, October 26 from 5-7PM / JLVAC artLAB Gallery Panel Discussion with Yam Lau: Thursday, October 26 from 7-8PM / WIRB 1170

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  • Enclosures, objects, mediation: A virtual reading group with Sasha Opeiko | Art Windsor-Essex

    November 15 at 10am and December 13 at 10 am

    Join us for a virtual reading group exploring some of themes addressed in Sasha Opeiko’s solo show, pixel / dust, on view at Art Windsor-Essex from October 24, 2023 until January 21, 2024. Sasha’s work explores intersections of artistic production, machine-oriented ontology, and new definitions of melancholy to explore the reality of objects in the context of late capitalism. We will be reading texts by Levi Bryant, Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Graw,W. J. T Mitchell, and Hito Steyerl. Registration is required.

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  • Steve deBruyn Art Show 2023: Elf:Cat:Per | Satellite Project Space

    October 19-28, 2023

    "Steve deBruyn Art show 2023:Elf:Cat:Per is an art show that was made to be seen! It is an art show that is made to be experienced! A tour through the twisted turns of a reverted and pivoted methodology much in the throes of the ongoing process of art school, this exhibition dares to posit a direction in the future by besmirching the past." Steve deBruyn Art Show 2023: Elf:Cat:Per is on view at Satellite Project Space October 19-28, 2023. An activation is set for Saturday October 21st, from 2-5pm.

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  • ArtNow! Speakers' Series presents Hon. Patricia Bovey

    November 9, 2023 at 7pm

    ArtNow! Speakers' Series welcomes Hon. Patricia Bovey to discuss her recent book "Western Voices in Canadian Art" on November 9, at Fanshawe College. Presented in partnership with Fanshawe College Fine Arts, the Woodstock Art Gallery, Western University, Information and Media Studies, the Department of Visual Arts and the McIntosh Gallery.

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  • Soheila Esfahani: The Tool That Could Part Tangled Things | Red Head Gallery

    October 4 - 28, 2023

    Soheila Esfahani is pleased to present her recent work in a solo exhibition titled The Tool That Could Part Tangled Things at the Red Head Gallery. The exhibition runs October 4 - 28th, 2023. Prof. Esfahani will be in attendance at the gallery on October 28th, from 12-5pm.

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  • Static Unearthed, MFA Group Exhibition | Artlab Gallery

    Reception: Thursday, October 5 from 5-7PM

    Please join the 2nd-year MFA candidates on Thursday, October 5 from 5-7PM in the Artlab Gallery for the opening reception if their group exhibition "Static Unearthed". This exhibition will be on view October 5 - 19, 2023.

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  • The paradox of progress | Cohen Commons

    Reception: Thursday, October 5 from 5-7PM

    "The paradox of progress" is curated by Amelie Swayze and features work by Visual Arts undergraduate students: Jack Cocker, Bridget Lisa Puhacz, Chloe Serenko and Amelie Swayze. "The paradox of progress" is on view in the Cohen Commons October 5 through 19, 2023.

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  • ArtNow! Speakers' Series: Leith Mahkewa

    October 5, 2023 @ 7pm

    In partnership with the Forest City Gallery, ArtNow! Speakers' Series is pleased to present an artist talk by Leith Mahkewa, Indigenous Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. As the incoming Indigenous Artist-in-Residence at Western, Mahkewa will join us to talk about her art practice, which often juxtaposes the geometric shapes found in her Hopi family pottery patterns and Haudenosaunee inspired floral designs. Her talk will also offer an opportunity to talk about her vision for her tenure as the Artist-in-Residence. This talk is open to the public both in-person and online. Registration is required.

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  • One Thing: The Bathers by Liza Eurich | CMagazine

    Part-time lecturer and artLAB gallery manager Liza Eurich recently published “The Bathers” in CMagazine (Issue 155: Codes). This text looks at the Voynich manuscript to explore legibility and resistance, as well as feminist discourses rooted in care and collectivity.

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  • Reilly Knowles: i become as a bird | Good Sport

    Friday, October 13th from 7:00 – 9:00pm

    A new art exhibition inspired by the witchcraft folklore of Southwestern Ontario will arrive in downtown London just in time for Halloween. i become as a bird by local artist and BFA alum Reilly Knowles will draw from legends such as The Baldoon Mystery and tales of Dr. Troyer, witch doctor of Long Point, to explore historical settler superstitions as they intersect with gender, mysticism, and the natural world. A reception and artist talk will be held on Friday, October 13th from 7:00 – 9:00pm, with the talk beginning at 8:00pm. All events are free to attend.

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  • Sarah Bassnett co-authors new book 'Photography in Canada, 1839-1989'

    September 22, 2023

    Sarah Bassnett and co-author Sarah Parsons (York University) have released a new book, Photography in Canada, 1839-1989: An Illustrated History. Published by Art Canada Institute, it is available now open access online, and it will be published in print in the coming months. This is the first comprehensive book on the history of photography in Canada.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Brandon Vickerd

    Thursday, September 21 at 7PM

    In partnership with McIntosh Gallery, Art Now! is excited to present a talk by artist Brandon Vickerd on Thursday, September 21 at 7PM. Brandon Vickerd is a Hamilton based artist and Professor of Sculpture at York University, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History. He received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1999) and his MFA from the University of Victoria (2001).

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  • In Memoriam - Raymond Moriyama

    September 2, 2023

    The Department of Visual Arts is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Raymond Moriyama, a renowned architect behind the design of some of Canada's most iconic buildings, including the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre at Western University, which he designed in 1993 and Museum London in downtown London.

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  • Kirsty Robertson wins Creation and Research in the Visual Arts Prize

    September 18, 2023

    Professor Kirsty Robertson has been awarded The Grantham Foundation: Creation and Research in the Visual Arts prize which includes $5000 and a one-month residency at the Foundation in the coming year. Prof. Robertson’s project “Plastic Atmospheres: Of Textiles, Microfibers, Art, and Air” takes one of the most common manufactured items in the world – a synthetic textile – and uses its disintegration to read the world.

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  • Quinn Smallboy: String Theory | University College

    Friday, November 29 at 11:30am

    On Friday, September 29th the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will celebrate the installation of two recent pieces by local artist and alum Quinn Smallboy (MFA '18), acquired by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2023, to honour and observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Unveiling of the artwork and remarks will be followed by a reception.

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  • Brittany/Andrew Forrest: Gasp | Satellite Project Space

    September 13 - September 22, 2023

    Brittany/Andrew Forrest second year MFA candidate is pleased to present their exhibition at Satellite Project Space, "Gasp". On view September 13 - September 22, 2023. Join us for the closing reception on September 22  from 4:30 to 6:30 pm

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  • Ode to the River Coffeehouse | Cohen Commons

    Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 5pm

    You're invited you to take part in an extraordinary celebration of water at Riverfest 2023 Ode to the River Coffeehouse event. Get ready to dive into the depths of inspiration and hear from different artistic expressions, as we pay tribute to Deshkan Ziibi and the limitless power of water itself.

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  • Centre for Sustainable Curating launches MATERIALS research cycle

    September 28th, 2023

    On September 28, join the Centre for Sustainable Curating online and in person for an open house, a workshop, and a series of short talks. All times EST. Closed captioning available for online talks.

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  • “The Creation of a ‘Transcendental Experience’: Stained Glass by Christopher Wallis for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Ontario,” by C. Cody Barteet and Katie Oates

    August 30, 2023

    Professor Cody Barteet and Katie Oates recently published “The Creation of a ‘Transcendental Experience’: Stained Glass by Christopher Wallis for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Ontario,” in The Journal of Stained Glass: British Society of Master Glass Painters.

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  • “Timed Space: De Stijl’s Framing of Four-Dimensional Space/Time in Two Dimensions” by John Hatch

    September 4, 2023

    John Hatch’s article “Timed Space: De Stijl’s Framing of Four-Dimensional Space/Time in Two Dimensions” has just been published in the volume Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design edited by Sarina Miller as part of the Vernon Press’ Series in Art

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  • Doors Open: London’s Heritage Through Cuisine

    Museum London, Saturday, September 16, 2023

    Join artist Ron Benner at Museum London on Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for the annual outdoor corn roast. Enjoy corn on the cob with butter, salt, chili powder, and lime juice freshly roasted from Benner's Maiz Barbacoa — part corn roaster and part sculpture. Live acoustic music by Frank Ridsdale accompanies this feast. On Sunday from 12:00 pm to 12:40 pm, the London Symphonia presents an informal cushion concert for ages 3+ with music from around the globe and will be followed by a Q&A with the musicians.

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  • Art exhibit reimagines T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in times of climate change

    By Emily Passfield, Western News, July 31, 2023

    Topic Share Explore All News Hannah Verster was contemplating the significance of T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land, which describes the concerns and fears of society after World War I, when she began wondering if those concerns, particularly about ecology, could be reflected in current fears about climate change. The result is a unique, interdisciplinary art exhibit helmed by the masters in visual arts student. ‘A heap of broken images: revisiting The Waste Land through art in a time of climate crisis’ has been created in collaboration with Western’s geology and earth sciences department.

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  • Brittany Forrest is awarded the See|Me Student Prize

    August 16 - September 24, 2023

    Congratulations to MFA candidate Brittany Forrest as she was recently awarded the See|Me Student Prize in the NEW REALISM / ALTERED REALITY exhibition competition. Brittany's work will be featured in the group exhibition at Gallery 23 NY in New York City which opens on August 16th and runs through September 24, 2023.

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  • Myles Jackson Lynch: Cryptic Landscapes | Forest City Gallery

    Forest City Gallery, August 12 - 19, 2023

    Forest City Gallery is delighted to be presenting the FCG Feature Award for this year's Annual Juried Exhibition from August 12 - 19. Myles Jackson Lynch, BFA, Hons. will be presenting his series, Cryptic Landscapes, with a celebration event scheduled for this Saturday, August 12 from 3-5pm. If you are in the neighbourhood, do come by! Detail image of Myles Jackson Lynch, Cryptic Landscape 3. Image courtesy of the artist.

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  • Explore Indwell’s Embassy Commons Public Art in London

    August 1, 2023

    Explore the creation of the Embassy at Nite mural by Jamelie Hassan and the Love, Hope, and Belonging mosaic on the exterior of Embassy Commons in London, Ontario, a supportive, affordable housing building by Indwel.

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  • Western’s new Indigenous artist-in-residence brings multi-hued approach to traditional creations

    By Jo Jennings, Special to Western News, August 2, 2023

    Leith Mahkewa looks forward to a homecoming of sorts as she returns to Western as the incoming Indigenous artist-in-residence beginning in September. The master beadwork artist anticipates using her practice to connect with new audiences once stitch at a time, while also growing as an artist herself.

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  • Alyssa Sweeney: Confined by Darkness | McIntosh Gallery

    August 3 - September 8, 2023

    Alyssa Sweeney's MFA thesis exhibition 'Confined by Darkness' is on view at the McIntosh Gallery starting August 3rd with a closing reception scheduled for September 8 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm. 'Confined by Darkness' uses night photography to explore themes of place attachment and psychogeography of the surrounding environment. By venturing out alone while most are fast asleep Sweeney captures images in a way that most people infrequently see. Sweeney explores the emotional and mental connection to being physically present within the space, thus rendering the subject matter available for individuals to evoke their own experiences and memories in response.

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  • Welcome, Leith Mahkewa as the Incoming Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    July 25, 2023

    The Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts are excited to announce that beadwork artist Leith Mahkewa has accepted the role as our second Indigenous Artist-in-Residence to start this September! Welcome, Leith Mahkewa - we are honoured to have you and look forward to engaging with the work you will pursue during your residency.

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  • Reports: Kelly Greene, Artist Residency, Western University

    By Matthew Ryan Smith, First American Art Magazine, Issue #39, Summer 2023

    Matthew Ryan Smith (PhD '12) recently published a three-page report which is included in Issue #39 of First American Art Magazine that highlights Greene's McIntosh exhibition, ArtLab exhibition, Glenhyrst exhibition, and her role as Indigenous Artist in Residence in the Department of Visual Arts. residency obligations. I've attached the report for your records.

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  • Masha Kouznetsova: sweeping the forest floor of frequencies | Artlab Gallery

    Closing Reception: Friday, August 11 from 5-7PM

    Masha Kouznetsova's MFA thesis exhibition will be on view in the Artlab Gallery from July 27th to August 11th. "sweeping the forest floor of frequencies" is an exhibition of multidisciplinary works that foreground sonic, visual, and imperceptible signals as methods for grounding and interconnectedness. Search begins with intention but letting go of intention and forgetting about the search is key to wayfinding, to pausing. A series of such intuitive pauses results in archipelagoes of objects and processes that are the aleatory compositions within the installations of sweeping the forest floor of frequencies.

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  • Bibliography | MKG Gallery

    July 8 – August 19, 2023

    MKG127 is excited to present Bibliography, a group exhibition including new and existing works by gallery artists including: Dean Baldwin Lew, Alan Belcher, Adam David Brown, Bill Burns, Michael Dumontier, Dave Dyment, Liza Eurich, Sara Graham, Instant Coffee, Laura Kikauka, Kristiina Lahde, Jason Lujan, Gwen MacGregor, John Marriott, Luke Parnell, Roula Partheniou, Geoffrey Pugen, Jayce Salloum, Monica Tap, Joy Walker, and Laurel Woodcock. The format of the book has proved remarkably resilient in the face of breakthroughs in other technologies. Its early demise has been predicted continually – with the advent of cinema, television, the personal computer and the e-book reader. Image caption: The Officer's Wife, bass wood, book excerpt, 3.75" x 10" x 2.5”

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  • Mike Pszczonak Awarded CIBC C2 Create and Curate Art Program

    June 14, 2023

    Congratulations to MFA '15 alum Mike Pszczonak for being selected as a winner of the CIBC C2 Create and Curate Art Program! (C2 Art) is a Canadian national art competition which supports emerging artists in launching their careers. Mike Pszczonak is one of two artists who will create and curate their art to be presented in a solo exhibition inside the CIBC headquarters, CIBC Square South Tower in Toronto, Ontario.

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  • Indigenous Art 2023 | Woodland Cultural Centre

    July 29th at 2PM

    Woodland Cultural Centre invites you to the opening reception of Indigenous Art 2023 on July 29th at 2PM in the gallery. Join us to celebrate amazing Indigenous artists at the 48th Annual Indigenous Art Exhibition. This exhibition is in partnership with The Brown Homestead.

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  • Queer Frontiers Screening and Publication Launch | LOMAA

    July 25, 2023 at 7pm EDT

    Join LOMAA in the celebration of the Queer Frontiers series with a screening and publication launch featuring a conversation by artists and activists Rodney Diverlus and Syrus Marcus Ware! Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7pm EDT. Pre-Register for Zoom link.

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  • FAMILY PORTRAITS films & video by Charlie Egleston, Philip Hoffman, & Naomi Uman

    Friday, July 28 at 7pm

    A selection of works by filmmakers exploring ancestry from places of origin through the language, customs, myths & rituals of hallowed sites and historical remnants of familial lore to personal reflections on immediate members through the voices and faces of loved ones remembered. Presented in partnership with FRAMES Film Series. Friday, July 28 @ 7pm, TAP Centre for Creativity.

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  • Hannah Verster: “A Heap of Broken Images:” Revisiting The Waste Land through Art in a Time of Climate Crisis

    July 17 - August 21, 2023

    MA candidate Hannah Verster's exhibition “A Heap of Broken Images:” Revisiting The Waste Land through Art in a Time of Climate Crisis” features her artwork and the work of Zachari Logan, Reilly Knowles, and Amanda White. The exhibition will be presented in Western University’s Biological & Geological Sciences Building (across from BGS 0162) from July 17 - August 21, 2023.

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  • Hannah West: What Has Been and What Will Be | 10C Shared Space

    July 5 - July 27, 2023

    Congratulations to current MFA candidate, Hannah West whose first solo exhibition "What Has Been and What Will Be" will be on view at 10C Shared Space in Guelph from July 5th - 27th, with an opening reception on July 7th from 1pm to 3pm.

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  • Alum announced as a recipient of 2023 Redefining Canadian Art History Fellowship Program

    Art Canada Institute, June 23, 2023

    Alum Jennifer Orpana (MA '10, PhD '15) was announced as a recipient of the Art Canada Institute 2023 Redefining Canadian Art History Fellowship Program for her research on the 'Life and Work of Violet Keene Perincheif'.

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  • Imagine: Student Book Art Exhibition

    By Western Libraries, July 1 - 31, 2023

    Experience the visual culture and imagination of our students through a book art exhibition. Imagine was produced by eight Masters and PhD students, and Professor Patrick Mahon, who came together in the graduate studio seminar entitled, On the Purposeful Imagination. The work will be on view in The Reading Room in the Archives & Special Collections, Weldon Library for the month of July.

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  • Shelley Niro (MFA'97) recieves honorary degree from Western

    By Western Communiations, Western News, June 21, 2023

    Congratulations to alum Shelley Niro (MFA '97) as she is among 14 leaders to recieves an honorary degree at Western this spring. Shelley Niro is a painter, photographer and filmmaker. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, she is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk Six Nations Grand River Reserve. Her passion for art was sparked early on, thanks to growing up in an artistic community. Niro received an MFA from Western in 1997. While still a student at Western, Niro shot one of her films, Honey Moccasin, with the help of a Visual Arts class. She was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General Award in Visual Art in 2017. She became an honorary elder in the Indigenous Curatorial Collective. In 2020, Niro was presented with the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award from the Ontario Arts Foundation.

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  • Philip Gurrey: Potential Indifference | Artlab Gallery

    June 15 - July 6, 2023

    The work of PhD candidate Philip Gurrey are on view in his solo exhibition "Potential Indifference" in the Artlab Gallery from June 15 - July 6, 2023.

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  • Recent donations to the Department of Visual Arts

    June 20, 2022

    The Department of Visual Arts graciously accepted two donations from the London arts community earlier this month. We want to express our deep appreciation to Western alum Brenda McLeod and the Canadian Embroiderer's Guild: London, who recently donated a custom-built embroidery frame constructed by a fine wood artisan Brian Gray. We would also like to thank Museum London for donating an etching press, which is an incredible addition to our printmaking studio. We look forward to seeing the new work student will create with this equipment in the fall!

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  • Embassy Cultural House: Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History | Satellite Project Space

    June 14 - June 24, 2023

    Embassy Cultural House: Celebrating 40 Years of Cultural History is an exhibition that charts the past and present programs of the Embassy Cultural House. Beginning with the Embassy Hotel in 1983, the exhibition acknowledges the efforts made by a network of artists and activists in London, Ontario and internationally, including the current, re-invigorated community collective initiated in 2020. The exhibition has been coordinated by Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Wyn Geleynse and Olivia Mossuto. A closing event will take place at Satellite Project Space on Saturday, June 24 from 2-5PM.

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  • Kim Neudorf: the signs appear as in aspic | Thames Art Gallery

    June 16 - August 13, 2023

    Congratulations to Kim Neudorf whose solo exhibition "in the signs appear as in aspic" opens at Thames Art Gallery in Chatham on June 16 and runs through August 13. Join Kim Neudorf for an artist talk on June 23 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm in Studio One, Cultural Centre and a painting workshop on June 24 (registration required).

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  • Art show addresses issues of race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora

    By Megan Stacey, Western News, May 19, 2023

    Faculty, staff and artists gathered at Western's artLAB for the opening reception of its newest exhibition, "of many worlds in this world," including the chance to walk across a recreation of the Deshkan Ziibiing, or the Thames River, a work by Sheri Osden Nault.

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  • Anahí González: Hacia Arriba / Upwards | Xspace Cultural Centre

    May 26–July 8, 2023

    Congratulations to PhD candidate Anahí González whose solo exhibition "Hacia Arriba / Upwards" is on view May 26 - July 8 at Xspace Cultural Centre and is included in the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival in Toronto.

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  • Londombia | Satellite Project Space

    May 17-27, 2023

    Juan Andrés Bello, in collaboration with members of the Colombian community present ‘Londombia’ at Satellite Project Space. This photo exhibition celebrates the presence and many contributions of the Colombian community in London. It is the result of a crowd-sourced, participatory process. Its production was supported by the City of London through the London Heritage Council – Community Heritage Investment Program and will be presented in association with several partners: Satellite Project Space, CulturX, and Embassy Cultural House.

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  • Congratulations to Professor Patrick Mahon on his Upcoming Retirement

    Thursday, May 11, 2023

    On Thursday, May 11, the Department of Visual Arts hosted a reception to celebrate Prof. Patrick Mahon's many accomplishments throughout his 28 years at Western University. Current and previous students, friends, and colleagues from Western and the wider artistic community were present to honour his legacy. As many speeches underlined, Patrick's impact was vast, the initiatives he took were abundant, and he has inspired and guided many in their academic and artistic journey. Patrick, you will be missed—our best wishes for a happy retirement.

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  • Brittany/Andrew Forrest Publishes The Imaginary Imagination

    May 10, 2023

    'The Imaginary Imagination' the recently published ebook was written by visual artist and MFA candidate Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her). This book acts as an appendage to her art practice. It contains a collection of vulnerable autobiographical accounts that embody themes that consider identity dysphoria, perception fabrications, mnemonic memory retrieval, power dynamics, sensory perception, gender assimilation, and sexual autonomy in relation to childhood, adolescent, and adult trauma.

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  • Patrick Mahon: Thresholder Early & Recent Works (1989–2023) | Cohen Commons

    May 4 - June 8, 2023

    Thresholder: Early & Recent Works by Professor Patrick Mahon is on view now in the Cohen Commons until June 8, 2023. Mahon notes "The works in this exhibition, some of which were made 35 years ago and others completed last month, may nonetheless suggest that I have continually been attuned to flux and uncertainty. As an artist I have indeed been preoccupied with things in states of suspension or passage ––threshold moments."

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  • of many worlds in this world | artLAB Gallery

    May 4 - June 8, 2023

    "of many worlds in this world" curated by Ashar Mobeen, PhD candidate, features the work of new studio art faculty members, Soheila Esfahani, Jessica Karuhanga and Sheri Osden Nault. Mobeen writes: “of many worlds in this world showcases a selection of works by Soheila Esfahani, Jessica Karuhanga, and Sheri Nault that address issues of race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora whilst pushing the limits of what art is and can be. The established and dynamic poetics of the show encourages viewers to respond and/or attend to their local surroundings, personal or national histories, and, most crucially, other people. Given the discursive nature of the subjects, this exhibition does not claim to be comprehensive, but rather acts as a platform for the emergence of a revisionary moment where the audience can engage in intergenerational dialogue and come together to displace the imagined histories that shape our world.”

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  • Sydney McArthur Awarded Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship for Museum and Curatorial Studies

    May 4, 2023

    On May 3rd, Museum London awarded the inaugural Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship for Museum and Curatorial Studies to Sydney McArthur. This $2,500 award assists students at Western University who demonstrate exceptional dedication to museum studies. The scholarship honours Melanie Townsend — Head of Exhibitions and Collections at Museum London from 2004 to 2018.

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  • Virtual Encounters: Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dieterich) and Ellen Moffat | LOMAA

    Thursday May 18, at 7:30pm EDT

    LOMAA is excited to present new contributions to a project by Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dieterich) and premiere a new work by PhD alum Ellen Moffat for the Virtual Encounters series. On Thursday May 18, at 7:30pm EDT, Raven Chacon & John Dieterich will host a performance of Parallel 03 with collaborators from London ON and Winnipeg WB. To follow, Raven Chacon & John Dieterich will come together in virtual conversation with Ellen Moffat. This is presented in partnership with send + receive: A Festival of Sound. Both the works and talk will be available to view online for the remainder of the month.

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  • Soheila Esfahani: Cultured Pallets | Aga Khan Museum

    May 2 to October 15, 2023

    Professor Sohelia Esfahani's latest large scale site-specific installation Cultured Pallets: Aga Khan Museum at the Aga Khan Museum's Collections Gallery curated by Bita Pourvash is on view from May 2 to October 15, 2023.  This installation is inspired by the geometric design of a 15th-century wooden door from the Aga Khan Museum's collections.

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  • Rah Eleh Longlisted for Sobey Art Foundation Award

    National Gallery of Canada, April 25, 2023

    Congratulations to MFA alum Rah Eleh who was longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award! This is the richest award for contemporary visual arts in the country for artists of all ages, and one of the most generous in the world. The annual prize is funded by the Sobey Art Foundation. Congratulations to all longlisted artists whose works present a wide range of media, perspectives and lived experiences that reveal new ways of seeing ourselves, each other, and our diverse histories. The Gallery’s long-lasting partnership with the Sobey Art Foundation is strengthening the futures and community of the visual arts in and across Canada, and brings well-deserved national and international recognition to many of this country’s most thoughtful and innovative artistic voices."

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  • Campus greenhouse reopens, offers ‘idyllic’ setting for visual arts exhibition

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, April 13, 2023

    Three years after closing its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic, Western’s greenhouses and botanical gardens have reopened, providing the ‘perfect’ gallery for an art history student exhibit. The installation, on display in the Tropical House – the largest glasshouse in the greenhouse complex – stems from a budding collaboration between the departments of visual arts and biology. When Ira Kazi, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, reached out to Carrie Hamilton, Biology facilities manager, to organize a tour for Kazi’s Nature in Early Modern Art course, Hamilton saw an opportunity to collaborate even further...

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  • Forest City Gallery Welcomes New Executive Director

    March 22, 2023

    Congratulations to PhD candidate, Ruth Skinner as she was recently named the new Executive Director of the Forest City Gallery (FCG).

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  • BL:UE | Artlab Gallery

    March 31 – April 13, 2023

    BL:UE is the 2023 Practicum show that presents the development of seventeen artists’ work over the course of four years, culminating in the 2022/23 terms. The work presented in this show is the product of creativity and critique, both in each individual’s practice within the practicum course, and experience in Western’s BFA program overall. Practicum students: Megan Goddard, Hilary Rutherford, Sebastian Evans, Darcy McVicar, Julia Fawcett, Timothy Wiebe, Karlee Pattenden, Olivia Pattison, Bridget Koza, Noelle Mahoney, Hailey Watson, Giulia Commisso, Isabella Springett, Myles Lynch, Abbygale Shelley, Yasaman Falahati, Yenny Yang.

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  • Into the Garden: Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner in Oaxaca, Mexico | Weldon Library

    April 7 – 26, 2023

    PhD candidate Iraboty Kazi and Dr. Cody Barteet are proud to present Into the Garden: Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner in Oaxaca, Mexico on view in D.B. Weldon Library, main floor glass cases. We explore ideas of place through botanical representations from the 2012 watercolour series, The World is a Garden. The series was created by London, Ontario-based artists, Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner during their residency in the Jardin Etnobotánico de Oaxaca (Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca), a space with a fascinating history and local connections.

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  • Prof. Sarah Bassnett and Blessy Augustine present at the Association for Art History Conference

    April 12, 2023

    Professor Sarah Bassnett and PhD candidate Blessy Augustine are chairing a session on Photography and 21st-century migration at the Association for Art History conference hosted by University College London, UK on April 12, 2023.

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  • Allegory | Cohen Commons Gallery

    March 31 – April 13, 2023

    "Allegory" is an exhibition curated by ArtLab Gallery intern Megan Godard which features nine undergraduate students, including Bridget Koza, Chloe Serenko, Brittany Forrest, Isabella Springett, Grace Maier, Jack Cocker, Isabella Bruni, Marissa Slack, Timothy Wiebe. "Allegory" aims to give these nine artists a space to investigate whether allegory and visual aesthetics of the Baroque can work together and what that may look like in today's world.

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  • ZINELAND: IT’S A ZINE WORLD, AFTER ALL! | Satellite Project Space

    March 29-April 15, 2023

    Welcome to “Zineland: It’s a Zine World, After All!”, the fourth year Capstone Project by students from Western University’s School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH). As a group of thirteen artists, our class has created an exhibition which aims to represent the culmination of our learning and development over the past four years.

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  • Locus Amoenus: The Garden of Verdant Delights | Western University Tropical Gardens

    April 12 – 26, 2023

    The students of AH 3696: Nature in Early Modern Art are proud to present Locus Amoenus: The Garden of Verdant Delights. Inspired by Western University’s botanical gardens as a site of pedagogy and pleasure, our exhibition explores early modern green spaces and their representations in connection to contemporary places and practices. This exhibition takes place in Western’s Tropical Greenhouse

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  • Mutable Matters: A Conversation with Laura Hudspith

    By By Katie Lawson, Peripheral Review, March 15, 2023

    Congratulations to PhD candidate Katie Lawson whose interview with artist Laura Hudspith was published by Peripheral Review.

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  • "Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade" by Dr. Christine Sprengler

    March 22, 2023

    Dr. Christine Sprengler has published a new book with Oxford University Press titled "Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade". This text presents a two-pronged argument— that cinema helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and subsequently a common conception of the decade, and that cinema itself has fractured our understanding of the 1950s.

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  • Open Studios and Graduate Symposium

    April 15, 2023 at 1pm ET

    Join us for our first OPEN STUDIOS and Graduate Symposium in three years! This free event is a wonderful opportunity to come and check out the amazing works of our MFAs and PhDs, see their creative process firsthand, engage in critical discussions around pertinent themes, and wrap off the academic year with a bang!

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  • the 720 series | Satellite Gallery

    Thursday, March 23 from 5-7pm

    The students of the Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Studio in the Department of Visual Arts are pleased to present "the 720 series", an exhibition of collaboratively made large scale sculptures that explore spontaneous play. Please join us for the opening reception at Satellite on Thursday March 23 from 5-7pm.

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  • Santee Smith: Talking Earth - Inviting the Land to Shape Us

    April 19, 2023 at 3:00pm

    Santee Smith presents Talking Earth - Inviting the Land to Shape Us on April 19, 2023, in Western's Wampum Learning Lodge Dome. This presentation is proudly supported by Western University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Visual Arts, Office of Indigenous Initiatives and Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Kelly Greene. In Talking Earth - Inviting the Land to Shape Us, artist Santee Smith speaks about her artistic work/life and creative proces

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  • Virtual Encounters: Anyse Ducharme and Jacob Wren | LOMAA

    Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 3pm

    LOMAA is excited to premiere new works by Anyse Ducharme and Jacob Wren for the Virtual Encounters series. On Sunday April 2, at 3pm EST, Jacob Wren will be presenting a live performance over Zoom, and to follow both artists will come together in virtual conversation. We would love to have you in attendance but don't fret if that's not possible, the works will be available for viewing the remainder of the month.

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  • PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen Presents at EnviroCon 2023

    March 24, 2023

    Art & Visual Culture PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen will present his paper titled “You are what you eat, from your head to your feet” at EnviroCon 2023: Intercultural Dialogue on Environment & Sustainability on Friday, March 24, 2023.

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  • ‘Taught by experts, not YouTube’: Embroidery course taps into generational knowledge

    By Megan Stacey, Western News, March 17, 2023

    "There is a university course underway inside Room 234 at Western’s John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, but there are no laptops in sight. Pencils are traded for brightly coloured spools of embroidery floss. A professor has yielded the floor to half a dozen members of the London Embroidery Guild, who co-teach the class..."

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  • In Memoriam - Alan Cohen

    March 2nd, 2023

    Western University is saddened by the passing of Alan M. Cohen on March 2, 2023. Alan, together with his wife Phyllis, were long-time supporters of the London creative arts community and the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. Their support, vision, and commitment to the Department were recently brought to life through projects such as The Cohen Exploration Lab, a maker-space that allows students to explore and take creative risks, and the Cohen Commons where community can gather to celebrate creativity. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts are grateful for the commitment, and enthusiastic support of the Cohens through the years and our thoughts are with their family.

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  • ArtNow! Speakers' Series: A Conversation with Angie Quick and Joel Faflak

    Thursday, March 16 at 7PM

    ArtNow! Speakers’ Series and Museum London are pleased to present an evening conversation between artist Angie Quick and Professor Joel Faflak. They will discuss Quick’s creative practice in relation to her exhibition, "make me less evil" on Thursday, March 16 at 7pm at Museum London. Image: Installation view of "Angie Quick: make me less evil" with the artist

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  • Museum London Announces Melanie Townsend Scholarship

    Applications Due April 3, 2023

    For the first time in 2023, Museum London will award the Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship for Museum and Curatorial Studies. This opportunity is designed to assist students at Western University who demonstrate exceptional dedication to curation, museum studies and museology. As Head of Exhibitions and Collections at Museum London for 14 years, Melanie made valuable contributions to our organization, to the visual arts community in London, Ontario, and across Canada. The team at Museum London and artists and colleagues across Canada remember Melanie for her insightful and original curatorial work and her sense of humour. Industrious and down-to-earth, Melanie believed in the importance of cultural institutions to critically engage audiences through contemporary art and through investigation of cultural artifacts to foster deeper understanding of history. This award honours Melanie’s contribution and is one of the ways her legacy lives on!

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  • Derek Liddington: Marbled Bodies, Softened Earth | Daniel Faria Gallery

    March 16 - April 22, 2023

    Congratulations to PhD candidate, Derek Liddington whose solo exhibition "Marbled Bodies, Softened Earth" opens at Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto on March 16th, 2023 and runs through April 22, 2023.

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  • Local artists welcome you to their weekend celebration

    Good Sport, April 1 - 2, 2023

    On April 1st and 2nd, twelve artists from the local artist group Good Sport will open their studios to the public in their annual Studio Tour. The artists participating in this year’s tour include Shannon Taylor-Jones, Andres Garzon, Reilly Knowles, Zane Pate, Joanna Skiba, Michelle Flemming, Jacqueline Demendeev, Monica Joy and Malvika Agarwal, as well as newest members Ian Indiano, Alyssa Waterbury and Sammy Orlowski.

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  • Jessica Karuhanga: Blue as the insides | KWAG

    April 8, 2023 - August 6, 2023

    The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Ugandan-Canadian artist Jessica Karuhanga. Blue as the insides is a survey of Karuhanga’s performance, video and sound installations over the last decade.

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  • "A Group Show in London Traces Artists’ Spiritual Connection With Nature" | Frieze Magazine

    March 1, 2023

    Aliya Say of Frieze Magazine reviewed Prof. Sky Glasbush's work 'Night Dance,' which is on view in the group exhibition, 'The Moth and the Thunderclap,' until March 18 at Modern Art London. The full review is available online.

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  • Ashar Mobeen Presents at AHVA Graduate Symposium

    March 3, 2023 at 2:30pm PST

    Art & Visual Culture PhD Candidate Ashar Mobeen will present his paper titled “Wonders of the Ancestral Puebloans: Astronomers, Engineers, and Magicians of the Four Corners” at the 46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium on Friday, March 3rd at 2.30pm PST.

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  • AJE 21 | Artlab Gallery

    March 2 – 16, 2023

    Celebrating twenty-one years the "Annual Juried Exhibition" continues to be one of the Department of Visual Arts most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions. This diverse show supports the production of new work made in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, print, video, and photography. Exhibited works were selected by a professional jury who consider creativity, concept, materiality and technique. This year’s show is indicative of the resilience and dedication our students continue to demonstrate.

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  • Creativity Workshop with Beau Dixon

    March 15, 2023 at 2:30pm EST

    Join FIMS for a rare informal workshop with award-winning actor, musician, playwright, music director, and sound designer Beau Dixon on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Beau Dixon will be performing live, speaking about his work and process as an artist, and sharing stories about his experiences working on his musical cabaret Freedom: The Spirit and Legacy of Black Music as well as other projects.

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  • Sky Glabush Joins Stephen Friedman Gallery

    February 24, 2023

    Stephen Friedman Gallery in London UK is delighted to announce representation of Sky Glabush. His first UK solo exhibition will open at Stephen Friedman Gallery in April 2023. Sky Glabush is also represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles.

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  • “The Implications of the ƛCDM Model of Cosmology on the Post-Colonial Terrain of Queen’s Park, Toronto” by Ashar Mobeen

    March 11, 2023 at 2:15pm EST

    Art & Visual Culture PhD candidate, Ashar Mobeen will present his paper titled, “The Implications of the ƛCDM Model of Cosmology on the Post-Colonial Terrain of Queen’s Park, Toronto” at the 2023 Graduate Conference of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism on Saturday, March 11th at 2:15pm EST.

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  • Imogen Clendenning: Archive on Ice | Ice Follies

    February 10 - 24th, 2023

    PhD candidate, Imogen Clendenning's solar powered art installation "Archive on Ice" was included in "Ice Follies" a biennial festival of contemporary and community-engaged art presented on frozen Lake Nipissing in North Bay, Ontario from February 10 - 24th, 2023. Imogen was interviewed by CTV News about their work and involvement in the festival.

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  • Indigenous learning circle: N’Satung film screening

    Monday February 27, 2023 at 12pm - 2pm

    Join Biindigen: Indigenous Learning Circle at the Wampum Learning Lodge for a screening of N’Satung, a documentary on Indigenous experiences with education in the Great Lakes area, followed by a discussion with director Keesis Nadjiwon (Chippewa of Nawash), director of photography Greg DeSouza and producer Laurence de Looze.

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  • 'Portraits of Home' | Grimsby Public Art Gallery

    February 21, 2023 - April 22, 2023

    Prof. Soheila Esfahani is featured in the group exhibition 'Portraits of Home' at Grimsby Public Art Gallery from February 21 through April 22. Her installation features 115 porcelain birds, a combination of collected souvenir-like objects alongside handmade birds painted with culturally specific designs. Together, the birds evoke a representation of the movement of culture from place to place by immigrants and tourists, challenging viewers to consider the dissemination of culture and their inherent complexities.

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  • Suggested Reading | Christie Contemporary

    February 18 - March 18, 2023

    Professor emeritus David Merritt's work is featured in the current group exhibition "Suggested Reading" on display at Christie Contemporary until March 11, 2023

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  • Virtual Encounters with new works by Kite and David Yu | LOMAA

    March 5, 2023 at 3pm EST on Zoom

    LOMAA is excited to launch the series Virtual Encounters with new works by Kite and David Yu. Their works will be available to view online for the entirety of March, and both artists will come together in virtual conversation on Sunday, March 5 at 3 p.m. EST. This talk will additionally be available for viewing the remainder of the month. Registration required.

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  • “The Passion of the Hedge-Rider” — Emily Pelstring

    By Ana Moyer, CMag, February 14, 2023

    Congratulations to MA grad and current PhD candidate Ana Moyer whose review of Emily Pelstring's “The Passion of the Hedge-Rider” (2022) was published in Cmag.

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  • Confluences a Community Gathering & Symposium

    March 10 - 11, 2023

    Mark your calendars! You are invited to join GardenShip and State at Museum London’s Centre at the Forks to discuss how art communicates the interconnections between culture, politics, and ecology. The event is open to all, including a reception to cap off the events on Friday and a welcome tea with treats at midday on Saturday.

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  • Students brainstorm on practices, research during Ivey Sustainability Week

    By Ivey Communications, Special to Western News, February 13, 2023

    "The inaugural Ivey Sustainability Week, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, led by students of Ivey Business School, saw the highlighting of ties between sustainable practices and business success...  One inspirational message from the event was the importance of asking difficult questions about our future. Kelly Greene, a multimedia artist and Western’s first Indigenous artist-in-residence, shared how she uses visual art to make statements about humans’ reliance on the Earth and the environmental harm they’ve contributed, in hope of creating change."

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  • Preserving Art History for the Ages

    CTV News London, February 8, 2023

    Professor Cody Barteet speaks with CTV London's Marek Sutherland about his new online gallery of local stained-glass artwork.

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  • This is Your Crisis. Fix It. | Ivey Business School

    January 30 - February 5, 2023

    “This is Your Crisis. Fix It.” is curated by visual arts student and president of USC Public Arts Commission, Bilquees “Billie” Hafeez. As part of sustainability week, the exhibition explores the personal action we must take to prevent the climate crisis, as well as our impact on the environment and connections to the natural world. The exhibition features works by Prof. Kirsty Robertson, Heather Davis, Kelly Greene (IAiR), Christina Battle (PhD '20), Paul Chartrand (MFA '17), and current MFA candidate Alyssa Sweeny .

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  • Practicum Art Sale

    Friday, February 3 from 10am to 5pm

    The Practicum class is having an art sale! Own a unique work from this year’s Practicum class and support your local and emerging artists! Tables will be set up in the main hallway of the Visual Arts Centre on Friday, February 3rd from 10am to 5pm

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  • Quentin VerCetty "Sankofanology: An Artistic Study of Celebrating Black Legacies In The Future Through The Past"

    Tuesday, February 7th at 4:30 PM

    Join us February 7 at 4:30pm in the Visual Arts Centre for Quentin VerCetty Sankofanology: An Artistic Study of Celebrating Black Legacies In The Future Through The Past. The multiple award-winning Afrofuturist a-r-tographer and visual storyteller Quentin VerCetty will be discussing how he uses his artwork as a teaching tool and time capsule to preserve and celebrate Black legacies of history for the future. All welcome! This event is both in-person and live-streamed via Zoom. Registration required.

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  • Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn's Look Who's Talking by Dr. Christine Sprengler

    January 20, 2023

    Dr. Christine Sprengler recently published an essay, "Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn's Look Who's Talking" in the new book "Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts" edited by Teri Higgins, Catherine Fowler.

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  • Art Now! Speakers: Gala Porras-Kim

    Thursday, February 2 at 7PM on Zoom

    ArtNow! Speakers’ Series in partnership with Museum and Curatorial Studies is pleased to present , Gala Porras-Kim on Thursday February 2, 2023 at 7pm ET on Zoom. Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work is about the social and political contexts that influence how intangible things, such as sounds, language and history, have been framed through the fields of linguistics, history and conservation. The work considers the way institutions shape inherited codes and forms and conversely, how objects can shape the contexts in which they are placed.

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  • Logo Life | Cohen Commons

    February 2 - 16, 2023

    Signs, signs, everywhere, signs – and brands. The visual field of contemporary life is covered over with the marks of capitalism. Yet each of us may at some point adopt such tags and symbols as “our own.” In this project, the Third Year Print Media class has put away the press in favour of a garden roller for printing and employed found cardboard to fashion their plates. The forms they have printed are of their own creative making: personal signs. These marks will soon appear on printed t-shirts the class is producing with the help of Rezonance Printing, in late February of this year. In the meantime, we invite you to enjoy “Logo Life.” We’re not trying to sell you anything. Reception: Thursday, February 2 from 5-7PM

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  • Connections | ArtLab Gallery

    February 2 - 16, 2023

    Connections is a series of collaborative installations in response to our connection to Mother Earth, our homes, spaces within ourselves, liminal spaces using only recycled and found materials. This project has been created using mainly materials from Artist Material Fund under the guidance of Kelly Greene (Indigenous Artist in Residence at the Visual Arts department). A vital concept of this project is to reflect on the fact that we are all part of this Earth and are extremely dependent on her since everything that surrounds us is provided by her. With the current overpopulation by humans on our planet, we've consumed and produced excesses. Thus, these installations aim to convey attentive perspectives by reusing some over-produced materials that would otherwise fill landfills.

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  • Ornamental Gestures | Doris McCarthy Gallery

    January 21- April 1, 2023

    Prof. Soheila Esfahani will exhibit one of her installations in her Cultured Pallets series in the upcoming group exhibition: Ornamental Gestures curated by Sandy Saad-Smith at Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, January 21- April 1, 2023. Image: Soheila Esfahani, My Place is Placeless, detail, laser-etched wooden pallets, 2013

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  • tba: Call for Board Members

    As we enter tba’s fifth year, the editorial team is looking to formalize the journal by building an editorial board comprising faculty and graduate students both internal and external to UWO. Board members would meet online twice per semester. They are expected to support in the development of good governance, review applications for indexing, support dissemination of the annual CFP, and may be asked to take on a peer-review role as necessary. If you have an interest in joining the board, or know someone at another institution who might, please contact the editor, Emily Cadotte, at tbaedit@uwo.ca

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  • PROPHECY | tba journal of art, media, and visual culture

    January 10, 2023

    tba journal of art, media, and visual culture has published its fourth volume: PROPHECY. The editorial team is pleased to announce that this year’s volume contains thirteen interdisciplinary submissions representing works of visual art, creative writing, and art historical scholarship. Referencing the ancient, the surreal, the speculative, and yet-to-come, each submission grapples with pasts that offer us insight into possible futures. The online journal can be accessed in full at tbajournal.ca

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  • IN OUR SPACE, IN OUR TIME | Artlab Gallery

    January 12 - 26, 2023 | Reception: Thursday, January 12 from 5-7PM

    In Our Space, In Our Time showcases the media-art explorations of Shane Ackerley, Taylor Horner, Siena Idoine, Bella Kerfers, Megan Lee, Jalyn Liang, and Sawyer Shin. Utilizing sound, video, and installation the artists invite viewers to explore and question how we, as individuals and collectively, relate to one another; to art and the spaces where we view it; to the pressures of student life; to place and technology; and to our modes of self-soothing, joy, and escape.

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  • Reflecting on Religious Imagery Through Documentation and Quotidian Objects | Cohen Commons

    January 12 - 26, 2023

    Reflecting on Religious Imagery Through Documentation and Quotidian Objects: Cody Barteet, Katie Oates, and Tanner Layton is on view in the Cohen Commons from January 12 - 26, 2023 with an opening reception on Thursday, January 12 from 5-7PM. "This exhibition reframes our experience of religious sites in Southwestern Ontario. We capture not the sacred, but rather the ordinary. Through these visions of decay, graffiti, and quotidian objects and images, we reimagine and reconsider how religious imagery is encountered. Our documentation explores the doorway between inclusion and exclusion, enchantment and disenchantment, and that which is concealed behind locked doors."

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  • gaaaaaaaaaaaaah (We May or May Not Need Therapy)

    January 12, 2023 5pm - 7pm

    gaaaaaaaaaaaaah (We May or May Not Need Therapy) is an exhibition that explores themes of loss, growth, and self-determination. Through their artworks the Advanced Foundations class resiliently transcend the obstacles and challenges young adults face. The exhibition will be open to view on Thursday, January 12 from 5pm to 7pm.

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  • Philosophical Archaeology With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art by Ido Govrin

    SUNY Press NY, January 11, 2023

    PhD graduate Ido Govrin has published a new book "Philosophical Archaeology With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art" with SUNY Press NY. This work is an an extended version of his doctorate research which explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

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  • Christina Battle in Conversation with Tia-Simone Gardner

    January 28, 2023 on Zoom at 1PM ET

    PhD alum Christina Battle joins artist Tia-Simone Gardner for a conversation that explores their intersecting research interests, including digital mapping and the complicated relationship between the environment, climate and Black life. The artists will share their work as an expanded element of the ongoing exhibition series at Gallery 44 which explores relationships to land through the lens of female artists working from different racialized perspectives. The conversation will occur live on zoom on January 28, and the audio will be shared as a podcast on G44 Digital in February 2023.

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  • Stories We Tell Ourselves | McIntosh Gallery

    January 19 – March 18, 2023

    Join us at the McIntosh Gallery for the opening reception of Stories We Tell Ourselves, a group exhibition conceptualized by guest curator Matthew Kyba. This exhibition questions how the museum’s history as a colonial tool for Western pedagogy influences the stories we tell. Image: Emii Alrai, Passing of the Lilies (detail), Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London. 2021. Photography courtesy of Anna Arca.

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  • Field Trip to the Detroit Institute of the Arts and MOCAD

    Wednesday, February 8, 2023

    Join the Print Media class on a field trip to the Detroit Institute of the Arts and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 from 8am to 6pm. Cost for bus transportation and admission is $60. Valid passport required. E-mail Meghan Edmiston to register at meghan.edmiston@uwo.ca

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  • Cloud Painter at Trinity Square Video

    January 13 - February 18, 2023

    Visual Arts PhD candidate Andreas Buchwaldt in collaboration with artist Joshua Vettivelu invite you to their show Cloud Painter at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. The opening reception is 6-8pm on Friday, January 13 and the exhibition runs until February 18th. Image: "Cloud Painter, Andreas Buchwaldt and Joshua Vettivelu, 2023."

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  • PhD Candidate Shelley Kopp to Present at CSTC Winter Theory Sessions

    March 31st, 2023 from 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    PhD candidate, Shelley Kopp will be presenting "Traditional art, online: collection or documentation or communication?" for the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Winter Theory Sessions on March 31, 2022 at 3:30pm in Stevenson Hall, room 1365. The session will also be live-streamed via Zoom.

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  • ART NOW! Speakers’ Series: Maggie Groat

    Thursday, January 26 at 7PM

    ArtNow! Speakers’ Series is pleased to present Maggie Groat on Thursday January 26 at 7pm in the WIRB building room 1170. Maggie Groat is an artist, mother, birthworker, and cultivator whose current research surrounds states of becoming, decolonial ways-of-being, how plants and gardens are portals, slowness, the utility of images, and the transformative potentials of salvaged materials during times of living through climate emergency. Her methodologies are informed by states of being in between, intuition, acts of care, site-specific responsiveness, strategies of collage, and hopeful speculation. The ART NOW! Speakers’ Series is free and open to the public. Masks are required.

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  • Matthew Trueman: voices in a cool wet darkness | Latcham Art Centre

    January 20 to March 4, 2023

    Congratulations to MFA alum Matthew Trueman who will be featured in a solo exhibition at Latcham Art Centre from January 20 to March 4, 2023. In this exhibition, entitled "voices in a cool wet darkness", Matthew uses kinetic sculpture, video, sound and reclaimed natural materials to open up conversations about the environment from a more-than-human perspective. Given the recent governmental announcements about land development and the heightened concerns for Ontario’s Green Belt, this exhibition touches on environmental topics of local and national importance. Image credit: Matthew Trueman, still image from A Walk in the Woods in the Dark, 2022.

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  • Christina Battle: the air we breathe | Gallery 44

    Opening reception January 6th at 6pm.

    Congratulations to PhD alum, Christina Battle whose solo exhibition "the air we breathe" is on view at Gallery 44 from January 6 – February 4, 2023. "the air we breathe" is an expanded single-channel experimental documentary. The work explores the complexities of air pollution, weaving together themes of environmental catastrophe, cultural and political strife, conspiracy and the various links between.

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  • The Moth and The Thunderclap | Modern Art, London, England

    February 4 – March 18, 2023

    Professor Sky Glabush's work will be featured in an upcoming group exhibition featuring over 40 artists at Modern Art in London, England. Curated by Simon Grant, The Moth and The Thunderclap features an eclectic global mix of artists from modernism to the present day. Taking its title from a painting by the celebrated American artist Charles Burchfield, The Moth and The Thunderclap aims to show how artists have been compelled to reflect an indeterminate psychological space where nature and culture collide, often filtered through their experience of landscape. Image: Charles Burchfield, Winter Sunburst (detail), 1960

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  • Bridget Koza: Cadences | Satellite Project Space

    January 4-14, 2023

    Congratulations to Bridget Koza whose exhibition Cadences opened January 4th, 2023 at Satellite Project Space. "The exhibition is a journey over four years, fostering a deeper connection between dance, music, and art. Each artwork challenges the viewer to expand their interactions with art and the new worlds created when combining multiple elements." Join Bridget Koza in the gallery for the exhibition reception on Wednesday, January 11 at 6pm.

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  • Panel Discussion with Prof. John Hatch at RMG

    February 4th, 2023 at 2:00PM

    Professor John Hatch and fellow panelists Louise Noguchi (artist), Bryce Kanbara (artist and recent Governor General Award recipient) will lead for a conversation about the lasting impact and legacy of artist Kazuo Nakamura at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery on February 4, 2023 at 2:00 pm. This event compliments the current exhibition at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Kazuo Nakamura: Universal Pattern, on view until March 5th.

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  • Public Artist Talk and Performance by Jessica Karuhanga | Queer City Cinema

    Friday, January 13 at 7pm ET

    Please join professor Jessica Karuhanga for a public artist talk and performance in the Digital Creativity Lab or via Zoom on Friday, January 13th at 7pm. Presented by Queer City Cinema this talk and performance is featured as part of "QALEIDOSCOPE Queer Film & Performance on Tour 2023" which features QTBIPOC films and performance that explore, question and play with identity to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race.

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  • Video Walkthrough of "BODYLAND" | Galerie Max Hetzler

    December 16, 2022

    Galerie Max Hetzler recently posted a video walkthrough on YouTube of an exhibition Professor Sky Glabush is currently featured in at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin called “BODYLAND” curated by Lauren Taschen. The show includes work by Isabelle Albuquerque, Vanessa Beecroft, Ana Benaroya, Madeleine Bialke, Brian Calvin, Ann Craven, Sarah Cunningham, Karon Davis, Sky Glabush, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Ulala Imai, February James, Rae Klein, Kat Lyons, Laurie Nye, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Ilana Savdie, Eleanor Swordy, Emma Webster, Alina Zamanova.

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  • Soheila Esfahani: Been T[here] | Cambridge Art Galleries

    December 17, 2022- March 5, 2023

    Prof. Soheila Esfahani's solo exhibition Been T[here] at the Cambridge Art Galleries (Preston Gallery) along with a new installation in her Cultured Pallet series at Queen's Square library runs December 17, 2022- March 5, 2023. Please join Prof. Soheila Esfahani at the gallery January 21, 12-3 pm.

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  • "Exploring our relationships with food through art"

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, December 15, 2022

    In postdoc Amanda White’s visual arts course, students adopt artistic approach to agriculture through interdisciplinary, experiential learning

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  • Sorority | Satellite Project Space

    December 7-10, 2022

    Kaede Kusano a fourth-year student in the Honours Specialization in Art History and Museum Studies program has curated "Sorority" a group exhibition at Satellite Project Space featuring artwork by Rain Fenek Bloodworth, Steph Dancer, Mariam Fahmy, Megan Goddard, Michael Highway, Reilly Knowles, Lily Li, Delaney Philip, Emma Mary Sked, and Isabella Springett. Image: Steph Dancer, When Stuffies Attack (detail).

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  • -I a 12-hour Event | Christof Migone

    December 12, 2022

    Organized by Christof Migone, "-I" is the third in a series of twelve annual events taking place on December 12 from noon to midnight (EST). Each year the event moves through each word of the 12-word phrase ‘you and I are water earth fire air of life and death’ and activates the word of the year in myriad ways. This year the word is ‘I’, consequently the focus is on selfless selves, linked Is, and not-Is. The first year it started with ‘you’, last year ‘and’ came to connect you to anything and everything, this year that point of connection is ‘I’—the porous one, the solo collective.

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  • Aki-Wayn-Zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth, Wins 2022 Governor General's Award For Non-Fiction

    December 2022

    Alumni Matthew Ryan Smith (PhD '12) served as editor of Ojibway author Eli Baxter's memoir Aki-Wayn-Zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth, which was awarded the 2022 Governor General's award for nonfiction."Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view."

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  • Sharkbite Ink at Pine and Pints Holiday Market

    December 10, 2022 from 12pm - 6pm

    Don't miss the Pine and Pints Winter Market this weekend at Anderson Craft Ales. Artist and printmaking technician Jessica Woodward of Sharkbite Ink will be there with an incredible collection of new prints and gifts for purchase!

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  • Kirsty Robertson | Vie des Arts 268

    Fall 2022

    Professor Kirsty Robertson published an article titled “Les climats intérieurs et extérieurs: faire face à l’urgence climatique dans les musées,” in the fall 2022 Vie des Arts 268. Available online in french and english.

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  • Collection of Dreams | Agnes Etherington Art Centre

    October 25-November 6, 2022

    Professor Kirsty Robertson recently curated "Collection of Dreams" part of Collection Count and Care, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, October 25-November 6, 2022, featuring Eleanor Bond and Kim Ondaatje.

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  • Lost 18th century painting recovered by Western prof returns, restored, to Guadalajara

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, December 7, 2022

    "During her sabbatical in 2015, Alena Robin was intent on tracking down a painting by Antonio Enríquez, an 18th century Mexican painter. With dogged determination ─ and on the last day of her stay in Guadalajara – she found it in a corner of a storage room, forgotten by specialists and unknown to the public."

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  • Ruth Skinner for In Media Res

    December 2, 2022

    PhD Candidate Ruth Skinner's short essay, "A sword far heavier than any sword has rights to be," is included in this week's In Media Res: Props and Media Materialisms.

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  • Watercolour Painting by Mackie Cryderman Donated to The Department of Visual Arts

    December 1, 2022

    This summer, Dr. Lyn Shulha, Professor Emerita of Queens University generously donated a watercolour by Mackie Cryderman to the Department of Visual Arts. Through oral history it is understood that Mackie gifted the floral still life to Dr. Shulha’s parents , Dorothy and William (Bill) Vize of London ON as a wedding gift in 1947. The painting remained in their family home until her parents passing in August 2020 and February 2022. Upon donating the artwork to the Department of Visual Arts, Dr. Shulha noted, “given my family’s and Mackie’s connections to London and my connection to Western (Education, ’73), my preference was to offer the painting to your department. I was especially excited when I saw that your department offers an award for excellence in the arts in Mackie’s name!”

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  • Regional Church Histories & Stained Glass: Contemplating the Complexities of the Church Through Collaborative Praxis

    November 30-December 3, 2022

    Regional Church Histories & Stained Glass: Contemplating the Complexities of the Church Through Collaborative Praxis exhibition in on view now at Satellite Project Space. Featuring works from ARTHUM 2200E: Documenting, Digitizing, Maintaining Art, and Community Activism through the Stained Glass of Christopher Wallis taught by Prof. Cody Barteet. Join us for the closing reception December 3, 2022 from 3-5pm.

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  • Practicum Fundraiser: Mail Art Postcards

    November 25 - Dec 9, 2022

    Would you like to receive a surprise, postcard-sized artwork in the mail? The Practicum class has organized a fundraiser and with even a small donation will get you a surprise, postcard-sized, one of a kind, original artwork in the mail!

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  • "More activists are gluing themselves to art. Their tactics aren’t new."

    By Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, October 27, 2022

    Professor Kirsty Robertson was recently interviewed and quoted this Washington Post article. Click to read the full article online. Image: Eben Lazarus and Hannah Hunt are glued to “The Hay Wain” area at London's National Gallery in July. (Richard Feldgate)

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  • Curating Waste | Cohen Commons Gallery

    November 24 – December 8, 2022

    Curating Waste / Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg? is collaborative exhibition by Friederike Landau-Donnelly and Prof. Kirsty Robertson. This trans-Atlantic encounter between two researchers represents an ongoing conversation about the boundaries between art and waste, a conversation that has seeped into various forms: collections, texts, poems, sound, films, and materials recycled from previous exhibitions. Funding provided by the Western-Radboud Collaboration Fund and the Centre for Sustainable Curating.

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  • McIntosh Gallery & Art Now! Presents: Hunter Gatherer Panel Discussion

    November 17, 2022 at 7pm on Zoom

    In case you missed it, a recording of the virtual panel discussion featuring artists Nicholas Crombach, Emily Jan, Philippa Jones and Meryl McMaster, currently featured in McIntosh Gallery's group exhibition Hunter Gatherer is now online. Moderated by exhibition curator Dr. Helen Gregory, panelists discussed their work in relation to the issues addressed in this exhibition as well as within the context of their broader studio practices.

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  • Defiça Portrayals: a Brazilian Gaze on Disability | Satellite Project Space

    November 22-26, 2022

    Defiça Portrayals: a Brazilian Gaze on Disability, Portraits of Brazil with Disabilities Collective Artists curated by PhD candidate Bruno Belli Sinder and Nádia Meinerz is on view at Satellite Project Space from November 22-26, 2022. Exhibition reception will take place in-person and online on Saturday, November 26 from 5pm - 7pm ET.

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  • Prof. John Hatch Presents at RMG Gallery

    November 24, 2022

    Prof. John Hatch presented a talk at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery about the work of the Japanese Canadian artist Kazuo Nakamura on November 24, on the occasion of the exhibition “Kazuo Nakamura: Universal Pattern” on display until March 5, 2023.

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  • Kelly Greene's artwork featured on PBS

    PBS, November 23, 2022

    IAiR Kelly Greene's artwork was recently featured on PBS's Brief But Spectacular in a segment with Tia Kennedy, founder of Kiinew Kwe, a youth-led organization that offers "innovative solutions that empower and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion."

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  • Death is not the End : la Muerte es el Comienzo | Artlab Gallery

    November 24 – December 8, 2022

    Professor Alena Robin’s class Death in Mexican Art: From Ancient Time to Today surveys various concepts of death and surrounding ideologies in Mexican cultures. A unique course which promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration, this culminating exhibition is the result of the combined efforts of the class’ studio, art history, and museum & curatorial students.

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  • Kent Monkman: Being Legendary | ROM

    Royal Ontario Museum, October 8, 2022 to March 19, 2023

    Curated by Cree artist Kent Monkman, Being Legendary presents an installation of new original paintings by the artist alongside cultural belongings from collections at ROM. Interpreted by Monkman’s shape-shifting, time-travelling, gender-fluid alter ego, the legendary being Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the exhibition depicts how deeply Indigenous knowledge is embedded in the lands of Turtle Island. Cree and other Indigenous peoples have carried this knowledge in stories, songs, and artworks since time immemorial. 

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  • Prof. Alena Robin | Museo Regional de Guadalajara

    November 8, 2022

    Prof. Alena Robin recently co-curated an exhibition in Guadalajara (Mexico) on Antonio Enriquez, a 18th century painter. While researching his life and cataloguing his work, Robin “rediscovered” a painting by Enriquez. The painting has been restored and was recently unveiled as part of the 104th anniversary of the Museo Regional de Guadalajara.

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  • CSC Speakers' Series Presents Robert Hengeveld

    Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 3:30PM ET on Zoom

    The Centre for Sustainable Curating Fall Speakers' Series presents Robert Hengeveld, Lost at Sea. Robert Hengeveld (he/him) lives and works in Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk (Corner Brook Newfoundland). He is an artist, teacher, and backyard chicken farmer. His creative work has been shared across Canada and internationally. His artist talk, Lost at Sea, journeys through the reshaping of creative practice amidst a deepening climate crisis. Registration required.

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  • BodyLand | Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

    November 4 – December 23, 2022

    Professor Sky Glabush's work is included in "BodyLand", a group exhibition curated by Lauren Taschen at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, Germany. The show unites a new generation of artists, who respond to the present moment by capturing the potential of Land and Body, as both real and imagined constructs, from a predominantly female perspective.

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  • Prof. Kirsty Robertson Presents at Summit Art |Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    October 16, 2022

    Professor Kirsty Robertson presented “Reflections in the Fake Lake: Echoes of a 1976 Art Protest at the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto” at Summit Art: Art and Political Events Since the 1970s at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on October 16, 2022.

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  • Public Artist Talk: Anna Friz | Conron Hall

    Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 5:30pm

    All are welcome to join California-based media artist and scholar Anna Friz for a public artist talk titled "The desert remembers itself as the sea: manifesting multiple worlds" in Conron Hall on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 at 5:30pm. Anna Friz creates transmission and media art works that consider multiple narratives on contested sites and systems, such as the fog line on the central coast of California or the industrialized desert in northern Chile.

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  • Moving Histories: An International Symposium on Screened Histories

    October 29-30, 2022

    Christine Sprengler presented "Refracted Pasts: History on Film Beyond the Cinema in Caroline Monnet's Mobilize (2015) and former MA student, Avery Lafortune presented "Fantastic Histories: Understanding the Past Through Fantasy Film and Television" at Moving Histories: An International Symposium on Screened Histories, October 29-30, 2022. Both papers are forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to History on Film, 2023.

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  • Barb Hobot: The Fugitive's Forge | Olga Korper Gallery

    Saturday, November 19, 2022 from 2pm to 5pm

    Congratulations to MFA '14 alum Barb Hobot whose solo exhibition "The Fugitive's Forge" opens at Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto on Saturday, November 19, 2022. Hobot's new work includes photo collages printed on paper, fabric, and aluminum. The works reference alchemical experimentation, excavated mountainous terrain, and fog-catching nets. Spanning early scientific discoveries and contemporary issues of mass environmental degradation, the show burns with both the allure and toxicity of metallurgy. Image credit: Alchemist’s Drinking Cup #11 (detail), 2022, digital collage on paper with copper leaf, 28” x 36.5”.

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  • Prof. Sarah Bassnett: "Photography in Canada: The First 150 Years as a Pedagogical Resource” | UAAC

    Prof. Sarah Bassnett presented a paper with Prof. Sarah Parsons (York University) titled "Photography in Canada: The First 150 Years as a Pedagogical Resource” at the UAAC conference in Toronto on October 27, 2022. The paper is based on our co-authored forthcoming open-source book Photography in Canada: The First 150 Years, 1839-1989, Art Canada Institute, April 2023.

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  • Artist Material Fund | Artlab Gallery

    Reception: Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 5-7PM

    Come get some free building materials, tools, and art supplies at Artist Material Fund (AMF) at Artlab Gallery. Founded in 2014, the AMF is a service that relocates material and diminishes waste produced in the art industry, while providing resources for artistic production. Rooted in cooperation and mutual aid, the program supports and promotes the sharing of under-used goods to realize their full, potential value, builds more efficient studios.

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  • PhD Candidate Ruth Skinner Presents at UAAC

    October 29, 2022 at 9am

    PhD candidate Ruth Skinner will present at this year's UAAC conference on the double panel, Paranormal Exhibitions, organized by Jennifer Fisher and scheduled for October 29 from 9am-12:30pm. Her presentation, “'Snake in My Mouth': Cartomancy as Curatorial Strategy," considers the exhibition in terms of a card spread. The presenters for the Paranormal Exhibitions panels are Louis Kaplan, Alex Borkowski and Serena Keshavjee (9:00 - 10:30) and Nick Richbell, Ruth Skinner and Jim Drobnick (11:00 - 12:30).

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  • In Conversation with Brendan Fernandes | National Gallery of Canada

    Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm EDT

    Join MFA alum and multidisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes (MFA '05) in conversation with the National Gallery of Cananda's Senior Curator of Photographs, Andrea Kunard. Please note that this is a hybrid event. Attend onsite at the Gallery, or watch the live broadcast via Zoom. Registration required.

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  • Prof. Sheri Osden Nault | Ethics and Responsibility in Research-Creation Practices

    Thursday, October 27, 2022

    Professor Sheri Osden Nault will present at this year's UAAC conference on the panel on Ethics and Responsibility in Research-Creation Practices, Part 1. Taking place on Thursday, October 27.

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  • Review: Liza Eurich: pockets, postscripts, peonies

    By Kim Neudorf, Peripheral Review, October 4, 2022

    "Positioned like an offering at the entrance to artist Liza Eurich’s exhibition, a paper cone holds a gathering of peonies. However, on a closer look, the paper cone is a shirt sleeve with a buttoned-up cuff cast in pale-peach resin. There’s a muted, soft quality to the combination of violet-pink, dark green and pale pink colours in this bouquet. Combined with the cast sleeve, the impression is understated (perhaps this is a bouquet for a formal gathering) but with a dryly funny tone, as the sculpture performs its straightforward bouquet-ness with a knowing wink to the audience..."

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  • Marla Hlady + Christof Migone: Swan Song | Christie Contemporary

    October 21 - November 19, 2022

    Marla Hlady and Prof. Christof Migone's exhibition "Swan Song" returns, October 21 - November 19 to Christie Contemporary in Toronto. Join the artists for the opening reception Friday, October 6-8pm.

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  • Monuments and Their Futures in North America | UAAC

    Friday, October 28 at 3:30 PM

    Prof. Cody Barteet will chair a panel at UAAC (Toronto): Monuments and Their Futures in North America. PhD candidates Calla Elia and Ashar Mobeen will both be presenting papers as part of this panel.

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  • Masha Kouznetsova: hard ground / long road | Satellite Project Space

    Friday, October 21, 5-7pm

    Please join MFA candidate Masha Kouznetsova for the opening reception of her solo exhibition "hard ground / long road" at Satellite Project Space on Friday, October 21 from 5pm - 7pm. The exhibition will be on view October 19 - 29, 2022. Image: california road / bach cut-up, 2021-2022, detail.

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  • Stories of Survival: The Chalatenango Massacres | ECH

    Sunday, October 23rd from 2:30 to 4pm

    Join Embassy Cultural House at Museum London for a screening of The Chalatenango Massacres, a series of documentary films by Juan Andrés Bello, telling the stories of the crimes committed by the Salvadoran army and paramilitary groups against peasant communities at the outset of the country’s Civil War (1979–1982).

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  • Rebel Angel, with Museum Stories: Jason McLean | Program #30 FCFF

    Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 6pm

    The world premiere of two films Rebel Angel and Museum Stories: Jason McLean will be screened on Saturday, October 22 at 6pm at the Wolf Performance Hall during the Forest City Film Festival. Department of Visual Arts students and faculty can receive 15% off tickets for this select screening. Please email visarts@uwo.ca for promo code.

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  • "Yvonne Williams: Life and Work of an Influential Stained Glass Artist" by Cody Barteet and Iraboty Kazi

    July 25, 2022

    Dr. Cody Barteet and PhD candiate Iraboty Kazi published "Yvonne Williams: Life and Work of an Influential Stained Glass Artist" through ArcGIS StoryMaps technology.

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  • Professor Sarah Bassnett Presents at the Photography Network Symposium

    October 14 - 15, 2022

    Professor Sarah Bassnett presented a paper on Griselda San Martin’s series, The Wall, 2015-16 at the Photography Network symposium in Washington, DC, on Oct. 14-15. Image: Griselda San Martin, José Marquez poses for a photograph, The Wall, 2015-16

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  • N'Satung (Understanding) Premieres at Forest City FIlm Festival

    Saturday, October 22nd, at 10:15 AM

    The documentary film N’Satung is a collaboration, underwritten by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the School for Advanced Studies (SASAH), brings together current and former students and faculty members at Western, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to make a film that showcases Indigenous Youth and their perspectives on education. Members of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded Nation and Indigenous Nations in the London area discuss their experiences in and hopes for the education system in Ontario.

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  • Michael Windover (MA '05) | Ornamentum Lecture Series: Retailing Radio

    Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7pm on Zoom

    Department of Visual Arts alum Michael Windover (MA '05) considers the role of the T. Eaton Company in promoting and fostering radio culture in Canada during the Ornamentum Lecture Series: Retailing Radio. He will look especially at radio catalogues produced by the retailer as visual evidence of how the new medium was imagined and sold to Canadian publics.

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  • Petrina Ng | ArtNow! Speakers' Series

    Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7pm

    ArtNow! Speakers’ Series and Forest City Gallery present Petrina Ng, an artist and organizer based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her practice proposes alternative responses to redress subtle legacies of colonialism. Petrina’s collaborative work as Gendai (with curator Marsya Maharani) responds to BIPOC labour conditions of arts work.

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  • Inaugural Hanny and Najet Hassan Lecture in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

    Friday, October 14, 2022 at 5pm

    Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike will present the inaugural Hanny and Najet Hassan lecture in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, ““God is beautiful and loves beauty: The significance and importance of the Islamic arts.” This lecture, which coincides with Canadian Islamic Heritage month, offers an opportunity for the Western and London community to join together, in learning more about the culture, societies, and rich intellectual history of the Islamic and Arab world.

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  • Call for Applications: Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    Application Deadline: January 5, 2023

    The Department of Visual Arts at Western University is seeking applications from emerging to established artists for the one-year Indigenous Artist-in-Residence (IAiR) program. This program will support a First Nations, Métis, or Inuk artist in the research, creation, and production of new artistic work. The IAiR will work closely with the Department of Visual Arts and undertake community engagement or other outreach activities, that could include (but are not limited to) artist talks, workshops, studio visits, collaborating with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, and exhibiting at the ArtLab. Applications from artists with connections to, or living in, the region are particularly encouraged. Projects that incorporate distance or remote components, or other innovative virtual forms of residency, are welcome.

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  • Sheri Osden-Nault: maachi kashkihtow

    October 16th at 4:30pm ET

    Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Cinema in partnership with the Toronto Queer Film Festival are hosting an online screening of 8 shorts films created by Indigenous, Queer and Two-Spirit filmmakers including Professor Sheri Osden-Nault's short-film "maachi kashkihtow".

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  • Western Performs!

    October 19, 2022 at 12:30 PM

    Join us in the ArtLab Gallery on Wednesday, October 19 from 12:30-1:30PM for Western Performs! Two choirs from the Don Wright Faculty of Music - Western University Singers and Les Choristes, conducted by Mark Ramsay and Tracy Wong – kick off the Western Performs! 2022-23 series.

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  • Refuse Refuse | Cohen Commons

    October 6 - 20, 2022

    Join us in the Cohen Commons on Friday, October 7 from 5-7PM for the opening reception of Refuse Refuse, which features drawings by students in SA1601: Foundations of Visual Arts, instructed by Professor Tricia Johnson and Teaching Assistants Andreas Buchwaldt, Sasha Opeiko, Kyoon Nam, Sam Wagter, Alyssa Sweeney, Phil Gurrey, Masha Kouznetsova and Rylee Rumble.

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  • Thresholds and Inventories | Artlab Gallery

    October 6 - 20, 2022

    Thresholds and Inventories immerses viewers into the intersection of diverse practices by second-year MFA candidates Masha Kouznetsova, Rylee Rumble, Alyssa Sweeney, and Sam Wagter. Comprised of various mediums, this exhibition acts as a threshold for discussion, inviting viewers to investigate their own personal inventories⁠—bodily phenomena, memories, experiences, environments, and identities. Join us for the opening reception Friday, October 7 from 5pm to 7pm.

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  • Call for Submissions | Satellite Project Space

    Submissions due Oct 24, 2022

    Satellite Project Space is seeking submissions of artworks that explore the aesthetics and experiences of girlhood for an upcoming group exhibition. Submissions will be accepted by email before Sunday, October 24, 2022.

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  • Christine Sprengler: The Art of Cinematic Memory

    Rotman Institute and Department of Philosophy, Thursday, October 20, 2022 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm

    Join the Rotman Institute and Department of Philosophy for their annual public lecture series, co-sponsored with the London Public Library, on Thursdays in October. In the 3rd talk, Professor Christine Sprengler will look at how visual artists have become increasingly invested in how cinema helps create, shape, and challenge our memories, both personal & cultural. She'll explore how contemporary art has engaged with the complex relationship between memory and film.

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  • Creating Art Entrepreneurially with and in a Community

    September 29, 2022 at 7pm

    Alyana Hryclik of soft flirt and Reilly Knowles of Good Sport, both graduates of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, will sit down with Andres Garzon and Monica Joy of Good Sport to share their experiences as young artists in London, Ontario. Moderated by Visual Arts Professor Patrick Mahon. Guests may attend the panel discussion in person or join via Zoom. Registration is required.

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  • Immune Nations The Art and Science of Global Vaccination

    University of Alberta Press & McMaster Museum of Art, August 2022

    Just Released! Featuring a 20-page section on the project, “Design for a Dissemunization Station,” an installation by Prof. Patrick Mahon and Annemarie Hou, with Tegan Moore (MFA'14). This catalogue documents a multi-year art-science project called Immune Nations, produced on the occasion of its exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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  • Prof. John Hatch presents “Postcards from a Cosmic Traveller: Thomas Ruff’s Images of Space”

    September 20-23, 2022

    Prof. John Hatch presented a paper titled “Postcards from a Cosmic Traveller: Thomas Ruff’s Images of Space” at the conference Cosmic Explorations: at the Intersection of Science, Space, Art, and Culture, held at CalTech, Pasadena, California on September 20-23, 2022.

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  • Prof. Sarah Bassnett presents at Photographies Conference in San Antonio, TX

    September 23, 2022

    Professor Sarah Bassnett presented a paper on work by American artist Trevor Paglen at the Photographies conference on Boundaries and Borders in San Antonio, Texas. Image: Trevor Paglen, Near Nogales, Maximally Stable Extremal Regions; Good Features to Track, 2017.

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  • Night Painting | Philip Martin Gallery

    Philip Martin Gallery, 24 September - 22 October 2022

    Philip Martin Gallery presents, “Night Painting," an exhibition of works by 12 artists that investigate night as both idea and motif. Prof's Sky Glabush's paintings are among works in the exhibition by Izzy Barber, Tomory Dodge, Kristy Luck, Aaron Morse, James Morse, Laurie Nye, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Muzae Sesay, Lisa Sanditz, Sophie Treppendahl, Sung Jik Yang. Image: Night Flower (Study), 2022, Sky Glabush (detail)

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  • In Memoriam - Dr. William S. A. Dale

    September 9th, 2022

    The Department of Visual Arts is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Professor of Art History Emeritus, Dr. William S. A. Dale on Friday, September 9th, 2022. In 1967, Dr. Dale was the first Professor of Fine Arts and founding head of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Dale earned his emeritus status in 1987 after 20 years of service.

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  • Broadabent Sisters | ArtNow! Speakers Series

    Thursday, October 6 at 7pm

    ART NOW! Speakers’ Series and Museum London present the Broadabent Sisters on Thursday, October 6 at 7pm at Museum London. Rose and Joy Broadbent are multidisciplinary artists based in Toronto. For over a decade, the Broadbent Sisters have created international, award-winning work in performance, film, painting and installation. Their unfolding practice, ‘Clearing Spaces,’ examines meditation, telepathy, eco-feminism, and pop spirituality.

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  • Accessibility Mandate for the CSC

    October 7, 2022 from 1pm to 3pm

    The Centre for Sustainable Curating will host Dr. Eliza Chandler of Toronto Metropolitan University who will help us to draft the CSC's first Accessibility Statement. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a living mandate designed to make the CSC a welcoming place, and to think about how sustainability and accessibility are closely interwoven. This event can be attended in person or online.

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  • National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR)

    Western University , September 30, 2022

    Friday, September 30, marks the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) across Canada. The Western community shares a deep desire to work towards reconciliation, and this week marks a significant opportunity to do both. For more information about NDTR and to access a schedule of events planned at Western, please visit the OII website.

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  • Rick Hill: How the Foundations of Haudenosaunee Aesthetics Survived Colonization

    Wednesday, September 21 2022, 2:00pm – 3:30pm

    The Department of Visual Arts and IAiR Kelly Greene are pleased to welcome Rick Hill for his presentation "How the Foundations of Haudenosaunee Aesthetics Survived Colonization". Guests may attend the presentation in-person in the Visual Arts Centre Live-Stream Lab (Room 137E) or join in the live-stream over Zoom. Please register prior to the event for the zoom link or to reserve a seat.

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  • Wish on Water: Deshkan Ziibiing | Cohen Commons

    September 6-27, 2022

    This month, the community will have a chance to celebrate the Deshkan Ziibiing (Antler/Thames River) with Riverfest 2022, Western’s first-ever river festival hosted by the Office of Sustainability. Professor Esfahani's Intro to Sculpture and Installation course, is taking part in RiverFest with the installation Wish on Water: Deshkan Ziibiing in the Cohen Commons. This collaborative project by students on cultural practices around water. It draws on the tradition of wishing on water in various cultures around the world from wishing wells to tossing coins in the water features of shopping malls.

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  • Sam Wagter: "{ Unexpected Occurrence;" I Satellite Project Space

    September 14 - 24, 2022

    MFA canadiate Sam Wagter's solo exhibition "{ Unexpected Occurrence;" is on view at Satellite Project Space, September 14-24, 2022. The opening reception for this exhibition is on September 16, 2022.

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  • Active Collaborations: Artistic Materials and Media

    The Blackwood Gallery, Saturday, September 24, 12–2:30pm

    Panel discussion with alumni Brad Isaacs (MFA '12), Dana Prieto, Sean Procyk, and Amanda White (Current Post Doc). Part of Nearshore Gatherings, an event series on environmental activism and stewardship. Register to attend on Eventbrite.

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  • ART NOW! Speakers’ Series: Vanessa Maltese

    Thursday, September 22 at 7pm

    ART NOW! Speakers’ Series Presents Vanessa Maltese on Thursday, September 22 at 7pm in room WIRB 1170. Multidisciplinary in breath, Maltese’s practice deploys various forms of visual and audible trickery to pose questions about perception. Maltese is interested in the plasticity of the brain, and how conflicts of perception have the power to change our methods of thinking,

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  • Colourful Coves: A Dyeing Workshop with BFA alum Reilly Knowles

    September 24, 2022, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Join us for this incredible opportunity to learn about natural dye plants in the Coves from fibre artist and BFA alumni Reilly Knowles. Reilly will lead the group to learn on the Land about ethical harvests, identifying dye plants, and the unique history of the Coves.

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  • Through Our Lens | Artlab Gallery

    September 15 – 29, 2022

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present "Through Our Lens" which features work by fourth year students Olivia Pattison, Abbygale Shelley, and Isabella Springett. Of this exhibition they state: "that the work reflects our initial response to the pandemic, and is based on both our individual and shared experiences, drawing from personal documentation/archives.

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  • Tegan Moore: Residuum | La Galerie Nicolas Robert

    September 10, to October 15, 2022

    Congratulations to alumna Tegan Moore (MFA '14) whose exhibition "Residuum" opened at La Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal on September 10, 2022.

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  • Sky Glabush at The Armory Show

    Philip Martin Gallery, September 8 - 11, 2022

    For the 2022 edition of The Armory Show in New York, NY, Philip Martin Gallery presents an installation of large scale, oil-and-sand-on-canvas paintings by Sky Glabush.

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  • Mohawk artist shares her dreams in Glenhyrst exhibit

    By Ally Penders, Brant Beacon, September 8, 2022

    "The main room at Glenhyrst Art Gallery has been transformed into a 20th century classroom, but the details and teachings within it come from the dreams of artist Kelly Greene... "

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  • Niloufar Salimi: 75 Oriole Rd | Micheal Gibson Gallery

    August 31 - October 1, 2022

    Congratulations to MFA alumna, Niloufar Salimi whose exhibition "75 Oriole Rd" opened in the middle gallery of Michael Gibson Gallery on August 31, 2022. Her exhibition runs through October 1, 2022.

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  • Mike Pszczonak: On the Other Hand | Michael Gibson Gallery

    August 31 - October 1, 2022

    Congratulations to MFA '14 alum, Mike Pszczonak as his second solo exhibition "On the Other Hand' is on view at Michael Gibson Gallery from August 31 through October 1, 2022.

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  • Rooted in the Region: Agriculture and the Arts in Southwestern Ontario

    Centre for Sustainable Curating, September 18, 2022, 2-5pm

    Join us for “Rooted in the Region: Agriculture and the Arts in Southwestern Ontario,” a celebration of art and agriculture highlighting Indigenous, settler and migrant worker voices. “Rooted in the Region: Agriculture and the Arts in South-Western Ontario” is curated by post-doc fellows, Amanda White and Zoë Heyn-Jones, an initiative of the Creative Food Research Collaboratory, currently based at the Centre for Sustainable Curating

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  • Community Corn Roast with Ron Benner and Pandemic Gardens Book Launch | Museum London

    Embassy Cultural House, Sunday, August 21 from 1-5 pm

    After a hiatus of two years due to the pandemic, Ron Benner's corn roast at Museum London, Maiz Barbacoa, is planned for Sunday, August 21 from 1-5 pm. Dan and Mary Lou Smoke will open the corn roast and give thanks to the maize plant. This event will feature the live music of Frank Ridsdale and celebrate the launch of the Embassy Cultural House's (ECH) catalogue, Pandemic Gardens: Resilience Through Nature. This catalogue highlights work from the ECH's online exhibition of the same name, organized by Ron Benner and Rachel MacGillivray, with the assistance of Jamelie Hassan, Olivia Mossuto (BFA '19) and Department of Visual Arts student JoAnna Weil.

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  • Brazil/Canadá Curated by Bruno Sinder | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, August 5-25, 2022

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present "Brazil/Canadá" curated by Ph.D. candidate Bruno Sinder. Featuring over 100 family photographs of Brazilian immigrants to Canada, Brazil/Canadá invites viewers to reflect on the role personal photography plays in the process of migration. The opening reception is scheduled for August 11, from 5-7 pm. The exhibition runs from August 05 - 25, 2022.

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  • Michelle Paterok: At Dusk | McIntosh Gallery

    August 11 - September 10, 2022

    Michelle Paterok's MFA thesis exhibition "At Dusk" opens at McIntosh Gallery on August 11, 2022. "At Dusk" is a series of paintings investigating the poetics of colour and light in the context of domestic space. Paterok aims to express a specific emotional atmosphere of a space, seeking to depict time unfolding in the static frame of a painting. Join us for the closing reception at the McIntosh Gallery Friday, September 9, from 5-7 pm.

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  • Migration Stories Whispered in My Ear / Me Susurran Al Oído Historias de Migrantes Moysés Zuñiga Santiago | McIntosh Gallery

    August 11 - September 10, 2022

    The exhibition "Migration Stories Whispered in My Ear / Me Susurran Al Oído Historias de Migrantes Moysés Zuñiga Santiago" is on view at the McIntosh Gallery from August 11 - September 10, 2022. The exhibition is based on SSHRC-funded research by Professor Sarah Bassnett and curated by PhD candidate Anahí González. Join us at the closing reception on Friday, September 9, 5 - 7pm.

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  • In Memoriam - James Patten

    Western University, June 26, 2022

    The art community is deeply saddened to learn of the unexpected passing of James Patten on June 26, 2022, at the age of 60. James was the former Director of McIntosh Gallery having retired in November 2021 after 11 years of service with Western University. In collaboration with Museum London, a memorial gathering will be held on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. (speeches at 2:30 p.m.) in the Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery on the second level of Museum London, 421 Ridout Street, London, Ontario.

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  • Kelly Greene: In My Dreams | Glenhyrst Art Gallery

    Akimbo, July 30th - September 25, 2022

    Congratulations to Kelly Greene, indigenous artist-in-residence and alumna whose solo exhibition "In My Dreams" is on view at Glenhyrst Art Gallery from July 30 - September 25, 2022. In this exhibition, Greene transforms a conventional 20th-century classroom in Canada into one that conveys the basic principles and teachings of the people of Six Nations. This exhibition was curated by Ph.D. '12 alumni, Matthew Ryan Smith.

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  • Anahí González | AGO X RBC Emerging Artists Exchange

    August 3 – 1 September, 2022

    Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate and MFA '21 alum Anahí González who has been selected to participate in the AGO X RBC Emerging Artists Exchange. This initiative provides three emerging artists with a paid four-week digital mentorship to pursue a research project. Anahí will explore artworks in the AGO's Latin American contemporary collection which depict human labour. This project is the continuation of her research about labour representation in visual arts and her artistic contribution to the relationship between Latin America and Canada. She wants her findings to provoke reflections on the power systems that create labour inequalities in Latin America and to highlight the importance of Latin American collections in Canadian art institutions.

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  • Kelly Greene: In my Dreams | Glenhyrst Gallery

    July 30 - September 25, 2022 , July 30 - September 25, 2022

    Congratulations to IAiR Kelly Greene whose exhibition "In my Dreams" curated by alum Matthew Ryan Smith (PHD '12) opened at Glenhyrst Gallery on July 30, 2022. "In this exhibition, artist Kelly Greene transforms a conventional 20th century classroom in Canada to one that conveys basic principles and teachings of the people of Six Nations..."

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  • Knotting, Netting, Connecting by Sharmistha Kar and Gabriella Solti | Good Sport Gallery

    July 20-Aug 6, 2022

    MFA graduates Sharmistha Kar (MFA'19) and Gabriella Solti (MFA '14), London-based artists, invite the public to join a community-engaged art project at Good Sport Gallery that explores one of the most ancient human technology, the knot.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Brianne Casey | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, July 14, 2022 at 6:30pm

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present Credulous Escapism an exhibition of work by MFA candidate Brianne Casey. The in-person opening reception runs this Thursday, July 14th in the Artlab Gallery from 6:30-8:30pm. Open to the public, Western University Vaccine Policy is in effect.

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  • Prof. Christine Sprengler Interviewed by BBC Culture for Article on Hitchcock

    By Mark Allison, BBC Culture, July 4th 2022

    Professor Christine Sprengler was interviewed by the BBC Culture for the article "Frenzy at 50: The most violent film Hitchcock ever made".

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  • Prof. Christine Sprengler Presents a Paper at the Screen Studies Conference

    Screen Studies Conference, July 1-3, 2022

    Professor Christine Sprengler presented a paper, “Epistolarity and Decolonial Aesthetics in Carola Grahn’s Look Who’s Talking” at the Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (online), July 1-3, 2022.

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  • Welcome Eeva Siivonen the Department of Visual Arts Media Technician

    Department of Visual Arts, July 1, 2022

    The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to welcome Eeva Siivonen as the new Media Technician in Visual Arts. Eeva recently earned her PhD in Art and Visual Culture here at Western. She also holds MFAs in Video Art and Documentary Film Directing from Syracuse University (New York) and the ELO Film School, Aalto University (Helsinki) respectively. Eeva brings a great deal of professional experience as a Media Technician in addition to her academic and teaching experience at Western and abroad.

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  • The Department of Visual Arts welcomes three full-time tenure-track faculty members

    July 1, 2022

    The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to announce that three full-time, tenure-track professors have joined the department as of July 1st, 2022. Please join us in welcoming Professor Jessica Karahunga (BFA '10 alum), Sheri Nault and Sohelia Esfahani (MFA'10 alum) whose 2-year limited-term contract has been converted to a tenure-track position.

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  • "Plastic Heart" Receives Honourable Mention for the Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions Award | Canadian Museums Association

    CMA, June 30th, 2022

    The exhibition "Plastic Heart" received an Honourable Mention for the Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions Award from The Canadian Museums Association. "Plastic Heart" was curated by Professor Kirsty Robertson, Professor Kelly Wood, and alum Tegan Moore (MFA '14) of the Synthetic Collective and included artwork by Christina Battle (Ph.D. '20)

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  • Professor Cody Barteet and Co-Applicant Courtney Waugh Successful in Round 3 of the Strategic Priorities Fund

    June 24, 2022

    Congratulations to Professor Cody Barteet and co-applicant Courtney Waugh, Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian, on the success of their project proposal "Documenting & Teaching the Art of Stained Glass through Digital Technology" in round 3 of the Western University Strategic Priorities Fund.

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  • Prof. Alena Robin speaks with Silvia Véjar from Radio Voces Latinas

    CHHA 1610 AM - Radio Voces Latina, June 10, 2022

    Professor Alena Robin joined Silvia Véjar from CHHA 1610 AM (Toronto) Radio Voces Latinas for an interview regarding the recently published book that she co-editd, "Latin America Made in Canada."

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  • "London photographer's exhibit highlights where newcomers to the city feel most at home"

    By Isha Bhargava, CBC News, June 11, 2022

    PhD Candidate, Bruno Belli's photographic work "Home" was exhibited in London's multicultural festival on Sunday, June 12, 2022. "In his project titled Home, Belli captured six families in London who had recently immigrated to Canada by asking them which public spaces within the city they felt most at home, and allowed them to write a quote of their choice in their native languages."

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  • "The Renal Community Photo Initiative: A Program Report in Ontario, Canada"

    Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, June 6, 2022

    "The Renal Community Photo Initiative: A Program Report in Ontario, Canada" has been published in the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, co-authored by PhD candidate, Ruth Skinner, Cindy House, Andrew A. House, Chris McIntyre, and program participants Elaine Hayter, Pamela Ireland, Jared McGregor, and Ann Tillman. The full visual essay is available for viewing online.

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  • Ashley Snook: NODES | Animality and Kinship | McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery, June 2, 2022

    "NODES | Animality and Kinship" is an exhibition by PhD candidate, Ashley Snook, which will be on view July 4 - 30, 2022 at the McIntosh Gallery. NODES is an exhibition that emphasizes ongoingness by addressing concepts of animality, kinship and interconnectivity with, and upon, our earth—Terra.

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  • Online Lecture by Prof. John Hatch at Tongji University

    May 24, 2022

    John Hatch presented virtually “If It Ain’t Baroque, then Fix It!: Some 20th-Century Art and Architecture and the New Baroque” to students and faculty of Tongji University, Shanghai, China, on May 24, 2022

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  • Prof. Christine Sprengler presents "Machinations of Memory: Art and Artificial Intelligence"

    Istinye University, May 26, 2022

    Prof. Christine Sprengler delivered an online keynote lecture, "Machinations of Memory: Art and Artificial Intelligence" at the 2nd International Media and Society Symposium hosted by Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey on May 26, 2022.

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  • Christof Migone Receives Graham Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award

    Faculty of Arts and Humanities, May 16, 2022

    Please join the Department of Visual Arts in congratulating Chirstof Migone as the recipient of the Graham Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award for the academic year 2022-23. The award is given by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in recognition of the wide-ranging contribution to his field of research.

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  • “Passion in Motion: The Way of the Cross as Performance in New Spain” by Alena Robin

    By Alena Robin, University of Toronto Press, May 16, 2022

    "The Ibero-American Baroque" was recently published by University of Toronto Press which includes a chapter by Professor Alena Robin titled, “Passion in Motion: The Way of the Cross as Performance in New Spain”. "The Ibero-American Baroque" illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic.

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  • Burn Up/Burn Out: Curating for the Future | CSC

    By Kirsty Robertson, Centre for Sustainable Curating, Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 4pm ET

    What does it mean to be an arts worker in a time of crisis? Join us for Burn Up/Burn Out: Curating for the Future, part of the Centre for Sustainable Curating’s Waste/Care/Carbon/Labour Speakers’ Series. For this event we have invited four early career curators and arts administrators with innovative practices to share and think about their projects in terms of the Synthetic Collective’s approach of “enough.” What does “enough” look like when confronted with the pressures of granting cycles, job insecurity, and growing wealth disparity? Are there ways to nurture our practices collaboratively, slowly, or in a dispersed manner? Teresa Carlesimo, Lillian O’Brien Davis, Juliane Foronda, and Maya Wilson Sanchez will share short presentations on their work, followed by an in-depth discussion.

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  • Brianne Casey: Fever Dreams | Satellite Project Space

    Satelitte Project Space, May 17-28, 2022

    MFA candidate Brianne Casey exhibition "Fever Dreams" opens at Satellite Project Space on May 17, 2022 and runs through May 28, 2022. This exhibition will complement her thesis exhibition, "Credulous Escapism" that will be featured in July at the Artlab Gallery.

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  • Closing Reception: From Remote Stars | Museum London

    Museum London, May 15, 2022 at 2pm ET

    Join us at Museum London for a reception celebrating the close of From Remote Stars, curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, and 20 Works, curated by Brian Meehan. This party is a chance to meet the curators and take a final look at both exhibitions. This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Western University. Registration required.

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  • Exhibition Review: "Continuing Accountability"

    By Madeline Lennon, Centred.ca, May 12, 2022

    Department of Visual Arts, professor emerita, Madeline Lennon has written and published an exhibition review of Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Kelly Green's exhibition, "Continuing Accountability" on view now at the Artlab Gallery. Read the full article.

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  • The Art of Living: On Immigration, Community and the Migration of Symbols | Canadian Cultural Centre Paris

    Centre Culturel Canadien, May 13th, 2022 - October 21st, 2022

    Congratulations to Professor Soheila Esfahani whose work is alongside artists Jude Abu Zaineh and Xiaojing Yan in the exhibition "The Art of Living: On Immigration, Community and the Migration of Symbols" curated by Catherine Bédard at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris.

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  • Alena Robin presents at "Construire l'histoire de l'art ibéro-américain à l'UdeM. Une aventure intellectuelle et humaine" | l’Université de Montréal

    Friday, May 13, 2022 on Zoom at 1pm

    Friday May 13, 2022, Professor Alena Robin presents "Art brésilien au Canada: Collections méconnues" during "Construire l'histoire de l'art ibéro-américain à l'UdeM. Une aventure intellectuelle et humaine" at the l’Université de Montréal. The conference will be hosted on Zoom.

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  • "Continuing Accountability" exhibition walk-through led by Kelly Greene

    Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 4pm

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty-year artistic career. Please join us Thursday, May 12 at 4PM in the Artlab Gallery for an exhibition walk-through led by Kelly Greene. This event is open to members of the public and the Western community – so bring your family and friends!

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  • Call for Proposals: Southwest Seen | Museum London

    Extended Submission Deadline: June 6, 2022

    Museum London invites applications for Southwest Seen, an initiative to activate new media works that reflect the region’s diverse culture and history. Southwest Seen will support the creation of three new digital works for public exhibition from November 2022 to August 2023. Museum London invites proposals from artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour who are from, reside in, or have a meaningful connection to Southwestern Ontario—the region bounded by Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Lake Erie, and communities west of the GTA.

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  • Panel Discussion: Insect as Idea | McIntosh Gallery

    Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 5:30pm ET on Zoom

    In conversation with exhibition curators Dr. Helen Gregory and Dr. Nina Zitani, participating artists Catherine Chalmers, Andrea Cooper, Aganetha Dyck, Jude Griebel, and Amy Youngs will discuss how their practices have been influenced by environmental issues and multi-species ecologies.

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  • Expert Insight: Contemporary Muslim artists challenging ideas about fixed culture

    Western News, April 22, 2022

    Visual Arts professor Soheila Esfahani explains how ornamentation in Islamic art shows the movement and transformation of culture. Image: Cultured Pallets: SAIB”, acrylic on wooden shipping pallets (Courtesy Soheila Kolahdouz Esfahani)

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  • Kelly Greene: Continuing Accountability | Artlab Gallery

    April 19 - May 17, 2022

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition titled “Continuing Accountability” by current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence Kelly Greene. Presented in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities, this exhibit brings together work completed by Greene over the course of her nearly thirty year artistic career.

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  • Exhibition Video: GardenShip & State | Museum London

    Museum London,

    GardenShip & State curators Professor Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas tour through their exhibition "GardenShip and State" (Museum London, 2021). See twenty contemporary artists [including several Department of Visual Arts students and alumni] explore how to restore the planet through respecting differences, repairing divisions, and addressing injustices brought about by colonialism.

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  • Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes | Acquavella Galleries

    Acquavella Galleries, April 21 - June 10, 2022

    Professor Sky Glabush's work is included in a group exhibition "Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes" Curated by Todd Bradway on view now at Acquavella Galleries in New York City, NY. This exhibition features works by 28 contemporary artists including Sky Glabush, David Hockney, Lois Dodd and Adrian Berg.

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  • Iraboty Kazi: "Almost Heaven: Call Me by Your Name as a Queer Earthly Paradise" | South Central Review

    By Iraboty Kazi, South Central Review, Spring 2022

    PhD candidate, Iraboty Kazi published an article titled: "Almost Heaven: Call Me by Your Name as a Queer Earthly Paradise" in the South Central Review in spring 2022. Read the full article online.

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  • Wyn Geleynse and Kim Moodie | SATELLiTE Project Space

    April 20 - April 30, 2022

    Wyn Geleynse and Kim Moodie will be sharing new work in an upcoming, two-person exhibition titled "Ink, on paper, on the walls with accoutrements" at SATELLiTE Gallery in London, Ontario

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  • Western honours this year’s most outstanding educators

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, April 7, 2022

    Please join the Department of Visual Arts in congratulating Professor Tricia Johnson as she accepts the the Vice-Provost Award of Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning.

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  • Eagle Flight Singers | Artlab Gallery

    April 7th, 2022 at 6pm

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present a performance by Eagle Flight Singers led by Gordon Sands. Organized by Kelly Greene, current Indigenous Artist-In-Residence in the Department of Visual Art, this Pow Wow Song and Dance Presentation, will feature powerful music and beautiful regalia worn by amazing dancers. This event is held in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Department of Arts and Humanities.

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  • Celebrating renowned Tony Urquhart, Western’s first artist-in-residence

    By Terry Rice, Western News, April 7th, 2022

    Tony Urquhart spent a lifetime creating some of this country’s most impressive works of art. And in those 87 years, there was simply no way to separate the man from the artist. Urquhart passed away on Jan. 26, leaving an indelible mark on Canadian art, our city and our campus.

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  • 42x81 presents Michelle Wilson and Reilly Knowles

    April 6th, 2022 at 6pm

    TAP Centre for Creativity and 42 x 81 presents PhD candidate Michelle Wilson and BFA '20 alum Reilly Knowles for a public presentation. The artists invite participants to bring their textile projects or pick up some of the supplied materials and stitch as they discuss their collaborative, intuitive textile work and their practices' relationships to water.

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  • "Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015)" by Christine Sprengler

    Amsterdam University Press, Spring 2022

    Christine Sprengler's article, "Art and History in Woman in Gold (2015), The Monuments Men (2014), and Francofonia (2015)" is now published in Temenuga Trifonova's "Screening the Art World" (available through Amsterdam University Press, Spring 2021).

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  • Rah Eleh: Celestial Throne featured in Personal Structures at the 59th Venice Biennale

    April 23 – November 27, 2022

    Congratulations to MFA '18 alum Rah Eleh who will be presenting her project "Celestial Throne," which will make its world debut at the 59th Venice Biennale in the Personal Structures exhibition. This new work is a two-channel installation that will be presented in Palazzo Mora for the duration of the biennale.

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  • Sasha Opeiko | #artLAB publication series <02>

    March 28, 2022

    The Artlab gallery is pleased to present the second edition of the #artLAB publication series titled, "Soluble Parts and the Mediated Depths of Posthuman Plasma" written by PhD student Sasha Opeiko in response to Eeva Siivonen's PhD exhibition "I left parts of myself everywhere". Text and publication design is undertaken by current Department of Visual Arts Students. Copies are available for free at the Artlab reception desk, or as a PDF online.

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  • Western's Truckers Convoy Panel on "Identity, Culture, and Politics,"

    Friday, March 25, 2022

    Cody Barteet and Patrick Mahon from Visual Arts presented brief commentaries and participated in discussion at Western's Truckers Convoy Panel on "Identity, Culture, and Politics," on Friday, March 25. Cody and Patrick send thanks to the many from the Department who were in attendance. Their papers are attached here.

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  • Lost Utopias/Islands of Abandonment: Jade Doskow and Cal Flyn | Museum London

    Centre for Sustainable Curating , Thursday, April 7 at 1pm on Zoom

    From the crumbling remains of the lost utopias of world's fairs to the uncanny landscape of regrowth in a former landfill, and touching on ghost towns, exclusion zones, no man’s lands, and post-industrial hinterlands, this discussion between New York-based artist Jade Doskow and Scottish author Cal Flyn considers broken landscapes (partially) reclaimed by nature. Presented in partnership between the Department of Visual Arts' Centre for Sustainable Curating and Museum London, this event builds from Jade Doskow's Lost Utopias photographic series, on view now at Museum London in the exhibition "From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, Speculative Futures" (March 5-May 15; curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E. K. Smith).

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  • Good Sport Studio Tour

    April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

    Good Sport is holding a studio tour on April 23rd from 10:00am - 5:00pm. Good Sport is a member-driven gallery and studio in downtown London that exists for the development and exhibition of emerging artists. Take a stroll through 7 artist spaces and check out what they're all about. Artists will be present to discuss their practices, and original work, prints and apparel will also be available for purchase. Participating artists include Malvika Agarwal, Monica Joy, Andres Garzon, Jacqueline Demendeev, Joanna Skiba, Reilly Knowles, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Yasemin Yalçin, Michelle Flemming and Zane Pate.

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  • Kirsty Robertson named a Faculty Scholar for 2022-2024

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, March 17, 2022

    Congratulations to Professor Kirtsy Robertson as she was named Faculty Scholars for 2022-2024. This is a tremendous honour and recognition of her outstanding contributions to Arts and Humanities

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  • Comparative Media Arts Journal: Heterotopias | Ashley Snook

    Comparative Media Arts Journal,

    Congratulations to PhD candidate, Ashley Snook whose work "VHD VHD" is showcased in Issue 11 of Comparative Media Arts Journal: Heterotopias. The publication is available now for online viewing.

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  • "IN STOCK SHIPS TODAY” by Emily Cadotte | #artLAB Publication

    March 22, 2022

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present a new publication series that features writing by visual arts students, in response to our exhibition programming. Our first edition features the text “IN STOCK SHIPS TODAY” by Emily Cadotte, written for Aryen Hoekstra’s exhibition “Untitled (open gallery).” Copies will be available at the Artlab Gallery reception desk Tuesday, March 22!

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  • Art Now! Speakers' Series: Amanda Myers

    Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 7PM

    Join us for a curator-led tour of the exhibition "From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures" by Sarah Smith and an artist talk by Amanda Myers on Thursday, March 17 at 7PM at Museum London. This Art Now talk is presented in partnership with Museum London.

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  • ante meridiem | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, March 21 - April 1, 2022

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present “ante meridiem” an exhibition of work by practicum students in the Department of Visual Arts. This exhibition features a diverse section of media and approaches to the field of contemporary art, and represents the culmination of four years of study. While subject matters are diverse, the immaterial and collective nature of time often filters into their overarching thought processes and representations.

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  • Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada | TAP

    Friday, March 25, 2022 at 7pm

    TAP Centre for Creativity presents, "Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada". A selection of works by historical and contemporary avant garde Canadian filmmakers, this programme offers a glimpse into the vibrant landscape of moving image artistry in Canada. Friday, March 25, 2022 at 7pm. $5 admission.

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  • Aeterna: Glamour | Cohen Commons

    March 17 - April 1, 2022

    VASA is excited to announce their first ever exhibition, titled: Glamour, to coincide with its annual publication, Aeterna. Featuring student art, the exhibition will be held between March 17th and April 1st in the Cohen Commons Gallery.

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  • Soheila Esfahani: Been T[here] | Red Head Gallery

    March 16- April 2, 2022

    Professor Soheila Esfahani's presents new work in a solo exhibition titled "Been T[here]" at the Red Head Gallery, in Toronto. The exhibition runs March 16- April 2, 2022. Prof. Esfahani will be in attendance at the gallery April 2, 12-5 pm. Image: Soheila Esfahani, Study for There, Digital file, 2022

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  • Rah Eleh: Aporia | A Space Gallery

    March 1 – April 16, 2022

    Congratulations to alum, Rah Eleh (MFA '18) whose solo exhibition Aporia opened at A Space Gallery in Toronto on March 1, 2022. Join Rah Eleh for an artist talk and tour of the exhibition on Saturday, March 19 at noon. Gallery hours during the exhibition Tuesday to Friday, 11AM to 5PM and Saturday 12 to 5PM

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  • UPwithART 2022 Registration is open!

    April 19 - 23, 2022

    The Department of Visual Arts is proud to support UPwithArt 2022! This annual fundraiser for Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness and Museum London is back with a hybrid event - an online auction (April 19 to 23) paired with in-person viewing plus a limited capacity Preview Night (April 16, 150 free tickets, available now). UPwithArt auction features 65 pieces of local art, many created by current and past members of the Department of Visual Arts.

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  • Crafting a Portfolio with Andres Garzon

    Friday, March 18 via Zoom at 5:00pm

    Arts and Humanities Student Council hosts Andres Garzon's workshop "Crafting a Portfolio". This workshop will provide students with tips on getting started on a personal and professional portfolio for future career opportunities.

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  • Prof. Cody Barteet | Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Conference

    March 12, 2022

    On March 12, 2022 Prof. Cody Barteet joined the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Conference in Charlotte, NC via Zoom to present his paper "The Cult of St. Anthony of Padua in Colonial Yucatán: The Intersection of Assimilation to Appropriation".

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  • Come Together Right Now | Satellite Project Space

    March 24 - 26, 2022

    The students of the first year Advanced Visual Arts Foundation Course at Western University are pleased to present their exhibition at Satellite Project Space, "Come Together Right Now". On view March 24 - 26, 2022.

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  • Futurist’s 1960s vision inspires Western-curated exhibition

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, March 2, 2022

    Western professors and co-curators Kirsty Robertson and Sarah Smith are revisiting the ideas of Fuller’s conversations in "From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures", a major exhibition opening at Museum London on March 5 and running until May 15.

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  • Arts | Special Issue Race and Architecture in the Iberian World, c. 1500-1800s

    Submissions due May 22, 2022

    Contributors are invited to submit their research in English for consideration to be included in Arts | Special Issue Race and Architecture in the Iberian World, c. 1500-1800s, guest-edited by Department of Visual Arts Prof. Dr. Cody Barteet and Dr. Luis Gordo Peláez, Department of Art and Design, California State University.

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  • Western launches new creative arts and production program

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, February 17, 2022

    A new interdisciplinary program at Western aims to broaden students’ awareness of the role creativity plays in the world, their communities, and as an essential job skill for the 21st century. Creative arts and production (CAP) is a four-year program centered on three Cs — creativity, collaboration and community — and offered across three faculties: arts and humanities, information and media studies, and music.

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  • Annual Juried Exhibition Awards Presentation

    Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 6pm ET on Zoom

    Celebrating its 20th year, the Annual Juried Exhibition continues to be one of the Department of Visual Arts most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions. This diverse show supports the production of new work made in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, print, video, and photography. Exhibited works were selected by a professional jury who consider creativity, concept, materiality and technique. This year’s show is indicative of the resilience and dedication our students continue to demonstrate.

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  • Robert Small: Highlighting African-Canadian history through art and technology

    February 16, 2022 at 12 pm ET on Zoom

    Western's EDI Office and the Department of Visual Arts are excited to welcome Robert Small to speak to our campus and community on February 16, 2022, at 12pm as part of the Black History Month Speaker Series. Robert Small has revolutionized the celebration of Black History Month in Canada through his art. For over a quarter of a decade, Small’s art has been featured in a poster he creates called “LEGACY”. Distributed annually, the poster has educated millions about the history, contributions and accomplishments of African-Canadians.

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  • ArtNow! Speaker Series' Presents: Magdalyn Asimakis

    Thursday, February 10 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Art Now! Presents a talk by curator and writer Magdalyn Asimakis Thursday, February 10 at 7pm ET on Zoom. Magdalyn Asimakis is a curator and writer. Her practice explores lived experience in relation to Western display practices and methods of knowing, taking into account familial knowledge, folklore, spirituality, and generational trauma. Register is required.

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  • Derek Liddington: The trees weep, the mountain still, the bodies rust | Musée d’art de Joliette

    February 5, 2022 to May 15, 2022

    Congratulations to Derek Liddington, current studio-based PhD student and MFA '07 alum for his exhibition, "The trees weep, the mountain still, the bodies rust" on view February 5 - May 15, 2022 at Musée d’art de Joliette in Lanaudière, Quebec. Image: Derek Liddington, It was a foot. It was a flower. It was rust. It is movement. It is still. It was movement. It was still, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery. Photo by Jack McCombe

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  • Sebastian Evans: Start as you mean to go on | Strand

    February 5 - 26, 2022

    Congratulations to 4th year Visual Arts student Sebastian Evans, on his solo exhibition "Start as you mean to go on" on view now at Strand Fine Art Services until February 26, 2022.

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  • under the moonlight: psychic watercolours | McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery, February 17, 2022 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join the McIntosh Gallery on Thursday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m for a performance by Angie Quick. Hosted on Zoom, audience members will be invited to participate by silently holding a desire, wish, hope, or worry in their minds. One by one, participants will be selected to "sit" with the artist as she captures their thoughts through psychic fortune-telling watercolour painting. Image: Angie Quick, "the drowners" 2021. Watercolour on paper. Courtesy of the artist.

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  • Student Donation Fund Now Accepting Applications

    Proposals due February 15, 2021

    The Arts & Humanities Student Donation Fund allows for the support of undergraduate student initiatives that will greatly improve upon their overall experience. Over the past several years, a number of student and faculty-driven projects have come to fruition and improved the experience of our undergraduate students. Funds have been allocated towards publications, special guest lectures and events, audio/visual equipment and more.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Ahreum Lee

    Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 7PM on Zoom

    In partnership with Forest City Gallery, Art Now! is very excited to present a talk by artist Ahreum Lee this coming Thursday, January 27 at 7PM on Zoom. Ahreum Lee is a musician and interdisciplinary media artist from Seoul, South Korea, currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Through a variety of media, Lee is interested in examining the feedback loop between the individual and society as it manifests through the power dynamics embedded in technology. Registration is required. Image Credit: Ahreum Lee, MY MOTHER IS DATA

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  • CSC Launches a New Guide: Using The Resources at Hand

    Centre for Sustainable Curating, January 26, 2022

    Have you ever wondered about how you can reduce the environmental footprint of your art-making or exhibition installations? The Centre for Sustainable Curating's new guide Using The Resources at Hand can help. We've gathered together tips and tricks for making sustainable exhibitions, and we've also assembled a list of businesses and groups in London who can provide environmentally-friendly materials and resources. Feel free to circulate Using The Resources at Hand to anyone who might find it useful. The guide is a living document, so if there is anything missing or if you'd like to get involved in the Centre for Sustainable Curating, drop us a line at sustainable.curating@uwo.ca.

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  • Annual Juried Exhibition | Call for Submissions

    AJE Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 1, 2022

    The Annual Juried Exhibition returns for its 20th consecutive year! This group exhibition represents a diverse selection of artwork from all disciplines and all levels of undergraduate study in the Department of Visual Arts. The AJE is open to all undergraduate students currently enrolled in a Studio Art, Art History or Museum and Curatorial Studies course.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Shary Boyle

    Thursday, January 20 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Art Now! is excited to present artist Shary Boyle for an online discussion of her work. Shary Boyle works across diverse media, including sculpture, drawing, installation and performance. Highly crafted and deeply imaginative, her practice is activated through collaboration and mentorship. Boyle’s work considers the social history of figurines, animist mythologies, antiquated technologies and folk art forms to create a symbolic, politically charged language uniquely her own. Registration is required.

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  • Call for Indigenous Artist Submissions

    Submissions due February 28th, 2022

    Western University is inviting Indigenous artists to submit proposals for 'designs for artworks' that will be permanently displayed within 'the interior of' Wellness and Wellbeing in Thames Hall based on the theme of Deshkan Zibing (Antler River) and/or water/river as health and wellbeing. Selected artwork will be featured on one of three walls within Wellness and Wellbeing Services (students and employees) as part of the new renovations of the Thames Hall building.

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  • Leicester Gallery Open Talks | GardenShip and State: Curating and Commmunity Engagement in Time of Crisis

    January 19th at 9am ET on Zoom

    A recording of the Leicester Gallery Open Talk with hosted by GardenShip and State exhibition Co-curators, Jeff Thomas and Prof. Patrick Mahon, and one of the participating artists Mark Kasumovic (PhD '18) is now online. Twenty new works and activist projects responding to GardenShip and State’s overarching preoccupation with the environmental crisis and decolonization was highlighted in this discussion. With these artistic initiatives in mind, Jeff and Patrick facilitated a discussion with participants, focusing on the question, “How can artistic curating and intervention act as means for promoting and facilitating community engagement?”. The discussion was chaired by Professor Lala Meredith-Vula at De Montfort University in Leicester UK.

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  • Pandemic Gardens: Resilience through nature | ECH

    Embassy Cultural House, February 5, 2022 at 1 pm EST on Zoom

    Organized by Rachel A. MacGillivray and Ron Benner with the assistance of JoAnna Weil, Jamelie Hassan and Olivia Mossuto (BFA '19). Featuring over 40 artists, including faculty, staff, students and alumni from the Department of Visual Arts. Join the virtual launch on Zoom, February 5, 2022, at 1 pm EST. Photo credit: Rachel MacGillivray, 2021

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  • Neutral: Rylee Rumble | Necessary Arts

    January 10 - 24, 2022

    Congratulations to first-year MFA student Rylee Rumble, whose exhibition "Neutral" is on view January 10 - 24, 2022 at Necessary Arts in Guelph, Ontario.

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  • Call for Submissions | Aeterna

    VASA, Submissions due February 28th, 2022

    The Visual Arts Supporter’s Association has an upcoming publication, Aeterna, which aims to represent the incredible work of the Visual Arts department. We are looking for both written and artistic student submissions of any kind for our second volume, which will be published April 1st, 2022. Submissions will be open until February 28th through our website, and this year’s theme will be focused on glamour.

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  • “...and this book is a straight line in space” | Cohen Commons Gallery

    January 7 - February 3, 2022

    “...and this book is a straight line in space” is a group exhibition that features work by Helen Abbot, Masha Kouznetsova, Suarjan Prasai, Matthew Samuelson, Sean Sokolov which grapples with the difficulty involved in expressing the inexpressible.

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  • Sometimes in the night, the fox slips by | Artlab Gallery

    January 7 - February 3, 2022

    Studio Ph.D. candidates from the Department of Visual Arts present Sometimes in the night, the fox slips by, a group exhibition of recent work by Anahí González, Philip Gurrey, Dong-Kyoon Nam and Sasha Opeiko. The show gathers a broad spectrum of investigations sharing a common interest in the relationship between poetic and theoretical potential in making. Some orient themselves toward the political, looking at labour issues both in Canada and abroad. Others probe the language of modernism with strategies centred on improvisation and decay. Others still, use a posthumanist perspective to deconstruct notions of the readymade or to renegotiate representations of melancholy. In concert they are the fox of John Burnside’s poem, deftly weaving a path through fence and thicket.

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  • SHOW.21 | Cambridge Art Galleries

    November 22, 2021 - February 13, 2022

    Congratulations to Anahí González, MFA' 21 Alum and current PhD student, whose work "Cajitas", is included in the group exhibition SHOW.21. Established in 2005, Cambridge Art Galleries’ biannual exhibition SHOW presents the work of emerging artists based in Ontario. Selected from an open call of submissions, SHOW.21 presents the work of eleven artists with connections to Waterloo Region and surrounding areas.

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  • de Lazzer on Larkin, 'Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837'

    December 2021

    PhD candidate, Sonya deLazzer published a review of Janet Dorothy Larkin's book 'Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837'. It is available for review on h-net.

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  • Reworlding | tba Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture

    tba journal, December 2021

    tba Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture is an annual peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students of the Visual Arts Department at Western University. This issue began in the middle of the journey of our pandemic life when our paths felt lost. This issue's six art submissions and twelve essays explore reworlding in fascinating ways, including representational possibilities in landscape photography, post-anthropocentric visuality, Indigenous apocalyptic futures, Muslim diasporic experiences, posthumanist understanding of natural phenomena, landscape and cinematic spectatorship, trauma and imagined times, Indigenous Wonderworks in the 1980s, affective orientations, imaginative geographies, and sculptural self-portraits. Visit our website to check out the issue and/or learn about tba Journal.

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  • Launch of From Remote Stars Podcast

    December 2021

    From Remote Stars is a podcast exploring a recently uncovered recording that artist Greg Curnoe made of futurist and architect R. Buckminster Fuller speaking in London, Ontario in 1968. Hosted by artist Christina Battle, the series takes shape as three episodes, accompanied by in depth interviews with novelist Kerri Sakamoto and art historian Eva Díaz. Each episode builds from Fuller’s visit to London to discuss mythmaking, land, belonging, travel, decolonization, and climate crisis, and includes interviews with artists, curators, and scholars. This podcast accompanies the exhibition From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures, curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, forthcoming at Museum London February 19 to May 15, 2022.

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  • Sky Glabush in conversation with Phillip Martin Gallery

    Phillip Martin Gallery, December 9, 2021

    Professor Sky Glabush joined Phillip Martin in conversation to discuss his exhibition with the gallery, "Weight of Light," which features new oil and sand on canvas works. A recording of this interview is available on YouTube.

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  • Call for Papers: The Scattered Pelican

    Deadline: January 31, 2022

    The Scattered Pelican (The Graduate Journal of Comparative Literature) invites the submission of scholarly papers and critical book reviews for the next issue in 2022.

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  • David Merritt: all things equal | Christie Contemporary

    November 5 - December 4, 2021

    Congratulations to Professor Emeritus David Merritt whose solo exhibition "all things equal" is on view at Christie Contemporary until December 4, 2021.

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  • Michelle Wilson | SpokenWeb Podcast

    December 6th, 2021 from 3:00 - 4:30 on Zoom

    SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast that shares audio stories from the literary archives and contemporary responses to them created by scholars, poets, students, and artists from across Canada. The December episode features PhD candidate, Michelle Wilson, who uses archival records to trace what happened to the plains bison whose descendants are in most conservation herds across Turtle Island. The sound works in this episode are part of Michelle’s work “Forced Migration” in the GardenShip and State exhibition on display at Museum London. SpokenWeb will be hosting an online listening party to launch the episode on December 6th from 3:00- 4:30. Join us to listen together on Zoom, followed by a Q&A with Michelle Wilson and sound designer Angus Cruikshank.

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  • Practicum Fundraiser: Mail Art Postcards

    November 25 - December 11, 2021

    Would you like to receive a surprise, postcard-sized artwork in the mail? The Practicum class has organized a fundraiser. Even a small donation will get you a surprise, postcard-sized, one of a kind, original artwork in the mail!

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  • Special Issue "Latin American Art, Visual and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century"

    Arts, November 12, 2021

    Special Issue "Latin American Art, Visual and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century" co-edited by Dr. Alena Robin and featuring the article "The Retablos of Teabo and Mani: The Evolution of Renaissance Altars in Colonial Yucatán" by Dr. Cody Barteet has now been published and is available on MDPI.

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  • Exhibition Catalog: Symphony of Lights: An Exploration of the Stained Glass Windows in St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, London, Ontario

    Prof. Cody Barteet and PhD students Ira Kazi and Anahí González have produced an exhibition catalogue for Symphony of Lights: An Exploration of the Stained Glass Windows in St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, London, Ontario. which is now available for viewing online.

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  • Eeva Siivonen: I left parts of myself everywhere | Artlab Gallery

    November 25 – December 09, 2021

    "I left parts of myself everywhere" an exhibition by PhD candidate, Eeva Siivonen will open November 25 in the Artlab Gallery. "I left parts of myself everywhere" transforms the gallery into a moving image environment. The interconnected installations speak to the experience of dislocation and fractured relationship to body, language, and place. They trace the deep yet precarious connections that emerge between human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems; connections that are constantly both found and severed. The exhibition maps an experiential space that is both permeated with vitality and haunted by personal and ecological loss. Image credit: we belonged to each other, Still from a video installation, 2021.

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  • "Sleepwalking" | ECH and Words Festival

    Saturday, November 20 at 7 pm ET on Zoom

    The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) and the Words Festival are pleased to present an evening visit with the artists of "Sleepwalking" - an event series hosted by ECH in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong. Featuring: Bob Black, Wu'er Kaixi, Yam Lau and Scott Savitt Hosted by BFA Alum, Olivia Mossuto

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  • Art Now! Speakers' Series: Heather Goodchild

    Thursday, November 18 at 7PM

    Art Now! Presents: Heather Goodchild, Thursday, November 18 at 7PM in room MC-105B. Heather Goodchild (Toronto) has exhibited her multidisciplinary work since 2002 across Canada and abroad. She received the Chalmers Arts Fellowship in 2019 and was recently at the Varda Artists Residence program (California) and the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts (Greece). Goodchild exhibited at the Textile Museum of Canada in 2013, was the Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2012, and in 2020 showed at The Rooms, St John's NL. She most recently exhibited as part of A Temple most August at Clint Roenisch Gallery (Toronto) and this winter will be part of Hooked by Design, a survey of contemporary hooked rugs at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts. This talk is open to Western students, staff and faculty only, please make sure to follow all COVID-19 safety policies when in attendance and have your WesternONE card.

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  • The Lesser Known Point C | Cohen Commons Gallery

    November 25 - December 6, 2021

    "The Lesser Known Point C" will be on view in the Cohen Commons gallery from November 25 - December 6. Welcome to "The Lesser Known Point C", a group show that converses with the past year’s events, representing it through artworks that range from representational to surreal. Featuring artists, Megan Goddard, Shelby Sammut, Wesley Macpherson, and Jared Hendricks-Polack.

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  • AHSC Movie Night | Artlab Gallery

    Friday, November 19, 2021 at 6 PM

    Join the Artlab Gallery and the Arts and Humanities Students' Council for MOVIE NIGHT! This Friday, November 19, beginning at 6 PM -- we'll be screening the film "Loving Vincent." Admission is FREE. The screening time is 95 minutes.⠀ ⠀ Please Note: This event is for Western University students, staff, and faculty only. WesternOne cards are required and will be swiped to verify vaccine certificates are registered with Western University.⠀

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  • Water is Life: A Visit with GardenShip & State | WordsFest

    Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7pm on Zoom

    Museum London and Words are pleased to present an evening visit with GardenShip & State, an exhibition of artists and curators who are investigating the role of water as a life-giving force as we face the Anthropocene. Water is Life: A Visit with GardenShip & State Hosts: Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas Featuring Lori Blondeau, Tom Cull, Michael Farnan, Amelia Fay, Joan Greer, Mark Kasumovic, Mary Mattingly, Adrian Stimson, Andres Villar, and Michelle Wilson

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  • tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture celebrate 2021 issue "Reworlding"

    tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 at 4 PM on Zoom

    Join tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture's zoom event to celebrate the launch of our 2021 issue, "Reworlding". In this informal and fun event, we will talk about how the issue became a reality, hear some of our wonderful contributors talk about their submissions, and answer audience questions! If you can, please join us Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 at 4 PM​ EST

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  • Dazzling and Luminous An interview with Sky Glabush

    By Fay Nicolson, SALOME SALMACIS, October 2021

    Professor Sky Glabush spoke with Fay Nicolson from Salome Salmacis in an interview in which they discuss Sky's relationship to image making, the landscape and modernism ahead of his forthcoming solo show at Philip Martin Gallery, LA. In ‘Dazzling and Luminous’, Sky explores aspects of his unique visual language in a compelling discussion about his artistic journey and the forces that have shaped his practice.

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  • Virtual International Student Art Exhibition

    November 15-19, 2021

    The Department of Languages & Cultures and the Department of Visual Arts are pleased to present a virtual international student art exhibition to celebrate Western International Week, November 15-19, 2021.

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  • Prof. Sky Glabush: Lecture and critique at SAIC

    Tuesday, November 16 at 5:30 pm ET on Zoom

    Professor Sky Glabush was invited to lecture and host a series of critiques for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Painting and Drawing Department via zoom on November 16, 2021.

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  • Shani Mootoo: In Conversation with Richard Fung | Words Fest

    November 25, 2021 at 7:00pm on Zoom

    In partnership with the Embassy Cultural House, the Words Festival is pleased to welcome acclaimed author and Department of Visual Arts alumna, Shani Mootoo (BFA '80), who will join artist Richard Fung to talk about her work and recent novel Polar Vortex.

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  • IAiR Public Talk with Patricia Deadman, Woodland Cultural Centre

    Wednesday, November 10 at 3pm on Zoom

    The Department of Visual Arts and Western's Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Kelly Greene, is pleased to welcome artist, writer and Woodland Cultural Centre's curator, Patricia Deadman, in an onsite, live-streamed presentation. Please join us for this live-streamed public presentation, which will address the story of the Woodland Cultural Centre and its place in Indigenous art history as it approaches its 50th anniversary next year.

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  • Weight of Light: Sky Glabush | Philip Martin Gallery

    November 20 - December 23, 2021

    Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present, "Weight of Light” an exhibition featuring new large-scale landscape paintings by Sky Glabush. These works, comprised of layers of oil and sand on canvas, imply a deep and meaningful relationship between the viewer and nature, fuelling a sense of wonder in front of awe-inspiring phenomenon.

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  • “The Sounds and Sights of Vertigo’s Afterlife in Art: Chamber Made Opera’s Phobia (2003) and Jean Curran’s The Vertigo Project (2018)” by Christine Sprengler

    Indiana University Press, October 2021

    Christine Sprengler's essay, “The Sounds and Sights of Vertigo’s Afterlife in Art: Chamber Made Opera’s Phobia (2003) and Jean Curran’s The Vertigo Project (2018),” now published in Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin's Haunted by Vertigo (available through Indiana University Press, October 2021).

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  • "Kim Moodie: Navigating Art and Politics of the Region" by Sarah Oakley

    centred.ca,

    Fourth-year art history student Sarah Oakley was selected for a visual arts writing opportunity with Nida Doherty at Centred.ca. Her article on the work of Kim Moodie, titled "Kim Moodie: Navigating Art and Politics of the Region." is now published and online at Centred.ca.

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  • Patrick Mahon: Immune Nations Panel Discussion | McMaster Museum of Art

    Thursday, November 25, 2021 ​at 12:00 pm ET on Zoom

    As part of the <Immune Nations> exhibition at McMaster Museum of Art, a series of online panel discussions will take place throughout the fall. Professor Partick Mahon will be joining a panel investigating the role of research-creation in tackling pressing social and global problems titled, "Research-Creation and Global Crisis: Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Collaboration". This panel will be hosted on Zoom, and include an audience Q&A. All panels are FREE and open to the public. Pre-registration for these events is required.

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  • "AI, Memory and Failure," and "Artificial Intelligence: Creativity, Authorship, and Ethics" | Christine Sprengler

    October 31, 2021

    Christine Sprengler delivered two presentations, "AI, Memory and Failure," and "Artificial Intelligence: Creativity, Authorship, and Ethics" at the A-Site/Workman Arts workshop on Artificial Intelligence on October 31, 2021.

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  • Welcome, Kelly Greene: Inaugural Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, October 26, 2021

    The Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts are excited to announce Kelly Greene (BFA '94) is joining us as the inaugural Indigenous artist-in-residence. Debora Van Brenk from Western News spoke with Kelly Greene about her new role as the indigenous artist-in-residence.

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  • Photos in the Attic | Artlab Gallery

    October 28 - November 18, 2021

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present "Photos in the Attic" an exhibition of work by Sarah Fraser, Rowan Mccready, and Aidan Takeda-Curran. The show runs October 28 - November 18, 2021. "Photos in the Attic" tackles ideas of nostalgia and the passage of time. We consider the attic as an archival space that is a museum of personal history.

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  • Eden | Cohen Commons Gallery

    October 28 - November 18, 2021

    The Cohen Commons Gallery is pleased to present "Eden" an exhibition of work by Delaney Philip, Julie Fishbaum, Moe Haloftis and Cosette Gelinas. The show runs October 28 - November 18, 2021. Eden alludes to themes of human progression and temptation as we explore the challenges women face growing up in a world where our bodies are sexualized and critiqued. We reflect on feminine identity as we experience growth in our own separate gardens of Eden.

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  • Dialogue # 4: Sustainable Museums | Art Museum University of Toronto

    Wednesday October 27, 2pm–3:30pm EDT

    Dialogue # 4: Sustainable Museums is the last of the Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through public dialogue series at the Art Museum University of Toronto. Speakers Suzanne Carte, Maya Ishizawa, Sarah Sutton, and moderator Kirsty Robertson will explore the complexities of creating a low-carbon exhibition throughout all stages of its making. Registration Required.

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  • Save the date for -AND-, a 12-hour online event | Christof Migone

    Sunday December 12, 2021, 12pm to 12am EST.

    -AND- follows on last year’s inaugural event YOU-, also on December 12. Each year of this 12-year long project the event moves through the following 12-word phrase one word at a time: ‘you and I are water earth fire air of life and death’ and activates the word of the year in myriad ways. With Po-Hao Chi, Béchard Hudon, Erika DeFreitas & Adrian Piper, Different From The One You Are In Now (Mary Walling Blackburn, Allison Cameron, Barbara Campbell, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Darren Copeland, Renato Grieco, Michaela Grill, Sarah Hennies, Marla Hlady, Seth Kim-Cohen, Francisco Meirino, Salomé Voegelin), Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar, James Greer & Neil Luck, Byungjun Kwon, Renée Lear, LoVid, Ellen Moffat & Eeva Siivonen, Merlin Nova, Milo Thesiger-Meacham, They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it (Anna Barham & Irene Revell), undo (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge). Organized by Christof Migone. Presented by Alt Space Loop, Arraymusic, Avatar, CRiSAP, Errant Bodies Press, Fado, Radius, Resonance Extra, squint.press, Wave Farm, Western University, Zone Sound Creative.

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  • Honorary degree for award-winning author, artist Shani Mootoo

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, October 21, 2021

    Western University recognized Mootoo’s creative achievements with an honorary degree at the fall convocation on  Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Mootoo is an alumna of the Department of Visual Arts BFA program. "Mootoo, BFA’80, treasured the time she spent “ensconced,” in the art department under the wings of deKergommeaux, painter Paterson Ewen and sculptor Robin Peck. “That was a big deal for me,” she said. “I’m not in touch with any of them now, but I often think of them, of how supportive they were of me, and of us all. It was the beginning of where I am now.” "

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  • Museum Professionals of Colour Workshop | VASA

    Friday, October 29 at 6pm ET on Zoom

    VASA is collaborating with Museum Professionals of Colour (MPOC) to host an online workshop focused on the lack of racial diversity and representation in the museum field. See VASA website for zoom link.

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  • 'Does Not Equate' | Satellite Project Space

    October 18-31, 2021

    'Does Not Equate' is an exhibition featuring Western Visual Arts undergraduate students, Rain Bloodworth, Sebastian Evans, Meg Smith, Aidan Takeda-Curran. "≠ grew out of a desire to reflect on living in a society of increasing economic disparity. The artists share and observe a feeling of social and financial precarity and deep empathy for those who truly are ‘down and out.’ " The exhibition is on view October 18-31, 2021 at Satellite Project Space.

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  • Courted: Imogen Clendinning | Forest City Film Festival

    Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 7pm ET

    "Courted" by MA Candidate, Imogen Clendinning with be included in the Forest City Film Festival, Experimental Film Program #25, on Sunday October 24th, at 12pm EST. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers The screening will take place in person at TAP Centre for Creativity.

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  • ECH and Edna Press | Vancouver Art Book Fair

    October 18 - 26, 2021

    Embassy Cultural House partners with Edna Press (PhD candidate Ruth Skinner) to participate in the 2021 Vancouver Art Book Fair. This virtual event runs from Oct 18 - 26, and our virtual table features ECH and Edna titles with titles from ECH members and partners. Highlights include: a recent artists' multiple by PhD candidates Anahí González and Andreas Buchwaldt for The Other Neighbour of El Otro Lado; Sheila Butler - Other Circumstances, the exhibition catalogue organized with Patrick Mahon and Department alum Sarah Charette; Hiding In Plain Sight, edited by PhD candidate Shelley Kopp for artist and adjunct faculty member Ron Benner's compelling virtual exhibition of the same name. View the ECH/Edna table here and be sure to check out the VABF's excellent program of talks and workshops.

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  • A Brief Survey of Some Absurd but Critical Moments in Modern Art | Prof. John Hatch

    Friday, October 29, 2021

    Professor John Hatch will present an online lecture titled: "A Brief Survey of Some Absurd but Critical Moments in Modern Art" at The College of Arts and Media at Tongji University (Shanghai) on Friday, October 29, 2021.

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  • Sowing Clay: A Community Memorial | Facilitated by Michelle Wilson and Paul Chartrand

    Various workshop dates between October 20th – November 6th, 2021

    Sowing Clay brings together communities to create a memorial to land and water defenders killed protecting the more-than-human. Paul Chartrand and Michelle Wilson lead this collaborative project, which calls on participants from across Turtle Island to create a monumental installation. When completed, this memorial will comprise a chain of over 700 open links formed from unfired, locally gathered clay. Each link in the chain will carry one etched name and native seeds mixed into the clay body. When joined together, the links resemble intertwined arms, harkening to non-violent resistance movements and protests. Sign up to join one of the workshops at Support Gallery between October 20th – November 6th.

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  • GardenShip and State Panel Discussion with Paul Chartrand and Michelle Wilson | Art Now! and Museum London

    Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 7PM

    In partnership with Museum London, Art Now! is pleased to present a panel discussion with Paul Chartrand (MFA'17) and Michelle Wilson (PhD Candidate) moderated by Patrick Mahon, Western professor and curator of "GardenShip and State." October 21, 7PM in room MC-105B (open to Western students only). A recording will be made available to the public following the event.

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  • Aryen Hoekstra: Untitled (moving objects) | Artlab Gallery

    October 8-21, 2021 - By Appointment

    PhD Candidate, Aryen Hoekstra's "Untitled (moving objects)" (2021) is an installation of provisional sculptures created from 12 moving blankets and a number of objects found in the gallery that have previously had direct contact with artworks. The blankets, wrap and gloves acknowledge the materially fragile nature of the works that have and will enter this exhibition space, their dual existences as both artwork and object, and their always potential profanation.

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  • In Conversation: Rah with Heather Anderson |UWAG

    Akimbo, Thursday, October 21 at 7pm ET, Online

    "The University of Waterloo Art Gallery and the Department of Fine Arts are pleased to present media artist Rah in conversation with curator Heather Anderson discussing the artist’s video installation Supernova" Rah graduated from the MFA program in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in 2018.

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  • James Knott: "The Apocalypse In Your Bedroom" | Artist Talk and Online Screening

    LOMAA and the Artlab Gallery are excited to welcome James Knott for the fifth Queer Frontiers event! Knott will be presenting an online film adaptation of their performance "The Apocalypse In Your Bedroom” and a virtual artist talk. The online screening will take place Sunday, October 24 - Sunday October 31, 2021. Join the virtual artist talk Saturday October 30, 2021 at 3:00pm EST. Pre-registration is required and a Zoom link will be provided through Eventbrite confirmation. ASL Interpretation and Zoom Captions will be available.

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  • Michael Pszczonak: The Colour of a Window | Michael Gibson Gallery

    Michael Gibson Gallery, October 13 - November 27, 2021

    Congratulations to alumnus Mike Pszczonak (MFA ‘14) as he shares new work in a solo exhibition at Michael Gibson Gallery “The Colour of a Window”. The exhibition is on view October 13 - November 27, 2021

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  • The Botanical Turn Panel Discussion

    McIntosh Gallery & Art Now!, Oct 7, 2021 7:00 PM on Zoom

    In case you missed it, a recording of The Botanical Turn panel discussion hosted on Zoom in partnership with the Western University Department of Visual Arts Art Now! Speaker Series is now posted online. Moderated by exhibition curator Dr. Helen Gregory, The Botanical Turn artists discussed how plants and botanical imagery have informed their art practices.

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  • Centre for Sustainable Curating Reading Group

    Centre for Sustainable Curating, November 4, 2021 2-3:30pm

    Join postdoctoral fellows Zoë Heyn-Jones and Amanda White for a series of virtual meetings over the coming year as we discuss books on our research reading lists. For the fall term, we welcome those interested and invite you to join us for a casual discussion of either or both of the following books: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown (2017) and A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yusoff (2019)

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  • Hello to Printing | Cohen Commons

    Cohen Commons, By appointment: October 11 - 21, 2021

    "Hello To Printing" will be on view in the Cohen Commons gallery from October 11 - 21. The exhibition features work done by SA 2630A Introduction to Print Media and SA 3633 Print Media students. A range of techniques are explored in this exhibition, including linocuts, 1-colour etchings and 3-colour silkscreen prints.

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  • GardenShip and State | Museum London

    Museum London, October 7 to January 23, 2022

    GardenShip and State is now open at Museum London! The exhibition features works produced over a two-year period – the results of conversations between the artists and writers, oftentimes with members of their local communities. GardenShip and State was curated by Jeff Thomas and Visual Arts Professor Patrick Mahon and features several Department of Visual Arts students and alumni.

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  • Michael Farnan: Canoe Fight: From Reverence to Redress | MacLaren Art Centre

    July 26 to October 24, 2021

    Congratulations to PhD alum Michael Farnan whose solo exhibition "Canoe Fight: From Reverence to Redress" is on view now until October 24, 2021 at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, On.

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  • Call for Submissions | Satellite Project Space

    Submissions due October 22, 2021

    Satellite's current intern, Western student Avory Capes, will be curating a virtual exhibition called "Chemical Imbalance" at Satellite which includes an open call for artists. Full submission guidelines are on the Satellite Project Space website.

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  • Greg Curnoe: What About Me? | TAP Centre for Creativity

    September 30 - November 6, 2021

    Greg Curnoe: What About Me?, opens Thursday, September 30 at TAP Centre for Creativity (203 Dundas St., London). This exhibition, curated by Brian Lambert and presented by McIntosh Gallery, will run through November 6, 2021. Visits to see the exhibition can be scheduled online.

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  • Forest City Film Festival Launches Experimental Film Category

    By Asleysha Ramasamy, Forest City Film Festival , October 19 - October 24, 2021

    "If there was one word used to describe experimental films, it would be ‘unpredictable’. After conversations with the filmmakers selected for FCFF’s very first experimental film program, it was obvious that at the center of these films, they challenge conventions of traditional cinema." The Forest City Film Festival Experimental Films will be featured in-person and on demand October 21, 23 and 24. Visit the FCFF website for more information and to purchase tickets.

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  • Durational Reading of the TRC Report

    Centre for Sustainable Curating, Wednesdays 11am - 12pm on Zoom

    The postdoctoral fellows at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Theatre Studies at Western program invite you to join us in a durational reading of the executive summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report (TRC), part of an initiative by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Join us on Zoom every Wednesday from 11-am-12pm EDT/EST beginning on 29 September 2021 to read the document out loud together until completion. Registration required.

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  • Exhibition Review: Intercambio/Exchange at Support Project Space

    By Kim Neudorf, Akimbo, October 7, 2021

    Organized by the Embassy Cultural House as part of their recently revitalized series of socially engaged community projects in London and beyond, Intercambio/Exchange at Support Project Space highlights local artists Ron Benner, Patricia Deadman, Duncan DeKergommeaux, Mireya Folch-Serra, Anahí González, Gildo Gonzalez, Jamelie Hassan, Carlos Lores, Kim Moodie, Oscar Ortiz, Jenna Rose Sands, and Jean Spence – all of whose work has past and present ties with specific sites in Mexico, such as Oaxaca, Mexico City, Merida, San Miguel de Allende, and Saltillo. Intercambio/Exchange at Support Project Space is on view September 27 to October 18, 2021. Image: Anahi Gonzalez, Always Fresco, 2021, inkjet print.

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  • Professor of Art History Emeritus, Dr. William S. A. Dale celebrates 100th birthday

    September 18th, 2021

    Professor of Art History Emeritus, Dr. William S. A. Dale celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, September 18th, 2021. In 1967, Dr. Dale was the first Professor of Fine Arts and founding head of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Dale earned his emeritus status in 1987.

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  • The Dream It Conference

    The Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, Oct 5-7, 2021

    The Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship is hosting a free 3-day conference in-person conference. From hands-on webinars and valuable keynotes/workshops to panelist discussions with amazing entrepreneurs, this conference is an all in one package for you to delve into your entrepreneurship journey and meet some like-minded individuals.

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  • Jade Williamson: In Peril | For the Love of Art Gallery

    September 24 - 26, 2021

    Congratulations to alumna Jade Williamson (BFA '21) whose exhibition "In Peril" is on view at For the Love of Art Gallery September 24 - 26, 2021. An opening reception is scheduled for September 24 at 7 pm.

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  • Dual exhibitions: Night on Earth and Simulation

    Satellite Project Space, September 15 - 25, 2021

    A dual exhibition of works by our Department's 2nd-year MFA candidates, Michelle Paterok and Brianne Casey opened September 15, 2021 at Satellite Project Space and is on view until September 25, 2021. ⠀

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  • Immune Nations | McMaster Museum of Art

    September 14, 2021 – December 10, 2021

    Patrick Mahon and Annemarie Hou's collaborative work "Design for a Dissemunization Station (D4DS)" is on view now as part of the Immune Nations exhibition at McMaster Museum of Art.

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  • Exhibit brings attention to bison eradication

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News , September 8, 2021

    PhD candidate Michelle Wilson leads exhibition, symposium that explore ties between bison and colonialism

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  • Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through

    September 8 - November 20, 2021

    "Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through" is on view now at The Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Curated by the Synthetic Collective which includes Department of Visual Arts Professors Kirsty Robertson and Kelly Wood and MFA Alum Tegan Moore.

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  • "Decolonizing Pop Art: Hatecopy and the South Asian Canadian Experience"

    By Ira Kazi, The Scattered Pelican, Summer Issue

    PhD candidate, Ira Kazi published an article in the summer issue of The Scattered Pelican. In this paper, Ira examines the works of Toronto-based artist Maria Qamar (1991-), who is also known as  Hatecopy. Qamar, who is half-Bengali and half-Gujrati, was born in Pakistan and moved to Canada at a young age. Through  her  satirical Pop Art  inspired works, she explores the complex negotiation of cultural identity and gives a much-needed voice to those navigating South Asian diasporic identity in Western society.

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  • Lorraine Klaasen Celebrates 40 Years as a Performer

    By Embassy Cultural House, September 9, 2021

    The Embassy Cultural House is happy to celebrate and share news of Lorraine Klaasen, ECH advisory circle member, on her 40th year as a singer, artist, performer, and dancer. For her 40th anniversary, Lorraine will be performing in concert in Montreal, on October 5th at the Cabaret Lion d'Or. For those who are unable to see her concert in person, the event will also be live-streamed and accessible to all.

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  • 2021 Satellite Award Exhibition: Function As One

    Satellite Project Space, September 1 - September 11, 2021

    The 2021 Award Exhibition, "Function As One" showcases work by three recently graduated emerging artists including, Kaitlyn Hwang, a recent Western University graduate of the BFA program with an Honours Specialization in Studio Art. Clara Tuckey (Fanshawe College, Fine Art Diploma), and Kenna Robinson (Bealart).

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  • Quinn Smallboy: String Theory | Glenhyrst Art Gallery

    Glenhyrst Art Gallery, August 31 - September 26, 2021

    Congratulations to alumni Quinn Smallboy (BFA '14, MFA '17) whose exhibition "String Theory," is installed at Glenhurst Gallery from August 31 - September 26, 2021.

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  • Sentient Surrealism: Examining the Postmodern Art of Tommy Bourque

    By Ana Moyer, August 31, 2021,

    In this commissioned exhibition essay, Ph.D. student Ana Moyer considers artist and recent MFA graduate Tommy Bourque's Marvelous Monsters within the context of art historical references, "visuals of the tentacular," and pressing climate concerns.

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  • MFA alumna Anahí González featured in Vanguardia MX

    August 25, 2021

    PhD student and MFA alumna Anahí González (MFA '21) was featured in the arts section of Vanguardia MX highlighting her two simultaneous MFA thesis exhibitions titled "The Other Neighbour of El Otro Lado". These exhibitions were installed in two locations: the Artlab Gallery (London, ON, Canada) and El NODO (Saltillo, COAH, Mexico).

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  • Gabriella Solti: Red + Red = Blue | Satellite Project Space

    Satellite Project Space, August 18-28, 2021

    Congratulations to alumna Gabriella Solti (MFA'14), whose exhibition "Red + Red = Blue" is installed at Satellite Project Space from August 18 to 28, 2021. The exhibition features a series of watercolour paintings on handmade Japanese paper.

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  • Western to require proof of vaccination for campus community

    By Mari-Len De Guzman, Western News, August 11, 2021

    Western University and affiliated colleges Brescia, Huron and King’s are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students, staff and faculty, as part of a new policy to further protect the campus community.

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  • Sam Wagter: Shades of Blue and Smush | FCG

    Forest City Galley, August 14 - 28, 2021

    For many years, Forest City Gallery has supported the AJE through the contribution of the FCG Feature Award. The FCG Feature offers a presentation opportunity to one student each year, selected by a professional jury. The AJE 19, which took place in March 2021, awarded 4th year Visual Arts student, Sam Wagter, with this year's FCG Feature Award. Sam Wager's work will be up for viewing on the FCG website from August 14-28, 2021.

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  • Message from the Chair

    By Alena Robin, July 1, 2021

    It is a great pleasure for me to be joining the Department of Visual Arts as Chair. The Department is a vibrant and diverse community of committed professors, staff, and students in art history, museum and curatorial studies, and studio art, with both undergraduate and graduate programs. By having both engaged faculty members and strong programs, the Department is active on the local, national, and international art scenes, successfully training the next generations of specialists in Visual Arts, promoting principles of excellence and respect, preparing the cultural leaders of tomorrow...

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  • Artlab Gallery re-opens by appointment

    Artlab Gallery , Friday, July 16, 2021

    The Artlab is pleased to be able to open to appointments for the last day of Tommy Bourque's exhibition, Friday, July 16th, 2021. To schedule your visit, please do so online using the link below. If you have questions or are seeking additional information regarding your next visit to the gallery, feel free to reach out to the Gallery Manager at rskinne6@uwo.ca For ongoing coverage of COVID-19 protocol and operations at Western University, visit https://www.uwo.ca/coronavirus/

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  • Anahí González: The Other Neighbour of El Otro Lado | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery , July 30 - August 20, 2021

    The Other Neighbour of El Otro Lado explores themes of Mexican migration in Canada, engaging with ideas of human labour and various indexes of Mexican culture, trade, and economic exchange. With two simultaneous exhibitions in two locations: the Artlab (London, ON, Canada) and El NODO (Saltillo, COAH, Mexico), the show echoes the importance of creating a visual narrative between both countries to decenter the United States narrative concerning Mexican migration.

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  • Prof. John Hatch featured in CBC Arts

    By John Hatch, CBC Arts, July 6, 2021

    In the article, "How Kazuo Nakamura helped pioneer abstract art in Canada after surviving B.C. internment camps" published in CBC Arts, John Hatch discusses his new book "Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work".

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  • MKG127 Presents pockets, postscripts, peonies by Liza Eurich

    MKG127, July 10 – August 21, 2021

    MKG127 is pleased to present "pockets, postscripts, peonies". An exhibition of recent works by Liza Eurich (MFA '12). July 10 – August 21, 2021.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Tommy Bourque | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, June 25 – July 16, 2021

    "Marvelous Monsters" presents speculative worlds and speculative figures. Tommy Bourque’s MFA thesis exhibition is a mirror of what it is like to be alive: he wants viewers to connect and engage with his work to confront their understanding of their own embodiment and of their own lived experiences 'as' bodies and 'in' bodies.

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  • "The Value in Opportunities: Wielding Student Experiences" Digital Publication by Sam Wagter

    Artlab Gallery, June 21, 2021

    In this digital publication, the Artlab's 2020-21 Intern, Sam Wagter, discusses the importance of professional exhibition opportunities for students in the Visual Arts Department. Sam reflects on these opportunities in relation to her recent solo exhibition series for the Artlab Vitrine and she queries this year's exhibiting artists about the usefulness of programming at this vital stage in their careers.

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  • “Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico,” by Sarah Bassnett

    Leuven University Press, June 2021

    Sarah Bassnett chapter “Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico,” is now published in the new book, Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States, edited by Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien. Open Access URI

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  • Ellen Moffat: becoming again beginning undone | McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery , June 24 - July 24, 2021

    becoming again beginning undone an exhibition by PhD candidate, Ellen Moffat will open virtually beginning June 24 on McIntosh Gallery’s social media and website. In the exhibition, small sounds, image, text, rhythms, and tonalities bleed into and mix with each other, transgressing the borders of the gallery space.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Faith Patrick | McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery , June 24 - July 24, 2021

    'The No No-Exit Closet' Faith Patrick, an MFA Thesis Exhibition hosted by McIntosh Gallery will open virtually beginning June 24 on McIntosh Gallery’s social media and website, where exhibition documentation and virtual walk-throughs will be posted through the exhibitions’ duration.

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  • "Conservation through visual arts"

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, June 15, 2021

    With large-as-life artwork of endangered and vulnerable species such as this polar bear cub, Jade Williamson hopes to draw attention to the interconnectedness of life on the planet. Williamson, a fine arts graduate, is part of Western's Class of 2021.

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  • "Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work" by John G. Hatch

    Art Canada Institute, June 11, 2021

    The Art Canada Institute (ACI) is pleased to announce the release of Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work by Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts, John G. Hatch. Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work is the first biography to tell the story of Nakamura’s intriguing life and storied career, from his childhood in Vancouver and his experiences as a wartime internee to his role in Painters Eleven and the culmination of his career in the number series paintings. An iconic Canadian painter who blended Western and Eastern influences, Nakamura was profoundly inspired by mathematics, science, and philosophy as well as art history. His achievements reflect the pivotal diversification of Canadian art in the twentieth century. Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work is an open-source online art book— available free of charge, in both English and French.

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  • "Midcentury Metamodern: Returning Home in the Twenty-First-Century Nostalgia Film" by Christine Sprengler

    SUNY Press, June 2021

    Professor Christine Sprengler's publishes a chapter titled "Midcentury Metamodern: Returning Home in the Twenty-First-Century Nostalgia Film" in the new book "Was It Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television", edited by Matthew Leggatt⠀

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  • "Scumbling and Scraping" by Sky Glabush

    Tate Etc., Summer Issue

    Sky Glabush publishes an article about the painter John Constable in the summer issue of Tate Etc., the art magazine of the Tate.

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  • Murals in the ICEAP Building

    Kings College commissioned Department of Visual Arts students Lama Rafehi and Sam Wagter to create a series of murals in the stairwells of the International Centre for English Academic Preparation (ICEAP) building. Image: “Goose and the Three Sisters” by Laney Beaulieu & Sam Wagter.

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  • Celebrating Hiding in Plain Sight - Remarks and Discussion

    Embassy Cultural House, Thursday, June 24 at 1pm ET

    Join Raincoast Books and Embassy Cultural House for a panel discussion with some of the artists featured in the ECH Hiding in Plain Sight exhibit, inspired by the book of the same name by Sarah Kendzior. Featuring the artists’ panel: Karl Beveridge & Carole Condé, Shelley Niro, and Paul Walde. Including opening remarks and contributions from Hiding in Plain Sight author and journalist Sarah Kendzior.

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  • Call for Applications: Indigenous Artist-in-Residence

    Application Deadline: July 7, 2021

    The Department of Visual Arts at Western University is seeking applications from emerging to established artists for the one-year Indigenous Artist-in-Residence (IAiR) program. This program will support a First Nations, Métis, or Inuk artist in the research, creation, and production of new artistic work. The IAiR will work closely with the Department of Visual Arts and undertake community engagement in ways that could include (but are not limited to) artist talks, workshops, studio visits, or other outreach activities. Applications from artists with connections to, or living in, the region are particularly encouraged. Projects that incorporate distance or remote components, or other innovative virtual forms of residency, are welcome.

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  • Rebecca Sutherland: Fleet | Artlab Gallery

    May 25 - June 11, 2021

    What do we lose through our continuous pursuits of permanence? What might we be missing along the way? Rebecca Sutherland's thesis exhibition, Fleet, makes use of floral material deemed commercially undesirable in a poetic and inventive collaboration with the passage of time and the shifting qualities of lived and imagined spaces.

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  • Ioana Dragomir: to all on whom the blazing | Satellite Project Space

    May 17-30, 2021

    The noonday demon forges summertime into a long ruinous torpor, an endless day of indisputable midday twilight. It thaws my spine, splintering in waves, dividing quantum particles in my retina. Black light seeps through all matter, eating through surfaces, perforating walls, streaming through corners. Dissolved vitreous humor, refracting everywhere. The brightness is so thick in its transparency that I see the darkness of cosmic void shimmering behind it in infinite planes. I look at my arms on the bleached carpet, my flesh embedded in broiling photons, stretching through levels of matter and nothingness, sweating, withered reflections. Cups, papers, furniture, hair, dust, all film, all surface, all the way through, radiating as if the sun was underground, stirring with electric velocity. Albedo, nigredo, suspended in exacting putrefaction. The noonday demon speaks in liquid vision, feeds on my hours, spews a diffused gaze of open horror. At night the heat continues its entropic curse until dawn. Shade is just another form of brightness. All senses become black light, doomed in scorching resonance of leaves and crickets and cicadas and other lives, luminous textures pouring over, lustrous scents of dusty vapour, dehydration glowing on my tongue. Phonemes dried up, inarticulate, I am all image. Exhibition text written by Sasha Opeiko

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  • Centre for Sustainable Curating launches at Western

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, May 18, 2021

    Western’s new Centre for Sustainable Curating looks to shed light on ecological issues and share them through stories grounded in environmental awareness. "Together We Average as Zero", curated by Dr. Kirsty Robertson's MCS4605E Museum and Curatorial Practicum class. Photo by Dickson Bou

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  • Launch of the Centre for Sustainable Curating

    May 27, 2021 at 1:00pm on Zoom

    Please join us on May 27 for the virtual launch of the Centre for Sustainable Curating. The Centre for Sustainable Curating is located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The CSC encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. At this event, we will present work from postdocs, host a panel on Radical Pedagogy and Curation, and launch the Synthetic Collective’s catalogue Plastic Heart: A DIY Fieldguide for Reducing the Environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions. Registration required.

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  • Digital Feature: Matt W. Brown - "On Ground"

    Recent MFA graduate Matt W. Brown tours us though his recent thesis exhibition, On Ground. Hear Matt discuss the deeply personal events and emotions that underlie this body of work. Matt also shares his formal and material considerations of colour as well as our embodied and perceptive experiences colour.

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  • Digital Feature: Symphony of Lights - "Partnership with the sun"

    A virtual tour of the recent exhibition, Symphony of Lights, by Anahí González. In February, Artlab exhibited "Symphony of Lights: An Exploration of Stained-Glass Windows in St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, London, ON." This exhibition was co-curated by PhD candidate Iraboty Kazi and MFA student Anahí González, and edited by Dr. C. Cody Barteet. It featured photographs, sound recordings and immersive installations by Anahí González taken in St. John the Evangelist Church. In this video tour of the exhibition, Anahí shares her corresponding artist's text, "Partnership with the Sun."

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  • Open Call for Window Installations | Satellite Project Space

    Satellite Project Space is seeking proposals from local artists and community organizations for window installations. Satellite Project Space is open to proposals from individual artists, artist collectives, and local organizations. Due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are looking for projects that can be viewed from outside to accommodate any lockdown restrictions. Virtual programming to augment a physical installation is welcome.

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  • Alumnus John A. Schweitzer donates $4 million in art to Western

    By Keri Ferguson, Western News, May 13, 2021

    In a compelling show of support for the arts, internationally acclaimed artist and Western University alumnus John A. Schweitzer has donated more than $4 million worth of his own personal art collection, honouring his deep ties to Western University. The gift contains 38 of his original art works, as well as pieces from his career as a collector, critic and curator.

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  • A Casual Conversation with Duncan deKergommeaux | Embassy Cultural House

    May 16th at 1:30pm EST on Zoom

    Join Embassy Cultural House Advisory Circle Member Judith Rodger for a conversation with Duncan deKergommeaux on May 16, 2021 @ 1:30 pm EST. Painter Duncan deKergommeaux has had a distinguished career that spans seventy years. From 1970 to 1993—Duncan taught drawing and painting in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. Judith is a former student of Duncan’s, colleague and friend for fifty years, and their conversation is sure to bring back many memories.

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  • Virtual Hear Here: Spring Fling | Forest City Gallery

    May 14, 2021 at 5pm on Instagram Live

    Developed in 2013, Forest City Gallery’s Hear Here Committee executes live musical experiences throughout the year to celebrate the gallery’s roots in music and to foster London’s creative and contemporary culture. For the 35th edition of the live music series, Hear Here invites Oslo’s Lerin/Hystand and Toronto’s Omar Bongo to perform virtually for you on Instagram Live.

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  • Job Posting: Gallery Assistant | Parkhill Carnegie Gallery

    The Parkhill Carnegie Gallery in Parkhill, Ontario is an up-and-coming community gallery of craft and visual arts serving the diverse North Middlesex, Ontario area. Duties of the position would include receiving art gallery submissions, setting up art displays, completing sales, setting up advertising online for purposes of generating sales.

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  • "The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design" edited by alum Anthea Black (MFA'12) and Nicole Burisch

    The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design is a publication on contemporary craft politics edited by alum Anthea Black (MFA' 12) and Nicole Burisch. This volume features twenty-three authors, including Professor Kirsty Robertson's essay titled Secret Stash: Textiles, Hoarding, Collecting, Accumulation and Craft.

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  • Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth | ECH and Gardenship and State

    Saturday, May 2, 2021 at 1pm on Zoom

    The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) and GardenShip and State are pleased to present a virtual group exhibition Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth to celebrate Earth Day, April 22, 2021. Work in the exhibit features several artists from the Department of Visual Arts, within the ECH community and Gardenship and State participating artists. Artworks in the exhibit address the broad issues related to the climate crisis, and other threats to our ecology. Works also address the intersection of sustainable living and the respect for Indigenous land rights. Registration Required.

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  • Doug Dolman: In Search of Symbol | McIntosh Gallery

    April 29 - June 12, 2021

    Due to COVID-19 safety measures, McIntosh Gallery remains closed until further notice. In-person gallery visits are not permitted at this time. In light of these restrictions, Doug Dolman: In Search of Symbol will open virtually beginning April 29. Exhibition documentation and virtual walk-throughs will be posted online throughout the exhibition's run.

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  • Digital Features: His House Will Leak | Cohen Commons

    April 19 - May 7, 2021

    “In my telling, the Cyclops’ story is a revenge story…." View a video tour of His House Will Leak, currently installed in the Cohen Commons and created by students in Professor Kirsty Robertson's graduate seminar, "Museum/Decay." The video is narrated by Ioana Dragomir and the exhibition features works by Sarah Charette, Ioana Dragomir, Philip Gurrey, Ana Moyer, Dong-Kyoon Nam, Sasha Opeiko, Tessa Oxtoby and Elena Solomon.

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  • Artist Talk with Tegan Moore | YYZ Artists' Outlet

    Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 PM ET on Zoom

    Alumna Tegan Moore (MFA'14) will deliver an artist talk to support her recent exhibition Foam Fatigue at YYZ Artists' Outlet on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 PM ET on Zoom. Documentation of Form Fatigue is available on the YYZ website including GRANULAR: Audio Description by HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander and recorded by Avery Moore Kloss.

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  • Anna Madelska Wins Western Teaching Award

    April 16, 2021

    Congratulations to the Department of Visual Arts part-time faculty member, Anna Madelska for winning the Angela Armitt Award For Excellence In Teaching By Part-Time Faculty!

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  • Matt W. Brown: On Ground | Artlab Gallery

    April 19 - May 7, 2021

    Matt W. Brown’s MFA thesis exhibition, On Ground, exhibits a series of paintings began as an effort to locate oneself during a period of profound grief. Through material investigation and evaporation, these paintings are what remains of an immanent departure: something akin to empty containers, wrappers or envelopes. While the water responsible for the markings left behind on the paper surface is removed, its invisible presence as vapour is called to mind through trace.  

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  • His House Will Leak | Cohen Commons

    April 19 - May 7, 2021

    Created by students in Professor Kirsty Robertson's graduate seminar, "Museum/Decay." “In my telling, the Cyclops’ story is a revenge story…. While Odysseus is happily restored at home and publicly celebrated, the Cyclops’ story continues. She walks the vastness of his kingdom, slowly becoming a ghost. Her emptied socket becomes a mask. Her revenge feeds her, making her opaque, anti-gravity, a black hole. Odysseus is blind to her, no longer able to see the Cyclops as when he coveted her land and food. She hides in plain sight and crafts her haunting. She will orphan Odysseus as she has been orphaned, but not of family, land or body. She will strand Odysseus in constant unease, bereft of his cherished and clever reason. His house will leak. The walls will sag. He will dream of sheep. He and everyone around him will forget his name; he will become an unremarkable shadow of Nob’dy, the clever alibi and source of his fame.” Eve Tuck and C. Ree. “A Glossary of Haunting.”

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  • Queer Frontiers: Jess MacCormack | LOMAA: London Ontario Media Arts Association

    LOMAA, April 19 - 25, 2021

    LOMAA is excited to welcome multidisciplinary artist Jess MacCormack for the second event in the Queer Frontiers series! Jess MacCormack’s work will be presented across various platforms, including a week-long video screening on LOMAA’s Vimeo page, a series of animated gifs on LOMAA's Instagram, and a discussion between MacCormack and Rebecca Casalino with a Q&A to follow! This event is presented in partnership with Femme Art Review, which will host a review of MacCormack’s new book “SHAME SHAME, go away” by Casalino.

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  • No Thanks, Just the Cheque | Virtual Exhibition Tour

    April 9, 2021

    This year’s Practicum Class exhibition accumulates recent works of 21 artists created during the 2020/2021 term. This exhibition also serves as the cumulation of the work that these artists have put into developing their individual practices over the course of their experiences in the Bachelor of Fine Art’s program. Because the Artlab has had to close to in-person appointments, we've created an extended video tour narrated by our Work Study student Fernanda Recinos and have posted documentation of the exhibition on our website.

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  • Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances | Virtual Tour

    Thursday, April 15 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join the Satellite Project Space on Thursday, April 15 at 7:00 p.m. ET for a Virtual Exhibition Tour and Video Talks with Sheila Butler and Catalogue Essayists. Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances, is a focused retrospective by the important artist, educator, and mentor, Sheila Butler. Curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon, the exhibition brings together 20 paintings and works on paper spanning 35 years of artistic production. Presented by Museum London and Arts & Humanities, Western University.

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  • In Conversation: And Repeat | Art Gallery of Windsor

    Thursday, April 15th at 7pm ET

    Curated by alum. Lucas Cabral (BFA '16) and Ray Cronin, the 2021 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art focuses on the theme of conversations. Alum. Sharmista Kar (MFA '18) joins the curators and artists Paul Dignan and Czarina Mendoza to discuss how they each use repetition to shine new light on seemingly mute materials. Join the online conversation on Thursday, April 15 at 7pm. Registration required.

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  • UPwithART

    UPwithART, April 18 - 24, 2021

    We’re proud to support #UPwithART ! This annual fundraiser for Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness and Museum London is taking place online this year from April 18 to 24. Join us for an online art auction with 60+ pieces of local art, many created by current and past members of the Department of Visual Arts including: Quinn Smallboy (MFA), Ruth Strebe (BFA), Matthew Trueman (MFA), Gabriella Solti (MFA), Sharmistha Kar (MFA), Prof. Soheila Esfahani, Mike Pszczonak (MFA), Kim Neudorf (MFA), Kelly Greene (BFA), Prof. Tricia Johnson, George Kubresli (MFA), Prof. Patrick Mahon. View the art and register for free at UPwithART.ca . Make sure to register before April 20 to be entered to win a lithograph by Peter Max valued at $2,500.

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  • "The Retablos of Teabo and Mani: The Evolution of Renaissance Altars in Colonial Yucatán" by Dr. Cody Barteet

    Arts, Volume 10, Issue 2, April 6, 2020

    Cody Barteet's article "The Retablos of Teabo and Mani: The Evolution of Renaissance Altars in Colonial Yucatán" published and available now on MDPI.

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  • Written on Earth: Panel Discussion | McIntosh Gallery

    Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 5:00 pm EST on Zoom

    McIntosh Gallery presents the Written on the Earth panel discussion on Zoom today, Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 5:00 pm EST. The exhibition features work by Hannah Claus, Joel Ong, and several members of the Department of Visual Arts including, Prof. Patrick Mahon, Ph.D. candidates Ellen Moffat & Eeva Siivonen, and MFA Alum Matthew Trueman.

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  • The Department of Visual Arts Announces Incoming Chair

    By Dean Michael Milde , Department of Visual Arts Chair Selection Committee, April 1, 2021

    It is my great pleasure to announce that the Department of Visual Arts Selection Committee has recommended that Alena Robin be appointed to serve a 5-year term as Chair of the Department. I am also very pleased to announce that Alena has accepted the appointment. She will take up the post on July 1, 2021. I would also like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge and thank John Hatch for his work as Chair. He has made an outstanding contribution to the Department, to the Faculty and to the University.

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  • Practicum Exhibition and VASA Publication Virtual Launch

    Thursday, April 1 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Please join the Department of Visual Arts and the Artlab Gallery online for the launch of the practicum exhibition “No thanks, Just the Check” and VASA's very first publication “Aeterna” Thursday, April 1st at 7 PM on Zoom. Zoom Link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/96117832399 Meeting ID: 961 1783 2399

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  • SSHRC CGS-M Awarded to Dayna Obbema (BA '19)

    April 1, 2021

    Congratulations to alumna Dayna Obbema (BA '19) for receiving a SSHRC CGS-M grant to support her project titled "It’s Not Easy Being Green: Barriers Preventing Canadian Museums from Adopting Sustainable Practices." Dayna Obbema graduated from Western University in 2019 with a BA Honors Specialization in Art History and Museum Studies. She is currently studying at Queens University.

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  • COVID-19 Update: Western Libraries

    March 31, 2021

    Western Libraries announces that they will be closing all locations to patrons and will continue to provide the no-contact pick up collections service. On main campus, no-contact pick up services will be provided via Weldon Library only. The King’s, Brescia and Huron libraries will also provide no-contact pick-up services. A small number of user services and facilities staff will be on-site across locations to pull requests for collections, both for digital delivery (i.e. scanning) and no-contact pick up.

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  • No Thanks, Just the Cheque | Artlab Gallery

    March 29 - April 8, 2021

    This year’s Practicum Class exhibition, No Thanks, Just the Cheque, accumulates recent works of 21 artists created during the 2020/2021 term. This exhibition also serves as the cumulation of the work that these artists have put into developing their individual practices over the course of their experiences in the Bachelor of Fine Art’s program. No Thanks, Just the Cheque signifies the end of a journey taken into the BFA program.

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  • Destruction as a muse

    AGO Insider, March 24, 2021

    The AGOInsider recently published an article featuring the group exhibition Written on the Earth on view now at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition features work by Hannah Claus, Joel Ong, and several members of the Department of Visual Arts including, Prof. Patrick Mahon, Ph.D. candidates Ellen Moffat & Eeva Siivonen, and MFA Alum Matthew Trueman.

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  • Formful | Artlab Vitrine

    March 29 - April 9

    “formful” – displaying excellent form, especially in performing a sport. Tyler Jafelice’s vitrine exhibition formful is an arrangement of sculptures that explore what it means for one type of body to express multiple stages or states of being. Jafelice contemplated the way athletics puts a single body through multiple states such as “weariness”, “tension”, or “balance”. He then translated these three concepts into melted candle sculptures. No adhesive or glue was used to make these works, only cutting, carving, and melting separate parts together. Much like a body, nothing holds these works together but their own flesh. The sculptures are divided into three regions; one region representing weariness, one representing tension, and one representing balance (from left to right). However, elements of all three stages can be found in each work. Curated and organized by Artlab’s intern, Sam Wagter.

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  • Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat | AGH

    March 20 - August 15, 2021

    Congratulations to BFA alum Esmaa Mohamoud on her exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Taking inspiration from the African American writer Ralph Ellison, artist Esmaa Mohamoud explores the ways in which Black bodies at once appear―and yet are rendered metaphorically invisible―within the spaces they navigate. To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat aims to re-examine understandings of contemporary Blackness, questioning the definitions of Blackness as a colour and shade, and/or as a societal or cultural construction. Curated by Matthew Kyba, Curator of Exhibitions at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat is organized and circulated by Museum London.

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  • Digital Feature: AJE19 | Artlab Gallery

    A virtual walk-through of the AJE 19: Close for Comfort exhibition, narrated by Gallery Manager Ruth Skinner is now live on the Artlab website.

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  • Soheila Esfahani: Facing Time | Surrey Art Gallery

    January 23 - March 27, 2021

    Congratulations to Professor Soheila Esfahani whose work is included in the group exhibition "Facing Time" currently on view at the Surrey Art Gallery in British Columbia. "The artworks in this exhibition, while mostly created before the pandemic, speak to the current moment of facial interfaces and increased digital activity."

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  • Tax Workshop for Artists | FCG

    March 25, 2021 at 5pm on Zoom

    Join Forest City Gallery for a free tax workshop tailored to artists and creative professionals, facilitated by tax expert Sunny Widerman. Tax season can be a confusing and stressful time, and this tax year is no exception, especially with regard to COVID relief and the confusion around CERB eligibility. This workshop will include topics such as: paying tax on earned income and calculating taxable income; claiming business expenses and required record keeping; HST and billing; Grants and T4s; and saving for the future.

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  • VASA now accepting applications

    Applications due March 26, 2021

    The Visual Arts Supporters Association (VASA) is now accepting applications from interested undergraduate and graduate students for the 2021/2022 academic year. Due to COVID-19, hiring for the 2020/2021 school year was delayed and all the current executives will also participate in a re-evaluation interview.

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  • Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas | SASAH Winter Speakers' Series

    March 25th, 2021 at 4:30pm ET on Zoom

    The SASAH Speakers' Series - Creativity, Innovation, Justice: Mentors & Storytellers is pleased to present a virtual talk with Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. Join us online, March 25, 2021, at 4:30pm EST.

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  • Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances | Satellite Project Space

    April 1 - May 1, 2021

    Satellite Project Space is honoured to present a focused retrospective by the important artist, educator, and mentor, Sheila Butler. Curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon, the exhibition brings together 20 paintings and works on paper spanning 35 years of artistic production. Presented by Museum London and Arts & Humanities, Western University.

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  • Queer Frontiers: Adrian Stimson | LOMAA

    London Ontario Media Arts Association, March 15 - 21, 2021

    LOMAA is excited to (re-)debut the Queer Frontiers series with a screening and talk with Siksika Nation-based artist Adrian Stimson! Originally slated to premiere in Spring 2020 LOMAA is happy to shift the exhibition online and host a week-long public screening of works from Stimson’s “Buffalo Boy” series in conjunction with a virtual artist talk and Q&A. This event is presented in partnership with Museum London.

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  • Go; Rise and Strike...International Women's Day Exhibit | Embassy Cultural House

    Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 1:30PM ET online

    The Embassy Cultural House's International Women’s Day Exhibition Go: Rise and Strike is NOW LIVE. Coordinated by Jade Williamson with the assistance of Charlotte Egan and Ruth Skinner. The exhibit includes artists: Jessie Amery, Amanda Boulos, Susan Day, Julie Rene De Cotret, Soheila Esfahani, kerry ferris, Mireya Folch Serra, Fatima Garzan, Anahi Gonzalez, Freda Guttman, Jamelie Hassan, Samar Hejazi, Fern Helfand, Sharmistha Kar, Catherine Morrisey, Shelley Niro, Thelma Rosner, Sandra Semchuk, Mackenzie Smith, Jean Spence, Diana Tamblyn, Zainub Verjee, Bernice Vincent (1934 - 2016), Jade Williamson, Michelle Wilson, and Winsom Winsom. Image: Go; Rise and Strike, Tekahionwake, 2020. Limited capacity - registration required.

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  • AJE 19 - Close for Comfort | Awards

    March 5 - March 18, 2021

    The 19th Annual Juried Exhibition runs until March 18th. Book your appointment to view the exhibition in person and follow our social media for features and awards announcements. Jurors awarded works on the basis of artists' expressions of creativity, originality, and process. In the final days of the exhibition, we'll be announcing the winners of two Visual Arts Materials Investment Grants, the Satellite Project Space Materials Investment Grant, VASA Juror's Choice Award, the Forest City Gallery Feature, and the Faculty Merit Award.

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  • Written on Earth | McIntosh Gallery

    March 4 - April 17, 2021

    The McIntosh Gallery will be re-opening the gallery by appointment with "Written on Earth" a group exhibition curated by Helen Gregory and project managed by Patrick Mahon, presented in collaboration with the Northern Tornadoes project at Western Engineering. The exhibition features work by Hannah Claus, Joel Ong, and several members of the Department of Visual Arts including, Prof. Patrick Mahon, Ph.D. candidates Ellen Moffat & Eeva Siivonen, and MFA Alum Matthew Trueman.

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  • Artlab Gallery to reopen to the public by appointment

    March 5th, 2021

    The Artlab Gallery looks forward to reopening to the public by appointment March 5th, 2021. To schedule your next visit, please use the link below. If you have questions or are seeking additional information regarding your next visit to the gallery, feel free to reach out to us at artlab@uwo.ca

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  • Ivan Coyote: "Care Of: Correspondence, Connections, and Cures" | Active Voice

    Tuesday, March 16 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Active Voice is pleased to present Western University's Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, Ivan Coyote. Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller. Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, they are the author of 13 books, the creator of four films, six stage shows, and three albums that combine storytelling with music. The Active Voice series is brought to you by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University.

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  • 息抜き / ikinuki: to relax, to take a breather | Artlab Vitrine

    March 1 – 14, 2021

    Currently installed in the Artlab Vitrine: 息抜き / ikinuki: to relax, to take a breather by Holly Granken. Curated and organized by Artlab’s intern, Sam Wagter.

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  • AJE 19: Close for Comfort | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery + Cohen Commons, March 5 - March 18, 2021

    The Annual Juried Exhibition returns for its 19th consecutive year! The AJE continues to be one of the most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions in the Visual Arts Department. This diverse exhibition supports the production of new work made in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, digital media, photography, installation, sound, and performance. Artworks are selected by a professional jury who consider originality, creativity, and process. This year's exhibition represents a diverse selection of work from all levels of undergraduate study in the Department. We received a significant number of submissions despite our unusual circumstances, with some works speaking quite directly to living, thinking, feeling, and working one's way through a pandemic. Image: Aisha Hassen (4th-year), No Pane.

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  • PastPerfect Workshop | VASA and MSC

    February 27th, 2021 at 1:00pm ET on Zoom

    VASA in partnership with Museum Studies Collective (MSC) is hosting a free hands-on workshop featuring PastPerfect the leading museum curation and management software. This online workshop takes place on Saturday, February 27th from 1:00-2:30PM on Zoom. Registration required.

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  • The Fifth Estate: “Black on Campus” | CBC documentary

    February 25, 2021

    A soon-to-be-released documentary on anti-Black racism on campus produced by The Fifth Estate (CBC's flagship investigative documentary series). Titled “Black on Campus”, the documentary will look at the experiences of Black students, faculty and staff on Canadian campuses and present an account of anti-Black racism at Canadian universities through sharing stories of many who have experienced it. The documentary will be aired this coming Thursday, February 25th at 9pm and can be watched on CBC television or CBC Gem.

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  • tba: Call for Submissions

    Friday, April 30, 2021

    tba, the graduate students' journal of the Department of Visual Arts at Western University is pleased to announce the call for papers/art submissions for the upcoming issue of tba. This issue will explore the meanings of and themes pertaining to the idea of reworlding. We view reworlding as a concerted and collaborative effort to reimagine our spaces by building upon a deconstructed, decentered, unfixed understanding of a world changeable by art that puts forth alternative temporal and spatial possibilities. This kind of reworlding offers possibilities of rethinking of ideas of unity by generating a multiplicity of futures with which to affect the present. Send us your thoughtful investigations, careful evaluations, and creative assessments of the concept of reworlding. Articles and artworks (sound, video, photography, paintings, drawings) are welcome! Deadline for submissions is Friday, April 30, 2021.

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  • Photo Contest | Department of Languages and Cultures

    Submission deadline: February 28th, 2021

    Annual photo contest open to all Western University undergraduate and graduate students. Categories: Intercultural Moments, Journey of Languages, Intimate Spaces Across Cultures, and Literary Escapes. There will be one CAD$150 first place prize per category (listed above).

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  • Hiding In Plain Sight Print Catalogue Launch

    Saturday, February 27 at 1:30pm on Zoom

    Embassy Cultural House is pleased to invite you to a celebration of the Hiding in Plain Sight print catalogue. Featuring works by several Western Visual Arts faculty, adjunct faculty, and alumni. To date over 300 copies have been distributed across Canada and internationally. Limited capacity.

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  • "Paratextual Encounters of Four Kinds: Blade Runner and Cinematic Memory" by Christine Sprengler

    Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Winter 2021

    Christine Sprengler's article "Paratextual Encounters of Four Kinds: Blade Runner and Cinematic Memory" now published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

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  • Sky Glabush | Philip Martin Gallery

    February 17, 2021 at 1pm ET

    Join Sky Glabush for a 30-minute conversation as he provides a virtual walk through of his current solo-exhibition with the Philip Martin Gallery, "The Caged Lark," Today at 1pm ET on Zoom. Registration required.

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  • PastPerfect Workshop | VASA and MCS

    February 27, 2021 at 1pm ET on Zoom

    PastPerfect is a museum collection and management software used by over 11,000 museums worldwide. Join VASA and MCS for a hands-on tutorial of the software on Saturday, February 27 at 1pm on Zoom.

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  • Call for Submissions | VASA

    February 28, 2021

    VASA is pleased to announce its upcoming virtual publication, Aeterna, which aims to represent the incredible work of the Department of Visual Arts. VASA is now accepting written and artistic student submissions until February 28, 2021. This year’s theme will be focused on nostalgia.

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  • Intent to Register Zoom Session with Prof. Johnson

    Monday, February 22 at 11:30am ET

    Visual Arts Undergraduate Chair, Tricia Johnson, will be hosting an Intent to Register (ITR) Information session concerning Visual Arts modules and requirements on Monday, February 22nd at 11:30 am on Zoom. Some topics that will be covered are the purpose of Intent to Register, our Visual Arts Degrees and Modules, the BFA Portfolio Requirement for Internal Candidates as well as requirements for Honour Specialization Modules compared to Majors, Minors and Certificates.

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  • Christof Migone: Press Record | OBORO

    OBORO, February 13 - March 30, 2021

    The works in the exhibition Press Record comment through a sonic filter on micro-gestures and furtive strategies, plastic waste and manufacturing processes, sited scatterings and dispersal systems. Here, sound is present as both potential and material, reference and inference. The exhibition features three distinct bodies of work: Micro (2014), 4 feet and 33 inches (2014-2017), and Record Release (2012-2020). Image: Christof Migone, Tokyo (video still), 2017

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  • Artist Panel Discussion with Patrick Mahon | Dunlop Art Gallery

    Dunlop Art Gallery, February 23, 2021 @ 2pm ET on YouTube Live

    Patrick Mahon joins Rachelle Viader Knowles and Sean Caufield of the VacZineNations! project to discuss the role of art as practice-led research in exploring complex geographic and social perspectives on vaccinations.

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  • Gu Xiong and Yu Gu | SASAH Winter Speakers' Series

    February 24, 2021 at 5pm ET on Zoom

    The SASAH Speakers' Series - Creativity, Innovation, Justice: Mentors & Storytellers is pleased to present a virtual talk with Gu Xiong, Multimedia Artist and Yu Gu, Filmmaker and Visual Artist. Join us online, February 24, 2021, at 5:00 pm EST.

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  • An Afternoon with Eternity Martis

    Monday, February 22, 2021 @ 1pm ET on Zoom

    Eternity Martis (BA’14) will be speaking about what it means to be a student (and woman) of colour on a Canadian university campus today. Eternity will be drawing on her experiences as discussed in her highly acclaimed book: They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.

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  • Symphony of Lights | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, February 8 - 19th, 2021

    Upcoming at the Artlab is Symphony of Lights: An Exploration of Stained-Glass Windows in St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, London, ON. In this exciting collaboration, artist Anahí González, curator Iraboty Kazi, and Dr. C. Cody Barteet explore the visual and aural sensations of being inside St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in London, Ontario. Videos and photographs taken by González during visits to the church inspire explorations of the stained-glass windows in relation to art and local history. This exhibition is a part of Dr. Barteet’s research program, "Preserving the Cultural and Artistic Heritage of St. John the Evangelist, London, Ontario as a Model for the Anglican Diocese of Huron," a project funded by the University of Western Ontario.

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  • In fact, it wasn’t on my mind at all | Artlab Vitrine

    Artlab Gallery, February 1 - 14, 2021

    Currently installed in the Artlab Vitrine: “In fact, it wasn’t on my mind at all” by Tia Bates. “This is a series of three paintings of locations from the home I grew up in painted from memory. The series acts both as a self portrait series, and a series of narratives described in the titles of the works. These function as stanzas to a larger narrative poem with the light source being the place described in the titles, and where the subject of the poems physically exists to affect the space around them. The illuminated space illustrates the way a location is perceived through experiences, emotion, and memory." Curated and organized by Artlab’s intern, Sam Wagter

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  • Art, up-close and from a distance

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, February 1, 2021

    Gallery Manager Ruth Skinner discusses the recent exhibition 'Distance makes the heart grow weak" with Western News. Learn more about how the pandemic promoted a show of 'seperate togtherness'.

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  • Active Voice: Richard Van Camp

    February 9th at 7pm on Zoom

    Please join us for this free and public performance series, which will bring some very exciting and compelling artists right to your own screens at home. Join writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote as they welcome some of their favourite performers and makers to the virtual stage to share their songs and stories with you in this intimate and compelling investigation into the creative hearts of some of the finest contemporary voices working in their fields today. This series is brought to you by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University.

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  • Lorraine Klaasen | Embassy Cultural House

    February 13, 2021 at 1:30pm

    Lorraine Klaasen is a South African born singer/performer and a 2013 Canadian JUNO Award winner. In 2020, The Forest City London Music Award (FCLMA) was presented to Lorraine in the category of World Music. To celebrate Lorraine's award the Embassy Cultural House will be hosting a virtual reception with Lorraine on February 13 , 2021 at 1:30 ET.

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  • Tegan Moore: Foam Fatigue | YYZ Artists' Outlet

    February 12 - March 13, 2021

    Congratulations to alumna Tegan Moore (MFA'14), whose exhibition "Foam Fatigue" is installed at YYZ Artists' Outlet from February 12 to March 13, 2021. Image: Tegan Moore, A yellow chunk of spray insulation lays in grass filled with scattered Styrofoam granules from a rasping process of a stucco installation. Image courtesy of the artist.

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  • AJE 19: Close for Comfort

    Artlab Gallery, March 8 - 18, 2021

    The Annual Juried exhibition returns for its 19th consecutive year! This group exhibition represents a diverse selection of artwork from all disciplines and all levels of undergraduate study in the Department of Visual Arts. The online submission form will be available as of Thursday, January 28th at 9am from the Artlab website. Submissions close on Thursday, February 11th at 11:59pm.

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  • Creating Art Full Time with Alayna Hryclik of Soft Flirt

    February 3rd at 1pm on Zoom

    Do you want to turn your passion for art into something you can do all the time? That's what Alayna Hryclik (BFA '13), did when she created Soft Flirt, a home decor and apparel brand based around Alayna's lifelong passion for creating art. Now a full-time artist, creator, and entrepreneur, Alayna has the freedom to create at her own pace. Join us on February 3rd at 1:00 pm to hear Alayna's engaging and inspiring story and have a chance to ask her questions about her experience!

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  • The Caged Lark: Sky Glabush | Philip Martin Gallery

    Philip Martin Gallery, February 5 - March 12, 2021

    Philip Martin Gallery is proud to present Sky Glabush's first exhibition at the gallery. Entitled "The Caged Lark," after a sonnet written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1877, Sky Glabush's exhibition features large-scale oil-on-canvas paintings completed by the London, Ontario-based artist over the course of the past year.

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  • Jeff Thomas and Bear Witness | SASAH Winter Speakers' Series

    SASAH, February 3rd at 5pm on Zoom

    The SASAH Speakers' Series - Creativity, Innovation, Justice: Mentors & Storytellers is pleased to present a virtual talk with Jeff Thomas, Photographer and Governor General's Award Winner and Bear Witness, DJ Musician, A Tribe Called Red. Join us online, February 3, 2021, at 5:00 pm.

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  • Student Donation Fund | AHSC

    January 29 - February 12, 2021

    Congratulations to Sam Wagter and Sam Erdelyi on their successful Student Donation Fund (SDF) proposals in Fall 2020! Click to read more about how they will use the funds to support the Department of Visual Arts student experience. SDF is an opportunity for Western University Arts and Humanities students to receive direct funding for their events or initiatives. The Student Donation Fund will be accepting proposals for the winter term, January 29 - February 12, 2021.

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  • Walker Cultural Leaders Series features artists Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

    January 18, 2021

    The Department of Visual Arts at Brock University presents, The Walker Cultural Leader Series featuring an engaging talk from artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner on Monday, Jan. 18. View the recorded presentation on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts YouTube channel.

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  • Apply now to Visual Arts Awards & Scholarships

    Deadlines: January 28 and 31, 2021

    The following scholarships and awards are available to Visual Arts students. Please check the eligibility criteria of each award carefully and submit the required materials by email to vaugc@uwo.ca and Linda Meloche, our Program Assistant, at visarts@uwo.ca Deadline: January 28, 2021 Canadian Embroiderers' Guild, London, Memorial Prize Deadline: January 31, 2021 at 3pm Bess A. Hewitt Scholarship in Visual Arts Madeline Lennon Essay Award Gray Creative Arts Award

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  • I Never Said It | Artlab Vitrine

    January 11 - 24th, 2021

    The first Artlab Virtine exhibition of 2021 is "I Never Said It" from Megan Goddard, who writes: "'I Never Said It' acts as a sculptural representation of my relationship to people, and the censoring of thoughts which sometimes occurs. The BFA Vitrine Exhibition Series is coordinated by 4th Year BFA Student and Artlab Intern Sam Wagter. It provides students an opportunity to display their artwork through solo exhibitions, gaining valuable experience collaborating with the gallery and expanding their professional CVs.

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  • Prof. Kirsty Robertson receives SSHRB grant

    January 2021

    Congratulations to Prof. Kirsty Roberston for her success in the most recent SSHRB competition for a project titled, "Imagining Change: Three Events for the Centre for Sustainable Curating".

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  • Patrick Mahon's artwork featured on cover of RSC report

    Renewing the Social Contract: Economic Recovery in Canada from COVID-19, December 2020

    Patrick Mahon, FRSC, Messagers’ Series: Satellite II (2018-19) was featured on the cover of the RSC report titled, Renewing the Social Contract: Economic Recovery in Canada from COVID-19. Patrick Mahon’s series entitled Messagers, of which Satellite II is one element, is a set of approximately 15 handmade, wall-mounted constructions made of wood veneer strips, painted silver and grey.

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  • Distance makes the heart grow weak | Artlab Gallery

    By Ruth Skinner, Artlab Gallery, January 15-28, 2021

    Every few years, the Artlab Gallery at Western University hosts a Faculty and Staff exhibition. These exhibitions are important opportunities for fostering a sense of community in the Visual Arts Department: students are able to see their instructors and mentors at work, and colleagues have a chance to share in each other's research. 2020 was a year like no other, and so the Artlab is leaning into the present with a collective address to this moment of separate togetherness. "Distance makes the heart grow weak" invites faculty, staff and graduate students to speak to how they've been experiencing the last year.

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  • COVID-19 Update

    By John Hatch, January 13, 2021

    The recent dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in Ontario has necessitated a number of steps by the provincial government to try and stem the current tide. The University hasn’t been too drastically affected. As was announced before the holiday break, the University delayed the start of the Winter term and continues to encourage staff to work from home as much as possible. It has reduced the number of students permitted for in-person classes to 9 or less, but has not prevented those classes from running that can only effectively function through in-person delivery...

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  • Studio available March 1st, 2021

    March 1st, 2021

    Studio in London Ontario. Available March 1. $291 per month. Approximately 460 sq ft. Lots of space. Lots of storage. Potential access to a woodshop. Contact Mike Pszczonak ( mikepszczonak@gmail.com ) for more information.

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  • COVID-19 Updates

    By Jamy Brodt, December 22nd, 2020

    This message is to highlight the update that was just posted to the Western COVID-19 update page December 22 - Western University (uwo.ca). You will note that the campus will go into a similar state of lockdown that we experienced over the course of the Summer. The Visual Arts Centre will only be accessible by security swipe to Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students who need to visit their offices. If you plan to visit campus, please be sure to complete the HR Questionnaire (Return to Campus Questionnaire FAQs - Return to Campus Questionnaire FAQs - Western University (uwo.ca)) prior to your arrival. As has been the case since last March, Faculty, Staff and Grad Students who can work from home are encouraged to continue to do so in compliance with Health Unit recommendations. Dean Milde and Department Chairs will be working through the transition of in-person classes to online where required.

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  • Artlab Gallery | Year in Review

    By Ruth Skinner, Artlab Gallery, December 22nd, 2020

    The 2019-2020 academic year ended unexpectedly for all. To offset the shock, Artlab launched handle with care, a virtual exhibition for the 2020 BFA Practicum class. A six-month programming pause lifted with George Kubresli's thesis exhibition, The Hell of a Boiling Red. The 2020-2021 academic year began optimistically with undergrad exhibitions We Were, And Then We Weren't and I-dentify. Unfortunately, health and safety concerns once again forced us to end in-person appointments (read a heartfelt account of this unexpected closure by exhibiting artist and Artlab Intern, Sam Wagter). Our exhibition programming continued, however, augmented with thorough documentation and Digital Features for experiencing Artlab projects from afar. No one knows what 2021 will bring, but we're excited to carry out our programming schedule for Winter 2021. In the meantime, here's to a long winter's nap.

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  • Transitions | Artlab Gallery: Virtual Exhibition

    December 22, 2020, Virtual Exhibition

    In this virtual exhibition, students from SA 2652A: Introduction to Digital Photography explore ideas of transition and what they mean for our past, present, and future. Their works collectively consider transitions related to various themes: cultural, social, environmental, political, and technological.

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  • Rah Eleh | CBC Arts

    CBC Arts, November 25, 2020

    Alumni Rah Eleh (MFA '18) was recently featured in a CBC Arts: Artist Spotlight titled "How do you reckon with female self-immolation? For Rah Eleh, it meant reimagining how she makes art"

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  • tba: Journal of Art, Media and Visual Culture | 2nd Edition

    tba: Journal of Art, Media and Visual Culture , December 16, 2020

    The Visual Arts graduate students’ journal, tba: journal of art, media, and visual culture will release its second annual edition on Wednesday, December 16th! The theme is Splinter and the journal contains contributions from writers and artists in Canada and the US.

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  • You- | Organized by Christof Migone

    December 12, 2020

    December 12 from noon to midnight GMT (7-7 EST, 5-5 CST, 4-4 PST) on Resonance Extra, Wave Farm, and YouTube Live. A radio-but-not-really-radio event where you and you and you momentarily, tentatively, expectantly share the same nonplace.

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  • Radical Creativity: Trends and Bends in Modern Art and Architecture | Prof. John Hatch

    Monday, December 14, 2020

    John Hatch will be delivering a virtual talk to the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University Monday, December 14, titled “Radical Creativity: Trends and Bends in Modern Art and Architecture.”

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  • Practicum Fundraiser: Mail Art Postcards

    November 27 - December 11, 2020

    The Visual Arts Practicum class has organized a fundraiser. With a $10 minimum donation, you will receive a surprise artwork in the mail. Each artwork will remain the approximate size of a postcard (5x7 inches).

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Jérôme Conquy

    December 9-12, 2020

    Satellite Project Space presents MFA candidate Jérôme Conquy's thesis exhibition, "Pharmakon: Acts, Traces, and Maps" December 9 to December 12, 2020

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  • Distant Practices: Dr. Kirsty Robertson | Forest City Gallery

    December 3, 2020 at 7pm ET on Instagram Live

    Join Forest City Gallery and Prof. Kirsty Robertson on Instagram Live as she discusses art in isolation with local artists. December 3rd, 2020, 7 pm ET on Instagram @forestcitygallery

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  • ...And on That Day, I Went For a Walk | Artlab Gallery

    November 23, 2020, virtual exhibition

    "...And on That Day, I Went For a Walk" is an Artlab Gallery virtual exhibition that presents work by students in professor David Merritt's SA 2602A: Studio Seminar class. An interactive PDF of the exhibition is available now on the Artlab Gallery webpage.

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  • A Brief Survey of Some Absurd but Critical Moments in Modern Art | Prof. John Hatch

    November 27, 2020

    Professor John Hatch will present a lecture titled: "A Brief Survey of Some Absurd but Critical Moments in Modern Art" at The College of Arts and Media at Tongji University (Shanghai) online, Friday, November 27, 2020.

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  • "Undocumented Migration and Political Community in Susan Meiselas’s Crossings Photographs" by Sarah Bassnett

    By Sarah Bassnett, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American, Fall 2020

    Professor Sarah Bassnett has recently published “Undocumented Migration and Political Community in Susan Meiselas’s Crossings Photographs,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 6, no. 2 (Fall 2020), available to all through the open-access, online journal.

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  • Call for Artists | Artlab Vitrine

    December 11, 2020

    Calling all BFA Students! The Artlab is looking for four artists to fill the Artlab Vitrine in a series of open theme, solo exhibitions scheduled from mid January to early April 2021. The vitrine is located on the wall behind the desk beside the Artlab doors. 2D and 3D works accepted and must fit within the specified dimensions. Submissions due December 11, 2020.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Christina Battle

    November 19, 2020, 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Christina Battle for an online lecture via Zoom. Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7pm ET

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  • Everyone Here Has Something in Common | Artlab Gallery

    November 23 - December 3, 2020

    In this exhibition, students from SA 2643: Introduction to Sculpture and Installation explore cultural connections, exchanges, and crossings by using readymades and found objects to create collaborative installations.

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  • Inside the Artist’s Studio: A Visit with GardenShip & State

    November 21, 2020 at 5pm ET on Zoom

    In partnership with GardenShip & State, an upcoming exhibition at Museum London (2021), the Words Festival will host a virtual studio tour with 8 artists and writers who are in the creative process of mounting the exhibition for September of 2021! Featured Speakers: Ron Benner, Jeff Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Lori Blondeau, Mark Kasumovic, Quinn Smallboy, Patrick Mahon, and Joan Greer.

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  • Art After Dark Presents: Rebecca Sutherland

    November 17, 2020 at 7pm ET on Zoom

    Art After Dark presents MFA candidate Rebecca Sutherland in a 2-hour online landscape painting workshop. All skill levels welcome. Painters are encouraged to use different colour palettes and take their own artistic liberties. Grab your laptop and prepare to flex your creativity.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Adam Lauder and Mark Hayward

    Thursday, November 12, 2020, 7:00 pm ET, on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Adam Lauder and Mark Hayward for an online lecture, co-presented by the McIntosh Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition Computational Arts in Canada 1967-1974, which they curated.

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  • Brendan Fernandes | Interview on CBC q

    November 4, 2020

    Brendan Fernandes (MFA '05) joined Tom Power to discuss his new digital performance The Left Space commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario, and how the role of protest art has changed in the COVID-19 and Trump era.

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  • Virtual Fall Preview Day

    Sunday, November 15, 2020

    Our fall open house is going virtual, if you know a high school student considering Western, please invite them to register and attend.

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  • The Left Space: Brendan Fernandes | The Art Gallery of Ontario

    By Art Gallery of Ontario, Friday, November 6, 7pm ET on Zoom

    "The Left Space" is a new digital commission by internationally renowned artist and Western University alumnus Brendan Fernandes, created specifically for this moment in time and for the AGO, that considers how we, the global left, have found ourselves in this predicament. Developed and choreographed for webcam and the grid formation of Zoom, custom backdrops by graphic designer Jerome Harris and on-and-off camera sequences will intervene and aesthetically connect a team of dancers from Hit and Run Productions performing from their homes around the world, with a score by DJ Karsten Sollors.

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  • Hiding in Plain Sight | Embassy Cultural House

    October 31, 2020, 2pm ET on Zoom

    Works by several Western Visual Arts faculty, adjunct faculty, and alumni are included in Embassy Cultural House’s first virtual exhibit: Hiding in Plain Sight, launching today, October 30th at 2:00 pm EST on Zoom with journalist Sarah Kendzior in attendance. Over forty artists and contributors have responded to the open call to create an artwork in response to the 2020 book by St. Louis-based journalist Sarah Kendzior “Hiding in Plain Sight”.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti

    October 26, 2020, 12 pm

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to present MFA candidate Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti’s thesis exhibition, "To Be Me" October 26 to November 12, 2020.

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  • Niloufar Salimi: 75 Oriole Rd | Support

    October 24 - November 28, 2020

    Congratulations to Alumna Niloufar Salimi (MFA'15), whose exhibition "75 Oriole Rd" opens Saturday, October 24 at Support. Excerpts from an accompanying essay by E.C. Woodley: Perhaps it is not a surprise that the daily drawing practice that produced this exhibition was occasioned by the loss of Salimi’s collective studio to COVID-19 safety measures. 75 Oriole Rd is an urgent retrieval of concentrated attention and seeing, of encounter with physical appearances.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Michèle Pearson Clarke

    Thursday, October 29, 2020, 7:00 pm ET, on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Michèle Pearson Clarke for an online lecture. Co-presented with the Forest City Gallery. Thursday, October 29, 2020, 7:00 pm ET, on Zoom

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  • Art Now! Presents: Wayne Dunkley

    October 15, 2020, 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Wayne Dunkley for an online lecture. Thursday, October 15, 2020 7pm ET on Zoom.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Germaine Koh

    October 8, 2020, 7pm ET, on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Germaine Koh for an online lecture. Thursday October 8, 2020, 7pm ET.

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  • Alumna Shani Mootoo Shortlisted for the Giller Prize

    By Giller Prize, October 5, 2020

    Shani Mootoo has been shortlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize. Mootoo's novel Polar Vortex, published by Book*hug Press was nominated for the award, completed a BFA in 1980 in the Department of Visual Arts at Western.

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  • http://store.tongue.beautiful.goods.temporary.feet.web/ | MFA Exhibition

    By Artlab Gallery, October 5-15, 2020 (virtual exhibition)

    Second year MFA Exhibition on view at Artlab Gallery, featuring the works of Anahí González, Rebecca Sutherland, Declan Hoy, Tommy Bourque and Faith Patrick. The Artlab Gallery and Cohen Commons are operating virtually. In-person visits are not permitted at this time, please visit our website for images of the exhibition and follow our social media for upcoming virtual exhibition tours.

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  • Art Canada Institute announces new book by Chair John G. Hatch

    By John G. Hatch, Art Canada Institute, September 2020

    “Kazuo Nakamura: Life & Work” by John G. Hatch will be released in June 2021 by the Art Canada Institute. Painters Eleven co-founder Kazuo Nakamura (1926–2002) was one of the great Canadian artists of the twentieth century, famous for his muted landscapes and his abstract compositions.

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  • Alumna Esmaa Mohamoud featured in the Field Trip Residency

    By Field Trips | Art Across Canada, August 18, 2020

    Alumna Esmaa Mohamoud (BFA'14 from Western University) is currently featured in the Field Trip Residency. The Field Trip Artist Residency is an opportunity for arts organizations in Canada to listen, learn, respond and create space in a collaborative manner that is meaningful and relevant while advancing work towards inclusion and equity for marginalized populations.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Katie Bethune-Leamen

    October 1, 2020, 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Katie Bethune-Leamen for an online lecture. The Art Now Speakers’ Series is a component of ongoing academic offerings in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The Fall 2020 Art Now Speakers' Series will be offered online, via Zoom Webinar.

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  • Art Now! Panel Discussion: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

    September 24, 2020, 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join us for an Art Now! panel discussion hosted on Zoom in partnership with McIntosh Gallery. Moderated by Alumna Dr. Helen Gregory, Curator at McIntosh Gallery, Theatre from the Jungle artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens and Associate Professor of Geography Tony Weis will discuss the exhibition presented at McIntosh Gallery as it relates to themes of industrial agriculture and socio-economic cross-border labour issues.

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  • Sarah Charette Highly Commended at Undergraduate Awards

    By Undergraduate Awards, September 2020

    Congratulations to 4th year Honours Specialization in Art History and Museum and Curatorial Studies & SASAH student, Sarah Charette whose entry in the 'Art History and Theory' category was Highly Commended at the 2020 Undergraduate Awards!

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  • Art Now! Presents: Hannah Claus

    September 17, 2020, 7pm ET on Zoom

    Join us as the Art Now! Speakers' Series welcomes Hannah Claus for an online lecture Thursday, September 17, 2020, at 7pm ET. The Art Now Speakers’ Series is a component of ongoing academic offerings in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The Fall 2020 Art Now Speakers' Series will be offered online, via Zoom Webinar

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  • Art Now! Fall 2020 Speakers' Series Announced

    By Department of Visual Arts, September 2020

    The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present the Fall 2020 Art Now Speakers' Series, which will be offered online, via Zoom Webinar. Links to attend the session and a full list of speakers can be found on the Department of Visual Arts Website. All lectures are free and open to the public!

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  • I-dentify | Cohen Commons

    Cohen Commons, September 14-24, 2020 (by appointment)

    Four artists question the reality of the self, coming to terms with what has marked each of themselves as “other” and revealing the complexities of a relationship with society. They address the implications of being biracial, multicultural, and multilingual in our current world. Exhibition on view at the Cohen Commons in the Visual Arts Centre during regular building hours for students with Card Access. For external visitors, an appointment is required, please email artlab@uwo.ca to schedule your visit.

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  • We Were, And Then We Weren't | Artlab Gallery

    Artlab Gallery, September 14-24, 2020 (by appointment)

    It leaps from the walls and breeches our space, It became us, we became it. Featuring the works of five artists, “We Were, and Then We Weren't” explores the tangibility of Aura and the allegorical relationship between memory and light in this multimedia exhibition. Artlab Gallery will be open by appointment only in Fall 2020. Please note non-medical face coverings are required and you will be asked to complete a questionnaire before entering the gallery. E-mail Ruth Skinner artlab@uwo.ca to schedule your visit!

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  • Messagers' Forum | Thames Art Gallery, Chatham

    Thames Art Gallery, September 16, 2020

    Patrick Mahon's newest exhibition extends from his longstanding practice with print media, sculpture, and art projects that engage themes of environment, and decolonization. With "Messagers' Forum", Mahon addresses a world filled with beauty, contradiction, and injustice to ask two essential questions, "Can we be "Messagers" that connect, build, hope, and dream - together? And if so, "How do we reach across?" Patrick Mahon will be at the gallery to give an overview of the exhibit: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 7:00PM Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 2:00PM Please register as spaces are limited: CKartgallery@chatham-kent.ca

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  • ‘Art whenever they want’ for remote-learning students

    By Jennifer O'Brien, Western News, August 31, 2020

    Visual Arts Pofessor Tricia Johnson discusses her transition to online learning with Western News. Learn more about her approach which includes a voice-thread on her class website asking students to contribute their work and works-in-progress and talk to one another about them.

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  • MFA Exhibition: Matt W. Brown| McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery, August 7 – September 4, 2020

    Ask Ellis, by MFA candidate Matt W. Brown is on view now at the McIntosh Gallery. An appointment is required to view this exhibition. Please contact James Patten at jpatten2@uwo.ca to schedule your visit.

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  • New Journal Article by Patrick Mahon

    By Patrick Mahon and Annemarie Hou, Imaginations, August 31, 2020

    "Reflecting on the Genesis and Realization of Design for a Dissemunization Station" by Western Visual Arts Faculty member Patrick Mahon and Annemarie Hou, has been published in the journal "Imaginations" as part of the the exhibition, “Immune Nations” exhibition.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: George Kubresli | Artlab

    Artlab Gallery, August 13-27, 2020 (by appointment only)

    The Artlab Gallery is pleased to reopen by appointment with MFA candidate George Kubresli’s thesis exhibition, The Hell of a Boiling Red. On view August 13 – August 27, 2020, please e-mail artlab@uwo.ca to schedule your visit.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Ramolen Laruan | Zalucky Contemporary

    Zalucky Contemporary, August 14 – 22, 2020 (by appointment)

    'still, unfolding' Ramolen Laruan, an MFA Thesis Exhibition hosted by Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto) is on view August 14 – 22, 2020. The Gallery is open Friday and Saturday 1-6PM or by appointment. For more information or to schedule a visit, please see www.zaluckycontemporary.com

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  • Western Students featured in new publication by Blackwood Gallery

    By Greenwood UTM, Blackwood Gallery, August 4, 2020

    Ashley Snook (PhD candidate) and Lele Lin (4th year Undergrad in Visual Art and Art History) were recently included in a new digital publication, 'Time Out' published by students from Greenwood UTM at Blackwood Gallery. Read the full publication online.

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  • Sky Glabush in Conversation with Philip Martin Gallery

    Philip Martin Gallery, July 23, 2020

    Watch a recording of an artist talk by Studio Arts Faculty Sky Glabush hosted by Philip Martin Gallery where he discussed his studio practice, and what he's working on next.

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  • Professor Kirsty Robertson Awarded the 2020 Western University Green Award

    By Brandon Watson, Western News, July 17, 2020

    Congratulations to Professor Kirsty Robertson, recipient of the Western University Green Award for weaving sustainability principles into her course curriculum and focusing on collaboration in the face of an ecological crisis.

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  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Yas Nik Khoshgrudi | McIntosh Gallery

    By McIntosh Gallery, July 10-24, 2020 (by appointment only)

    "Prototype for the Soul" traces the relationship between traditional literary narrative texts and digital media. MFA Thesis exhibition by Yas Nik Khoshgrudi is on view July 10-24 at the McIntosh Gallery. Please note: An appointment is required to view this exhibition. Please contact James Patten at jpatten2@uwo.ca to schedule your visit.

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  • Message from Undergraduate Chair Tricia Johnson

    June 9, 2020

    Congratulations to our Undergraduate Class of 2020 and welcome to the Alumni Western Family! Thank you to everyone who has shared news about where they will be headed next year. Here are a few successes we'd like to highlight, if we've missed you, please email visarts@uwo.ca and we'll include your news.

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  • BFA Alumni Organize Charity Art Sale to Fundraise for BLM

    June 8, 2020

    Western Visual Arts BFA alumni Sofia Berger and Michael Thompson who run 'Eraser Gallery' are organizing and online art sale with proceeds benefitting the Black Lives Matter Bailout Fund. If you would like to submit an artwork for inclusion for this fundraiser, or would like to purchase an artwork please visit their Facebook page for additional information.

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  • COVID-19 Updates from Chair John Hatch

    Dear Members and Friends of the Department of Visual Arts, Following the recommendations of the University and the Middlesex-London Health Unit, the Visual Arts Centre is closed and staff are available virtually to support student inquiries while we work towards a phased return to campus. Please click to read the most recent COVID-19 Update from Chair John Hatch.

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  • "LIFE Magazine in Africa and the Ideology of Modernization" by Sarah Bassnett

    By Sarah Bassnett, photographies, May 20, 2020

    Sarah Bassnett has recently published “LIFE Magazine in Africa and the Ideology of Modernization.” photographies 13, no. 2 (2020): 273-293, DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2020.1734065, available by log-in via Western Libraries for Faculty, Students, and Staff.

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  • Kirsty Robertson awarded 2020 Melva J. Dwyer Award

    By ARLIS/NA, May 4, 2020

    Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums by Kirsty Robertson, an original scholarly examination of the phenomenon of protest within and against Canadian museums, was presented with the 29th annual Melva J. Dwyer Award by the Art Libraries Society of North America’s (ARLIS/NA) Canada Chapter. The book was published in 2019 by McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP).

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  • Patrick Mahon awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

    By Paul Mayne, Western News, April 22, 2020

    SSHRC Insight Grants support research excellence by both emerging and established scholars for long-term initiatives. Visual Arts Faculty member Patrick Mahon, was awarded $201,890, for his project "GardenShip and State: Art and the Environment as a Commons".

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  • Postponed: Open Studios | Department of Visual Arts

    March 27, 2020

    Please note that this event has been postponed. We have made this decision to ensure the health and safety of our visitors and campus community.

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  • MSC Grad Conference

    March 10, 2020

    Curious about grad school? Not sure where to begin? Come out to the MSC's very first grad conference to hear from some of the brightest and most knowledgeable minds in the Department of Visual Arts! Join us from 6-8pm on Tuesday March 10th in room 100 of the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre.

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  • David Merritt: aweigh | empty gallery

    March 13, 2020

    David Merritt’s ‘aweigh’ opens Friday, March 13 @ 7 pm at 'empty gallery' in Victoria BC. The artist will be in attendance.

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  • Postponed : James Knott - The Apocalypse In Your Bedroom | Artlab

    Artlab Gallery, March 18, 2020

    Please note that this event has been postponed. We have made this decision to ensure the health and safety of our visitors and campus community.

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  • Postponed: My Diasporic Family’s Living Room | Satellite Project Space

    Satellite Project Space, March 28, 2020

    Please note that this event has been postponed. We have made this decision to ensure the health and safety of our visitors and campus community.

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  • Exhibition ‘zeros’ in on Fuller’s view of world | Western News

    By Deborah Van Brenk, Western News, February 27, 2020

    Visual Arts professor Kirsty Roberston, Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies, has led students in creating an exhibition reflecting on the vision of architect Buckminster Fuller. The nine students created individual projects and managed different aspects of the exhibition, including writing essays, graphic design, promotion, marketing and fundraising.

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  • Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener | London Free Press

    By Heather Rivers, London Free Press, February 29, 2020

    On his latest break from the classroom, Western University Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush went to prisons in one of the poorest countries in South America, invited there to help inmates cope with the crushing desolation of prison through art. Not the sabbatical most academics would choose, Glabush said it was a “life-changing” experience. Read the full story via the London Free Press.

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  • Barriers, Borders, and Boundaries in the Early Modern World | Prof. Cody Barteet

    By Cody Barteet, CAA Annual Conference , February 15, 2020

    Professor Cody Barteet Presented a lecture titled: "Barriers, Borders, and Boundaries in the Early Modern World" at the The College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference in Chicago in February, 2020.

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  • Together We Average As Zero / Take 1 | Artlab

    By Artlab Gallery, February 27 - March 12, 2020

    Join us for the opening reception of an exhibition was curated by students in MCS4605E, our Museum and Curatorial Studies Practicum Class. Opening Reception: Thursday, February 27 from 5-7PM, at the Artlab Gallery. The exhibition continues February 27 - March 12, 2020

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  • Art Now! Presents: Jenine Marsh

    February 27, 2020

    Join us Thursday, February 27 at 7pm in room NCB117 for a talk by Toronto-based artist Jenine Marsh. This talk is part of "Art Now!", a course offered by the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. This course focuses on current contemporary art production. All talks are FREE and open to the public!

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  • ANEW | Cohen Commons

    Cohen Commons, February 27 - March 12, 2020

    Join us Thursday, February 27 from 5-7PM for the opening reception of ANEW in the Cohen Commons Gallery. Curated by MA candidate Harper Wellman. Featuring artwork by: Anahí Gonzáles, Kimerlyn Hawkins, Avery Lafortune, Ramolen Laruan, Rebecca Sutherland, and Michelle Wilson The reception will be held in conjunction with the opening for "Together We Average As Zero / Take 1" in the Artlab.

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  • Opening Reception: Kelly Greene Accountability | McIntosh Gallery

    McIntosh Gallery, March 6, 2020

    Join us Friday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the McIntosh Gallery for the opening reception of an exhibition titled "Accountability" by Western Visual Arts alumna Kelly Greene (BFA'94) held in conjunction with the opening reception for Johannes Zits: Listening to Trees. This event is free and open to the public, all are welcome!

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  • Project opens doors of prisons to creativity

    By Sonia Preszcator, Western News, February 13, 2020

    Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush spent a week of his recent sabbatical in Georgetown, Guyana, helping to pilot a project to bring art to the inmates of Timehri and Lusignan Prisons earlier this month. Read the full story in Western News.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Kelly Mark at Museum London

    Museum London, February 13, 2020

    Art Now is heading to Museum London for this week's lecture! Join us for a tour of "Realisms" at 7PM, led by Andrew Kear. Artist talk to follow at 7:45PM. Presented in partnership with Museum London.

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  • Call for Submissions: tba Journal 2020

    tba journal, April 1, 2020

    tba invites exploration of ideas around “splinter.” By definition, “splinter” is a noun describing a thing that pierces and disrupts, or is a verb that conveys the action of shattering. A splinter is also a fragment of a larger object, or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected, and becomes lodged. Submissions are due April 1, 2020. Visit the tba journal website to see past issues and learn more about submitting your work.

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  • Launch Party for Femme Art Review | Cohen Commons

    Cohen Commons, February 6, 2020

    Co-presented by the Museum Studies Collective & Femme Art Review: join us for the launch of Femme Art Review's first print issue as well as the launch the 2020 MSC winter journal presented in partnership with the Artlab! 6:00-7:30pm on February 6th, 2020. Karalyn Reuben will be doing an artist talk for the launch at 6:30pm.

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  • My Diasporic Family's Living Room | Forest City Gallery

    By Jasmine Sihra, February 7, 2020

    "My Diasporic Family’s Living Room" is a workshop organized by Art History and Museum & Curatorial Studies Student Jasmine Sihra, that takes the experience and consumption of a shared meal and food as a site through which immigrant-settlers find a sense of comfort, encouragement and survival as they live or sometimes struggle to live in their new host country

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  • Sky Glabush Paints the Story

    By Chris Hampton, National Gallery Magazine, January 28, 2020

    Sky Glabush, studio faculty member, discusses storytelling, spirituality, and his artistic process with National Gallery Magazine.

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  • AJE 18: Annual Juried Exhibition, Opening Reception | Artlab

    By Artlab Gallery, January 30, 2020

    Back for the 18th consecutive year, the Annual Juried Exhibition (AJE) continues to be one of the most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions in Department of Visual Arts at Western University. This diverse exhibition supports the production of new artwork made in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, digital media, photography, installation, sound, and performance. Opening Reception: Thursday January 30, 2020 5:00pm-7:00pm Awards Announced at 6:00pm

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  • Art Now! Presents: Jamelie Hassan & Ruth Skinner

    Thursday January 30, 2020

    Art Now! Presents: Jamelie Hassan & Ruth Skinner; Presented in partnership with SASAH. Thursday, January 30, 2020 in Conron Hall, UC 3110.

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  • To Dwell, To Remember | Cohen Commons

    Cohen Commons, January 9 - January 23, 2020

    To Dwell, To Remember is an exhibition consisting of four artists and Western MFA candidates exploring notions of 'home' predominantly from a feminist perspective. How do we define what makes a home after migrating from elsewhere, whether intentionally or due to displacement? January 9 - January 23, 2020 Reception: Thursday, January 9 from 5-7PM

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  • Studio Faculty Sky Glabush, Visiting Artist Lecture at University of Victoria

    University of Victoria, January 15, 2020

    On January 15, Studio Faculty member Sky Glabush gave an artist lecture at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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  • Art Now! Presents: Erika DeFreitas

    January 16, 2020

    Join us for our first Art Now! talk of the term Thursday, January 16 at 7pm in room NCB117 featuring artist Erika DeFreitas.

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  • Facilities Renewal: The Digital Creativity Lab – Opening Spring 2020

    December 2019

    In response to increased need for digital production and presentation space, The Department of Visual Arts will be undergoing a renovation in January-March 2020 to create a new “Digital Creativity Lab”. This new flex-space will facilitate student and faculty photo, video, audio, and digital production and presentation.

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  • Suppose they are all put together | Artlab

    Artlab Gallery, January 9 – 23, 2020

    "Suppose they are all put together" presents recent works by Aryen Hoekstra, Ellen Moffat, Eeva Siivonen, Ashley Snook, and Michelle Wilson. The artists are studio Ph.D. candidates at the Department of Visual Arts. January 9 – 23, 2020, Opening Reception: Thursday, January 9 from 5-7pm

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  • tba journal: PLASTIC | volume launch

    The editorial team at tba journal is thrilled to announce that our 5th peer reviewed volume, PLASTIC, has been digitally published on our platform at tbajournal.ca

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