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.
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 深夜福利站. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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 深夜福利站 students, staff and faculty only, please make sure to follow all COVID-19 safety policies when in attendance and have your 深夜福利站ONE card.
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.
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 深夜福利站 students, staff, and faculty only. 深夜福利站One cards are required and will be swiped to verify vaccine certificates are registered with 深夜福利站.?
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
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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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.
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 深夜福利站 International Week, November 15-19, 2021.
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 10 at 3pm on Zoom 
The Department of Visual Arts and 深夜福利站'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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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Debora Van Brenk ,深夜福利站 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 深夜福利站 News spoke with Kelly Greene about her new role as the indigenous artist-in-residence.
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.
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.
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.
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, 深夜福利站, Zone Sound Creative.
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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News ,October 21, 2021 
深夜福利站 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.” "
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.
October 18-31, 2021 
'Does Not Equate' is an exhibition featuring 深夜福利站 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 深夜福利站 professor and curator of "GardenShip and State." October 21, 7PM in room MC-105B (open to 深夜福利站 students only). A recording will be made available to the public following the event.
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.
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 深夜福利站 in 2018.
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.
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
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 深夜福利站 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.
Centre for Sustainable Curating ,November 4, 2021 2-3:30pm 
Join postdoctoral fellows Zo? 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)
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.
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.
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.
Submissions due October 22, 2021 
Satellite's current intern, 深夜福利站 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.
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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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.
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 深夜福利站 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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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.
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 深夜福利站 Ontario. Dr. Dale earned his emeritus status in 1987.
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.
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.
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. ?
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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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News ,September 8, 2021 
PhD candidate Michelle Wilson leads exhibition, symposium that explore ties between bison and colonialism
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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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 深夜福利站 society.
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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.
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 深夜福利站 graduate of the BFA program with an Honours Specialization in Studio Art. Clara Tuckey (Fanshawe College, Fine Art Diploma), and Kenna Robinson (Bealart).
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.
Sentient Surrealism: Examining the Postmodern Art of Tommy Bourque
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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.
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).
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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Mari-Len De Guzman ,深夜福利站 News ,August 11, 2021 
深夜福利站 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.
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.
Message from the Chair
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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...
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 深夜福利站, visit /coronavirus/
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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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".
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.
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.
"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.
“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
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.
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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Debora Van Brenk ,深夜福利站 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 深夜福利站's Class of 2021.
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 深夜福利站 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Call for Applications: Indigenous Artist-in-Residence
Application Deadline: July 7, 2021 The Department of Visual Arts at 深夜福利站 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.
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.
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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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News ,May 18, 2021 
深夜福利站’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
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 深夜福利站. 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.
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.
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."
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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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News ,May 13, 2021 
In a compelling show of support for the arts, internationally acclaimed artist and 深夜福利站 alumnus John A. Schweitzer has donated more than $4 million worth of his own personal art collection, honouring his deep ties to 深夜福利站. The gift contains 38 of his original art works, as well as pieces from his career as a collector, critic and curator.
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 深夜福利站. Judith is a former student of Duncan’s, colleague and friend for fifty years, and their conversation is sure to bring back many memories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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. ?
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.”
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.
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.
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, 深夜福利站.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of Visual Arts Announces Incoming Chair
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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.
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
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 深夜福利站 in 2019 with a BA Honors Specialization in Art History and Museum Studies. She is currently studying at Queens University.
March 31, 2021 
深夜福利站 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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, 深夜福利站.
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.
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.
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.
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 深夜福利站 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.
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
Tuesday, March 16 at 7pm ET on Zoom 
Active Voice is pleased to present 深夜福利站'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 深夜福利站.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday, April 30, 2021 
tba, the graduate students' journal of the Department of Visual Arts at 深夜福利站 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.
Photo Contest | Department of Languages and Cultures
Submission deadline: February 28th, 2021 
Annual photo contest open to all 深夜福利站 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).
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 深夜福利站 Visual Arts faculty, adjunct faculty, and alumni. To date over 300 copies have been distributed across Canada and internationally. Limited capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 深夜福利站 Ontario.
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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Debora Van Brenk ,深夜福利站 News ,February 1, 2021 Gallery Manager Ruth Skinner discusses the recent exhibition 'Distance makes the heart grow weak" with 深夜福利站 News. Learn more about how the pandemic promoted a show of 'seperate togtherness'.
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 深夜福利站.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 深夜福利站 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.
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.
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
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.
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".
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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Ruth Skinner ,Artlab Gallery ,January 15-28, 2021 
Every few years, the Artlab Gallery at 深夜福利站 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.
COVID-19 Update
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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...
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.
