Featured News & Events
Celebrating 20 Years of Gospel Music at York University
This fall marks a significant milestone for York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) as it marks 20 years of gospel...
Professor Brandon Vickerd Receives 2023-2024 AMPD Research Award
AMPD student and alumni work debuts at 2024 Nuit Blanche
AMPD News
- All News
- Cinema & Media Arts
- Digital Media
- Design
- Music
- Theatre, Dance & Performance
- Visual Art & Art History
- Integrative Art
- Creative Technologies
- Research
- Podcast
York professor awarded nearly $1M for Indigenous metaverse project
AMPD Alumni Shine Bright at 2024 Canadian Screen Awards
At the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, alumni from York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) were recognized for their outstanding contributions to film, television and digital media. Their collective achievements result ...
Professional opportunity engages AMPD students
This story originally appeared in YFile, written by Elaine Smith. When a group of researchers approached Professor Angela Norwood to ask about hiring a few of her York University design students to provide data visualization for the resu ...
AMPD Alum and Associate Dean Illuminate History of Photography in Canada in New Book
Abraham Oghobase: From York University to the Nigeria Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Every other year, the art world converges in Italy for the Venice Biennale, a prestigious showcase of contemporary art from around the globe. Among the myriad of talents featured at the 2024 biennale, Abraham Onoriode Oghobase, an alum of York Universi ...
2024 Dean’s Student Leadership Award Recipient Announced
Dulce Martinez, a fourth-year Music student at York University, has recently been honoured with two distinguished awards: the Dean’s Leadership Award and the 2024 Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award. These accolades recognize Dulce's exemplary le ...
AMPD Alum on York’s 2024 Top 30 Alumni Under 30 list
Congratulations to Marissa Magneson (BFA ’18), an alumna of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD), for her recognition as one of York University’s Top 30 Alumni Under 30 for 2024 This notable achievement follows in the footstep ...
York University receives largest-ever research funding grant
We are thrilled to share with you all that York University – in partnership with Queen’s University – has been awarded a monumental grant of nearly $105.7 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The funding from the Government of Canada is the largest single federal grant ever awarded to York and is in support of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society.
2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject: AMPD Performing Arts Among Top 150 Globally
Every year, the QS World University Rankings by Subject identifies the world's strongest universities in 55 individual subject areas, grouped into five subject areas: Arts and Humanities; Engineering and Technology; Life Sciences and Medicine; Natural ...