The “Regent Student Living Award” is selected by the VISA Faculty and presented to the Visual Arts Major with the highest overall standing in 1st or 2nd year with at least 5 full credits completed. The award is graciously donated by Regent Student Living (an all-inclusive student residence located downtown St. Catharines) and presented in May or June after the completion of the academic year.
Positions: Visual Arts Student Monitors for Fall/Winter terms 2017/2018
Qualifications: Positions available for third and fourth-year VISA majors only.
Duties include: Monitoring and cleanup duties of the area you are assigned, perform other related duties as assigned by your supervisor (No work during Fall term and Winter term reading weeks).
Compensation: $12.00/hour
Deadline for applications: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
To apply for any of these positions please communicate only from your Brock student email account and send a resume and cover letter indicating your major, year of study, relevant qualifications and any related volunteer or paid positions along with a detailed schedule of the days/times you are available to work to: mlederich@brocku.ca
Please note that all communication must be through your Brock student email accounts and that only the applicants selected will be contacted. If you are successful, you will be assigned monitor duties to an area that the monitor hiring committee feels you are best suited for.
Donna Akrey and Yvette Poorter are a collaborative duo that have been making/continue to make work together when they can since the 1990s (or since they jumped off a cliff into Muskoka water at age 17). Their work is multi-media and often involves easily found and/or scavenged materials. They are interested in getting lost while realizing the rarity of such a thing. So they make work to get lost in. Poorter and Akrey have been collecting stories and images from people who have a dead dad. They use these snippets of other people’s memories, as fuel to create a morphing landscape installation. Yes, the exhibition is about dads—dead dads at that—but it is also a rumination on memory and the size and viscosity of memory. A vague longing.
VISA Students: Reminder that Honours Applications for VISA 4F06, 3F99 and 4F99 are due by May 1, 2017. There are hard copies available in the Visa office or if you email Monika Lederich at mlederich@brocku.ca she can send you digital copies.
We are extending our portfolio submission deadline! Initially listed as February 8, 2017, we are now accepting portfolios until March 1, 2017!
Need more information on submission guidelines and where to send your portfolio? See the submission instructions on our Admissions and Portfolio Requirements page.
(Pictured above: Jessica Wright stands with her pieces as part of the #trynottocryinpublic exhibition, 2016. Image: Danny Custodio.)
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The brand new Mahtay café is now open on the third floor student lounge area! Hours of operation are:
Mon – Fri from 8:30 am to 2pm.
Please note that the permanency of this café will be based on its success here at the Marilyn I. Walker School. So take some time on your breaks to get up there and enjoy reasonable prices and excellent food and drinks!
The location is 3rd floor at the south end of the building (lobby), take that elevator to the 3rd floor (not connected to the 3rd floor at the other end) or take stairwell “D”.
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The Visual Arts Department is hiring a number of student monitor positions, deadline for application is July 26th. Click here for more details on these positions.
Monitor positions available:
4th Floor Student Monitor(s): Your supervisor will be Arnold McBay, VISA Facilities Technician.
Gallery Student Monitor(s) Fall/Winter: Your supervisor for this position will be Lesley Bell, Learning Commons Coordinator.
Gallery Student Monitor(s) Spring/Summer: Your supervisor for this position will be Lesley Bell, Learning Commons Coordinator.
Kiosk Student Monitor(s): Your supervisor for this position will be Lesley Bell, Learning Commons Coordinator.
Learning Commons Monitor(s): Your supervisor for this position will be Lesley Bell, Learning Commons Coordinator.
Photography Studio Monitor(s): Your supervisor for this position will be Amy Friend, Assistant Professor.
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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.
There are still some spaces available in the following courses:
VISA 1Q99 Introduction to The History of Western Art offered on-line in duration 3 of the spring term.
VISA 2F05 Introduction to Sculpture is offered on Tuesday and Thursday in duration 1 of the spring term.
VISA 2P99 Introduction to Sound Design is offered on Monday & Wednesday 9:00-3:00 in duration 2 of the spring term.
VISA 3P10 Expanded Video Process & Production is offered on Monday & Wednesday 9:00-3:00 in duration 3 of the spring term.
Fourth year Visual Arts student Brittany Brooks has just released a CD titled Shadow Songs as well as a feature video for the song Oh Susana.
For more information and to view the video please click HERE.
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