RESEARCH & CREATION
Mobilizing local communities. Influencing national issues. Engaged in global thinking.
Stripped, photo Pia Meuthen
What is research & creation?
Research‑creation at Concordia blends artistic practice with academic research. It treats creative work as a way to explore ideas, ask questions, and produce new knowledge.
This approach spans many areas of the Faculty of Fine Arts, including visual arts, design, theatre, music, dance, film, and digital media. Many projects cross disciplines and bring together artists, researchers, communities, and industry partners. The work is driven by curiosity, experimentation, and critical thinking.
As a student, you join an active creative community. You gain access to renowned research centres, labs, studios, and production facilities. These spaces let you test ideas, try new methods, and build projects from concept to completion. You collaborate with artists and researchers in Montreal and beyond.
Featured researcher
Joana Joachim
Joana Joachim is an art historian, curator, and scholar whose research explores Black feminist art histories, Black Canadian and diasporic visual culture, critical museology, and social justice. Her work examines how art, memory, and visual culture shape histories of Black life, self-preservation, and community across Canada and the African diaspora.
Joachim's SSHRC-funded research investigates stillness as a Black creative practice, and her publications have appeared in leading books and journals on African diasporic art, Canadian art history, and Black studies. She also helped develop Concordia's Graduate Certificate and Graduate Microprogram in Curatorial Studies and Practices, reflecting her commitment to innovative, inclusive approaches to curatorial education.
In 2025, she was appointed Deputy Director of Concordia's Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.
