Art History & Communication Studies - Announcements

Media Rurality, special serial issue of Heliotrope

��Թ� — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:25:21 +0000

Media Rurality, special serial issue of Heliotrope
www.heliotropejournal.net/
Edited by Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney

Media Rurality Series in Heliotrope

��Թ� — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:10:43 +0000

In June 2022, the Grierson Research Group hosted an international colloquium on the theme Media Rurality. Initial publications arising from the event are beginning to appear in series on Heliotrope, the journal of the Environmental Media Lab (edited by Tessa Brown and Mél Hogan at the University of Calgary).

Public Talk with ISCEI Artist in Residence Tiffany Shaw

��Թ� — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:32:44 +0000

ISCEI is very excited to announce a series of upcoming events featuring the 2023 Artist-in Residence, Writer-in-Residence, and Knowledge Holder.

Tomasz Grusiecki wins Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize

��Թ� — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:09:39 +0000

Tomasz Grusiecki (PhD ’17), who is currently Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art and Visual Culture at Boise State University,

2023 ISCEI Artist in Residence: Tiffany Shaw

��Թ� — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:56:11 +0000

The Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) appointed Tiffany Shaw as the 2023 Mellon Artist-in-Residence.

Media Rurality Colloquium on June 16-17

��Թ� — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:55:32 +0000

Artist in Residence: Dayna Danger

��Թ� — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:34:38 +0000

The Department of Art History and Communication Studies and Mellon Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) welcome artist Dayna Danger as the second Indigenous Artist in Residence at ��Թ�.

Dayna Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Métis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist raised in Miiskwaagamiwiziibiing, Treaty 1 territory, or so-called Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mōniyāng, or so-called Montreal, Quebec.

Rach Klein receives the Arts and Science Class of 1966 in the faculty of Arts Fellowship

��Թ� — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:19:30 +0000

The research supported by Arts and Science Class of 1966 in the faculty of Arts Fellowship. examines a series of three photographs held by the McCord Museum that were captured by amateur photographer and residential school teacher, Alice Constance Dunn, who was born in Quebec. Among the many photographs she took at St Michael’s Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, British Columbia, there is a set of three images that showcase a strange and disturbing tableau of children “playing Indian”. It is these photographs, dated 1924, that my research focuses on.

Artist in Residence: Caroline Monnet

��Թ� — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:33:08 +0000

The Department of Art History and Communication Studies and Mellon Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative (ISCEI) welcome artist Caroline Monnet as the first Indigenous Artist in Residence at ��Թ�.

Prof. Charmaine Nelson named Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at NSCAD

��Թ� — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:01:59 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Charmaine Nelson, who was named the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia. AHCS is grateful for Professor Nelson's significant contributions to ��Թ�, our department and our students. We have all benefited from Professor Nelson's vital scholarship, friendship and commitment to addressing systemic racism through institutional change.

Alumni news: Susana Vargas Cervantes

��Թ� — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:01:31 +0000

Susana Vargas Cervantes writes, researches and teaches. Her research mines the connections between gender, sexuality, class and skin tonalities to reconceptualize pigmentocracy. She is the author of the book The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer (NYU Press, 2019) and Mujercitos (Editorial RM, 2015).

PhD Sarah Carter receives Mark-Madoff Prize for essay

��Թ� — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:05:44 +0000

Sarah Carter, Art History PhD candidate, is the recipient of the Mark Madoff Prize for her essay entitled "'Our Modern Priapus': Thauma and the Isernian Simulacra", which she presented at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference last October.

More information about the prize is available here: http://csecs.ca/awards/.

The essay will be published in the 2020 issue of Lumen with the theme of Wonder in the Eighteenth Century / L'Émerveillement au dix-huitième siècle.

PhD Robin Lynch awarded 2019-20 Terra Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

��Թ� — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:30:11 +0000

Congratulations to Art History PhD Robin Lynch, who was recently awarded the 2019-2020 Terra Foundation Pre-Doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, for her dissertation project "Packaging Environments: The Art and Design of the Container Corporation of America".