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Canadian Art: Emmanuel Osahor ('14 BFA) wins BMO 1st Art! prize for Alberta
A total of $70,000 was awarded to recent art-school grads this week at the 12th annual BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. Recent BFA grad, Emmanuel Osahor, took home the $5K regional prize for Alberta. His artwork will be featured with all 13 winners from across Canada in a show at Toronto's Mocca in October, 2014.
St. Albert Gazette: A grand design
UAlberta Industrial Design graduate Melissa Krystofiak has applied her knack for design on film, Ferraris and food.
Curious Arts: "Wow! open this"
Interview and video with Kevin Zak, curator of the Pop-Up book show in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library until June 6.
Edmonton Journal: Furniture designer's are city's unsung talent
Imaginative creations of industrial design students from the University of Alberta are featured in upcoming exhibit at Mojo Designs.
U of A Professor Emeritus Walter Jule receives SGC Excellence in Teaching Award
Walter Jule, a professor emeritus of the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, has been recognised for his outstanding teaching by the Southern Graphics Council.
Edmonton Journal: Pop over to the Pop-Up show
Peel Library exhibit curated by Kevin Zak challenges our notions of what makes a book
Designing a community of learning
If your idea of a designer is someone who focuses mainly on aesthetics - creating an eye-catching logo or poster, perhaps - then talking to Visual Communication Design professor Bonnie Sadler Takach ('89 MVA) will convince you to start thinking much bigger. "Design is not only about the product or what is created, but about the ways we can come together and collaborate for real need," she says.
Royden Mills and Emmanuel Osahor honoured at Faculty of Arts Awards Night 2014
Please join the Department of Art & Design in congratulating Royden Mills and Emmanuel Osahor, our award recipients at the Faculty of Arts awards ceremony celebrating excellence in teaching, research and service on the evening of May 6, 2014.
VCD alumnus recognized as 2014 Emerging Designer by DX Exchange
Emery Lane ('10 B Des) has been awarded the 2014 Emerging Designer for the Graphic Design category by the Design Exchange (DX) Museum. His design will form part of an exhibition on view at Toronto's Design Exchange Museum until May 19th, 2014.
Peepshow: The Bachelor of Design 2014 Graduate Show
Curious Arts tours Peepshow, the Bachelor of Design 2014 graduate show. Video interviews with class representatives Kayla Callfas and Mikenna Tansley.
Lyndal Osborne Spring Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta
Bowerbird: Life as Art, showing now until April 27, 2014 at the Art Gallery of Alberta, is a survey exhibition of Lyndal Osborne, a University of Alberta professor emeritus who contributed extensively to the development of the U of A Department of Art & Design as a professor of printmaking for 35 years.
Printed Matter: Current Positions in Austrian Printmaking
A walk through the international exhibit, Printed Matter: Current Positions in Austrian Printmaking, on now until March 22 at the University of Alberta's FAB Gallery in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus in Vienna and Calgary's Museum of Contemporary Art, and you'll witness first-hand a stunning snapshot of some of the contemporary issues weighing on the minds and hearts of printmakers in Austria.
Professor Betsy Boone curates an exhibition of American Art for the National Museum of Chile
Professor Boone's extensive research curating A Lyrical quality of lasting charm: American and Chilean painting at the Centenary of Chile, an exhibit at Chile's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, captures a turning point in the early 20th century during which cultural and creative exchange was brought about through the display and acquisition of paintings.
Upcoming Research-Creation Symposium and Think-Tank: where research and artistic practice converge
February and March are exciting months for Art and Design students enrolled in Professor Natalie Loveless' seminar Debates in Art & Research, as the Research-Creation Symposium (February 27 to 28, 2014) and Think-Tank (March 23 to 26, 2014) draw near. Organized by Dr. Natalie S. Loveless and Dr. Gavin Renwick, these milestone events in the Art and Design calendar are timely given that research-creation is gaining increasing prominence across North America's universities, a movement within higher education that privileges research and creative practices equally and encourages interdisciplinary research between the arts and all faculties.
Media Release: Cozy up to the Classics on the UAlberta Campus
Bach, Beethoven, Book Design & Shakespeare at the top of 2014 U of A fine arts marquée