Faculty news

Ceramic artist and sessional faculty member, Dirk Staschke, was awarded the John & Joyce Award of Excellence as part of the BAM (Bellevue Arts Museum) Biennial.

The award, selected by the curatorial staff of the museum, comes with a $5,000 cash prize and the opportunity of a future solo exhibition at BAM.

The first edition of the BAM Biennial focused on one of the oldest and most versatile media known to man: clay. Dirk was one of over 30 artists participating in the BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown! which will be on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum through January 16, 2011.

Traversing Electronic Narratives focuses on the diversity and ingenuity of the media arts scene in Vancouver, and how it speaks to the greater world of art today. Strictly working with locally based artists in Vancouver, the exhibition tells a narrative involving video, sound, sensors, mobility, location, interactivity, participation, diversity and history.

Assistant Professor Fiona Bowie's piece, Flow, has been chosen as one of the best public artworks by Americans for the Arts (AFTA).

The work of Associate Professor Elizabeth McIntosh is the featured cover story of the 2010 Summer issue of Canadian Art Magazine.

Read the article, Done.  Not-Done.  Might be Done…

A feature article on Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh, by Adele Weder, entitled Done. Not Done. Might Be Done... appears in the Summer 2010 edition of Canadian Art magazine.

To read the article, please visit Canadian Art. For an Online Supplement to the Summer 2010 Print Edition of Canadian Art, visit Elizabeth McIntosh: Optical Energies.

Sessional faculty member Heidi May's most recent art project, Selfpost | Postself, examines the networked self of contemporary digital culture and explores questions about the make-up of the self/selves after Facebook.

Associate Professor, Marian Penner Bancroft, Sessional Faculty member, Elizabeth Mackenzie, and Jin-Me Yoon (90) are working group participants for SLOW: Relations + Practices Residency at Centre A.

The residency/exhibition reflects a shared desire to discover the subtle and unexpected links between cultural producers over a sustained period of time.

For more information, please visit Centre A.

Yesterday’s Tomorrows is an exhibit that asks the question, why have so many contemporary artists returned in recent years to the forms, ideas and aspirations of Modernist architecture and design? The exhibit brings together works by ten Canadian and international artists, including Associate Professor, Arni Haraldsson, and examines Modernism by establishing a discursive dialogue with a particular Modernist designer or monument.

Sessional Faculty members Geoffrey Farmer (92), Ron Terrada (91) and Althea Thauberger are included in a new book on 100 emerging contemporary artists from around the world.

Diaz Contemporary exhibits A Good Play, an exhibition of new paintings by Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh. For the past 17 years, Elizabeth has made paintings that are concerned with the repetition of basic forms. Her new paintings are bolder but not without the underlying complexity of earlier works. They demonstrate her interest in improvisation and the making of painting into a deliberately undefined journey.