Events

• Lorène Bourgeois: Large Drawings

  Wednesday, October 12, 2016 | By Brock University

  Media Release
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
  906.688.5550 x 4765

  Lorène Bourgeois: Large Drawings
  October 18 – November 18, 2016
  Opening Reception: Thursday, October 20, 5 – 8 pm

  The Art Gallery at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts is pleased to present “Large Drawings” by Lorène Bourgeois.  The artist and Brock University instructor will present a series of large-scale representations of humans, animals, clothing and nakedness. The exhibition will include 10 – 12 highly detailed drawings mounted directly on the wall. The artist will attend the opening reception and thereafter be available by appointment.

  Born in France, Lorène Bourgeois completed her training in Paris, Philadelphia, and Halifax. A Fulbright recipient, she holds an MFA from NSCAD University. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in Canada as well as in France, Korea, Russia, and the United States.  Her work is held in numerous collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the National Bank of Canada, the Richmond Hill Public Library, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ernst and Young, Senvest, Hart House, and the Donovan Collection.  Lorène Bourgeois lives and works in Toronto, and she teaches drawing in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University.

  To view Lorène Bourgeois’ website, click here
  Free Community Event
  Art Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1 – 5 pm
  Lorène Bourgeois gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 
15 Artists’ Common,
St. Catharines, ON L2R 0B5

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  Media inquiries:
  Marie Balsom, 905.688.5550 x 4765,
  or email: mbalsom@brocku.ca

  Visit our website: brocku.ca/miwsfpa

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• Plan your future now! Ontario Universities’ Fair is September 23-25, 2016

  Sunday, September 18, 2016 | By Brock University

  Plan your future now! If you’re thinking about attending Brock University and any of the four programs of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, don’t miss the Ontario Universities’ Fair!

  The OUF is September 23-25, 2016, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and admission is free.

  You can talk personally with students, professors and senior university reps, get answers about programs, admission requirements, student life and much more. Don’t miss out on the largest educational fair in Canada!

  Check out the Facebook event page or go to the Ontario Universities’ Fair website.

  Tags: future students, marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, MIWSFPA, Ontario Universities' Fair, OUF
  Categories: Events, Future Students, News

• Beginning of Term VISA Orientation

  Friday, August 12, 2016 | By Brock University

  At the start of each academic year the Visual Arts Department holds an orientation and meet & greet event. This year the event will be held in the Lobby of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts on Wednesday, September 7th from 3 to 5:30 pm.

  All VISA and STAC students are encouraged to attend.

  The orientation session for the first-year VISA/STAC students is just down the hall from the Lobby in Room 151 and begins at 3 pm. After the orientation the first-year students will move to the lobby and join the other students, staff and faculty for food, refreshments, music, mingling and more!

  Come and join the fun and get to know your faculty and fellow students. We look forward to meeting you. The new term is just around the corner!

  Tags: marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, orientation
  Categories: Events

• Remnants: Visa 2f05 sculpture exhibition

  Tuesday, July 05, 2016 | By Brock University

  REMNANTS: Exhibit presented by the Department of Visual Arts
  July 7 – September 16, 2016

  Opening Reception: July 7, Noon – 3 pm
  Free food & refreshments

  The students of the summer sculpture course have delved into the site-specific exhibition, REMNANTS, creating works inspired by the traces of history that remain in the refurbished building.

  Over a century ago in the heart of downtown St. Catharines, the Canada Hair Cloth Co. functioned as a beneficial part of the community by bringing jobs and growth throughout the Niagara Region. Today it is known as the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, an extension of Brock University.

  Originally, the factory was built in 1888 and was founded by the McSloy brothers who saw the potential for industrial growth within their community. They worked hard towards building a company that centralized around trading and selling their products from Halifax to Vancouver. In the traditional style of the New England Mills, the Canada Hair Cloth Co. was built with the intention of allowing as much natural sunlight into the factory as possible. With its open concept and large windows, the building was easily illuminated before the era of electricity. Eventually, the McSloy brothers purchased a generator to provide electricity, which was powered by the Millrace.

  At the time the factory was built, horses, railways, and ships were the common means of transportation and all three were critical to the early success of the company. Waterpower played an essential role in regards to the growth of the factory as it was the primary source of energy to run the machinery. The canal flowed behind the buildings and the fast-flowing water produced power for the mills. Horses were used for providing raw material for the actual haircloth itself as the hair was gathered from their tails. The fabric produced was used in a vast variety of things ranging from the railway seats to the interfacing of fine suits. During this time, the majority of industrialized manufacturing was produced around this part of town, especially close to the Welland Canal. This enabled goods to be easily shipped and sold to other markets from around Canada.

  In the fall of 2015, the Canada Hair Cloth Co. was reopened as the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and welcomed the students of Brock University to work and create within a building that already embodies so much creativity. Keeping in mind the artistic process, materials and tools that went into the many things produced by the company, the summer sculpture class has worked hard in collaborating an exhibition to pay tribute to what was and still is a lively building full of artistic innovation.

  We welcome you to come and join us in celebrating the birth and continual growth of this beautiful building.

  REMNANTS will be held in the Learning Commons, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines.

  Free community event

  Limited paid parking onsite

  Tags: canada hair cloth building, Exhibition, exhibitions, learning commons, marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, remnants
  Categories: Events, Exhibitions

• Visa and STAC students exhibit in Austria

  Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | By Brock University

  Students in the Brock University Intermediate Painting and Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts courses, under the tutelage of Professors Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas, have mounted an exhibition at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

  Visual Appropriations and Rewritings
  June 1 – 30, 2016
  University of Innsbruck, Austria
  Click here for more information.

  Tags: Austria, Catherine Parayre, Exhibition, Intermediate Painting, Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts, Shawn Serfas, University of Innsbruck, Visual Appropriations and Rewritings
  Categories: Current Students, Events, Exhibitions, News

• Brock Art Collective Juried Exhibition: Million Dollar Pink

  Thursday, February 18, 2016 | By Brock University

  The Brock Art Collective has mounted a juried exhibition at the Niagara Artists’ Centre at 354 St.Paul Street in St.Catharines.

  Million Dollar Pink
  February 17 > 26
  Reception: Friday, February 26 7 PM – 9 PM
  Niagara Artists’ Centre

  Tags: BAC, Brock Art Collective, Juried Exhibition, Million Dollar Pink, NAC, Niagara Artists Centre
  Categories: Events, Exhibitions

• Donna Szőke: Satellite, Curated by Stuart Reid

  Monday, October 19, 2015 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  “Invisible Histories”, phone app, 2015

  Monday, October 19 – Saturday, November 28, 2015
  Opening Reception: Friday, October 23, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
  Location: Visual Arts Gallery, 15 Artists’ Common
  Satellite is the collected media art works by Donna Szoke, from 2011 to present. It is literally a satellite show of the exhibition Cloud, installed and running now at Rodman Hall Art Centre. While Cloud coalesces print, sculpture and multiples into one body of work, Satellite presents digital drawings, single channel video and media art works that speak to the ethereal regions of digital art practice. These digital artworks investigate the invisible, elided and mysterious.

  This exhibition is running now at the Visual Arts Gallery, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines, and is a free community event!

  Tags: 15 Artists’ Common, Cloud, Donna Szőke, imagining the city, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Satellite, Stuart Reid, Visual Arts Gallery
  Categories: Events, Exhibitions, Faculty & Instructors, News

• Donna Szőke: Cloud, Curated by Stuart Reid

  Monday, October 12, 2015 | By Nikki Prudden

  

  Donna Szőke, “Decoy”, 2015 acrylic paint on ABS plastic, ceramic plate

  Saturday, October 10, 2015 – Sunday, January 17, 2016
  Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
  Location: Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines
  Cloud is an assemblage of limited-edition prints and objects that explores relational meaning. Donna Szőke has created a collection of works that convey messages that are sometimes absurd, often humorous, never singular, but existing in relation to other parts of the whole. The materials chosen for the prints usually have an association with the text or message. For Decoy, the artist made a series of 3D-printed, trompe l’oeil Tim Horton’s doughnuts. The relationship between the doughnut and the hole, the original and the copy, the single and the baker’s dozen, may be confounding or irrational, but serves to point out how ideas are ephemeral structures.

  The artist writes: “Absurdity, irrationality, immanence, failure and anachronism are the unifying themes of Cloud… Ideas arise and are fleeting. They form, peak and disappear in sets of relationships to other ideas. Insights echo across instances of ideas.”

  This exhibition is running now at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent in downtown St. Catharines, and is a free community event!

  Tags: Cloud, Donna Szőke, imagining the city, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Stuart Reid
  Categories: Events, Exhibitions, Faculty & Instructors, News

• Visa Instrutor announces performance.

  Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By Brock University

  VISA Instructor Irene Loughlin presents work at Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts.

  Saturday – Sunday, October 3 – 4, 2015, 7 pm – 7 am
  Admission: Free
  Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Public Gallery 1214 Queen Street West

  Double Take
  Live Performances: 7 pm – 1 am

  Under the theme of Memory Lane, established performance artist Irene Loughlin and six Workman Arts artists create site specific performances responding to individual artworks presented at the 15th annual Being Scene exhibition installed in the 2nd floor public gallery at the Gladstone Hotel. The hotel is more than 125 years old and its walls have been witness to several transformations over the years. This theme has particular resonance to the Gladstone as we remember some of the building’s past tenants, some who struggled with mental health and addiction issues and it reflects the hotel’s relationship to the changing neighbourhood as it continues to negotiate ways of sharing public and private spaces. Through this project we collectively aim to look back and perform new modes of moving forward that are informed by inclusivity, questioning, creative response, and well-being in its myriad forms.

  Co-presented by Workman Arts, FADO Performance Art Centre, and the Gladstone Hotel

  Tags: Double Take, FADO Performance Art Centre, Gladstone Hotel, Irene Loughlin, Memory Lane, Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts, performance art, Workman Arts
  Categories: Events, Faculty & Instructors, News

• Art is in the City

  Thursday, September 03, 2015 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE
  R00125
  2 September 2015
  Brock University — Communications & Public Affairs

  Art is in the City

  As Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts opens a new era in its new urban setting, it is launching a performance series to celebrate the bond between the community and the new arts centre of excellence in downtown St. Catharines.

  The series Imagining the City – part of the Walker Cultural Leaders Program, 2015/16 – consists of performances, exhibitions, concerts and conferences, all themed around ideas of the urban, and the relationship between the City and the University.

  “Our goal is to invite the community to engage with us in a series of celebratory events, 40 or more, that run the course of the academic year,” said Derek Knight, MIWSFPA Director. “Formal or improvised, these activities will take place in our dynamic new building and in venues across the City, from the café to the concert hall, the theatre to the gallery, the outdoor environs to the street itself. What a wonderfully immersive way to bridge between our communities and to strengthen our ties.”

  Knight said events will build on the creativity and vision of faculty, students and the professional talents of many sister organizations and collaborators. “The idea that the city is a crucible for creative interaction and collective reflection, is a powerful concept and demonstration of the arts at their most compelling,” he said.

  The series will be dynamic and original and appeal to a variety of people, whether they are fans of theatre, musical performances, exhibitions or discussions.

  Imagining the City will bring Brock, the downtown and the greater Niagara community face-to-face with leading arts professionals and educators, with events occurring at the MIWSFPA, Rodman Hall, and venues within the developing creative arts hub of St. Paul Street.

  “At this crucial moment in the revival of our downtown the vitality of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts is manifest in programs such as the Walker Cultural Leader Series,” Knight said.

  The series will consist of more than 40 wide-ranging events, including:

  • performances of First Nations writer Marvin Francis’ epic poem City Treaty, adapted for the St. Catharines setting (September);
  • a Guitar Extravaganza concert featuring faculty, alumni and aficionados of the classical guitar in the local community (November);
  • Confluence, a walking project and virtual reconstruction by acclaimed artist Elizabeth Chitty offering the student community and public an opportunity to explore the environs beyond our new building (January);
  • a collaboration between the Shaw Festival and the Department of Dramatic Arts on a staged reading of George Bernard Shaw’s play Major Barbara, entitled Major Barbara/Major Predictions(February);
  • a concert by the Department of Music’s Wind Ensemble in St. Catharines’ Market Square (March).

  The full program can be found here. Stay connected on social media by following @miwsfpa and #itc.

  All events for Imagining the City are free, and open to the public (the only exception being Poor by Essential Collective Theatre, co-presented by FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre with production assistance by DART).

  For more information or to arrange interviews: Marie Balsom, Communications Coordinator, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University mbalsom@brocku.ca, 905.688.5550 x4765

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  Tags: 15 Artists’ Common, Art is in the City, downtown St. Catharines, imagining the city, marilyn i. walker school of fine and performing arts, performance series, walker cultural leader series
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