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Distinguished Alumni Awards: Tania Willard

Distinguished Alumni Awards: Tania Willard

We congratulate 2025 Presidents’ Alumni Award recipient Tania Willard, a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. A graduate of the Department of Visual Arts (BFA, 1998), the work of Kamloops-born Willard activates...

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New Indigenous student listserv

New Indigenous student listserv

Xʷkʷənəŋistəl | W̱ ȻENEṈISTEL | Helping to move each other forward—UVic’s Indigenous Plan  Are you an Indigenous student in any of our Fine Arts units (Art History & Visual Studies, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts or Writing)? If so, you may like to sign up for our...

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Indigenous research and community springs from arts lab

Indigenous research and community springs from arts lab

From left: Heather Igloliorte with Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab staff Chris Mockford & Natalie RollinsThere’s a new Indigenous arts research space at the University of Victoria (UVic) that is looking up—way up—to the arts of the circumpolar region, as well as...

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Fine Arts engages with Governor General

Fine Arts engages with Governor General

From left: UVic President Kevin Hall, Her Excellency Mary Simon, His Excellency Whit Fraser; Ry Moran, Andrea Walsh, Carey Newman; Kylie FinedayHer Excellency The Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, shared opening remarks last week at an emotional...

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Top 10 Fine Arts stories of 2024

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...

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Double Your Fine Arts Gift on Giving Tuesday

Double Your Fine Arts Gift on Giving Tuesday

December 3 is Giving Tuesday, a day when the entire UVic community will unite around a common cause — supporting the students and programs that make this university the very special place it is. This year, UVic's Faculty of Fine Arts is raising funds to honour and...

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Indigenous Writers & Storyteller Series

Indigenous Writers & Storyteller Series

When this year's installment of the sxʷiʔe ̕m “To Tell A Story” Indigenous Writers & Storytellers Series returns to UVic on November 1, it will be the latest gift to the community by the Department of Writing and professor Gregory Scofield.“My goal is to honor the...

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Orion Series presents Virtuosic Technologies

Orion Series presents Virtuosic Technologies

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:         "Virtuosic Technologies: Indigenous and European musical storytelling in the 17th...

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Orion Series presents Carleigh Baker

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,...

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UVic retires 215+ memorial banners, raises Survivor Flag

UVic retires 215+ memorial banners, raises Survivor Flag

On May 27, 2021, Canada watched in horror as news spread about the confirmation of more than 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, located on the lands of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. This discovery was a painful...

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Carey Newman named Royal Society Fellow

Carey Newman named Royal Society Fellow

Congratulations go out to artist and scholar Hayalthkin’geme Carey Newman on being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. UVic's Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices and a professor in both Visual Arts and Art History & Visual Studies, Carey Newman...

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