Articles tagged with: stac

• Canadian Author/Artist Daniel H. Dugas delivers public lectures at Brock

  Wednesday, January 03, 2018 | By dvivian

  

  Daniel H. Dugas’ most recent volume, published in 2015.

  The programs Etudes en français (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Interdisciplinary Humanities, Studies in Arts and Culture (Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts) and Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts of Brock University are pleased to welcome Canadian author/artist Daniel H. Dugas for two public lectures!

  Dugas writes and creates art in a variety of forms. Technology, ecology, and economy are recurrent themes often explored in his work; poetry and video poetry are two favourite platforms. Whether his projects are first accomplished in French or English, Dugas’ motivations remain similar.

  In 2018 Dugas was awarded a major recognition on the Canadian francophone art/literary scene. He is the ‘Artiste de l’année en littérature’, a distinction awarded at the Eloizes 2018 by the ‘Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau Brunswick’. Please see link below:

  ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1099324/les-eloizes-2018-une-celebration-reussie-de-la-culture-acadienne

  Public lecture in English: Thursday January 25, 2018

  Time: 2-3 pm

  Location: MW 156 (Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 15 Artists’ Common, downtown St. Catharines)

  Dugas will talk about his individual and collaborative practice with a focus on the ecological work created in partnership with Valerie LeBlanc over several years.

  The artist’s talk will be in English.

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  Canadian Author/Artist Daniel H. Dugas

  Conférence en français : vendredi 26 janvier 2018

  horaire : 1-2 pm

  lieu : PL 410, Campus principal (Brock University)

  Artiste numérique, poète et musicien, Daniel Dugas a participé à des expositions individuelles et de groupe ainsi qu’à plusieurs festivals et événements de poésie en Amérique du Nord, en Europe, au Mexique et en Australie. Son neuvième recueil de poésie L’esprit du temps / The Spirit of the Time vient de paraître aux Éditions Prise de parole.

  La présentation se fera en français.

  This is a free community event.  Tickets are not required.

  For more information contact Professor Catherine Parayre, cparayre@brocku.ca

  Tags: artist talk, Brock University, Canadian Author/Artist, Catherine Parayre, cstac, Daniel Dugas, English, Etudes en français, french, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MLLC, Public Lecture, stac, Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts
  Categories: Events, In the Media, News

• COLOUR CONSTRUCTS at Rodman Hall/ Constructions en couleurs à Rodman Hall

  Tuesday, November 21, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  Pictured is a view of the exhibition Material Girls at Rodman Hall Art Centre. (source: RHAC)

  In fall 2017, Rodman Hall invites visitors to experience the exhibition Material Girls, which brings together Canadian and international female artists from across artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Giving particular attention to the colourfulness and jubilance of this exhibition, in Colour Constructs, students in Visual Arts, Studies in Arts and Culture, and French Studies explore the materiality of colours in their own diverse ways. Student works are complemented by graffiti art by Niagara-based artist Mat Vizbulis, a classroom guest during the semester. Curators Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas. /

  A l’automne 2017, Rodman Hall invite ses visiteurs à découvrir l’exposition Material Girls, qui regroupe des artistes femmes du Canada et d’ailleurs, dont les pratiques artistiques et l’environnement culturel diffèrent. En s’inspirant des couleurs et de la gaieté de cette exposition, des étudiants-e-s en Arts visuels, Arts et cultures et Etudes en français explorent dans Constructions en couleurs la matérialité des coloris par le biais d’approches variées. Les graffitis de l’artiste Mat Vizbulis, établi dans la région du Niagara, complètent les oeuvres des étudiant-e-s. Commissaires: Catherine Parayre et Shawn Serfas.

  Article from the Brock News: Bilingual exhibition to shed light on Material Girls
  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2017 | by Darien Temprile

  A new Rodman Hall exhibition aims to help visitors experience Material Girls in a new way.

  

  Geo, a piece created by third-year Visual Arts student Lilliana Pagliaro, will be featured in the Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs exhibition opening at Rodman Hall Thursday, Nov. 30.

  Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs, opening at the downtown St. Catharines art centre Thursday, Nov. 30, features works by students in Brock’s Visual Arts (VISA), Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and French Studies (FREN) programs.

  The exhibition, curated by Brock Professors Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas, initiates a sophisticated dialogue with Material Girls, an ongoing exhibition that opened at Rodman Hall Sept. 14.

  Material Girls is a large-scale group exhibition of work by Canadian and international emerging, mid-career and senior female artists from different artistic disciplines and cultures. Curated by a team from the Dunlop Art Gallery, a unit of the Regina Public Library, it explores material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space and capitalist desire.

  For Colour Constructs, students reacted to words, colours and visuals directly related to Material Girls.

  STAC students contributed nine texts based on words and expressions found in the curatorial statement of Material Girls; FREN students provided eight written fragments in French, describing colours from Material Girls; and VISA students, in their own paintings, reference the vividness of artwork presented in Material Girls.

  In addition to the work of students, the exhibition will include a new large commission by local graffiti artist Mat Vizbulis, who describes his work as ‘genre graffuturism.’

  “As the images unfold in layers, we understand that it is truly something unexplainable,” he said. “We are then daring to define things.”

  Earlier this year, Vizbulis led Brock students in experiential learning about graffiti and its role in both high art and popular culture.

  The opening reception of Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs takes place Thursday, Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres. The exhibition will continue until March 4.

  Material Girls continues at Rodman Hall until Dec. 30.

  Admission to Rodman Hall Art Centre is free, although donations are accepted. For more information in French or English, visit ExperienceBU.

  UPDATE:

  French student Amandine Faivre, right,
  speaks about her poetry with French Professor Renee-Claude Breitenstein at the opening of Colour Constructs Thursday, Nov. 30. Curated by Professors Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas, the exhibition is a collaboration by students in Studies in Arts and Culture, Visual Arts and French Studies. Student artwork is complemented by work by local graffiti artist Mat Vizbulis, who worked with STAC and VISA students over the course of the semester. Colour Constructs is on at Rodman Hall Art Centre until March 4.
  Exhibition: Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 – Sunday Mar. 4, 2018

  Opening Reception: Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 at 5:00pm

  GALLERY HOURS:
  Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
  Thursday: 10 am to 9 pm
  Saturday & Sunday: 12 pm to 5 pm
  Closed Mondays, statutory and University holidays

  Free community event however donations accepted (suggested $5).

  Tags: Brock University, Catherine Parayre, centre for studies in arts and culture, downtown St. Catharines, exhibition, french, french studies, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Material Girls, miwsfpa, rodman hall, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Shawn Serfas, stac, visual arts
  Categories: Current Students, Events

• Music Archive in the Library

  Wednesday, November 01, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  Pictured is an example of a “Writing for Music” poster displayed in the Learning Commons of the James A. Gibson Library.
  Photo by Evelyn Smith. 

  Each year the fourth-year Music students perform a series of recitals as they proceed to successfully complete their studies in the Department of Music. In order to announce the performance each student must produce a poster.

  Students in the Studies in Arts and Culture program have selected a few posters from previous concert seasons and responded in creative and critical ways to create a music performance poster archive. This playful archive is now on display in the Learning Commons of the James A. Gibson library.

  The fourth-year Music Student Solo Recitals return for the 2017-18 season beginning March 2 through April 2, 2018. For more information on the Student Solo Recitals, please visit the music website. For information on past Student Solo Recitals, please visit the 2016-17 season concert details.

  This mini showcase will be on display in the Learning Commons of the James A. Gibson Library until 8 pm on Saturday Nov. 4, 2017 and is available to view during Library hours.

  For further information, please visit our ExperienceBU page.

  Tags: Brock University, downtown St. Catharines, james a. gibson library, learning commons, library, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, miwsfpa, music, recitals, stac, studies in arts and culture, writing for music
  Categories: Current Students, Events, News

• View the new MIWSFPA promotional video

  Friday, March 15, 2013 | By Brock University

  The Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts has released a new promotional video highlighting our departments and centre. View the video below:

   

  Tags: centre for studies in arts and culture, dart, dramatic arts, miwsfpa, musi, music, promo video, stac, video, VISA, visual arts
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Future Students, News

• a new program from cSTAC and the Faculty of Business in 2011: Concentration in Cultural Management

  Thursday, July 21, 2011 | By Brock University

  The Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (cSTAC) will be offering a new program that brings together learning opportunities from two leading Faculties at Brock University – the Faculty of Business and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts of the Faculty of Humanities.

  The Concentration in Cultural Management, a new collaboration with the highly-regarded Faculty of Business, will begin in the autumn of 2011.  This is the ideal program for students who seek to graduate with employable skills as Cultural Managers in diverse fields of arts and culture, including music, the visual arts and dramatic arts.  Together with their interdisciplinary or single-discipline studies in arts and culture students may pursue service-learning or practicum experiences with professionals and organizations in the Niagara Region.  Required upper-level courses taken at the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture include Arts Management; Arts, Heritage and Culture: Public Policy and Governance; Producing a Performance Event, or Creating social value from material culture. Courses taken within the Faculty of Business include: Introduction to Business,  Marketing Management, Organizational Behaviour and Design, Human Resources Management, Entrepreneurship, Personal Financial Planning and others related business topics.

  Read the information sheet for this exciting new Concentration for 2011.

  contact the Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture for more information (David Vivian), or the Academic Advisor for the Faculty of Humanities, Alisa Cunnington.

  Tags: centre for studies in arts and culture, Concentration in Cultural Management, cstac, degree concentrations, Faculty of Business, stac
  Categories: Department/Centre News, News

• Director of cSTAC and DART Professor honoured for his contribution to the City of St. Catharines

  Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | By Brock University

  

  Pictured left to right are Professor Debra Maclauchlan and Associate Professor Peter Vietgen (Faculty of Education), Associate Professor David Vivian and Assistant Professor Virginia Reh (Department of Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Humanities)

  Associate Professors Peter Vietgen (Visual Arts Education in the Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education) and David Vivian (Department of Dramatic Arts and the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Faculty of Humanities) were each presented with three Volunteer Recognition Certificates from the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario, and the City of St. Catharines, at the 23rd Annual Volunteer Recognition Night co-sponsored by the City of St. Catharines, the St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce, and the Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery.

  Professor Vietgen was nominated by the Niagara Artist’s Centre for his contribution to the Public Art Advisory Committee of the City of St. Catharines. Professor Vivian was nominated for his service over four years as Chair of the Culture Committee of the City of St. Catharines.  Both Committees of Council are actively engaged in developing new policy, advocacy, funding, recognition and opportunities in the arts and culture sector, contributing to the creation of stimulating and sustainable culturally-rich lives in the city of St. Catharines.

  Given annually, the Volunteer Recognition Awards recognize those outstanding volunteers whose unselfish and dedicated service to an organization has made a significant difference in the community. Nominations are open to youth and adult volunteers, who are presented with their awards at a banquet hosted by the Mayor and councillors in April. This year the banquet was held at the Quality Hotel Parkway Convention Centre on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

  Tags: award, centre for studies in arts and culture, cstac, dart, david vivian, dramatic arts, stac, volunteer recognition
  Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News