Top 10 Fine Arts stories of 2024
There’s no better time than the start of a new year for a moment of reflection on the previous year’s accomplishments. With that in mind, we're happy to present the Fine Arts Top 10 of 2024: an inspiring series of story highlights about our students, faculty and...
Get festive with Fine Arts
If there's one thing we can all agree on, the winter holiday season is the one time of the year where people join together to enjoy the biggest range of festivities. From concerts, plays and readings to holiday films, it seems like there's a bit of everything ready to...
Call for grad student proposals: ONC ArtScience Fellowship Program
Call for grad student proposals: ONC ArtScience Fellowship ProgramUVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) are calling for graduate student applications for the paid 2025 ONC ArtsScience Fellowship program. Note: the application period closes on...
Explore UVic on Nov 30
Considering a future as a student in UVic's Faculty of Fine Arts? Join us on Saturday, Nov 30, as we open our doors as part of Explore UVic—UVic's free, all-day open house. We’ve created a fun-filled day of student panels, sample lectures, presentations, tours and...
Jeannette Armstrong and Lina de Guevara awarded Honorary Doctorates
The Faculty of Fine Arts is thrilled to announce that Jeannette Armstrong will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) and Lina de Guevara will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) at the Fall 2024 Fine Arts convocation ceremony. You can watch as...
2024 Student Impact Award winners
Since 2021, the Fine Arts Student Community Impact Awards have recognized individual achievements or outstanding efforts made by full-time Fine Arts undergraduate students beyond their traditional studies. Open to submissions from across the faculty, these juried...
Orion Series presents Carleigh Baker
The Orion Lecture Series in Fine Arts Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present: Carleigh Baker Writer "Writing Fiction in our Complicated Contemporary World" 2:30-3:50pm,...
Orion Series presents Atom Egoyan
The OrionLecture Series in Fine ArtsThrough the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:Atom Egoyan Writer, Director, Producer In Conversation with Atom Egoyan (Q & A) Moderator:...
World premiere of climate disaster play at Phoenix Theatre
People across Canada came together to help one another during recent climate disasters, and now Neworld Theatre and the Climate Disaster Project are bringing those true-life stories to the stage. Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Survivor Stories is the first...
Theatre grad Medina Hahn is choosing her own path
Medina Hahn with Daniel Arnold in Inheritance (David Cooper photo)Any professional actor will tell you that success in the industry demands a combination of talent, determination and plain old hard work. But Vancouver-based actor, singer and writer Medina Hahn (BFA...
World premiere climate play coming in September
A Neworld Theatre production presented by the Climate Disaster Project in association with the University of Victoria’s Department of Theatre, Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Stories is about ordinary people surviving these extraordinary times. Adapted from the...
Externally funded research (select)
Heather Igloliorte (centre) speaking as part of the Distinguished Women Scholars event at Legacy Gallery's 2024 exhibit, Latent (Beth Bingham photo)Each year, Fine Arts faculty members receive external funding for their ongoing creative and scholarly projects. This is...
“This funding is an absolute lifesaver“
100 Years of Broadway (Jaeden Walton photo)Carson SchmidtRoad vs Wade (Megan Farrell photo)While Theatre student Carson Schmidt never knew the late Fine Arts donor Jack Henshaw, his success as an undergraduate is exactly what Jack had in mind with his JTS Scholarship,...
Students & seniors work towards wellness
Over the past several decades, Applied Theatre artists have been developing activities that help communities access joy and connection with others. This spring, a group of third-year Applied Theatre students learned how to facilitate interactive, creative workshops...
Snapshot of a year
We're excited to share with you the latest edition of the Faculty of Fine Arts Annual Review. While it's always difficult to encapsulate an entire year's worth of activity into a single 36-page magazine, we do enjoy the creative challenge of sharing our top stories...
Laura Ramoso is that one girl who became an internet sensation
Laura Ramoso live on stage (Angelo Manalac photo) Like many artists, Theatre alumna and comedy sensation Laura Ramoso (BFA ’16), struggled to find a way to practise her craft when the pandemic turned out the stage lights in 2020. Her fledgling career in live comedy...
Summer Arts Series now registering
Looking to add some hands-on art-making to your summer plans? Curious about how art can transform our experience of the world and the way we engage with each other? The UVic Summer Arts Series is back in July with a series of Fine Arts alumni-led public workshops...
Congratulation to the 2024 grad class!
Jude Wolff Ackroyd, BFA Honours 2024Congratulations to our 2024 grad class! Whether you're graduating from our department of Art History & Visual Studies, Theatre, Visual Arts, Writing or the School of Music, you're now part of an extended community of nearly...
Yasmine Kandil wins UVic REACH Award
Congratulations go out to Dr. Yasmine Kandil, associate professor in our Theatre department, on winning UVic's annual REACH Award for Excellence in Creativity and Artistic Expression. The REACH Awards were announced on May 2 and recognize outstanding achievement by...
Submission call for Student Impact Awards!
Are you a current (or graduating) Fine Arts undergraduate student who’s been involved with a community-engaged creative project in Greater Victoria between Jan 1/23 & May 31/24? If so, you could qualify for $1,000 via our annual Fine Arts Student Community Impact...
Opera star Marion Newman joins UVic Music
Critically acclaimed Canadian opera singer and national CBC Radio host Marion Newman is returning to the University of Victoria to join the award-winning teaching faculty at the School of Music. Newman — whose traditional name is Nege’ga — is of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō...
Phoenix Theatre launches new season
im:print 2024 October 3–12, 2024 A special presentation with the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria featuring a creative team of diverse artists and facilitators. im:print 2024 is a diverse performance that skillfully weaves together the personal stories...
Celebrating our Rubinoff Scholars
Congratulations go out to the Fine Arts graduate student recipients of the inaugural Jeffrey Rubinoff Student Scholarships, many of whom gathered at the University Club on March 5 to offer their thanks and mingle with the Rubinoff Foundation’s Betty Kennedy and Karun...
Orion Series presents Randi Edmundson & Shizuka Kai
The OrionLecture Series in Fine ArtsThrough the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:Randi Edmundson & Shizuka Kai Visiting artists & puppeteers, offering a pair of...
Distinguished Alumni Awards honour Carrie Tennant, Dennis Gupa & Ivy Martin
UVic announced the recipients of the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards on March 4 and Fine Arts was once again proud to see three of our outstanding graduates included among the 18 recipients being recognized across the three categories: Presidents’ Alumni Award...
100 Years of Broadway takes centre stage
For their second mainstage show of the 2023/24 season, UVic's Phoenix Theatre offers an epic journey through the most iconic and beloved musicals of our time as 100 Years of Broadway dances into the spotlight. Whether you're a seasoned theatregoer or new to the magic...
Fine Arts in the news: media roundup
When it comes to announcements, publications and media appearances, there's never really a slow time for Fine Arts faculty, alumni and students — and the past couple of months have been no exception. Here's a quick roundup of who's been speaking with the media lately....
Dracula bites into 2024
Take a bite out of 2024 with a staged public reading of Dracula: A Trilogy of Terror. Split into three separate performances (January 3, 5 & 7), this original seven-part adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel is being adapted and directed by Theatre professor...
Feeling Earnest at the Phoenix
Eric Barnes in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Phoenix Theatre (photo: Dean Kalyan)The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde's timeless comic masterpiece — has long been celebrated for its sharp humour and daring social commentary. But despite being over a...
Orion Series presents Kunji Ikeda
The Orion Lecture Series in Fine Arts Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:Kunji Ikeda Visiting artist 7:30pm Monday, Nov 6 Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, School of...
Phoenix season kicks off with shows for the young & the young-at-heart
The cast of The Woman Who Outshone The Sun (photo: Megan Farrell)Proving that experience matters when it comes to creating impactful productions, Phoenix Theatre is offering an all-alumni directed season—ideally matched to UVic’s upcoming 60th anniversary...
Call for 2024 grad student ONC artistic residency
2021 ONC AIR Dennis GupaAre you a Fine Arts graduate student interested in oceans and looking for a paid artistic residency in 2024? Are you excited by the idea of exploring the potential for the arts or alternative cultural practices to highlight the visions,...