Visual Arts
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Call for 2024 grad student ONC artistic residency
Sep 28, 2023
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,...
Orange Shirt Day events
Sep 26, 2023
Did you know this popular Orange Shirt Day design "Hearts & Hands" was created by multi-disciplinary Kwakwaka'wakw/Coast Salish artist Carey Newman? UVic's Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices and a professor with both our departments of Visual Arts and Art...
Have you signed up for the Sept 5 New Student Orientation?
Aug 24, 2023
Wondering what it’s going to be like to be a UVic Fine Arts student? Get a snapshot of your upcoming year while meeting other students at our annual New Student Orientation event! RSVP now for this free session & get a jump on the semester! Date: Tuesday, Sept...
Awi’nakola as a way of being
Aug 21, 2023
Paul Walde, Rande Cook & Kelly Richardson on stage at the Rifflandia Festival in Sept ’22It would be difficult to imagine two more different audiences than those at Montreal’s COP 15 UN Biodiversity Conference and Victoria’s Rifflandia Music Festival, but both...
Join us for New Student Orientation on Sept 5
Aug 3, 2023
Wondering what it’s going to be like to be a UVic Fine Arts student? Get a snapshot of your upcoming year while meeting other students at our annual New Student Orientation event! RSVP now for this free session & get a jump on the semester! Date: Tuesday, Sept...
Witness Blanket seeks “soundtrack of resilience”
Jun 15, 2023
Carey Newman demonstrating his VR Witness Blanket project (photo: Ella Matte/Saanich News)Already widely acclaimed for his powerful art installation the Witness Blanket, Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast Salish multi-disciplinary artist and Fine Arts professor Carey Newman is...
Zainub Verjee awarded Honorary Doctorate
Jun 14, 2023
The Faculty of Fine Arts is thrilled to announce that Zainub Verjee will be awarded the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) at the 2023 Fine Arts convocation ceremony. You can watch Zainub Verjee’s address to graduating Fine Arts students as part of the UVic...
Summer Arts Series showcases arts technology
May 12, 2023
Looking to expand your artistic repertoire with new skills and practices? Fine Arts is once again partnering with UVic’s Division of Continuing Studies and Alumni Relations for our second annual Summer Arts Series. This year’s series, running in July 2023, will focus...
Call for submissions: 3rd annual Student Impact Awards!
Apr 18, 2023
Are you a current or graduating Fine Arts student who’s been involved with some community-engaged creative activity in Greater Victoria between January 1/22 & May 31/23? If so, you could qualify for $1,000 via our annual Community Impact Award! The Fine Arts...
Annual BFA exhibition sees students developing their professional practice
Apr 10, 2023
While April sees most of campus focusing on final exams, graduating visual arts students are getting in one final taste of professional practice as they organize, curate, install and promote the annual BFA exhibit. Titled Don’t Need to Know to Feel It, this year’s...
Visual Arts professor’s work in new Metallica video
Apr 7, 2023
Kelly Richardson's original pieces and how they appear in the Metallica videoWhat happens when “suitably apocalyptic” art by an internationally acclaimed, environmentally focused digital artist appears in the official video for the new Metallica album title track, “72...
Four Fine Arts recipients in Distinguished Alumni Awards
Mar 23, 2023
The annual Distinguished Alumni Awards celebrate the remarkable achievements of UVic graduates in three different categories: the Presidents' Alumni Awards, the Emerging Alumni Awards and the Indigenous Community Alumni Awards. This year, Fine Arts has four recipients...
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- QFW performances & new LSQ video
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- Orion Series presents visiting artist Jim Holyoak
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- Fine Arts well represented at the 2022 Victoria Film Festival
- Orion Series presents visiting artist Linda Catlin Smith
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- “Never less than amazing”: Lafayette String Quartet take its final bow in 2023
- Michael LaPointe’s debut novel blurs the lines between facts & fictions
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- ONC Artist-in-Residence call for grad student applications
- New survey of scientists & journalists finds media should cover climate as a crisis
- Hot new electives for Winter ’22
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- Baylie Adams rehearses for success
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- New Fine Arts Indigenous student award
- Join us for a discussion on sustainability & the arts
- Thinking globally, reporting locally
- Orion Series presents visiting artist Tania Willard
- Orion Lecture: The Day The World Stops Shopping
- Sandra Meigs returns with a new exhibit - don't miss it!
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- Phoenix Theatre livestreams Problem Child
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- Susie Winter's feature film screenplay started as student project
- Orion Series presents director & writer Soheil Parsa
- Theatre class assignment: mask movement
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- Zoom into our spring Fine Arts open house on March 9
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- In Memoriam: Dr. Anthony Welch
- Orion Series presents scenographer Rachel Hann
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- Reading Break student wellness message
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- Seasonal concerts a holiday highlight
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- A passion for learning, curating and decolonizing
- Phoenix produces Othello for first time in 53-year history
- Visual Arts undergrad Austin Willis the only Canadian winner of US student sculpture award
- Lifelong supporter of liberal arts donates $1.6 million to UVic
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- Day in the life: Karla Stout
- Artists discuss the radical influence of Buddhism on contemporary art
- Indigenous oral ceremony finalizes historic Witness Blanket agreement
- Final week for Spotlight on Alumni show
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- "Master storyteller" Sam Mullins shares greatest hits
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- New Phoenix season offers comedy & drama
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- Congratulations, Class of 2019!
- Visual Arts student Laura Gildner wins Victoria Medal
- Posthumous international award for Patrick Lane
- Diving deep: meet the alumni driving Hakai Magazine's sea change
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- Final novel by celebrated Indigenous author Richard Wagamese launched at UVic
- The Drowsy Chaperone a smash success!
- Writing alum Esi Edugyan wins second Giller Prize in seven years
- AHVS professor Carolyn Butler-Palmer advised on new $10 bill Copy
- A shifting focus: from photography to film
- Leader in Art Song performance receives honourary degree
- UVic hosts 2018 Building Reconciliation Forum
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- New adjunct professor heading up Canadian-born Broadway hit at the Phoenix
- Visiting actor/playwright D’bi.Young Anitafrika focuses on diversity
- Songs, poems commemorate 100th anniversary of the end of WWI
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- Exhibition reframes Innocence of 1960s artists
- It’s twice the charm for 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award winners, Twin Kennedy
- New Music & Digital Media Festival
- Iconic literary journal celebrates 50 years of excellence
- Fine Arts Wellness Day
- New Visual Arts professor creates Avatar Grove film project for IMAX screens
- New AHVS seminar spearheads new classroom concept
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- Two Visual Arts grads win national art prize
- Try your luck with this Art History Christmas quiz!
- Music alum Rodney Sharman wins Excellence in the Performing Arts prize
- School of Music celebrates 50 years of sparking the musical imagination
- Madwoman serves up "visual delights and thought-provoking observations"
- Life skills assist Visual Arts grad on journey from worker to working artist
- It's pipelines & protests in metaphorical "Madwoman"
- Visual Arts MFAs connect across institutions
- Southam panel celebrates a decade of inspiring journalists
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- Canadian comedy star & Phoenix alum Chris Wilson joins Air Farce
- Patrick Du Wors is the only Canadian accepted at 2017 World Stage Design in Taiwan
- Experiences of migrant youth explored in new play
- Visual Arts student keeps sex safe . . . and cute
- Two artists, one lake, 100 years apart
- Maestro Timothy Vernon becomes Honorary Doctor of Music
- Graduating Visual Arts project a bold step forward
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- Research and creative practice on view at Ideafest 2017
- Phoenix play Gut Girls offers a way of protesting gender inequality
- Where are the Indigenous women in Canadian art history?
- Minor in Digital and Interactive Media in the Arts announced
- Conversations and Collaborations: 2017 Distinguished Alumni winner Althea Thauberger
- Joan MacLeod explores faith and family in "Gracie"
- Lafayette String Quartet celebrates Shostakovich
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- Southam Lecturer Vivian Smith talks gender & journalism
- Former FBI art crimes expert visits Art History & Visual Studies
- Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby kicks off Indigeneity & the Arts series
- Writing event features inaugural Lorna Crozier Scholarship recipient
- BC sculptor’s donation benefits study of Art History
- A September full of events
- Strong buzz around Steven Price's new novel
- Harald Krebs is our newest Royal Society Fellow
- Welcome (back) to Fine Arts!
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- School of Music announces new brass scholarship
- Double-medal winning grad Kelsey Wheatley offers an inspiring example
- Regan Shrumm wins Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal
- Theatre grad Jasleen Powar steps into the intercultural spotlight
- Connor Gaston's The Devout sweeps Leo Awards
- Gareth Gaudin's Perogy Cat gets a book—and theme song
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- Faculty Research Symposium looks at digital scholarship
- Fine Arts at IdeaFest 2015
- "Brilliant" reviews for Lion in the Streets
- Visiting Artist Jessica Eaton
- Celebrated Polish poet spends week on campus
- Lion in the Streets moves with the world inside
- Adam Con: Notes in motion—and emotion
- A Day in the Life: Iona Hubner
- Victoria Film Fest features Fine Arts filmmakers
- Following her bliss: Distinguished Alumni Mercedes Bátiz-Benét
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- Visual Arts profs create new public art
- Education, Bangkok-style
- The colour of love
- Is that meant to be funny?
- Alumni find love at the Phoenix
- Five for Fine Arts in GG list
- India field school spotlights intergenerational theatre
- No rest for Paul Walde's Glacier
- New book for Writing professor Lee Henderson
- History mystery central to First World War exhibit
- Two 4 One has BC premiere
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- Fine Arts @ the edge of Congress 2013
- Now Art celebrates contemporary art by Visual Arts faculty
- Maureen Bradley wins filmmaking bursary . . . just in time
- SALT Festival returns
- Around the World in 37 Years
- Summer plans for Fine Arts faculty
- Edugyan & Price at Russell's
- Recent awards roundup
- Milwright wins Craidarroch Research award
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- Talent on screen at VFF
- Students tune up for Concerto
- Writing grads make Waterstones Eleven list
- Update on Visiting Artists
- Phoenix grad finds success with Grim and Fischer
- CBC host guest stars with Writing
- Orion Series presents stellar concerts
- Music For and In the Moment
- Current Writing student named Victoria's Youth Poet Laureate
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- Get ready for January
- New books from Writing this fall
- Media coverage of Writing remains brisk
- A busy autumn for Writing awards
- Cody Klippenstein wins Zoetrope's Fiction Contest
- Bradley to create feature film
- $16,000 from Ian McDougall benefit album
- Ready for a Christmas Quiz?
- Dan Hogg scores again
- 2012 Audain professor Nicholas Galanin wins $50,000 in US fellowship
- Legacy Gallery exhibit offers art, with honours
- Visual Arts grad earns honourable mention in RBC competition
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- Alumni accolades
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- Local filmmakers making a splash
- Two wins for Writing
- Building a future in heritage conservation
- Arno Kopecky's "Oil Man and the Sea" project
- Award-winning Medieval Studies student is on her own elf quest
- Adventures in Beaverland
- Legacy Gallery undergoes a Transformation
- Curtain calls
- Fables for naughty musicians
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- Cutting and Pasting
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- Week of wordsmiths: Van Luven, Sonik, Cram & Boychuk
- Coming soon!
- Two Visual Arts alumni mount Victoria exhibits
- 21st century arts grads
- Vikky Alexander talks architecture and nature
- The Malahat's Side of West
- BC book prized
- Acting officially
- Arts Place wins award
- MFA Thesis Exhibition on now!
- Dan, Leo's calling . . . again
- Jeremy's Friend heading to Cannes
- Faces of UVic Research series launched
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- New Ian McDougall CD Benefits Fine Arts Students
- Phoenix announces upcoming season
- Talking Trimpin
- Lilburn Launches New Book
- Learning from a Legend
- Finding Fine Arts Success Through Co-op
- Voting Time
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas calls Audain position "a rare and timely opportunity"
- Writing Grads Makes Some (More) Noise
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- Megan Dickie Throws It Down
- Chocolate Woman Changes the World
- A Taste of SALT
- History in Art students know how to ARTiculate
- Ancient Myth, New Life
- A distinguished year for Distinguished Alumni Esi Edugyan
- Daniel Barrow Brings Art to Life
- Live at Open Word, It's Sheila Heti!
- Medieval Television?
- Charlotte Gill visits UVic
- Say It With Dance
- UVic at VFF
- Theatre Calgary's Dennis Garnhum to Speak
- Book, Prized
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- Ready for the Spotlight?
- Holman talks Lobbying and more
- It's Anarchie!
- Milwright heads to Shangri La, becomes Fellow, acquires manuscript
- Greetings from Absurdistan
- Betty Waynne Allison is married to her role
- Media roundup
- Writing alum Esi Edugyan wins $50,000 Giller Prize
- Joan MacLeod wins the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre
- Sonik nominated for $40,000 non-fiction prize
- Ready, set . . . launch!
- New face in Visual Arts
- All in good fun
- Franke James' green conscience
- Clearing the Air
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- What Child is This?
- Jumping Jupiter!
- Laskarin in Sculpture mag
- From China, With Respect
- Media Check-Up
- Esi Edugyan gets another nod
- Brian Richmond for People's Order?
- Jack Hodgins has another Happy Ending
- The Science of Sound
- Robert Youds Gets Electric
- Writing instructors tapped for Butler Book Prize
- UVic Writing grad D.W. Wilson wins £15,000 prize
- Terry Glavin writes from the shadows of Afghanistan
- UVic playwright Joan MacLeod up for $100,000 Siminovitch Prize
- Writing grad Esi Edugyan makes shortlist trifecta
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