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AMPD Visual Arts PhD student completes artist residency in Costa Rica
During a month-long artist residency in San José, Costa Rica, Shannon Garden-Smith explored how everyday surfaces can shape artistic research and studio practice. Garden-Smith, a...
Across teaching and research, AMPD professor advances inclusive design
AMPD community earns 22 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations
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AMPD Visual Arts PhD student completes artist residency in Costa Rica
During a month-long artist residency in San José, Costa Rica, PhD Visual Arts student Shannon Garden-Smith explored how everyday surfaces can shape artistic research and studio practice.

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.

Professor Marissa Largo receives 2025-2026 AMPD Research Award
Professor Largo's work bridges art education, cultural studies and contemporary art criticism, and explores questions of race, gender and Asian diasporic art in Canada.

Four AMPD faculty recognized at 2026 President’s Research Awards
Four faculty members from AMPD were recognized at the annual President’s Research Awards, celebrating real-world impact and scholarly achievement across York’s research community.

AMPD alumnus named 2026–27 Artist in Residence at the Jackman Humanities Institute
The residency brings artists into close dialogue with faculty and students through lectures, workshops, seminars and teaching.

AMPD staff member helps AGO uncover identity of woman in rare 18th-century portrait
A research project at the Art Gallery of Ontario has gained widespread media attention following the identification of both the artist and subject of a rare 18th-century portrait of a Black woman.

AMPD PhD research in Visual Art and Art History presented at Baycrest Art and Health Lecture Series
The series explored how contemporary art research can contribute to conversations around cognitive health and wellbeing.

Connected Minds research residency brings international performance companies to AMPD
Co-led by AMPD Professors Laura Levin and Michael Wheeler, 'Creative Collectivities' is one of five projects funded through the inaugural Connected Minds Team Grants.

AMPD Professor Ian Garrett named York University Teaching Fellow
A new initiative involving AMPD faculty will strengthen teaching and learning at York University by empowering faculty members to lead innovation in pedagogy across disciplines.

