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 …
Visual Arts
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.
Visual Arts student shortlisted for national painting competition
Joy Wong, a Visual Arts MFA candidate at Western, has been named a finalist for the 20th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Embracing a love of reading without end
Ever find that one amazing book you wish would never end? Kirsty Robertson has an idea about how to make that happen.
New curator looks to broaden gallery experience
Helen Gregory’s time at McIntosh Gallery made her most recent decision one of the easiest she ever had to make.
Researcher: Activism changing museums for better
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.
Book celebrates legacy of artist Paterson Ewen
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.
Student finds inspiration sitting all around her
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. with John Hatch
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.
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.
Visual Arts student shortlisted for national painting competition
Joy Wong, a Visual Arts MFA candidate at Western, has been named a finalist for the 20th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Embracing a love of reading without end
Ever find that one amazing book you wish would never end? Kirsty Robertson has an idea about how to make that happen.
New curator looks to broaden gallery experience
Helen Gregory’s time at McIntosh Gallery made her most recent decision one of the easiest she ever had to make.
Researcher: Activism changing museums for better
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.
Book celebrates legacy of artist Paterson Ewen
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.
Student finds inspiration sitting all around her
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. with John Hatch
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.