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AMPD community featured across city festivals and showcases throughout the summer
Students, alumni and faculty from York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) have been bringing their work to public spaces and...
AMPD community members recognized at 46th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards
Order of Canada honours three AMPD community members
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Jane Tingley’s rethinking the world’s relationship with plants and other vegetal life
Tingley brings together academics, scientists, Indigenous thinkers, artists, and the community to rethink ways of engaging with “vegetal more-than-human Other.” With re-situating: more-than-human, Jane Tingley asks audiences to rethink their relationsh ...
Refocusing the Conversation through Exhibition with Marissa Largo
Marissa Largo is creating space for change-making emerging and established artists to curate cultural conversations about identity and equity with X Marks the Spot at Filipinx and the 2022 Ontario Galleries (GOG) award-winning exhibition, Elusive Desir ...
Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023: BORDER FORMS: (RE)DRAWING LINES
Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in th ...
Sculpture by York professor debuts at Keele and Finch
By Alexander Huls, deputy editor, YFile Designed by Brandon Vickerd, artist and professor of visual arts at York University, the 41-foot sculpture made out of Corten steel is titled “The Heights” and is meant to evoke how the history of a place informs ...
Tim Whiten wins big with the the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Gershon Iskowitz Prize
A Torontonian is one of six artists to win a prestigious award for his contributions to Canada’s arts community. The Canada Council for the Arts revealed the 2023 recipients of the Governor General Awards on Tuesday. Tim Whiten, 81, is an image maker a ...
Artist and entrepreneur Sophie Brussaux talks the art of collaboration in the latest Final Mile Club Podcast
Sophie Brussaux The myth "the artist stands alone" is something artist and entrepreneur Sophie Brussaux wants to challenge. A former wealth management graduate and current Arts Help Founder and Artistic Director, Brussaux explores the necessity of comm ...
York University and the Art Gallery of York University are celebrating the official groundbreaking for the new Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University (GGYU)
York University and the Art Gallery of York University are celebrating the official groundbreaking for the new Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University (GGYU). Thanks to an original gift of $5M — and a new commitment of an additional $1M — f ...
Goldfarb Summer Institute explores contemporary painting, curatorial practices
The 14th annual Goldfarb Summer Institute took place from May 3 to 17, and was presented by the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD).