Faculty research
The relationship between art and wellness is the mission of innovative programming initiated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and developed in partnership with Faculty of Fine Arts researchers. As part of the MMFA’s new Michel de La Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy, six Fine Arts faculty members are at the forefront of developing the first in a series of courses and public programs in art education, art history and creative arts therapies that will be used to engage families and schools, seniors and local communities. +
The Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab directed by Joshua Neves (Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema) held a two-day seminar in Media and Political Theory: Concepts on November 13 and 14. The goal of the event was to create links between media and political theories. +
Rhona Richman Kenneally (Design and Computation Arts) will give the keynote address, “Tracking the dresser: the biography of one piece of furniture in mid-twentieth-century rural Ireland,” for the Second Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in Irish Studies at Memorial University later this month. She will also present her design research to the Food Advocacy Research Group at Memorial. During her recent sabbatical, Richman Kenneally published three essays on Irish domestic space, with a fourth at press. Her lectures at venues in Canada, the US, and Europe included a one-day seminar on design and the future of food at the University of Modena, Italy. +
Stephen Snow and Mira Rozenberg (Creative Arts Therapies), along with students Shannon Rzucidlo, Reem Hashem, Katia El-Eter and Charles Smith Metellus, and alumnus Simon Driver (MA 13) presented at this year's North American Drama Therapy Association conference in New York. They performed and explained the process of creating an ethnodrama with caregivers of people with mentally illness. +
Janis Timm-Bottos (Creative Arts Therapies) has been named as the 2015-16 Concordia Provost Fellow, Community Engagement. The Fellows program allows faculty members to use their expertise to enrich the academic life of the university. +
Large-scale textile artworks by Kathleen Vaughan (Art Education) will be on view in the department (EV 2.619) until the end of November. In her work, Vaughan uses digital and hand embroidery and quilting practices to represent the pleasures and political ecology of walking in urban woods and green spaces in Montreal and Toronto. The “making-of” of the project can also be seen in the Art Education vitrines, located on the 2nd floor of the EV Building. +
Student and alumni news
Fine Arts students are gaining unique experience in art valuation and sales – and being given the chance to make a little extra money – through the new Art Consignment Shop. Located in the mezzanine of the Henry F. Hall Building, the Art Consignment Shop sells works produced by student-artists at competitive prices. +
Abbas Akhavan (BFA 04) received one of the most distinguished awards in contemporary Canadian art when he won the Sobey Art Award in October. +
Catherine Dubeau (BFA 05) recently won Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival’s prize for Achievement in Animation for her film Kaleidoscope, described as “a surreal encounter forever changes a man's perspective on his world”. +
Theatre alumni had a good night at the Montreal English Theatre Awards in October. Mike Payette (BFA 07) won the Outstanding Direction prize for Michel Tremblay's Hosanna. His company with Mathieu Murphy-Perron (BFA 08), Tableau D’Hôte Theatre, also won Outstanding Independent Production for the same play. The award for Outstanding Supporting Performance by an Actress went to Jennifer Roberts (BFA 10) for her performance in Chloe’s Choice The True But Not Entirely Reasonable Holiday Fable of Chloe Rebecca Ramadan, Aged 9 4/5 by Geordie Productions. Other big winners of the night included Black Theatre workshop, under the artistic director of Quincy Armorer (BFA 97), and the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, managed by Jon Rondeau (BFA 00). +
Santiago Tavera, current MFA in Studio Arts student, was nominated for the Equitable Bank’s Emerging Digital Artists Award. A screening of his work was held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in October. +
Nancy Webb (MA 15) was highly commended for her entry on David Altmejd, Flux, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Her review was judged to be an evocative and lively piece, drawing the reader close to the artwork. +
Events
Fine Arts IdeaLab.03
Dec. 1, 6 to 8 p.m.
Centre for Teaching and Learning, FB-620 (1250 Guy St.)
Everyone welcome. Please invite your students! +
Christopher Jackson: An appreciation through music and memories
Dec. 2, 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall | Everyone welcome
Please RSVP online by November 20.
The Right to the City
Dec. 5, 1:30 to 5 p.m.
Presentations of neighbourhood-based research and creation projects by Concordia students in Pointe- Saint-Charles. Exhibitions, performances and more. +
Other events
- Until Dec. 11: FOFA Gallery, Jean Dubois | WhiteFeather Hunter and Tristan Matheson
- Nov. 16 and 30: FOYER, information sessions about a shared graduate student research initiative
- Nov. 17: Music Research Talks, Ricardo Dal Farra
- Nov. 25 to Dec. 11: Music student concert series
- Nov. 28: Montreal Portfolio Day
- Dec. 2 to 5: Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Dec. 12 to 16: Contemporary Dance end-of-term performances
Visit the Fine Arts news page for information on these, and other, events.
