Achievements & News
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News
February 2012
Megan Dickie Throws It Down
Limited-term Visual Arts professor and ongoing sessional instructor Megan Dickie has a pair of new shows: she's part of the AGGV group exhibit Throw Down and has her own exhibit Get the Gleamer at Calgary's Stride Gallery.
Daniel Barrow Brings Art to Life
The ongoing Visiting Artist series continues to bring top talent to UVic. Most recently, we've had an appearance by famed Montreal-based manual animator and $50,000 Sobey Art Award-winning artist Daniel Barrow.
November 2011
Paul Walde
The Department of Visual Arts has announced that London, Ontario, visual artist Paul Walde has been named as the newest associate professor. “The Department is excited to have Paul join our ranks,” says Visual Arts chair Daniel Laskarin. “His expertise and enthusiasm will complement and augment the range of learning available to our students, and his creative work will be a welcome addition to the discourse of the visual arts at UVic and beyond.”
Franke James
Artist, writer, environmentalist and recent thorn in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s side, Franke James, was profiled in the Autumn 2011 issue of the alumni mag, The Torch. One of the first two graduates of UVic’s MFA program way back in 1981, James has made something of a name for herself since 2007 with her unique fusion of artistic and environmental concerns as seen on her website, My Green Conscience—but, most recently, as a result of the Federal government blacklisting a planned European art tour blasting the ongoing Canadian tar sands development.
October 2011
Robert Youds
Robert Youds, professor of painting in Visual Arts and a leading practitioner of light-based art, recently had an exhibit of new sculptures and paintins called Turn On Your Electric on view at Toronto’s Diaz Contemporary gallery. Youds also participated in an exhibit at Winchester Contemporary alongside iconic Visual Arts professor emeritus Mowry Baden.
Daniel Laskarin
The work of Visual Arts chair Daniel Laskarin has made it into the pages of Sculpture magazine. The current issue features Rachel Rosenfield Lafo’s review of Laskarin’s 10-year survey exhibit, Agnostic Objects (things persist), which was on view at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria earlier this year.
August 2011
maegan rose mehler
Visual Arts grad maegan rose mehler has won the BC regional prize in BMO Financial Group’s national 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. Only the second UVic student to win in the competition’s seven-year history, mehler's 36 x 36 oil-on-canvas portrait Josh turned out to be just the piece to mesmerize the judges. With 250 entrants across the country and 38 in BC alone, mehler is one of 12 regional winners to pick up a $2,500 prize. mehler credits her instructors and mentors in our acclaimed Visual Arts department for her success—specifically Daniel Laskarin, Robert Youds, d. bradley muir and Sandra Meigs. "I asked a lot of questions and was a real pain in the butt, that’s for sure—but I wouldn’t have even applied for this competition if it wasn’t for them,” she says.
May 2011
Rebecca Belmore
Noted aboriginal artist Rebecca Belmore was the obvious choice to become the Visual Arts department's inaugural Audain Professor in Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest. “She’s a First Nations artist of substantial repute, a person with a strong international reputation who had represented Canada at the Venice Bienale, and one who could give our students the benefit of her skills and experience,” explains department chair Daniel Laskarin. With her her enviable 25-year international legacy of multi-disciplinary art, the Vancouver-based Belmore talks about the challenges and successes of her UVic teaching gig. “I was trying to share with [students] my process as an artist—which is kind of spontaneous, and involves more short-term planning than long-term," she says.
Everett Wong
Fourth-year Visual Arts major Everett Wong designs the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award. Read about what inspired the artist to create his limited-edition serigraph print here.
April 2011
John G. Boehme
Adjunct Visual Arts faculty member John G. Boehme is heading off to the Venice Biennale in June.
March 2011
Martineau, Meigs and Youds
Three Visual Arts faculty members were represented in the National Gallery of Canada’s 2010 Canadian Biennial exhibit, It Is What It Is: Luanne Martineau, Sandra Meigs and Robert Youds.
Mowry Baden
Iconic UVic Visual Arts professor emeritus Mowry Baden was profiled in the Winter 2010/2011 issue of Canadian Art magazine, as part of their second annual “Art School Special” issue. The The same issue also recognizes the Visual Arts department as offering “Innovative Options” in the realm of Digital Art education “boasting an impressive inventory of high-tech studio equipment” and noting such graduates as Althea Thauberger and Jackson 2bears.
Lynda Gammon
Associate Visual Arts professor Lynda Gammon is one of three Canadian artists participating in Silent as Glue, the new contemporary exhibit at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Sandra Meigs
Visual Arts professor Sandra Meigs was recently profiled in the summer 2010 issue of Canadian Art magazine. The article, “Eminent Victorian”, was written by former Globe and Mail art critic Sarah Milroy and included four glossy images of Meigs’ work, noting that she “is known for her eclectic influences—country-and-western hurtin’ songs, movies, children’s television, opera—but the art-historical backstory is also dense, with Meigs surveying painting’s history with characteristic eccentricity.”
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Awards
The Audrey St. Denys & M.E. Johnson Scholarships $500.00
The Audrey St. Denys & M.E. Johnson Scholarships $600.00
The Audrey St. Denys & M.E. Johnson Scholarships $800.00
The Canwest Global Scholarship in Film and Video Arts $425.00
The Dr. Penelope W. Codding Entrance Scholarship $2000.00
The Emily Apinis-Grundstein Scholarship $750.00
The Emily Apinis-Grundstein Scholarship $1000.00
The Frances Trapp (Brown) Cameron Memorial Bursary in Visual Arts
The Heather Cragg Memorial Scholarship $2316.00
The Heather Cragg Memorial Scholarship $2368.00
The Helen Pitt Fund for Fine Arts - Graduating Student Awards
The Jessie Allan Forsyth Scholarships
The John Wyatt Price Book Prize in Photography
The Marguerite du Gardein-Matson-Gibbons Female Artist Scholarship $500.00
The Pat Martin Bates Scholarship $850.00
The President's Entrance Scholarship $3000.00
The President's Scholarship $500.00
The President's Scholarship $750.00
The President's Scholarship $1000.00
The President's Scholarship $20000.00
The President's Scholarship for Part-Time Undergraduate Students $1305.00
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
The Tenline Sales Material Award
The University of Victoria Faculty Scholarship $500.00
The University of Victoria Excellence Scholarships $6500.00
The Val Faris Memorial Scholarship $200.00
The Walter D. Young Prize in Political Science $225.00
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