In the bleak days heading into winter, there’s still some colour in the Western community garden thanks to students in an interdisciplinary visual arts class. Where plants have died down, signs have popped up, quoting text from a reading assigned in A …
At any given time, conversations can range from the next big entrepreneur, a collaboration on an arts project, a potential business startup or even a community initiative around mental health. And that’s exactly what former Western student Harpreet Zingh, and Harman...
The black-and-white image of a freckled Mary Goss starring from behind an oversized picture book overwhelming her small lap offers a window into the life of the 2-year-old Toronto resident at the turn of the century. Mary was the daughter of Arthur Goss, the official...
Western News joins the celebration of the most recognized English language playwright. We recruited this institution’s finest Shakespeare scholars to share their insights into The Bard – and play a little dress-up.
Of all the images connected to Shakespeare and his work, perhaps none has elicited more fascination and frustration than the ostensible portraits of the author himself. Several representations of Shakespeare have become mainstays of popular culture, but did he...
Sophia Lloyd-Jones has returned to an old form of producing natural dyes using vegetables and nuts to produce organic sculptures that challenge what it means to make art in an environmentally sustainable way. The fourth-year Visual Arts student was among...
Cutting-edge technology. Areas for collaborating. Expanding creativity. This is the vision for the Cohen Exploration Lab and Cohen Commons, an exciting new...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Fresh Strange Music By Donald S. Hair McGill-Queen’s University Press Donald S. Hair, an English and Writing Studies professor emeritus, undertakes a sonorous task; namely, demonstrating how the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has integrated musical rhythm as an...
Experiencing colonial violence is different from learning about it. Reading about precarious lives is one thing; being in a position where one’s life does not count is something else. It is a reality concealed behind a dark curtain of intertwined interests of states,...
With the naming of Western scholars Kathryn Brush, John Leonard and Jesse Zhu, the university now boasts 55 Royal Society of Canada Fellows, starting with Microbiology and Biochemistry professor Robert Murray in 1958.
Law professor Michael Lynk and Visual Arts professor Patrick Mahon topped the list of honorees when London Mayor Matt Brown released the annual Mayor of London Honours List on Jan. 1. Mahon was honored for his work in the arts; Lynk for his work in humanitarianism....
By studying modern works that feature Hitchcock-inspired elements, Visual Arts professor Christine Sprengler contends they are valuable not only as art, but also serve as contributions to the understanding of Hitchcock’s cultural legacy and cinema itself.
At any given time, conversations can range from the next big entrepreneur, a collaboration on an arts project, a potential business startup or even a community initiative around mental health. And that’s exactly what former Western student Harpreet Zingh, and Harman...
The black-and-white image of a freckled Mary Goss starring from behind an oversized picture book overwhelming her small lap offers a window into the life of the 2-year-old Toronto resident at the turn of the century. Mary was the daughter of Arthur Goss, the official...
Western News joins the celebration of the most recognized English language playwright. We recruited this institution’s finest Shakespeare scholars to share their insights into The Bard – and play a little dress-up.
Of all the images connected to Shakespeare and his work, perhaps none has elicited more fascination and frustration than the ostensible portraits of the author himself. Several representations of Shakespeare have become mainstays of popular culture, but did he...
Sophia Lloyd-Jones has returned to an old form of producing natural dyes using vegetables and nuts to produce organic sculptures that challenge what it means to make art in an environmentally sustainable way. The fourth-year Visual Arts student was among...
Cutting-edge technology. Areas for collaborating. Expanding creativity. This is the vision for the Cohen Exploration Lab and Cohen Commons, an exciting new...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Fresh Strange Music By Donald S. Hair McGill-Queen’s University Press Donald S. Hair, an English and Writing Studies professor emeritus, undertakes a sonorous task; namely, demonstrating how the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has integrated musical rhythm as an...
Experiencing colonial violence is different from learning about it. Reading about precarious lives is one thing; being in a position where one’s life does not count is something else. It is a reality concealed behind a dark curtain of intertwined interests of states,...
With the naming of Western scholars Kathryn Brush, John Leonard and Jesse Zhu, the university now boasts 55 Royal Society of Canada Fellows, starting with Microbiology and Biochemistry professor Robert Murray in 1958.
Law professor Michael Lynk and Visual Arts professor Patrick Mahon topped the list of honorees when London Mayor Matt Brown released the annual Mayor of London Honours List on Jan. 1. Mahon was honored for his work in the arts; Lynk for his work in humanitarianism....
By studying modern works that feature Hitchcock-inspired elements, Visual Arts professor Christine Sprengler contends they are valuable not only as art, but also serve as contributions to the understanding of Hitchcock’s cultural legacy and cinema itself.