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Across teaching and research, AMPD professor advances inclusive design
Professor Shital Desai from the Department of Design is advancing a more inclusive approach to how technologies, research and learning environments are designed.
AMPD community earns 22 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations
AMPD alumni earn 28 wins at 2026 Canadian Screen Awards
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AMPD’s York U Motion Media Studio Partners with OYA Black Arts Coalition for Industry Talks 2.0
The York U Motion Media Studio (YUMMS) at York Univeristy’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) is partnering with the OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC) to launch the Industry Talks 2.0 series at Cinespace Film Studios.
Beads of change
York U curator champions Inuit food sovereignty through international collaboration
York-Queen’s art project combines VR with Anishinaabe philosophy to explore water’s hidden depths
A collaborative research-creation project between a pair of York University and Queen’s University artists that asks audiences to rethink their relationship to water is making a splash at exhibitions around the world.
AMPD Professor Janine Marchessault builds international alliances among community-led media archives
Janine Marchessault, a York University professor and York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement who recently received a prestigious Killam Prize, is building alliances between institutional and community-led media archives from around t ...
Prestigious Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship Renewed at AMPD with $20,000 Top-Up
The Ella Fitzgerald Foundation has generously renewed its endowment to the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) with an additional $20,000 for the prestigious Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship. This scholarship is open to AMPD students ...
York professor awarded nearly $1M for Indigenous metaverse project
Maya Chacaby, a sociology professor at York University’s Glendon Campus, has received nearly $1 million in federal funding for her Indigenous-led metaverse project, Biskaabiiyaang: Creating a Path Towards Healing and Reconciliation. Co-applicants inclu ...