Alumni news

John Belisle (94), Associate Creative Director of Signals Design Group Inc., has designed a new stamp series, celebrating Canada's role as Host Country to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. For Signals, the launch brings international attention to the most exciting and highly secretive project in their 25-year history.

The new stamp series showcases four Winter Olympic sports: freestyle skiing; snowboard; bobsleigh and curling, as well as ice sledge hockey, a Paralympic Winter sport.

After more than 120 studio visits, the Vancouver Art Gallery as assembled an exhibition of some of the most compelling new work being produced in the province.

Isabelle Pauwels (01) exhibits B and E at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver.

January 31 to March 3, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, January 30 at 7pm
Artist Talk Saturday, February 21 at 2pm

Please visit Presentation House Gallery for more information.

Andrew Gibbs (04) has his first solo exhibition at Winchester Galleries in Victoria. Mystic Future continues to January 31, 2009. View more of his work at Bluemoonstation.ca.

Heidi Johansen (05) is holding her first solo exhibition, Still floating, at 2of2 Gallery. Still floating features all new carvings and assemblages of people in their boats. Rendered in a careful and almost naïve fashion, some of the characters, with their striped shirts and exaggerated mustaches, could have stepped out of a Rousseau painting and into her cardboard watercrafts.

November 22, 2008 to January 31, 2009
2of2 Gallery
254 Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario

Jeremy Hof (07) is currently exhibiting Tangible Consequences of a Subjective Revolution at Blanket Contemporary Art Inc. The solo exhibition includes new paintings, sculpture, and installation work by the artist.

January 8 to February 12, 2009
Blanket Gallery
235 Alexander Street, Vancouver

Geoffrey Farmer (92) was awarded a 2008 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts on December 16, 2008.

The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council: dance, integrated arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing. The prizes were created using funds from a generous bequest made by the late Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton to the Canada Council.

Following his recent exhibition at the Art Gallery of Calgary, Erik Olson (07) turns his gaze from the mountain pine beetle infestations in Western Canada to the increasingly complicated architecture of a surging human population. Erik's latest paintings are projections of a nature transformed by human activity articulated in thick oil. Over the past three years the artist has traveled to various locations around the globe gathering impressions of the built environment to inform his paintings.

Current Studio Technician and former student, Jacob Gleeson, is holding his first solo exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto. This exhibition represents a continuation of Jacob's explorations into the conflated territories of art, economics and daily life.

Pari Nadimi Gallery
November 29, 2008 to January 24, 2009
Toronto, Ontario

Kajola Morewood (95), Denise Cordrey (02), Kimberly McErlean (00) and former student Jacqueline Robins will be featured in Toque. Toque is an annual holiday sale of original artwork, eclectic jewellery, handcrafted home décor items, and other gifts, all designed and manufactured locally. Proceeds from Toque benefit Western Front Society, a non-profit registered charity.

Friday, December 5 from 6pm to 9pm
Saturday, December 6 from 11am to 5pm
In the Luxe at the Western Front