The Final Mile Club: Brendan Fernandes on Getting Started
Brendan Fernandes shares practical tips on securing funding as an artist. Grounded in lived experience as a York University alumnus of AMPD’s Visual Arts BFA program, Fernandes talks about the importance of maximizing available resources, documenting the creative process, articulating the meaning of art in various forms, and creating opportunities for community, visibility, and recognition.
Professor Emeritus Tim Whiten wins AGO’s 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize
Whiten, 81, is a Toronto artist with a 50-year career. His drawings, sculptures, installations and performances draw on his knowledge of spiritual practices from around the world, including Zen Buddhism and Jewish mysticism. This February, the AMPD professor emeritus was recognized as an outstanding contribution to Canada's visual arts with an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
Alum Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award
Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award. The award recognizes Peraza as an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting.
York U hosts Ontario’s only in-person National Portfolio Day event following two-year hiatus
On October 1, representatives from some of the world’s leading post-secondary arts and design institutions will converge on York University’s Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts to participate in National Portfolio Day 2022.
Marissa Largo refocus the conversation inside and outside the gallery
FilipiNEXT brought scholars, activists, and community members from all over Canada to York University to engage in creative discussions around Filipinx Studies emerging from the Canadian context. Filipinx scholars from intuitions across Canada make up the organizing committee, including AMPD professor visual art and art history professor Dr. Marissa Largo.
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).
Prof. Hudson leads major research project supporting Inuit culture, art and ways of life
A multimedia, multi-platform collaborative research and creation project based at York University has ignited a dialogue within the arts and research communities about the role of colonialism in disrupting Inuit cultural conditions.
Terminal Station: a drawing exhibition by two visual art students
Two visual art students, Abbie Mauno and Yuki Tam, present Terminal Station, a drawing exhibition in the Gales Gallery.
