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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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:
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 [email protected], 905.688.5550 x4765
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Returning Visa students must replace their old ID cards PRIOR to classes with the new proxy cards for the MIWSFPA building. Proxy cards have two little runs of numbers above the black reader strip. If you arrive with your old cards you will not have swipe access to any of your study spaces.
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Sarah Beattie’s winning painting of a woman sneezing.
Sarah Beattie grabs her camera and tries to capture the moment – at least a re-enactment of it – and use it as a muse for her next painting.
She seems to have found the perfect inspiration. Beattie has been chosen as the regional winner in the BMO 1st Art! Awards for her painting of a young woman sneezing.
“It’s pretty unreal,” Beattie said. “I didn’t think I had that good a chance of winning because the competition could have been any form of art.”
Now in the 10th year, the BMO 1st Art! Awards is a national competition for artists graduating from university. Entrants are chosen by Deans and instructors based on student skill and imagination.
In the end, one national winner and 12 regional winners – one from each province or territory – are selected by a panel of judges.
The award comes with a $5,000-cash prize. The winners’ work will also be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto from Oct. 3 to 28 and be published in Canadian Art magazine.
It’s critical exposure for a young artist embarking on a professional career and trying to make a name for themselves, said Beattie, who graduated with her bachelor of arts this past spring.
Her winning painting is one of a series of six called Say Sneeze that Beattie painted during her honours studio class earlier this year at Rodman Hall. Each work captures someone on the verge of sneezing that she photographed up to 100 times first.
“A photograph is an instantaneous thing, just like a sneeze,” she explained.
The series is a work in progress and will eventually include a self-portrait of Beattie herself on the brink of eliciting a ‘Bless you.’ Beattie hopes to eventually do a solo exhibition of her work.
“I’d like to have 10 different ones, like a big simultaneous sneeze,” Beattie said.
Prof. Donna Szoke, who taught Beattie during her honours studio class, called her a gifted painter who stands her ground when it comes to how she creates.
“She’s very insightful in her own process and she trusts her process implicitly. That’s unusual for a young artist,” Szoke said. “She’s very determined.”
Keri Cronin, chair of the Department of Visual Arts, said the award is well-deserved.
“Sarah is a hard-working, innovative young artist who excelled in her classes at Brock,” Cronin said.
Cronin predicts there will be more accolades for students, particularly once the new Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts moves to its new space in downtown St. Catharines in 2014.
“We have excellent instructors in the Department of Visual Arts and our small class sizes allow for students to receive a lot of one-on-one instruction and mentorship. This kind of environment plays an important role in allowing students to grow as artists and to achieve their full potential,” she said. “This dynamic coupled with the state-of-the-art facilities we will have in our new downtown building will lead to more of these sorts of awards and honours for our students.”
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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, David Vivian, for more information: [email protected]
or the Academic Advisor for the Faculty of Humanities, Alisa Cunnington: [email protected]
