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  • Visual Arts Department Monitor positions for FW 2017/2018

    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.

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  • Visa Instructor exhibition: DEAD DAD Donna Akrey & Yvette Poorter.

    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.

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  • Honours Applications: VISA 4F06, 3F99 and 4F99 due May 1, 2017.

    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.

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  • ATTENTION FUTURE STUDENTS: Portfolio submission deadline extended!

    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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  • Mahtay Cafe opens at the MIWSFPA

    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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  • Visa Student Monitor positions available

    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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  • Visa and STAC students exhibit in Austria

    entwurf3-ausstellungStudents 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.

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  • Visual Arts Spring/Summer course announcement.

    Visual Arts Spring/Summer 2016 Course Offerings

    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.

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  • Visa student releases CD and video.

    creaturespeakFourth 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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  • Art is in the City

    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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