School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

SCHOOL OF THE
ARTS, MEDIA,
PERFORMANCE
& DESIGN

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2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

SCHOOL OF THE
ARTS, MEDIA,
PERFORMANCE
& DESIGN

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2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

SCHOOL OF THE
ARTS, MEDIA,
PERFORMANCE
& DESIGN

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DEAN’S FOREWORD

I like to think I know at least most of what is happening in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University. In just the last year, I attended over 100 in-person events in AMPD, including exhibitions, performances, screenings, displays, research presentations, receptions and more.

Beyond AMPD, I celebrated the achievements of faculty emeriti such as Tim Whiten, attended the work by alumni at Soulpepper and Factory Theatres, and saw the great contributions of York Design alumni in DesignTO. It was a great pleasure to participate in the many amazing events in York’s Year of the Arts.

And yet, as I read through the report on AMPD’s activities for 2022/23, I am amazed by just how much work the excellent faculty, staff, students and alumni create. Their contributions this year are truly inspiring, not only for their achievements but even more for the impact their work has left on audiences and communities. I hope you will enjoy this dynamic recollection of our remarkable year.

Looking forward,
Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng

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DEAN SARAH BAY-CHENG
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DEAN’S FOREWORD

I like to think I know at least most of what is happening in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University. In just the last year, I attended over 100 in-person events in AMPD, including exhibitions, performances, screenings, displays, research presentations, receptions and more.

Beyond AMPD, I celebrated the achievements of faculty emeriti such as Tim Whiten, attended the work by alumni at Soulpepper and Factory Theatres, and saw the great contributions of York Design alumni in DesignTO. It was a great pleasure to participate in the many amazing events in York’s Year of the Arts.

And yet, as I read through the report on AMPD’s activities for 2022/23, I am amazed by just how much work the excellent faculty, staff, students and alumni create. Their contributions this year are truly inspiring, not only for their achievements but even more for the impact their work has left on audiences and communities. I hope you will enjoy this dynamic recollection of our remarkable year.

Looking forward,
Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng

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DEAN SARAH BAY-CHENG
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DEAN’S FOREWORD

I like to think I know at least most of what is happening in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University. In just the last year, I attended over 100 in-person events in AMPD, including exhibitions, performances, screenings, displays, research presentations, receptions and more.

Beyond AMPD, I celebrated the achievements of faculty emeriti such as Tim Whiten, attended the work by alumni at Soulpepper and Factory Theatres, and saw the great contributions of York Design alumni in DesignTO. It was a great pleasure to participate in the many amazing events in York’s Year of the Arts.

And yet, as I read through the report on AMPD’s activities for 2022/23, I am amazed by just how much work the excellent faculty, staff, students and alumni create. Their contributions this year are truly inspiring, not only for their achievements but even more for the impact their work has left on audiences and communities. I hope you will enjoy this dynamic recollection of our remarkable year.

Looking forward,
Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng

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DEAN SARAH BAY-CHENG
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TOP 100
UNIVERSITIES

in the world for Performing Arts

AMPD’s high-quality academic programming continues to position York
University as a leader in post-secondary education and drive positive change,
both nationally and internationally.

In the QS World University Rankings category of Arts and Humanities, AMPD
ranked in the top five universities in Canada for performing arts. Nationally,
AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of six York University programs to rank
in the top 5 in Canada. Globally, AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of only
three York University programs to rank in the top 100 in the world.

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YorkU AMPD ranked among

TOP 100
UNIVERSITIES

in the world for Performing Arts

AMPD’s high-quality academic programming continues to position York
University as a leader in post-secondary education and drive positive change,
both nationally and internationally.

In the QS World University Rankings category of Arts and Humanities, AMPD
ranked in the top five universities in Canada for performing arts. Nationally,
AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of six York University programs to rank
in the top 5 in Canada. Globally, AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of only
three York University programs to rank in the top 100 in the world.

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YorkU AMPD ranked among

TOP 100
UNIVERSITIES

in the world for Performing Arts

AMPD’s high-quality academic programming continues to position York
University as a leader in post-secondary education and drive positive change,
both nationally and internationally.

In the QS World University Rankings category of Arts and Humanities, AMPD
ranked in the top five universities in Canada for performing arts. Nationally,
AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of six York University programs to rank
in the top 5 in Canada. Globally, AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of only
three York University programs to rank in the top 100 in the world.

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AMPD Celebrates
Year of the Arts

From September 2022 to May 2023, AMPD
hosted a Year of the Arts to celebrate the
power of imagination in creating positive local
and global change.  

More than 60 scholars, artists and designers ran 20+
events, including curated installations, exhibits,
performances and presentations. They engaged in
meaningful dialogues with diverse communities on York
University Campus, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA),
across Canada and around the world.
 

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AMPD Celebrates
Year of the Arts

From September 2022 to May 2023, AMPD hosted a Year of the Arts to celebrate the power of imagination in creating positive local and global change.

More than 60 scholars, artists and designers ran 20+ events, including curated installations, exhibits, performances and presentations. They engaged in meaningful dialogues with diverse communities on York University Campus, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), across Canada and around the world.

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YOTA

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From September 2022 to May 2023, AMPD hosted a Year of the Arts to celebrate the power of imagination in creating positive local and global change.  

More than 60 scholars, artists and designers ran 20+ events, including curated installations, exhibits, performances and presentations. They engaged in meaningful dialogues with diverse communities on York University Campus, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), across Canada and around the world.

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AMPD Celebrates
Year of the Arts

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AMPD AT A GLANCE

STUDENTS
Degree Programs
30 +
Students
3,219
Alumni
20,000 +
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RESEARCH

worth of scholarships, bursaries, and awards available to AMPD students.

$ 3.1 M

scholarships, bursaries,
and awards dedicated to
AMPD students.

174

potential student receipts of AMPD scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

300
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Path 2
Path 3
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ALUMNI
Path 2
Path 3
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Path 4
Research Funding
$ 10 M

Actively Funded Research Projects in AMPD

100 +

Awarded to Endowed research chairs, post-doctoral fellows and student research assistants

300

Alumni in Top Leadership Positions
at Arts Organizations in Canada

50 +
2023 Juno
Nominees
7

2023 Canadian Screen
Award Nominees

45 +
SCHOLARSHIPS
Path 1
Path 5
Path 6
Path 7
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Royal Society of
Canada Member

9
Order of Canada
3
Order of Ontario
1
Governor General’s
Awards
4
Current Canada
Research Chairs
3
Current York
Research Chairs
3
Current Carswell
Chair
1
Canada Council
Molson Prize
1

Governor General’s Gold
Medal Award (Doctorate)

2
2023 Dora Nominations
20
2023 TIFF Participants
25 +

AMPD AT A GLANCE

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STUDENTS
Degree Programs
30 +
Students
3,219
Alumni
20,000 +
Path 2
Path 3
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RESEARCH

worth of scholarships, bursaries, and awards available to AMPD students.

$ 3.1 M

scholarships, bursaries,
and awards dedicated to
AMPD students.

174

potential student receipts of AMPD scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

300
Path 20
Path 2
Path 3
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ALUMNI
Path 2
Path 3
Collab_sw_rgb_x1
Path 21
Research Funding
$ 10 M

Actively Funded Research Projects in AMPD

100 +

Awarded to Endowed research chairs, post-doctoral fellows and student research assistants

290

Alumni in Top Leadership Positions
at Arts Organizations in Canada

50 +
2023 Juno
Nominees
7

2023 Canadian Screen
Award Nominees

45 +
SCHOLARSHIPS
Path 22
Path 5
Path 6
Path 7
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Royal Society of
Canada Member

9
Order of Canada
3
Order of Ontario
1
Governor General’s
Awards
4
Current Canada
Research Chairs
3
Current York
Research Chairs
3
Current Carswell
Chair
1
Canada Council
Molson Prize
1

Governor General’s Gold
Medal Award (Doctorate)

2
2023 Dora Nominations
20
2023 TIFF Participants
25 +

AMPD AT A GLANCE

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STUDENTS
Degree Programs
30 +
Students
3,219
Alumni
20,000 +
Path 2
Path 3
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RESEARCH

worth of scholarships, bursaries, and awards available to AMPD students.

$ 3.1 M

scholarships, bursaries,
and awards dedicated to
AMPD students.

174

potential student receipts of AMPD scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

300
Path 20
Path 2
Path 3
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ALUMNI
Path 2
Path 3
Collab_sw_rgb_x1
Path 21
Research Funding
$ 10 M

Actively Funded Research Projects in AMPD

100 +

Awarded to Endowed research chairs, post-doctoral fellows and student research assistants

290

Alumni in Top Leadership Positions
at Arts Organizations in Canada

50 +
2023 Juno
Nominees
7

2023 Canadian Screen
Award Nominees

45 +
SCHOLARSHIPS
Path 22
Path 5
Path 6
Path 7
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Royal Society of
Canada Member

9
Order of Canada
3
Order of Ontario
1
Governor General’s
Awards
4
Current Canada
Research Chairs
3
Current York
Research Chairs
3
Current Carswell
Chair
1
Canada Council
Molson Prize
1

Governor General’s Gold
Medal Award (Doctorate)

2
2023 Dora Nominations
20
2023 TIFF Participants
25 +
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RESEARCH
& INDUSTRY

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& INDUSTRY

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RESEARCH AWARDS
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RESEARCH AWARD
WINNERS

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KAREN BURKE
President’s Research Impact Award (PRIA)
MARISSA LARGO
Remarkable Artistic and Creative Accomplishments
TAIEN NG-CHAN
President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in SSHA
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BRENDA LONGFELLOW
ANNA V. HUDSON
SHITAL DESAI
SUNDAR VISWANATHAN
SHARON H. HAYASHI
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA
QUILICO
ALI KAZIMI
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RESEARCH AWARD
WINNERS

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KAREN BURKE
MARISSA LARGO
TAIEN NG-CHAN
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BRENDA LONGFELLOW
ANNA V. HUDSON
SHITAL DESAI
SUNDAR VISWANATHAN
SHARON H. HAYASHI
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA
QUILICO
ALI KAZIMI
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RESEARCH AWARD
WINNERS

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KAREN BURKE
TAIEN NG-CHAN
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CHRISTINA PETROWSKA
QUILICO
ALI KAZIMI
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MARISSA LARGO
ANNA V. HUDSON
BRENDA LONGFELLOW
SHITAL DESAI
SUNDAR VISWANATHAN
SHARON H. HAYASHI
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HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
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“I find design solutions after understanding the systemic challenges. If you design services and technology for people without understanding their needs and abilities, most of them, including able-bodied people, find them difficult to use.”  

Shital Desai is combining her expertise in robotics with product design to create innovative solutions that are both inclusive and inspired. As the principal investigator for AMPD’s Social and Technological Systems Lab (SaTS), she addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Un SDGs) 3 and 4 concerning good health and well-being and quality education.

Using inclusive technologies to enhance quality of living with Shital Desai

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HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
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“I find design solutions after understanding the systemic challenges. If you design services and technology for people without understanding their needs and abilities, most of them, including able-bodied people, find them difficult to use.”

Using inclusive technologies to enhance quality of living with Shital Desai

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Shital Desai is combining her expertise in robotics with product design to create innovative solutions that are both inclusive and inspired. As the principal investigator for AMPD’s Social and Technological Systems Lab (SaTS), she addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Un SDGs) 3 and 4 concerning good health and well-being and quality education.

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HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
Union 2

“I find design solutions after understanding the systemic challenges. If you design services and technology for people without understanding their needs and abilities, most of them, including able-bodied people, find them difficult to use.”  

Using inclusive technologies to enhance quality of living with Shital Desai

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Shital Desai is combining her expertise in robotics with product design to create innovative solutions that are both inclusive and inspired. As the principal investigator for AMPD’s Social and Technological Systems Lab (SaTS), she addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Un SDGs) 3 and 4 concerning good health and well-being and quality education.

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RESEARCH & INDUSTRY
COMMUNITY & IDENTITY

Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition Elusive Desires.

Elusive Desires won the Best Exhibition Design and Installation award at the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards. The exhibition traces the intimacies and (be)longings of two queer Asian diasporic artists: Ness Lee and Florence Yee, who are creating a space where the often-obscured subjectivities and intimacies of queer Asian diaspora are brought to the fore.

Refocusing the conversation inside and outside the gallery with Marissa Largo

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RESEARCH & INDUSTRY
COMMUNITY & IDENTITY

Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition Elusive Desires.

Elusive Desires won the Best Exhibition Design and Installation award at the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards. The exhibition traces the intimacies and (be)longings of two queer Asian diasporic artists: Ness Lee and Florence Yee, who are creating a space where the often-obscured subjectivities and intimacies of queer Asian diaspora are brought to the fore.

Refocusing the conversation inside and outside the gallery with Marissa Largo

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COMMUNITY & IDENTITY

Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition Elusive Desires.

Elusive Desires won the Best Exhibition Design and Installation award at the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards. The exhibition traces the intimacies and (be)longings of two queer Asian diasporic artists: Ness Lee and Florence Yee, who are creating a space where the often-obscured subjectivities and intimacies of queer Asian diaspora are brought to the fore.

Refocusing the conversation inside and outside the gallery with Marissa Largo

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Hemispheric Encounters, led by AMPD Associate Dean, Research Laura Levin, and Zoë Heyn-Jones, facilitated a platform for embodied learning and sharing of knowledge of alternative food futures with Visualizing Foodways Field School (VFFS). Players from all parts of the supply chain including artists, migrant labour organizers and chefs can explore the nexus between arts-based research and food justice practices and mobilize meaningful collaborations supporting sustainable food systems.

Visualizing Foodways Field School designs global systems for food security, sovereignty, and justice

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RELATIONSHIPS TO FOOD & LAND

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Hemispheric Encounters, led by AMPD Associate Dean, Research Laura Levin, and Zoë Heyn-Jones, facilitated a platform for embodied learning and sharing of knowledge of alternative food futures with Visualizing Foodways Field School (VFFS). Players from all parts of the supply chain including artists, migrant labour organizers and chefs can explore the nexus between arts-based research and food justice practices and mobilize meaningful collaborations supporting sustainable food systems.

Visualizing Foodways Field School designs global systems for food security, sovereignty, and justice

RESEARCH & INDUSTRY

RELATIONSHIPS TO FOOD & LAND

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Hemispheric Encounters, led by AMPD Associate Dean, Research Laura Levin, and Zoë Heyn-Jones, facilitated a platform for embodied learning and sharing of knowledge of alternative food futures with Visualizing Foodways Field School (VFFS). Players from all parts of the supply chain including artists, migrant labour organizers and chefs can explore the nexus between arts-based research and food justice practices and mobilize meaningful collaborations supporting sustainable food systems.

Visualizing Foodways Field School designs global systems for food security, sovereignty, and justice

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RESEARCH & INDUSTRY

RELATIONSHIPS TO FOOD & LAND

NUIT BLANCHE
+ RUTAS SYMPOSIUM

A Home for Our Migrations

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NUIT BLANCHE
+ RUTAS SYMPOSIUM

A Home for Our Migrations

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NUIT
BLANCHE
+ RUTAS
SYMPOSIUM

A Home for Our Migrations

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The Hemispheric Encounters Partnership celebrated the in-person return of Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022 by bringing together scholars, artists, and the community for the Nuit Blanche + RUTAS Symposium: A Home for Our Migrations. Over 60 invited presenters engaged with lively dialogues, workshops, presentations, and performances on transnational artistic practices, and artworks responding to growing migration and environmental crises.

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The Hemispheric Encounters Partnership celebrated the in-person return of Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022 by bringing together scholars, artists, and the community for the Nuit Blanche + RUTAS Symposium: A Home for Our Migrations. Over 60 invited presenters engaged with lively dialogues, workshops, presentations, and performances on transnational artistic practices, and artworks responding to growing migration and environmental crises.

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The Hemispheric Encounters Partnership celebrated the in-person return of Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022 by bringing together scholars, artists, and the community for the Nuit Blanche + RUTAS Symposium: A Home for Our Migrations. Over 60 invited presenters engaged with lively dialogues, workshops, presentations, and performances on transnational artistic practices, and artworks responding to growing migration and environmental crises.

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Patrick Alcedo recognized with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant award

Canadian Immigrant magazine named Patrick Alcedo as one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2022. Alcedo was selected from a list of 75 finalists nominated by the Canadian public for his use of dance and film in spotlighting the rich complexity of Filipino culture and the incredible contributions of Filipinos in Canada.

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TRAILBLAZERS

Tim Whiten recognized with the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize

For over 50 years, Tim Whiten used bone, leather and glass to navigate the human condition and its transformative potential. This year, Whiten won two prestigious awards, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize, for his drawings, sculptures, and installations.

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For over 50 years, Tim Whiten used bone, leather and glass to navigate the human condition and its transformative potential. This year, Whiten won two prestigious awards, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize, for his drawings, sculptures, and installations.

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TRAILBLAZERS

Tim Whiten recognized with the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize

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Patrick Alcedo recognized with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant award

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Canadian Immigrant magazine named Patrick Alcedo as one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2022. Alcedo was selected from a list of 75 finalists nominated by the Canadian public for his use of dance and film in spotlighting the rich complexity of Filipino culture and the incredible contributions of Filipinos in Canada.

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For over 50 years, Tim Whiten used bone, leather and glass to navigate the human condition and its transformative potential. This year, Whiten won two prestigious awards, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize, for his drawings, sculptures, and installations.

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Tim Whiten recognized with the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize

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Patrick Alcedo recognized with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant award

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Canadian Immigrant magazine named Patrick Alcedo as one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2022. Alcedo was selected from a list of 75 finalists nominated by the Canadian public for his use of dance and film in spotlighting the rich complexity of Filipino culture and the incredible contributions of Filipinos in Canada.

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TRAILBLAZERS

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Sundar Viswanathan takes home a JUNO

Sundar Viswanathan and his band Avataar, were presented with this year’s Jazz Album of the Year: Group at the 2022 JUNO Awards for their new album, worldview. The album serves as a musical commentary on the state of the world, the pandemic, and the inability of leaders to lead with integrity, honesty and compassion.

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Christina Petrowska Quilico named 2021 Order of Ontario appointee

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, appointed Christina Petrowska Quilico to the Order of Ontario for her world-renowned career.

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Brandon Vickerd’s “The Heights” is a 41-foot lesson in harmonizing history and innovation on a grand scale  

Drawing inspiration from the one-room Elia Public School that stood near the sculpture’s current location between 1873-1956, Vickerd’s “The Heights” neatly connects the past with the present, highlighting how both Elia Public School, and York University has helped to shape and drive the community it belongs to.

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Sundar Viswanathan takes home a JUNO

Sundar Viswanathan and his band Avataar, were presented with this year’s Jazz Album of the Year: Group at the 2022 JUNO Awards for their new album, worldview. The album serves as a musical commentary on the state of the world, the pandemic, and the inability of leaders to lead with integrity, honesty and compassion.

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Christina Petrowska Quilico named 2021 Order of Ontario appointee

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, appointed Christina Petrowska Quilico to the Order of Ontario for her world-renowned career.

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Brandon Vickerd’s “The Heights” is a 41-foot lesson in harmonizing history and innovation on a grand scale  

Drawing inspiration from the one-room Elia Public School that stood near the sculpture’s current location between 1873-1956, Vickerd’s “The Heights” neatly connects the past with the present, highlighting how both Elia Public School, and York University has helped to shape and drive the community it belongs to.

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Sundar Viswanathan takes home a JUNO

Sundar Viswanathan and his band Avataar, were presented with this year’s Jazz Album of the Year: Group at the 2022 JUNO Awards for their new album, worldview. The album serves as a musical commentary on the state of the world, the pandemic, and the inability of leaders to lead with integrity, honesty and compassion.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18 f02cfc147178817.62bd955c1c7ad
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Christina Petrowska Quilico named 2021 Order of Ontario appointee

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, appointed Christina Petrowska Quilico to the Order of Ontario for her world-renowned career.

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Brandon Vickerd’s “The Heights” is a 41-foot lesson in harmonizing history and innovation on a grand scale  

Drawing inspiration from the one-room Elia Public School that stood near the sculpture’s current location between 1873-1956, Vickerd’s “The Heights” neatly connects the past with the present, highlighting how both Elia Public School, and York University has helped to shape and drive the community it belongs to.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18 f02cfc147178817.62bd955c1c7ad
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Sihwa Park joins AMPD in the Department of Computational Arts. He is a sound interaction designer, media artist, and researcher in interactive audiovisual software art, computational algorithms and audiovisual interfaces emerging technologies. Park’s data-driven audiovisual arts reflecting the relationship between humans and machines, data and algorithms has been showcased at international venues including.

Sihwa Park
of AMPD

NEW
FACES

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Hector Centeno joins AMPD in the Department of Creative Technologies. He is a digital media creator with over two decades of experience as an independent artist, interactive systems programmer and designer, digital media technician and media arts instructor.

Hector Centeno
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Sihwa Park joins AMPD in the Department of Computational Arts. He is a sound interaction designer, media artist, and researcher in interactive audiovisual software art, computational algorithms and audiovisual interfaces emerging technologies. Park’s data-driven audiovisual arts reflecting the relationship between humans and machines, data and algorithms has been showcased at international venues including.

Sihwa Park
of AMPD

NEW
FACES

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Hector Centeno

Hector Centeno joins AMPD in the Department of Creative Technologies. He is a digital media creator with over two decades of experience as an independent artist, interactive systems programmer and designer, digital media technician and media arts instructor.

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Sihwa Park joins AMPD in the Department of Computational Arts. He is a sound interaction designer, media artist, and researcher in interactive audiovisual software art, computational algorithms and audiovisual interfaces emerging technologies. Park’s data-driven audiovisual arts reflecting the relationship between humans and machines, data and algorithms has been showcased at international venues including.

Sihwa Park

of AMPD

NEW
FACES
Yasmine-Espert
Hector Centeno

Hector Centeno joins AMPD in the Department of Creative Technologies. He is a digital media creator with over two decades of experience as an independent artist, interactive systems programmer and designer, digital media technician and media arts instructor.

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Katherine Dowling joins the Department of Music in AMPD. Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to color”, award-winning pianist Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.

Katherine Dowling

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Yasmine Espert is joining the AMPD Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University, brining expertise in the field of visual art and art history production and scholarship from her experience with Seen, a journal published by BlackStar Projects, MoMA’s Museum Research Consortium, the Oxford University Press and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Yasmine Espert
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Dance artist and educator Syreeta Hector is joining the Department of Dance. As a highly accomplished performer, Hector has worked for internationally recognized companies like Adelheid Dance Projects, Citadel + Compagnie, and Toronto Dance Theatre. Her solo work “Black Ballerina” won the Stratford Festival Lab Award for Research and Creation and received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination.

Syreeta Hector
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Katherine Dowling

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Yasmine Espert

Katherine Dowlingjoins the Department of Music in AMPD. Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to color”, award-winning pianist Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.

Yasmine Espert is joining the AMPD Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University, brining expertise in the field of visual art and art history production and scholarship from her experince with Seen, a journal published by BlackStar Projects, MoMA’s Museum Research Consortium, the Oxford University Press and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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Syreeta Hector
Yasmine-Espert

Dance artist and educator Syreeta Hector is joining the Department of Dance. As a highly accomplished performer, Hector has worked for internationally recognized companies like Adelheid Dance Projects, Citadel + Compagnie, and Toronto Dance Theatre. Her solo work “Black Ballerina” won the Stratford Festival Lab Award for Research and Creation and received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination.

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Katherine Dowling
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Yasmine Espert

Katherine Dowling joins the Department of Music in AMPD. Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to color”, award-winning pianist Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.

Yasmine Espert is joining the AMPD
Department of Visual Art & Art History
at York University, brining expertise in
the field of visual art and art history
production and scholarship from her
experience with Seen, a journal
published by BlackStar Projects,
MoMA’s Museum Research Consortium,
the Oxford University Press and the
Studio Museum in Harlem.

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Syreeta Hector

Dance artist and educator Syreeta
Hector
is joining the Department of
Dance. As a highly accomplished
performer, Hector has worked for
internationally recognized companies
like Adelheid Dance Projects, Citadel +
Compagnie, and Toronto Dance Theatre. Her solo work “Black Ballerina” won the Stratford Festival Lab Award for Research and Creation and received a Dora Mavor
Moore nomination.

Yasmine-Espert
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AMPD Senior Teaching
Award Winner

ERIC
ARMSTRONG

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“The OER we are creating now will serve as
models for others to get involved and to
show that it can be done. People start to
think differently about the nature of
teaching, the nature of resources and the
nature of our responsibility to create a
different kind of learning experience.”  

Eric Armstrong has taught voice, speech,
dialects and text to aspiring and established
artists across North America. Armstrong’s
web-based technologies approach to voice
coaching extends to approach to voice
coaching extends to his pedagogical

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philosophy as he pioneers the world
of open education resources (OER).  

This year, Armstrong converted his
textbook, Lexical Sets for Actors, into an
internationally accessible OER – a free,
digitally accessible textbook and learning
guide. He approached the creation of the
textbook learner with accessibility and
demographics variability, including BIPOC,
LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities,
in mind.  

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“The OER we are creating now will serve as
models for others to get involved and to
show that it can be done. People start to
think differently about the nature of
teaching, the nature of resources and the
nature of our responsibility to create a
different kind of learning experience.”  

Eric Armstrong has taught voice, speech,
dialects and text to aspiring and established
artists across North America. Armstrong’s
web-based technologies approach to voice
coaching extends to approach to voice
coaching extends to his pedagogical

philosophy as he pioneers the world
of open education resources (OER).  

This year, Armstrong converted his
textbook, Lexical Sets for Actors, into an
internationally accessible OER – a free,
digitally accessible textbook and learning
guide. He approached the creation of the
textbook learner with accessibility and
demographics variability, including BIPOC,
LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities,
in mind.  

AMPD Senior Teaching
Award Winner

ERIC
ARMSTRONG

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philosophy as he pioneers the world of open education resources (OER).  

This year, Armstrong converted his textbook, Lexical Sets for Actors, into an internationally accessible OER – a free, digitally accessible textbook and learning guide. He approached the creation of the textbook learner with accessibility and demographics variability, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities, in mind.  

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AMPD Senior Teaching
Award Winner

ERIC
ARMSTRONG

“The OER we are creating now will serve as models for others to get involved and to show that it can be done. People start to
think differently about the nature of teaching, the nature of resources and the nature of our responsibility to create a
different kind of learning experience.”  

Eric Armstrong has taught voice, speech, dialects and text to aspiring and established artists across North America. Armstrong’s web-based technologies approach to voice coaching extends to approach to voice coaching extends to his pedagogical philosophy as he pioneers the world of open education resources (OER).  

This year, Armstrong converted his textbook, Lexical Sets for Actors, into an internationally accessible OER – a free, digitally accessible textbook and learning guide. He approached the creation of the textbook learner with accessibility and demographics variability, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities, in mind.  

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Pianist, composer, educator and scholar –
Noam Lemish’s prolific career is global,
playing across the world from the United
States to Bhutan. This year, Lemish earned
the AMPD Junor Teaching Award for his
excellence in inspiring young musicians
through jazz studies, composition, Jewish
music, improvisation and more.  

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Learning doesn’t stop outside the
classroom. In collaboration with the
Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies,
Lemish secured a $40,000 gift from the
Azrieli Foundation to support the Jewish
Music at York pilot project. The project sees
leading musicians representing the cultural
diversity of Jewish musical expression
sharing performance tools and techniques
with students on campus.

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AMPD Junior Teaching
Award Winner

NOAM
LEMISH

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Pianist, composer, educator and scholar –
Noam Lemish’s prolific career is global,
playing across the world from the United
States to Bhutan. This year, Lemish earned
the AMPD Junor Teaching Award for his
excellence in inspiring young musicians
through jazz studies, composition, Jewish
music, improvisation and more.  

Learning doesn’t stop outside the
classroom. In collaboration with the
Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies,
Lemish secured a $40,000 gift from the
Azrieli Foundation to support the Jewish
Music at York pilot project. The project sees
leading musicians representing the cultural
diversity of Jewish musical expression
sharing performance tools and techniques
with students on campus.

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AMPD Junior Teaching
Award Winner

NOAM
LEMISH

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AMPD Junior Teaching
Award Winner

NOAM
LEMISH

Pianist, composer, educator and scholar – Noam Lemish’s prolific career is global, playing across the world from the United States to Bhutan. This year, Lemish earned the AMPD Junor Teaching Award for his excellence in inspiring young musicians through jazz studies, composition, Jewish music, improvisation and more.  

Learning doesn’t stop outside the classroom. In collaboration with the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, Lemish secured a $40,000 gift from the Azrieli Foundation to support the Jewish Music at York pilot project. The project sees leading musicians representing the cultural diversity of Jewish musical expression sharing performance tools and techniques with students on campus.

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Dean’s
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LEADERSHIP
AWARD

winner creates
positive change

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Devonte Ellis

The 2023 Dean’s Leadership Awards recognizes Devonte Ellis (4th Year Music) for their exceptional leadership and contributions to the environment and well-being of the AMPD community. Devonte aspires to become an arts educator who builds bridges between schools and communities, and creates an environment where students feel like they belong.

4th Year Music
Dean’s
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LEADERSHIP
AWARD

winner creates
positive change

The 2023 Dean’s Leadership Awards recognizes Devonte Ellis (4th Year Music) for their exceptional leadership and contributions to the environment and well-being of the AMPD community. Devonte aspires to become an arts educator who builds bridges between schools and communities, and creates an environment where students feel like they belong.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18
Devonte Ellis
4th Year Music
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LEADERSHIP
AWARD

winner creates
positive change

The 2023 Dean’s Leadership Awards recognizes Devonte Ellis (4th Year Music) for their exceptional leadership and contributions to the environment and well-being of the AMPD community. Devonte aspires to become an arts educator who builds bridges between schools and communities, and creates an environment where students feel like they belong.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18
Devonte Ellis
4th Year Music
Dean’s
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Collette Murray earns two awards for work advancing diasporic dance styles

Murray’s multifaceted approach to anti-racism in dance earned her the 2022 Racial Justice in Creative Arts award and the 2022 Women Who Rock Awards for her efforts in cultural education and amplifying Black arts and diasporic styles of African dance vernacular.

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Levon Ichkhanian is the Toronto Musicians’ Association‘s 2022 Musician of the Year

Ichkhanian joins Shawn Mendes, Nelly Furtado and former York University chancellor Oscar Peterson with his dedication to excellence in all aspects of music and high standard of professionalism and artistry.

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Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award  

Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award, labeling her an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting.

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Collette Murray earns two awards for work advancing diasporic dance styles

Murray’s multifaceted approach to anti-racism in dance earned her the 2022 Racial Justice in Creative Arts award and the 2022 Women Who Rock Awards for her efforts in cultural education and amplifying Black arts and diasporic styles of African dance vernacular.

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Levon Ichkhanian is the Toronto Musicians’ Association‘s 2022 Musician of the Year

Ichkhanian joins Shawn Mendes, Nelly Furtado and former York University chancellor Oscar Peterson with his dedication to excellence in all aspects of music and high standard of professionalism and artistry.

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Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award  

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Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award, labeling her an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting.

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Collette Murray earns two awards for work advancing diasporic dance styles

Murray’s multifaceted approach to anti-racism in dance earned her the 2022 Racial Justice in Creative Arts award and the 2022 Women Who Rock Awards for her efforts in cultural education and amplifying Black arts and diasporic styles of African dance vernacular.

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Levon Ichkhanian is the Toronto Musicians’ Association‘s 2022 Musician of the Year

Ichkhanian joins Shawn Mendes, Nelly Furtado and former York University chancellor Oscar Peterson with his dedication to excellence in all aspects of music and high standard of professionalism and artistry.

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Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award  

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18

Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award, labeling her an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting.

DESIGNTO

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After two decades of graduating some of the top designers working in Canada and beyond, the York University Design program hosted the first gathering of alumni projects as part of DesignTO – a non-profit arts organization that aims to increase interest and appreciation for design.

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DESIGNTO

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After two decades of graduating some of the top designers working in Canada and beyond, the York University Design program hosted the first gathering of alumni projects as part of DesignTO – a non-profit arts organization that aims to increase interest and appreciation for design.

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DESIGNTO

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After two decades of graduating some of the top designers working in Canada and beyond, the York University Design program hosted the first gathering of alumni projects as part of DesignTO – a non-profit arts organization that aims to increase interest and appreciation for design.

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Lenka Lichtenberg wins 2023 JUNO Award for Global Music Album

Lichtenberg uses her late grandmother’s, Anna Hana, recently discovered journals as inspiration for Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess. Hana wrote the journals between 1940 and 1945, before and during her incarceration (1942-1945) in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) World War II concentration camp. Lichtenberg expertly weaves Hana’s powerful poems of love, relationships and dreams of far-away places into a stunning musical and spoken word performance.

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Royal Canadian Mint selects alum Lily Kao to design minted Year of the Rabbit coin

The Royal Canadian Mint marked the lunar new year with AMPD alum Lily Kao’s (BDes ‘14) new 1 oz. pure silver coin design in honour of the Year of the Rabbit. The Rabbit Coin follows Kao’s Lunar Tiger Coin, released last year in honour of the Year of the Tiger, which is the second instalment in a 12-year series contract. Like last year’s Tiger took reference from the Chinese folk art Cloth Tiger, which is often gifted to children as a blessing for prosperity and good health, Kao’s Rabbit Coin sends a message of optimism for the year ahead.

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Lenka Lichtenberg
wins 2023 JUNO
Award for Global
Music Album

Lichtenberg uses her late grandmother’s, Anna
Hana, recently discovered journals as inspiration for
Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s
Secret Poetess. Hana wrote the journals between
1940 and 1945, before and during her incarceration
(1942-1945) in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) World
War II concentration camp. Lichtenberg expertly
weaves Hana’s powerful poems of love,
relationships and dreams of far-away places into a
stunning musical and spoken word performance.

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LISTEN ON SPOTIFY
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The Royal Canadian Mint marked the lunar new year
with AMPD alum Lily Kao’s (BDes ‘14) new 1 oz. pure
silver coin design in honour of the Year of the Rabbit.
The Rabbit Coin follows Kao’s Lunar Tiger Coin, released
last year in honour of the Year of the Tiger, which is the
second instalment in a 12-year series contract. Like last
year’s Tiger took reference from the Chinese folk art
Cloth Tiger, which is often gifted to children as a
blessing for prosperity and good health, Kao’s Rabbit
Coin sends a message of optimism for the year ahead.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18 coinbox

Royal Canadian
Mint selects alum
Lily Kao to design
minted Year of
the Rabbit coin

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Lenka Lichtenberg
wins 2023 JUNO
Award for Global
Music Album

Lichtenberg uses her late grandmother’s, Anna
Hana, recently discovered journals as inspiration for
Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s
Secret Poetess. Hana wrote the journals between
1940 and 1945, before and during her incarceration
(1942-1945) in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) World
War II concentration camp. Lichtenberg expertly
weaves Hana’s powerful poems of love,
relationships and dreams of far-away places into a
stunning musical and spoken word performance.

AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY
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688827147178817.62bd955c1ec32 AMPD Alumni Luke Reece-18 coinbox

The Royal Canadian Mint marked the lunar new year
with AMPD alum Lily Kao’s (BDes ‘14) new 1 oz. pure
silver coin design in honour of the Year of the Rabbit.
The Rabbit Coin follows Kao’s Lunar Tiger Coin, released
last year in honour of the Year of the Tiger, which is the
second instalment in a 12-year series contract. Like last
year’s Tiger took reference from the Chinese folk art
Cloth Tiger, which is often gifted to children as a
blessing for prosperity and good health, Kao’s Rabbit
Coin sends a message of optimism for the year ahead.

Royal Canadian
Mint selects alum
Lily Kao to design
minted Year of
the Rabbit coin

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In September 2024, AMPD will see the first cohort of Creative Technologies (BFA) students arrive on the York University Markham Campus. In the program, students will combine arts and innovative technologies to transform society. Anchored in a passion for social justice, students will refract the world's most pressing contemporary challenges through their unique, creative lens to forge a better tomorrow.

AMPD launches new Creative Technologies (BFA) program at York University’s new Markham Campus starting September 2024

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In September 2024, AMPD will see the first cohort of Creative Technologies (BFA) students arrive on the York University Markham Campus. In the program, students will combine arts and innovative technologies to transform society. Anchored in a passion for social justice, students will refract the world's most pressing contemporary challenges through their unique, creative lens to forge a better tomorrow.

AMPD launches new Creative Technologies (BFA) program at York University’s new Markham Campus starting September 2024

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In September 2024, AMPD will see the first cohort of Creative Technologies (BFA) students arrive on the York University Markham Campus. In the program, students will combine arts and innovative technologies to transform society. Anchored in a passion for social justice, students will refract the world's most pressing contemporary challenges through their unique, creative lens to forge a better tomorrow.

AMPD launches new Creative Technologies (BFA) program at York University’s new Markham Campus starting September 2024

THANKS
DONORS

It is never a task or a duty to express the gratitude that we in AMPD have for our supporters; rather it is a proud privilege to say a very genuine thank you for being part of our community, helping make things better for others.

Philanthropy is ‘giving back’, and it takes more forms than we might expect. There are countless examples within this report that point to just that, including Joan & Martin Goldfarb, the Nick Nurse Foundation and Justice Fund.

Hundreds of supporters, from individuals to foundations to companies have helped to support the work of AMPD, and ultimately our students, in the past year, and we will never tire of saying thank you.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,
ADVANCEMENT

LEN MILLEY
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THANKS
DONORS

It is never a task or a duty to express the gratitude that we in AMPD have for our supporters; rather it is a proud privilege to say a very genuine thank you for being part of our community, helping make things better for others.

Philanthropy is ‘giving back’, and it takes more forms than we might expect. There are countless examples within this report that point to just that, including Joan & Martin Goldfarb, the Nick Nurse Foundation and Justice Fund.

Hundreds of supporters, from individuals to foundations to companies have helped to support the work of AMPD, and ultimately our students, in the past year, and we will never tire of saying thank you.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,
ADVANCEMENT

LEN MILLEY
York U Dance Sparks 2018-526
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THANKS
DONORS

It is never a task or a duty to express the gratitude that we in AMPD have for our supporters; rather it is a proud privilege to say a very genuine thank you for being part of our community, helping make things better for others.

Philanthropy is ‘giving back’, and it takes more forms than we might expect. There are countless examples within this report that point to just that, including Joan & Martin Goldfarb, the Nick Nurse Foundation and Justice Fund.

Hundreds of supporters, from individuals to foundations to companies have helped to support the work of AMPD, and ultimately our students, in the past year, and we will never tire of saying thank you.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,
ADVANCEMENT

LEN MILLEY
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THANKS DONORS

Our supporters have given of their time, generously
sharing their learnings and expertise - speaking to
classes, participating in podcasts and roundtable
discussions, mentoring students and providing internship
and experiential education opportunities.

Supporters have donated artworks, equipment, materials,
papers and, yes, money. They have given to AMPD from
bequests in their wills, made monthly donations through
their credit cards, once a year ‘annual’ gifts, and set up
student scholarships and bursaries, some to last forever.  

Dvoira & Kaethe Yanovsky invested in Visual Arts research
to honour their late parents, Avrom and Anna. Martha
Jarrell and the friends and family of her late son Court set
up a permanently endowed award in his memory for
Cinema & Media Arts students, and friends of the late
Patricia Bailey set up a bursary for Visual Art & Art
History students.

AMPD alum Brendan Weaver, founder of Underdog Studio,
created a scholarship for excellence in Design students,
and Markham Councillor Amanda Yeung Collucci held a
fundraiser to create a scholarship for our soon to be

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launched BFA in Creative Technologies at Markham
Campus.  

MBS Equipment completely outfitted our Motion Media
Studio with equipment, free of charge, at Cinespace Film
Studios (another of our long-time supporters), and
Keslow Camera and Canada Film Equipment partnered
with us so that our students can have access to state of
the art equipment at little or no cost.

As you see, philanthropy comes in many, many ways. Any
measure of giving back helps our students and makes a
difference, and we are grateful for all of them. If we could
name each and every one of you, we would.

It is a sincere pleasure to partner with people in creating
pathways and finding solutions, opening opportunities
and forging brighter futures. If you are interested in
discussing how you might help, please reach out –
we’ll be happy to explore with you.

Thank you, again and always, for your
generous support!

THANKS DONORS

Our supporters have given of their time, generously
sharing their learnings and expertise - speaking to
classes, participating in podcasts and roundtable
discussions, mentoring students and providing internship
and experiential education opportunities.

Supporters have donated artworks, equipment, materials,
papers and, yes, money. They have given to AMPD from
bequests in their wills, made monthly donations through
their credit cards, once a year ‘annual’ gifts, and set up
student scholarships and bursaries, some to last forever.  

Dvoira & Kaethe Yanovsky invested in Visual Arts research
to honour their late parents, Avrom and Anna. Martha
Jarrell and the friends and family of her late son Court set
up a permanently endowed award in his memory for
Cinema & Media Arts students, and friends of the late
Patricia Bailey set up a bursary for Visual Art & Art
History students.

AMPD alum Brendan Weaver, founder of Underdog Studio,
created a scholarship for excellence in Design students,
and Markham Councillor Amanda Yeung Collucci held a
fundraiser to create a scholarship for our soon to be

launched BFA in Creative Technologies at Markham
Campus.  

MBS Equipment completely outfitted our Motion Media
Studio with equipment, free of charge, at Cinespace Film
Studios (another of our long-time supporters), and
Keslow Camera and Canada Film Equipment partnered
with us so that our students can have access to state of
the art equipment at little or no cost.

As you see, philanthropy comes in many, many ways. Any
measure of giving back helps our students and makes a
difference, and we are grateful for all of them. If we could
name each and every one of you, we would.

It is a sincere pleasure to partner with people in creating
pathways and finding solutions, opening opportunities
and forging brighter futures. If you are interested in
discussing how you might help, please reach out –
we’ll be happy to explore with you.

Thank you, again and always, for your
generous support!

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MBS Equipment completely outfitted our Motion Media
Studio with equipment, free of charge, at Cinespace Film
Studios (another of our long-time supporters), and
Keslow Camera and Canada Film Equipment partnered
with us so that our students can have access to state of
the art equipment at little or no cost.  

As you see, philanthropy comes in many, many ways. Any
measure of giving back helps our students and makes a
difference, and we are grateful for all of them. If we could
name each and every one of you, we would.

It is a sincere pleasure to partner with people in creating
pathways and finding solutions, opening opportunities
and forging brighter futures. If you are interested in
discussing how you might help, please reach out –
we’ll be happy to explore with you.

Thank you, again and always, for your
generous support!

Our supporters have given of their time, generously
sharing their learnings and expertise - speaking to
classes, participating in podcasts and roundtable
discussions, mentoring students and providing internship
and experiential education opportunities.

Supporters have donated artworks, equipment, materials,
papers and, yes, money. They have given to AMPD from
bequests in their wills, made monthly donations through
their credit cards, once a year ‘annual’ gifts, and set up
student scholarships and bursaries, some to last forever.  

Dvoira & Kaethe Yanovsky invested in Visual Arts research
to honour their late parents, Avrom and Anna. Martha
Jarrell and the friends and family of her late son Court set
up a permanently endowed award in his memory for
Cinema & Media Arts students, and friends of the late
Patricia Bailey set up a bursary for Visual Art & Art
History students.

AMPD alum Brendan Weaver, founder of Underdog Studio,
created a scholarship for excellence in Design students,
and Markham Councillor Amanda Yeung Collucci held a
fundraiser to create a scholarship for our soon to be
launched BFA in Creative Technologies at Markham
Campus.  

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THANKS DONORS

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2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

SCHOOL
OF THE
ARTS,
MEDIA,
PERFORMANCE
& DESIGN

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DEAN’S FOREWORD

I like to think I know at least most of what is happening in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University. In just the last year, I attended over 100 in-person events in AMPD, including exhibitions, performances, screenings, displays, research presentations, receptions and more.

Beyond AMPD, I celebrated the achievements of faculty emeriti such as Tim Whiten, attended the work by alumni at Soulpepper and Factory Theatres, and saw the great contributions of York Design alumni in DesignTO. It was a great pleasure to participate in the many amazing events in York’s Year of the Arts.

And yet, as I read through the report on AMPD’s activities for 2022/23, I am amazed by just how much work the excellent faculty, staff, students and alumni create. Their contributions this year are truly inspiring, not only for their achievements but even more for the impact their work has left on audiences and communities. I hope you will enjoy this dynamic recollection of our remarkable year.

Looking forward,
Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng

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YorkU AMPD ranked among

TOP 100
UNIVERSITIES

in the world for Performing Arts

AMPD’s high-quality academic programming continues to position York University as a leader in post-secondary education and drive positive change, both nationally and internationally.

In the QS World University Rankings category of Arts and Humanities, AMPD ranked in the top five universities in Canada for performing arts. Nationally, AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of six York University programs to rank in the top 5 in Canada. Globally, AMPD’s performing arts programs is one of only three York University programs to rank in the top 100 in the world.

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AMPD Celebrates
Year of the Arts

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YOTA

From September 2022 to May 2023, AMPD hosted a Year of the Arts to celebrate the power of imagination in creating positive local and global change.  

More than 60 scholars, artists and designers ran 20+ events, including curated installations, exhibits, performances and presentations.
They engaged in meaningful dialogues with diverse communities on York University Campus, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), across Canada and around the world.

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Word, Sound, Power shines spotlight on Black artists

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World-Renowned Bayanihan Dance Company to perform at York’s Dance Showcase

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AMPD hosts Women in the Arts Roundtable for International Women’s Day

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Drumroll… Grammy Award-winning jazz virtuoso Terri Lyne Carrington this year’s Oscar Peterson Artist-in-Residence at York University  

AMPD AT A GLANCE

STUDENTS
Degree Programs
30 +
Students
3,219
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SCHOLARSHIPS
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Path 7
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RESEARCH
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ALUMNI
Path 2
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Alumni
20,000 +
worth of scholarships, bursaries, and awards available to AMPD students.
$ 3.1 M

scholarships, bursaries, and
awards dedicated to AMPD students.

174

potential student receipts of AMPD
scholarships, bursaries, and awards.

300
Research Funding
$ 10 M

Actively Funded Research
Projects in AMPD

100 +

Awarded to Endowed research
chairs, post-doctoral fellows
and student research assistants

$ 15 M
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Royal Society of Canada Members

9
Order of Canada
3
Order of Ontario
1
Governor General’s Awards
4
Current Canada Research Chairs
3
Current York Research Chairs
3
Current Carswell Chair
1
Canada Council Molson Prize
1

Governor General’s Gold
Medal Award (Doctorate)

2

Alumni in Top Leadership Positions
at Arts Organizations in Canada

50 +
2023 Juno Nominees
7

2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominees

45 +
2023 Dora Nominations
20
2023 TIFF Participants
25 +
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RESEARCH AWARD
WINNERS

CHRISTINA PETROWSKA
QUILICO
TAIEN NG-CHAN
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ALI KAZIMI
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BRENDA LONGFELLOW
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SHARON H. HAYASHI
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SUNDAR VISWANATHAN
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ANNA V. HUDSON
DISTINGUISHED HONOURS

PRESIDENT’S EMERGING RESEARCH LEADERSHIP AWARD (PERLA) IN SSHA

REMARKABLE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

REMARKABLE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PRESTIGIOUS DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC FELLOWSHIP & AWARD

REMARKABLE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MAJOR GRANTS
KAREN BURKE
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PRESIDENT’S RESEARCH IMPACT AWARD (PRIA)

SHITAL DESAI
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TIER 2 YORK RESEARCH CHAIR IN ACCESSIBLE INTERACTION DESIGN

MARISSA LARGO
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REMARKABLE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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“I find design solutions after understanding the systemic challenges. If you design services and technology for people without understanding their needs and abilities, most of them, including able-bodied people, find
them difficult to use.”

Using inclusive technologies to enhance quality of living with Shital Desai

RESEARCH & INDUSTRY
HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY

Shital Desai is combining her expertise in robotics with product design to create innovative solutions that are both inclusive and inspired. As the principal investigator for AMPD’s Social and Technological Systems Lab (SaTS), she addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Un SDGs) 3 and 4 concerning good health and well-being and quality education.

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COMMUNITY & IDENTITY

Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition Elusive Desires.

Elusive Desires won the Best Exhibition Design and Installation award at the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards. The exhibition traces the intimacies and (be)longings of two queer Asian diasporic artists: Ness Lee and Florence Yee, who are creating a space where the often-obscured subjectivities and intimacies of queer Asian diaspora are brought to the fore.

Refocusing the conversation inside and outside the gallery with Marissa Largo

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Hemispheric Encounters, led by AMPD Associate Dean, Research Laura Levin, and Zoë Heyn-Jones, facilitated a platform for embodied learning and sharing of knowledge of alternative food futures with Visualizing Foodways Field School (VFFS). Players from all parts of the supply chain including artists, migrant labour organizers and chefs can explore the nexus between arts-based research and food justice practices and mobilize meaningful collaborations supporting sustainable food systems.

Visualizing Foodways Field School designs global systems for food security, sovereignty, and justice

NUIT
BLANCHE
+ RUTAS
SYMPOSIUM

A Home for Our Migrations

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The Hemispheric Encounters Partnership celebrated the in-person return of Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022 by bringing together scholars, artists, and the community for the Nuit Blanche + RUTAS Symposium: A Home for Our Migrations. Over 60 invited presenters engaged with lively dialogues, workshops, presentations, and performances on transnational artistic practices, and artworks responding to growing migration and environmental crises.

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For over 50 years, Tim Whiten used bone, leather and glass to navigate the human condition and its transformative potential. This year, Whiten won two prestigious awards, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize, for his drawings, sculptures, and installations.

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TRAILBLAZERS

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Tim Whiten recognized with the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize

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Canadian Immigrant magazine named Patrick Alcedo as one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2022. Alcedo was selected from a list of 75 finalists nominated by the Canadian public for his use of dance and film in spotlighting the rich complexity of Filipino culture and the incredible contributions of Filipinos in Canada.

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Patrick Alcedo recognized with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant award

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Sundar Viswanathan takes home a JUNO

Sundar Viswanathan and his band Avataar, were presented with this year’s Jazz Album of the Year: Group at the 2022 JUNO Awards for their new album, worldview. The album serves as a musical commentary on the state of the world, the pandemic, and the inability of leaders to lead with integrity, honesty and compassion.

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Christina Petrowska Quilico named 2021 Order of Ontario appointee

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, appointed Christina Petrowska Quilico to the Order of Ontario for her world-renowned career.

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Brandon Vickerd’s “The Heights” is a 41-foot lesson in harmonizing history and innovation on a grand scale  

Drawing inspiration from the one-room Elia Public School that stood near the sculpture’s current location between 1873-1956, Vickerd’s “The Heights” neatly connects the past with the present, highlighting how both Elia Public School, and York University has helped to shape and drive the community it belongs to.

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FACULTY
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NEW FACES
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Sihwa Park joins AMPD in the Department of Computational Arts. He is a sound interaction designer, media artist, and researcher in interactive audiovisual software art, computational algorithms and audiovisual interfaces emerging technologies. Park’s data-driven audiovisual arts reflecting the relationship between humans and machines, data and algorithms has been showcased at international venues including.

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Hector Centeno

Hector Centeno joins AMPD in the Department of Creative Technologies. He is a digital media creator with over two decades of experience as an independent artist, interactive systems programmer and designer, digital media technician and media arts instructor.

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Katherine Dowling

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Katherine Dowling joins the Department of Music in AMPD. Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to color”, award-winning pianist Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.

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Yasmine Espert is joining the AMPD Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University, brining expertise in the field of visual art and art history production and scholarship from her
experience with Seen, a journal published by BlackStar Projects, MoMA’s Museum Research Consortium, the Oxford University Press and the
Studio Museum in Harlem.

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Syreeta Hector

Dance artist and educator Syreeta Hector is joining the Department of Dance. As a highly accomplished performer, Hector has worked for
internationally recognized companies like Adelheid Dance Projects, Citadel + Compagnie, and Toronto Dance Theatre. Her solo work “Black Ballerina” won the Stratford Festival Lab Award for Research and Creation and received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination.

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ERIC
ARMSTRONG

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“The OER we are creating now will serve as models for others to get involved and to show that it can be done. People start to think differently about the nature of teaching, the nature of resources and the nature of our responsibility to create a different kind of learning experience.”  

Eric Armstrong has taught voice, speech, dialects and text to aspiring and established artists across North America. Armstrong’s web-based technologies approach to voice coaching extends to approach to voice coaching extends to his pedagogical philosophy as he pioneers the world of open education resources (OER).  

This year, Armstrong converted his textbook, Lexical Sets for Actors, into an internationally accessible OER – a free, digitally accessible textbook and learning guide. He approached the creation of the textbook learner with accessibility and demographics variability, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and non-binary communities, in mind.  

AMPD Junior Teaching
Award Winner

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LEMISH

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Pianist, composer, educator and scholar – Noam Lemish’s prolific career is global, playing across the world from the United States to Bhutan. This year, Lemish earned the AMPD Junor Teaching Award for his excellence in inspiring young musicians through jazz studies, composition, Jewish music, improvisation and more.  

Learning doesn’t stop outside the classroom. In collaboration with the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, Lemish secured a $40,000 gift from the Azrieli Foundation to support the Jewish Music at York pilot project. The project sees leading musicians representing the cultural diversity of Jewish musical expression sharing performance tools and techniques with students on campus.

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STUDENT & ALUMNI

LEADERSHIP
AWARD

winner creates
positive change

The 2023 Dean’s Leadership Awards recognizes Devonte Ellis (4th Year Music) for their exceptional leadership and contributions to the environment and well-being of the AMPD community. Devonte aspires to become an arts educator who builds bridges between schools and communities, and creates an environment where students feel like they belong.

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Collette Murray earns two awards for work advancing diasporic dance styles

Murray’s multifaceted approach to anti-racism in dance earned her the 2022 Racial Justice in Creative Arts award and the 2022 Women Who Rock Awards for her efforts in cultural education and amplifying Black arts and diasporic styles of African dance vernacular.

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Levon Ichkhanian is the Toronto Musicians’ Association‘s 2022 Musician of the Year

Ichkhanian joins Shawn Mendes, Nelly Furtado and former York University chancellor Oscar Peterson with his dedication to excellence in all aspects of music and high standard of professionalism and artistry.

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Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award  

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Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award, labeling her an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting.

DESIGNTO

After two decades of graduating some of the top designers working in Canada and beyond, the York University Design program hosted the first gathering of alumni projects as part of DesignTO – a non-profit arts organization that aims to increase interest and appreciation for design.

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Lenka Lichtenberg
wins 2023 JUNO
Award for Global
Music Album

Lichtenberg uses her late grandmother’s, Anna
Hana, recently discovered journals as inspiration for
Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s
Secret Poetess. Hana wrote the journals between
1940 and 1945, before and during her incarceration
(1942-1945) in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) World
War II concentration camp. Lichtenberg expertly
weaves Hana’s powerful poems of love,
relationships and dreams of far-away places into a
stunning musical and spoken word performance.

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The Royal Canadian Mint marked the lunar new year
with AMPD alum Lily Kao’s (BDes ‘14) new 1 oz. pure
silver coin design in honour of the Year of the Rabbit.
The Rabbit Coin follows Kao’s Lunar Tiger Coin, released last year in honour of the Year of the Tiger, which is the second instalment in a 12-year series contract. Like last year’s Tiger took reference from the Chinese folk art Cloth Tiger, which is often gifted to children as a blessing for prosperity and good health, Kao’s Rabbit Coin sends a message of optimism for the year ahead.

Royal Canadian
Mint selects alum
Lily Kao to design
minted Year of
the Rabbit coin

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LOOKING
FORWARD

In September 2024, AMPD will see the first cohort of Creative Technologies (BFA) students arrive on the York University Markham Campus. In the program, students will combine arts and innovative technologies to transform society. Anchored in a passion for social justice, students will refract the world's most pressing contemporary challenges through their unique, creative lens to forge a better tomorrow.

AMPD launches new Creative Technologies (BFA) program at York University’s new Markham Campus starting September 2024

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THANKS
DONORS

It is never a task or a duty to express the gratitude that we in AMPD have for our supporters; rather it is a proud privilege to say a very genuine thank you for being part of our community, helping make things better for others.

Philanthropy is ‘giving back’, and it takes more forms than we might expect. There are countless examples within this report that point to just that, including Joan & Martin Goldfarb, the Nick Nurse Foundation and Justice Fund.

Hundreds of supporters, from individuals to foundations to companies have helped to support the work of AMPD, and ultimately our students, in the past year, and we will never tire of saying thank you.

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ADVANCEMENT

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Our supporters have given of their time, generously
sharing their learnings and expertise - speaking to
classes, participating in podcasts and roundtable
discussions, mentoring students and providing internship and experiential education opportunities.

Supporters have donated artworks, equipment, materials, papers and, yes, money. They have given to AMPD from bequests in their wills, made monthly donations through their credit cards, once a year ‘annual’ gifts, and set up student scholarships and bursaries, some to last forever.  

Dvoira & Kaethe Yanovsky invested in Visual Arts research to honour their late parents, Avrom and Anna. Martha Jarrell and the friends and family of her late son Court set up a permanently endowed award in his memory for Cinema & Media Arts students, and friends of the late Patricia Bailey set up a bursary for Visual Art & Art History students.

AMPD alum Brendan Weaver, founder of Underdog Studio, created a scholarship for excellence in Design students, and Markham Councillor Amanda Yeung Collucci held a fundraiser to create a scholarship for our soon to be launched BFA in Creative Technologies at Markham Campus.  

MBS Equipment completely outfitted our Motion Media Studio with equipment, free of charge, at Cinespace Film Studios (another of our long-time supporters), and Keslow Camera and Canada Film Equipment partnered with us so that our students can have access to state of the art equipment at little or no cost.

As you see, philanthropy comes in many, many ways. Any measure of giving back helps our students and makes a difference, and we are grateful for all of them. If we could name each and every one of you, we would.

It is a sincere pleasure to partner with people in creating pathways and finding solutions, opening opportunities and forging brighter futures. If you are interested in discussing how you might help, please reach out – we’ll be happy to explore with you.

Thank you, again and always, for your
generous support!



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TODAY

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