Visa Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:
Nuit Blanche in Toronto and Disfigureitout
Andrew McPhail and Donna Akrey
Hundred Dollar Gallery
4 Cannon Street East
Hamilton
Oct. 9 – Nov. 9, 2015
Opening Oct. 9
7 – 10 pm
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Visa Instrutor announces performance.
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 WestDouble Take
Live Performances: 7 pm – 1 amUnder 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
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Art is in the City
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2 September 2015
Brock University — Communications & Public AffairsArt 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 [email protected], 905.688.5550 x4765
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Returning Visa Students Must Update ID cards
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.Brock ID, new Brock ID cards, notice, students
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Employment Opportunities for Visual Arts Students
JOB OPPORTUNITY: VISUAL ARTS STUDENT MONITORS FOR MIWSFPA
The following student positions are available:4th Floor Student Monitor(s): for Studio Clean-Up 4-5 pm, Art Store Assistance 5-6 pm and Workshop monitoring 6-8 pm. These positions will run approximately from mid-August to mid-May.
Gallery Student Monitor(s): for Fall/Winter, gallery attendant duties and will run Tuesday – Saturdays from 12 noon – 5:00 pm approximately from mid-August to end of May.
Gallery Student Monitor for Spring/Summer: gallery attendant duties available for both VISA and STAC students. Will run Tuesday – Saturday from 12 noon – 6:00 pm from June – August.
Kiosk Student Monitor Kiosk personnel / student monitor(s): to sign out and sign in equipment for faculty, instructors and students and related duties. Will run Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm and Saturdays 12 noon – 5:00 pm.
Digital Student Monitor(s): monitoring the Digital Media Lab, IT Computer Lab, Computer Commons and Learning Commons. Performing related duties. Will run Monday – Friday 4:00 – 8:00 pm and Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 pm.
Students interested in any of the positions please email [email protected] for more information on these positions.
To apply for any of these positions send a cover letter indicating which positions you are applying for, your resume, and a detailed list of the days/times you are available to work to Monika Lederich.employment opportunities, student monitors, students
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Visa Instructor Announces Workshop.
Visual Arts Department Sessional Instructor Irene Loughlin will be part of a workshop at LINK & PIN Performance Art Series. Click HERE for more information on this event. -
Visa Professor Launches New Collaborative Project
Dr. Keri Cronin, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, has announced a new interdisciplinary project with renowned photographer Jo-Anne McArthur (We Animals). The project is called Unbound: Women on the Front Lines of Animal Advocacy, and it will be a celebration of women who have worked tirelessly to make the world a better place for animals. The project received initial funding from the Culture & Animals Foundation. The project also received a “Match of Minds” grant from Brock’s Office of Research Services which is funding a research assistant position this summer. Katie Mazi, a Visual Arts major and Critical Animal Studies minor, has been hired in this position. -
Visa Instructor Announces Exhibition.
Photography instructor Amy Friend has mounted an exhibition titled Are We Stardust? At the John C. Hodges Library of The University of Tennessee.April 1 to August 31, 2015
University of Tennessee
1015 Volunteer Blvd
Knoxville, TN.Amy Friend, Are We Stardust, Exhibition, exhibitions, Tennessee
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Visa Instructor Amy Friend Announces Exhibition
Photography instructor Amy Friend has mounted an exhibition titled Are We Stardust? At the John C. Hodges Library of The University of Tennessee.April 1 to August 31, 2015
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Visa Instructor screens new video in Matheson Learning Commons.
Visual Arts Instructor Arnold McBay will be screening a video (his first such work) titled Presencia 2 on the Digital Art Wall of the Matheson Learning Commons in the James A. Gibson Library between February 2 to March 27. Click HERE to see a working clip or read more information about this work. This video is an addendum/response to his work featured in a two-person exhibition at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery with Visual Arts Associate Professor and Chair Duncan MacDonald that will be on view February 7 through March 22, 2015.
VISA Instructor Irene Loughlin presents work at Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts.
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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.
Visual Arts Department Sessional Instructor Irene Loughlin will be part of a workshop at LINK & PIN Performance Art Series. Click 
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Photography instructor Amy Friend has mounted an exhibition titled Are We Stardust? At the John C. Hodges Library of The University of Tennessee.
Photography instructor Amy Friend has mounted an exhibition titled Are We Stardust? At the John C. Hodges Library of The University of Tennessee.
Visual Arts Instructor Arnold McBay will be screening a video (his first such work) titled Presencia 2 on the Digital Art Wall of the Matheson Learning Commons in the James A. Gibson Library between February 2 to March 27. Click 
