Articles tagged with: reception

• Closing Reception for International Scholar Canan Demir

  Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | By evlossak

  

  Closing reception : Canan demir
  July 23, 3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
  Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts Lobby
  15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines, On

  Everyone is invited to attend a closing reception featuring Visiting International Scholar Canan Demir, from Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey.
  Demir’s İNSTALLATIONS intervention will be available for viewing and a meet-the-artist reception will follow, where guests can learn more about her work. Refreshments will be served and the event is open to all members of the community. It is family friendly and takes place on July 23 from 3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.

  Demir has been working at the school as a Visiting International Scholar since last August, completing the research project “Analysis of Recycling Efforts at Canadian Universities and the Use of Scrap Materials in Sculpture Classes.” The VIS program invites scholars and researchers from abroad, who are interested in an international research and scholarship opportunity, to visit Brock and collaborate with faculty and students in a range of academic activities.

  Demir’s installations utilize found and repurposed scrap materials with a focus on the memories tied to these items. The installations will be on display for viewing outside of the front entrance to the MIWSFPA building from now until the closing reception.

   

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• Celebrated scholar Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson visits Brock University

  Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  Walker Cultural Leader Series and Canada 150 present:

  Colonial Print Culture and the Limits of Enslaved Resistance: Examining the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Fugitive Slave Archive in Canada and Jamaica, 

  a public lecture, reception and book signing by Dr. Charmaine Nelson

  Dr. Charmaine Nelson is a Professor of Art History at McGill University. Her current research project juxtaposes fugitive slave advertisements, portraiture, and genre studies from Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Jamaica, to examine differences in the visual dimensions of creolization between slave minority and slave majority sites of the British Atlantic world. In 2016, she was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Most recently, Nelson has been appointed the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University for the 2017 – 2018 academic year. Dr. Nelson will present her research in a public lecture as a part of Visual Arts’ Walker Cultural Leader Series programming.

  The lecture abstract and presenter’s bio is available at Eventbrite.

  See the article in the Brock News.

  Thursday October 19, 2017

  Lecture Time: 7:00 pm.

  Note: The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.

  Location: The FilmHouse, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, 250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

  This is a free community event. Reserve your seat with tickets available at Eventbrite.

  Groups are welcome! Contact Professor Linda Steer lsteer@brocku.ca for orders of more than 10 tickets.

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  The event is presented by the Department of Visual Arts for the Walker Cultural Leader Series, generously founded by Marilyn I. Walker.

  The Walker Cultural Leader series brings leading artists, performers, practitioners and academics to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University. Engaging, lively and erudite, these sessions celebrate professional achievement, artistic endeavour and the indelible role of culture in our society. Please join us. This education program is generously founded by Marilyn I. Walker.

  Tags: Book signing, Canada 150, Colonial Print Culture, Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, Free, Lecture, Niagara Community Event, reception, Visual Arts, walker cultural leader series
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