In the history of computational art in Canada, a group of forward-thinking artists and technicians at Western played a starring role.
Visual Arts
‘Art whenever they want’ for remote-learning students
Professor Tricia Johnson draws on all her experience and creativity as she teaches her visual arts classes online.
Sustainability champions honoured
A Hospitality staffer committed to waste diversion and a student who designed an app to improve use of electric-vehicle charging stations are among winners of this year’s Western sustainability awards.
Student-artists take gallery show global
The Artlab Gallery doors may be closed, but its virtual walls are full of works celebrating students.
Student artwork joins tribute to front lines
She starts with the eyes – perhaps that is why the eyes are the most striking aspect of Abbygale Shelley’s most recent work, ‘The Trenches of COVID-19.’
Exhibition ‘zeros’ in on Fuller’s view of world
More than 50 years after futurist and architect Buckminster Fuller visited London, Visual Arts students have staged an exhibition that examines the man whose name is synonymous with the interlocking triangles of a geodesic dome.
Project opens doors of prisons to creativity
No one knows what changes the mindset of an inmate. Prison is punitive, intended to strip power and deliver pain. But through creativity, Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush has found a way to empower inmates and deliver a bit of compassion into those dark corners.
Alumnae named among Canada’s Most Powerful
Eleven Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2019 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.
Alt press makes own headlines in exhibition
Unless deeply involved in the London arts scene, the rich and vibrant history of Forest City independent publishing may be lost to you. One Western PhD student, however, hopes to change that with her latest curated show at the McIntosh Gallery.
Art exhibition helps inspire action on addiction
A recent art exhibition curated by a Western alumnus was one of several community catalysts credited with leading to one Ontario city to open a residential addiction withdrawal and treatment centre this fall.
Show highlights plastic waste among ‘Fossils’
Future Fossils was a series of events and projects in London, Toronto and New York, including exhibitions, a workshop, and a graduate summer school, that brought together a group of people working on museums, contemporary art, the Anthropocene, and climate change.
Professor’s works rank among Canadian treasures
A lifetime of experimental conversations between brain and body have lead Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush to stand among the country’s leading artists. Two of his large works, painted with oil and sand on canvas, have recently been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada.
Never the bridesmaid, always the ‘Bride’
Hello! His name is Cody Barteet. He prepared a list of favourite things to read, watch and listen. Prepare to enjoy.
Whitney Biennial provides another stage for alumnus
More than a decade ago, as an MFA student, Brendan Fernandes, MFA’05, attended the opening of the Whitney Biennial, a contemporary exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. “Enamoured” in the moment, the young artist pledged to return one day – but as more than an observer.
On extinction, work ethic and a friend’s playlist
Artlab Gallery Manager Liza Eurich answers three simple questions about her reading, viewing and listening habits by taking her turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Exhibit features power, beauty of tornadoes
Tornadoes carry destructive power and fearsome beauty – and a new exhibit at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre attempts to convey both.
Innovation Ambassadors are shifting the culture
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Mapping memories nets team Humanitarian award
A Western-led team is helping El Salvadorans share and archive their stories of genocide and massacre during the country’s civil war.
Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images
Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.
‘Joiner and doer’ rises to PMA President post
Julia Beltrano, Technical Specialist Manager in the Department of Visual Arts, is the new president of Western’s Professional & Managerial Association. She follows Melanie Molnar from the Faculty of Education to the position.