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Stories from the Creative Edge
Fine Arts an important partner in new RBCM climate change gallery
UVic’s Climate Disaster Project and a team of Fine Arts faculty and students are proud to have significantly contributed to the Royal BC Museum’s reimagined natural history gallery, Climate Change: Everything is Connected, which opened on September 11. Originally...
Truth & Reconciliation Week in Fine Arts
The university community will come together with care during National Truth and Reconciliation Week (Sept. 21-30). At UVic we are guided by ʔetalnəw̓əl̓ | ÁTOL,NEUEL — respecting the rights of one another and being in right relationship with all things. These...
Arts & Culture keep Canada strong
If you’re looking for a quick indicator of the global, social and economic impact of Canadian arts & culture, look no further than Heated Rivalry.A Canadian TV series developed by Canadian creators, starring Canadian actors, filmed in Canada, soundtracked by...
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,...
Conference marks Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s 50th anniversary
Keynote speaker Nininsky Lee AquinoOur Department of Theatre was proud to support the 50th annual Canadian Association for Theatre Research conference, which took place at UVic from May 26-29 and welcomed an exciting mix of theatre artists, scholars and researchers...
Research funding focuses on Indigenous artistic responses to plastic pollution
While there is a growing awareness of the global impact of plastic pollution, the most ubiquitous visuals we have of the harms of litter and microplastics alike may be of tropical sea turtles, polluted beaches, and damaged coral reefs. Few consider the critical impact...
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...
Visual Arts joins new downtown studio
We’re excited that UVic's Visual Arts department is part of Victoria's newest collective studio and gallery space: The Hourglass. Developed by Vancouver Island Visual Arts Society (who also run downtown's ambitious 80-artist Rockslide Gallery), with support from the...
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...
Orion guest artist Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
All are welcome to hear visiting Orion Series visiting artist Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, a professor at the University of California, speak on “The Concreteness of Imagination”: 6:30pm Thursday, March 12 in room A162 of the Visual Arts Building. Free & open to all....