Art History & Visual Studies
Stories from the Creative Edge
Visual Arts grad student Edith Skeard explores ocean sounds
While they may have just graduated in June 2026 with an MFA in Visual Arts, multi-media artist Edith Skeard isn’t quite done with UVic yet. This summer, they are the latest Fine Arts grad student named to the Ocean Networks Canada ArtScience Fellowship program. Skeard...
AGGV curator brings experience to the classroom
Heng Wu teaching her AHVS classArt History & Visual Studies students once again had the unique opportunity this year to learn from professional art curator and adjunct assistant professor Dr. Heng Wu. Currently the Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of...
Aaron Richmond named new JRSP resident artist
The Jefferey Rubinoff Foundation and the Faculty of Fine Arts are pleased to announce that Canadian artist, scholar and curator Aaron Richmond has been selected as the 2026 Recipient of the UVic/Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Artist-Scholar Residency.Aaron’s practice...
Roy Henry Vickers awarded Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Roy Henry Vickers is a celebrated Indigenous artist, author, printmaker and storyteller of Tsimshian, Haida, Heiltsuk, Wuikinuxv and English descent. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, the Order of BC and a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2019,...
Three instructors earn teaching accolades
Congratulations go out to three Fine Arts instructors who earned accolades for their teaching this month: Ambreen Hussaini (left) won the Andy Farquharson Teaching Excellence Award at UVic's REACH Awards, while Michael Reed received the Fine Arts Award for Teaching...
Research funding focuses on developing innovative Indigenous robotic technologies
Carey Newman working on his Totem 2.0 system developed with Camosun Innovates (photo: Camosun College)Department of Visual Arts and Art History & Visual Studies professor Carey Newman was announced on May 13 as the recipient of new funding from the Social...
Visual Art MFAs exhibit featured at downtown gallery
Art by Visual Arts MFA Moozhan Ahmadzadegan at the Hourglass (photo: Shay Ball)Back in February, we announced that Visual Arts is now a partner with the new Hourglass studio developed by Vancouver Island Visual Arts Society, who also run downtown's ambitious 80-artist...
Annual BFA exhibit showcases student success
While the spring semester is ending, graduating art students are busy transforming the Visual Arts building into a gallery for their annual BFA exhibition, this year called Say When — a title chosen by the BFA class themselves. Sarah Massey, a student on the exhibit's...
Gregory Scofield at national repatriation event
After more than a century in the Vatican collection, a Métis model dog sled from the 1920s was repatriated on February 25, with Writing professor Gregory Scofield as the lead expert on the identification and return of the model to its community of origin. The story...
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1969 was a year of transformation: the moon landing, the Stonewall riots, Woodstock, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre opens, Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, Canada becomes officially bilingual . . . amidst that time of change, Fine Arts emerged as UVic’s...
Paul Walde on how art can shape our relationship with the environment
Weather is one of the forces that shape our daily lives, yet we rarely think of it in terms of art. But for award-winning intermedia artist, composer, curator and University of Victoria Department of Visual Arts professor Paul Walde, weather is so much more than just...
Win $1,000 in the Community Impact Award!
Who wants to win $1,000? You do, of course!! Since 2021, we've given out over $15,000 to 13 students in our annual donor-funded Fine Arts Community Impact Award! If you're a UVic Fine Arts undergrad (any year) who has been creatively active outside of your classes,...