From hailstones to holoportation, symphonies to space discoveries, this year saw countless compelling stories of outstanding achievements and breakthroughs by Western faculty, staff and students. As we look back on 2022, we take just a few of those stor …
Tornadoes carry destructive power and fearsome beauty – and a new exhibit at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre attempts to convey both.
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.
A Western-led team is helping El Salvadorans share and archive their stories of genocide and massacre during the country’s civil war.
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.
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.
Joy Wong, a Visual Arts MFA candidate at Western, has been named a finalist for the 20th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Ever find that one amazing book you wish would never end? Kirsty Robertson has an idea about how to make that happen.
Helen Gregory’s time at McIntosh Gallery made her most recent decision one of the easiest she ever had to make.
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
It was after Paterson Ewen arrived in London that he began creating his famous landscapes on routered plywood, indelibly changing the artistic landscape of Canada.
Brenda Fuhrman went to nursing school in her 20s and law school in her 40s, so it just made sense to her that in her 60s she should chisel out yet another career – this time as an artist.
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits.
Tornadoes carry destructive power and fearsome beauty – and a new exhibit at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre attempts to convey both.
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.
A Western-led team is helping El Salvadorans share and archive their stories of genocide and massacre during the country’s civil war.
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.
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.
Joy Wong, a Visual Arts MFA candidate at Western, has been named a finalist for the 20th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Ever find that one amazing book you wish would never end? Kirsty Robertson has an idea about how to make that happen.
Helen Gregory’s time at McIntosh Gallery made her most recent decision one of the easiest she ever had to make.
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
It was after Paterson Ewen arrived in London that he began creating his famous landscapes on routered plywood, indelibly changing the artistic landscape of Canada.
Brenda Fuhrman went to nursing school in her 20s and law school in her 40s, so it just made sense to her that in her 60s she should chisel out yet another career – this time as an artist.
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits.