Response to Recent Anti-Asian Violence: “Hope is a discipline.” Like many of you, I have read and followed the news of the last week with dismay: eight people killed in Atlanta, seven of whom were women, and six of Asian descent. We recognize the names of those whose lives were cruelly cut short: Delaina Ashley …
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Nominate a Student for the Dean’s Leadership Award!
Felicia Mings joins the Art Gallery of York University as curator
New Heritage Minute Celebrates Oscar Peterson
A Message in Honour of Black History Month
At the start of this February, I write to acknowledge and to celebrate Black History Month, a particularly important time for learning, reflection and action this year. Over the past year, calls to address anti-Black racism and to confront oppression have resonated throughout institutions and industries, invoking many necessary and overdue conversations in these areas …
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Digital Media student Cindy Vu a Finalist for “Womxn at Ubisoft” Challenge
Curating Presence in Acute Palliative Care: 2021 Goldfarb Lecture
Christina Petrowska Quilico Appointed to Order of Canada
Christina Petrowska Quilico Appointed to Order of Canada This year Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.). The award recognizes “her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist, and for championing Canadian music”, and it comes as a well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions to Canadian musical …
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Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng Praises AMPD Community on RED FM
Praising AMPD Alumni, Students & Faculty On Thursday December 10 our dean, Sarah Bay-Cheng, appeared as a guest on 88.9 RED FM to discuss the challenges facing art schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University has risen to the challenge. Most notably, she …
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Creation in Isolation: Q&A with Amir Bahador Rostami
Amir Bahador Rostami is a multidisciplinary artist in the Digital Media program at York University. In a collaboration with his sister Elahe, a Masters student in Computational Arts, Rostami recently exhibited an original work at “Remote Realities”, which is an artist-in-residency program hosted by Trinity Square Video and Dames Making Games. In his time at …
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