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Aimée Mitchell, Research Officer at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), has been named the recipient of the 2023 Gary Brewer Emerging Leader Award.

The Gales Gallery at York University recently hosted Pura Vida, an exhibition celebrating the creative reflections of students from York University’s School of the Arts, Performance, Media and Design (AMPD) on their experience at the Las Nubes EcoCampu ...

57 students from the Design Student Association at AMPD visited Chicago over Reading Week! This student-organized trip took them to various studios and firms across the city - giving them a glimpse of what life could look like after graduation. Other highlights included the Design Museum of Chicago and an architecture boat tour. In their free time, students got to explore Chicago and experience all that the city has to offer.

Professor Jennifer Fisher from York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), in collaboration with co-curator Jim Drobnick, recently opened a new exhibition entitled Artists’ Tarot and the Archive at the Archives of Ontario.

On Nov. 4, York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, as well as other notable guests and partners celebrated the official grand opening of the new Markham Campus.

York University’s Keele Campus has unveiled the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery, a striking new art space designed by internationally acclaimed architect Siamak Hariri. The butterfly-shaped building features three exhibition spaces and a versatile per ...

Three members of York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) community—two alumni from the Graduate Program in Art History and Visual Culture (AHVC) and a faculty member—have been honored as nominees for the distinguish ...

Cléo Sallis-Parchet, a PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies at AMPD has curated a new exhibition at TIFF focused on the 1973 Women & Film International Festival.

This November, Keira Loughran, assistant professor in the Theatre program at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), will make her cinematic directorial debut in a documentary film with the premiere of Exclusion: Beyond the Silence, at the Reel Asian Film Festival.