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Faculty of Fine Arts

Faculty of Fine Arts

Faculty Council

Faculty Council is responsible for the governance of the academic affairs of the Faculty of Fine Arts and for making recommendations concerning academic matters to Senate.

Chaired by the Dean and composed of full-time and part-time faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff members, Council meets monthly.

  1. Establish committees, and delegate any of its responsibilities to committees; receive, consider, and act upon the reports of its committees.
  2. Consider and recommend to Senate, or in the case of graduate programs, to the Council of the School of Graduate Studies:
    • any changes, additions or deletions in the curriculum for degrees, certificates or diplomas offered within the Faculty.
    • any changes, additions or deletions in honours, major or any Programs offered within the Faculty.
    • any changes, additions or deletions in course offerings within the Faculty.
  3. Decide on students’ requests for exemption from the academic regulations. The Faculty Council shall submit annually to Senate a report on the disposition of students’ requests.
  4. Recommend to Senate, or in the case of graduate programs, to the Council of the School of Graduate Studies, the list of candidates for the conferment of degrees, certificates and diplomas.
  5. Grant Faculty awards.
  6. Recommend to Senate on the granting of other awards when called upon to do so.
  7. Recommend to Senate on the establishment, consolidation or discontinuance of departments.
  8. Appoint Faculty representatives to University committees when called upon to do so.
  9. Appoint Faculty representatives to Senate.
  10. Make recommendations to Senate concerning the composition of the Faculty Council.
  11. Make any recommendations it sees fit to Senate or to the appropriate University administrators.
  12. Establish procedures for the conduct of its affairs.

Chair & Secretary

  • Annie Gérin (votes only in the event of a tie)
  • Tristan Khaner, Secretary (non-voting)
  • Elyse Murphy, Recording Secretary (non-voting)

Voting members

Ex-Officio

  • Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor
  • Anne Whitelaw, Provost and Vice-President, Academic
  • Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Dean of Graduate Studies and Executive Lead on Business Development and Revenue Generation
  • Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Associate Dean
  • Eldad Tsabary, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies
  • Haidee Wasson, Associate Dean, Faculty Development & Inclusion
  • Lorrie Blair, Acting Chair, Art Education (Fall 2024)
  • MJ Thompson, Acting Chair, Art Education (Winter 2025)
  • Nicola Pezolet, Chair, Art History
  • Jens Richard Giersdorf, Chair, Contemporary Dance
  • Cynthia Bruce, Chair, Creative Arts Therapies
  • Pippin Barr, Chair, Design and Computation Arts
  • Martin Lefebvre, Chair, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
  • Joshua Rager, Acting Chair, Music
  • Surabhi Ghosh, Chair, Studio Arts
  • Shauna Janssen, Chair, Theatre

Elected or nominated members

Department representatives

  • David Pariser, Art Education 
  • John Potvin, Art History 
  • Joana Joachim, Art History (repl. J. Potvin Fall 2024) 
  • Heather McLaughlin, Creative Arts Therapies 
  • Christopher Moore, Design and Computation Arts 
  • Cael Keegan, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema 
  • Georges Dimitrov, Music 
  • Erika Adams, Studio Arts

Three Part-Time faculty representatives

  • Sally Cooke, Creative Arts Therapies
  • David Douglas, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
  • Santo Romano, Design and Computation Arts

Staff representative

  • Chris Ready 

Five undergraduate student representatives  

  • Noah Gehman 
  • Isabella Providenti 
  • Max Shoham 
  • Emma Wallace 
  • Claire Heisz

Two graduate student representatives

  • Patrizio McLelland 
  • Samuel Thomson

Non-voting members

  • Rachel Berger, Geoffrey Dover, Mamoun Medraj, delegates for Dean, School of Graduate Studies
  • Hélène Brousseau, delegate for University Librarian
  • Jean-François Bourgault, delegate for Registrar
  • Vanessa Hauguel, Fine Arts, Communications Advisor
  • Managers of the Faculty of Fine Arts reporting directly to the Dean

The 2024-2025 meetings of the Fine Arts Faculty Council have been scheduled as follows:

Friday, September 12, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  EV 2.776
Friday, October 10, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 
 EV 2.776
Friday, November 14, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, December 12, 2025 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, January 16, 2026 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, February 13, 2026 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, March 13, 2026 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, April 17, 2026 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776
Friday, May 15, 2026 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EV 2.776

The documents provided at the 2024-2025 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2023-2024 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2022-2023 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2021-2022 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2020-2021 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2019-2020 Faculty Council meetings will be available approximately one week prior to each meeting.

The documents provided at the 2018-2019 Faculty Council meetings 

 
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