Chair’s Message

I am looking forward to the CAFAD meeting in Montreal, scheduled for October 14 to 16, and hoping that we will have a marvelous attendance rate similar to the one we achieved in St. John’s last fall. Our host institutions, Concordia and McGill, have secured the participation of Ken Robinson, Senior Advisor, Education Policy at the Getty in Los Angeles, an internationally recognized thinker, writer and policy maker on creative activity and education. An eventful program is being developed to help us enjoy Montreal, exchange ideas, and discuss common strategies for improving the condition of the arts in higher education in Canada.

And speaking of improving conditions, I am going to be taking a much-needed sabbatical in January 2006 (just ask my co-workers to know how much needed!). The job of CAFAD Chair that I have held for two years will be available, and I am confident that another member will come forward to take home the virtual gavel after our Montreal meeting.

With the excellent help of Mary Hughes, and a comfortable attitude among our colleague deans, you can be sure that the work is very straightforward, with duties and responsibilities of an order that you will find very light in comparison to the ones you shoulder each day in your deanly quest for institutional harmony. Please give this post your consideration, and contact me.

Ann E. Calvert

Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Calgary

Chair, CAFAD

U WAterloo Fine Arts

Professor Cora Cluett is a welcome new addition to the Department of Fine Arts. She is working on reintegrating photography into the program and has received a University of Waterloo Learning Initiatives Grant to aid in the process. Prof. Cluett has been awarded a Mid-Career Canada Council Grant. This spring and summer she will have new paintings in group exhibitions at the Albright -Knox, Buffalo, and the Kitchener -Waterloo Art Gallery. She will also have a solo show of new paintings at Wynick Tuck, Toronto in the fall.

Professor Bruce Taylor has developed an innovative course with Rob Gorbet from UW Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Called Technology Art Studio, the course pairs Fine Arts students and Engineering students, working collaboratively on sculpture projects. Professor Taylor was the ceramic artist chosen to represent Canada in the new International Olympic Sculpture Park in Greece and the work he created for the park was installed just before the Olympic Games in 2004. Professor Taylor has been invited to participate in the Baltimore Clayworks exhibition in 2005 of “Evocative Implements".

Professor Joan Coutu's book Monuments and the Eighteenth-century British Empire: Persuasion and Propaganda will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Her essay about the monument to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey is in an anthology entitled "Conflicting Visions" to be published by Ashgate Press.

Drama

Professor Joel Greenberg recently directed and remounted a production of Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, working with UW Drama alumni in a collective named STUDIO 180, after the tiny yet beloved student presentation and rehearsal space in Hagey Hall. Supported and sponsored by a number of groups and foundations including UW Alumni Affairs, the Metcalf Foundation and the Mirvish Group, the productions were a tremendous popular and critical success in both the original presentation at the Artword Theatre in Toronto, which toured to the Theatre of the Arts at UW, and the remount at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto.

Professor Andy Houston has been awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant to develop the Sound Sensorium. Linked to the Canadian Centre for Arts and Technology (CCAT) laboratory at UW, the Sensorium is a mobile recording unit, able to create sound maps of existing spaces and to develop innovative soundscapes for theatre and other kinds of art. Prof. Houston recently directed Mimetic Flesh, a site-specific collective creation with students in the UWDrama program. Presented in March 2004 at the Lang Tannery Building in downtown Kitchener, the multi-media production incorporated the history of the building and the leather tanning industry, and explored issues around the human body and consuming.

Professor Gerhard Hauck is currently researching the interactive possibilities of video-conferencing technology as a creative tool with another CFI grant. Working with native theatre companies in remote locations in Canada and world-wide, the research will determine ways and means of creating real-time performances collaboratively.

Ryerson Gets Major Photo Collection

Ryerson University and the School of Image Arts will soon be home to one of the world’s great collections of photography, Ryerson’s Black Star Black & White Photography Collection. The Collection of 291,019 black and white photos is an outstanding representation of 20^th century world events and personalities, and was acquired by the University through an anonymous donor. The Collection covers historical subjects including the Great Wars, European history, the American Civil Rights Movement, as well as major international political and cultural figures, popular culture and early space exploration. Many of the photographs appeared originally in the early years of Life magazine.

The gift is accompanied by a $7 million financial contribution to support the preservation, research, study and exhibit of the Collection. When housed in the Faculty of Communication & Design’s new gallery and study centre, Ryerson’s Black Star Historical Black & White Collection will combine with the M.A. program in Photographic Preservation & Collections Management, an MFA program under development in Documentary Media and our undergraduate programming to offer an unparalleled environment for photographic studies.

The Collection is an enormously important acquisition for Ryerson. It will help foster a culture of investigation and dissemination through exhibition, publication and critical writing involving both graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and other scholars. The gift is a strong endorsement of the University’s reputation as an important international centre of documentary media.

Concordia Announces New Dean of Fine Arts

President and Vice-Chancellor Frederick Lowy is pleased to announce the appointment of Catherine Wild as Dean of Fine Arts for a five-year term effective September 1, 2005.

Prof. Catherine Wild is a distinguished studio artist who specializes in printmaking. She has exhibited, published and lectured widely and her work has received critical acclaim and awards.

"Catherine Wild has a strong national reputation as both an arts administrator and a passionate champion of the arts. Through her exceptional range of experience as both an artist and administrator, she exemplifies the personal and professional qualities that we are looking for in a leader for our Fine Arts Faculty. She understands both the challenges facing fine arts education in Canada today and Concordia's leading role as a particularly dynamic and thriving Faculty. I am confident that she will be a consensus builder, decision-maker and a thoughtful and energetic Dean of Fine Arts," said President Lowy.

She has also served widely at the departmental, faculty and senior administrative levels at several Canadian universities, as well as Arizona State University. Most recently, she was Dean of the Faculty of Foundation Studies of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) for eight years (1996-2004). He also served a five-year term on the Council of Ontario Universities.

"As with the search for a Dean of Arts & Science, we had an impressive list of more than 35 highly qualified candidates who applied for the position, from both inside and outside Canada," commented Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, Martin Singer.

Paying Tribute

On Wednesday, May 11, at the Hôtel Gault, Christopher Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, hosted a reception to highlight the achievements of three exceptional artists, all long associated with the Studio Arts Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

The distinguished artists were Raymonde April, who won the Prix du Québec, Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2003), Françoise Sullivan, this year’s recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and Irene Whittome who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (2005).

Drama at U of Alberta

Guido Tondino was awarded a 2005 University of Alberta Arts Research Award for his extraordinary creative accomplishments while Assistant Professor and MFA and BFA Theatre Design Program Coordinator in the Department of Drama.

While teaching, Guido has maintained a vibrant freelance career, designing sets for Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and an Irish Tour, June – July 2004; The Count of Monte Cristo, at the Stratford Festival; The Mill on the Floss, for Studio Theatre, University of Alberta; Copenhagen at the Centaur Theatre; Impromptu on Nun’s Island, for Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre; Danser à Lughnasa, au Théâtre du Nouveau Monde; A Chorus of Disapproval, for Soulpepper Theatre, and The Glass Menagerie, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre as well as sets and costumes for The Winter’s Tale, Soulpepper Theatre.

David Ley, Associate Professor in the Department of Drama was awarded a 2005 University of Alberta Faculty of Arts Teaching Award for his outstanding work to create a community where respectful exchange can happen. “I try to draw every student into commenting so that they can grow critical eyes. That way, they can teach each other without appearing to be judgemental.” The drama classroom is, from his perspective, a laboratory where experimentation should thrive.

Professor Emeritus James DeFelice will be honoured with an induction into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame on June 8^th. Established in 1986, the Cultural Hall of Fame recognizes groups or individuals whose body of work in the arts has gained national and international recognition and to individuals or organizations who have significantly contributed to the artistic community.

A Show Fit for the Queen

Professor Emeritus Thomas Peacocke and a strong contingent of University of Alberta Drama alumni such as Gordon Gordey, Conni Massing, Paul Gross, Lorne Cardinal and Brian Deedrick (among many others!) worked behind the scenes as organizers and performers to put on the Alberta Centennial kick-off party for the Queen at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on May 23^rd. In true Alberta fashion, over 25, 000 people braved the cold rain to take in the show.

Honorary Degree for Sharon Pollock

One of Canada's leading English-language playwrights, Sharon Pollock will receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Alberta during the installation of president-designate Dr. Indira Samarasekera on September 25, 2005 in the newly renovated Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.

OCAD Honours
Ron Shuebrook

and Rebecca Belmore

Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) will award Ron Shuebrook and Rebecca Belmore with Honorary Doctorates during convocation ceremonies in May. The College recognizes these outstanding individuals who, over the course of their careers, have made and are making significant contributions to the arts and to education.

In addition to his nearly forty-year career as a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist, Ron Shuebrook has led an important career as an arts educator. He has held faculty and administrative appointments, including the position of OCAD’s President since 2000. In these roles, Shuebrook has been instrumental in shaping numerous university programs across Canada and in bringing degree programs to OCAD. He has long advocated that studio education as well as art and design history belong within the university curriculum as an important area of critical inquiry and liberal education, and has sought to ensure that arts education be an essential component of the education of all students in the elementary and secondary schools.

OCAD Alumna Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinabekwe artist working in sculpture, installation, video and performance art. Her powerful work explores issues of place and identity, and confronts challenges for First Nations People. One of Canada’s most celebrated artists, Belmore has been selected to represent Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Visual Art, the oldest and most prestigious event for the exhibition of international contemporary art. At the forefront of a renaissance in native North American art for close to twenty years, Belmore has exhibited her work across Canada, in the United States, Mexico, Cuba and Australia.

This year OCAD celebrates the largest graduating class in the history of the College, with over 350 degree graduates, and close to 75 diploma graduates.

Music at Carleton:

Hires and Retires

Dr. James Deaville, Ph.D. (Northwestern): Dr. Deaville is a specialist in 19^th and 20^th century music. Other areas of Dr. Deaville’s research expertise include: African-American entertainers of the turn-of-the-century central Europe, television news music, women and music in the 19^th century and music criticism.

Dr. Anna Hoefnagels, Ph.D. (York): Dr. Hoefnagels is an active researcher in Native American music traditions and regularly engages in scholarly activities that address various issues and topics in ethnomusicology, such as identity, nationhood, and gender.

Dr. James K. Wright, Ph.D. (McGill): Dr. Wright’s domain is largely outside the confines of traditional musicology. His primary research areas encompass 19^th/20^th century music history, music philosophy, music perception, the history of music theory, and post-tonal music theory and analysis.

Alan Gillmor: Professor Alan Gillmor, well known to most musicologists in Canada through his active participation in CUMS/SMUC and as editor of the society's journal for some years, has retired from Carleton. He is also known for his book on Eric Satie and numerous articles on Canadian music. Gillmor taught at Carleton for over thirty years and, because of his consummate skill in the classroom, was awarded the prestigious 3M teaching award a few years ago.

Elaine Keillor: Dr. Elaine Keillor, upon her retirement, will be named Emeritus Research Professor at Carleton University. The honour, jealously guarded, is richly deserved because of Keillor’s unselfish service to the field of Canadian Music. She has led teams which have been funded by several strategic research grants from SSHRC, including one received this past year for establishment of a website entitled 'Native Drums'. The Native Drums website, a comprehensive array of information on Aboriginal music in Canada including essays, 250 images of musical instruments, video and audio examples will be officially launched on 21 June 2005: www.nativedrums.ca

In Memoriam: Patrick Cardy (1953-2005)
D.Mus. (McGill), M.M.A. (McGill), B.Mus. (Western Ontario)

Patrick Cardy died suddenly on March 24th. He taught in Music at Carleton from 1977 and was prolific as a composer. His music, the majority of which was composed on commission, was performed, recorded and broadcast across Canada and around the world. His music is characterized by colourful, evocative sonorities, a strong sense of dramatic gesture, an elegant lyricism and an accessible directness of expression, traits that have captivated both listeners and performers.

He will be missed by family, friends and colleagues and will be remembered as a kind, thoughtful and supportive man. His legacy as a composer will continue to be played all across the country.

OCAD Receives $2.5 Million

for Research

OCAD alumna Nancy Young has promised to provide $2.5 million in funding to the College—the largest financial contribution ever made to support programming at OCAD in its 129-year history. Part of the donation has been awarded through a $500,000 grant from the Beal Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation.

This gift will provide seed funding to operate the new Beal Centre for Strategic Creativity (BCSC) which will conduct basic and applied research in the fields of design and business practice. The Centre’s mission is to enhance education with new methodologies in imaginative thinking, explore ways of improving the human condition, and contribute to the development of knowledge and economic well-being. The Beal Centre will emphasize a multi-disciplinary approach and bring together partners in industry, government and other academic institutions for project collaborations. The $2.5 million will enable the Centre to attract partners that can match resource commitments.

A graduate of Environmental Design in 1987, Nancy Young, has long been an advocate of education in art and design and, in particular, the importance of multi-disciplinary studies.

The Centre will be led by Alexander Manu who is Professor and Chair of Industrial Design at OCAD. Manu was Founder and Principal of Axis Group International, a design, development and applied research consultancy established in 1980 in Toronto.

News from Lethbridge

Art professor Nicholas Wade was one of two artists selected by the Winnipeg Arts Council to create work for the Winnipeg's new downtown Millennium Library. Wade addressed "the idea of libraries in our culture”, and was selected from almost 70 entries submitted from across Canada. Entitled The Illumination, Wade’s sculpture is composed of the letters T, H, and E in an architectural 'embrace.' Each letter is a different colour and the full sculpture will stand more than three metres. The installation should be completed for the library's fall opening.

Drama professor Nicholas Hanson and drama major Jeremy Mason won the 2005 Robert C. Hayes Playwriting Contest for their modern retelling of Rumplestiltskin. Storybook Theatre of Calgary is producing the play in early 2006.

To celebrate Alberta's Centennial, TYA students worked with students at Mike Mountain Horse Elementary School to create a theatre event of stunning proportions. Using '100 years of Alberta' as a starting point, students created dramatic pieces and then directed entire classes of students By the end of the run, 400 students had graced the stage and entertained more than 1000 people.

The U of L recognized William Fruet’s noteworthy career in Canadian film, theatre and television as a writer, producer, director and actor by presenting him with an honorary degree at spring Convocation. His career spans more than 30 years and includes television directing credits for well-known television programs, including DaVinci’s Inquest, Wild Card and The Outer Limits. Considered a pioneer of Canada’s English-language feature film industry, Fruet participated in feature films Goin’ Down the Road, Rip-Off, and Wedding in White, created in the early 1970s and considered benchmark movies in the Canadian film industry.

Canadian Plays in Development

(CPID) is a unique program that brings together Canadian playwrights and a cast of keen student actors for long hours of hard work to workshop a new Canadian play. This May and June, award-winning Toronto playwright David S. Craig has students working on his play The First Christmas, originally commissioned by CBC Radio to mark the 2000^th anniversary of the famous birth in Bethlehem. Vancouver playwright Sally Stubbs and the students are working on Who’s There?! Stubbs participated in CPID last year with her play Wreckage.

Memorial Opens New Facility

One of the most advanced rehearsal and performance facilities in the city of St. John’s opened on March 17^th. Memorial University’s new Petro-Canada Hall is considered a technological gem, a blend of art and technology that will be the latest resource for the university and the wider provincial music community.

Petro-Canada Hall was constructed with $1.2 million in support provided by Petro-Canada, operator of the Terra Nova offshore oil development and participant in the White Rose and Hibernia projects. The Hall is a $1.8 million state-of-the-art facility that will be used for teaching, research and performances, in addition to being available for rental to community groups.

“We were attracted to this project partly because it stepped outside the engineering and science realm that normally draws our support,” said Ron Brenneman, president and chief executive officer of Petro-Canada. “And we liked the community concept for Petro-Canada Hall. It is a true ‘community hall’ that broadens the reach of the university beyond its traditional student and faculty constituency.

"By every measure –– acoustic, aesthetic and functional –– this new facility is a resounding success," said the director of Memorial's School of Music, Dr. Tom Gordon. "Petro-Canada's investment in the future of the province's music has yielded its first major dividend through the hall's spectacular merger of the optimal properties of a performing space with leading edge technology."

The new 195 square metre (2,100 square foot) rehearsal and performance facility adjoins the M.O. Morgan Music Building near the D. F. Cook Recital Hall. With a performance area of approximately 56 square metres (600 square feet), an audience capacity of 124 people and a large rehearsal space, the new Petro-Canada Hall positions the School of Music to expand its performance and conference capabilities.

Equipped for both recording and Web-casting, the facility links the School of Music to global communities for real-time distance instruction and multi-site rehearsal. Students and professors will be able to connect with colleagues and mentors from anywhere and hear and interact almost as if they were in the same room.

The art, and science, of acoustics guided practically every design decision in Petro-Canada Hall, from the exterior shell of the building, and including landscaping considerations such as sound-buffering trees, to the distinctive three-dimensional geometry of the interior surfaces.

WLU is Festival Host

The Laurier Centre for Music Therapy Research (LCMTR) hosted “The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Researching Unconscious Dimensions in Music Therapy”, that brought practitioners in music therapy and other allied health professions to campus for four days to participate in Canada’s first ever symposium on music psychotherapy.

Keynote speaker Dr. Michele Forinash examined transformational moments in music therapy practice exploring how they fit in regard to research. Liz Moffit, the keynote speaker on the second day, examined music’s power to evoke imagery that heals, particularly with respect to clients who have experienced long-term abuse.

Thirteen others, from countries such as Finland, Israel, and Austria, presented papers and participated in panel discussions that explored how music is used in clinical psychotherapy. Dr. Heidi Ahonen-Eerikäinen, Director of LCMTR, says there was much to feel happy about at this year’s symposium but the most pleasing aspect was how the gathering wasn’t limited to music therapists.

Laurier’s annual intensive chamber music workshop and festival runs this year from May 24 to June 13. The Penderecki String Quartet, the University’s resident string quartet, hosts QuartetFest, which draws students from across North America. The Penderecki String Quartet will participate in two concerts: one with pianist Anya Alexeyev, faculty member at Laurier, and one with Atar Arad, a member of the Cleveland Quartet for seven years and now, teacher at Indiana University and at the Stearns Institute (Ravinia Festival) in Chicago.

Also in June, the Faculty of Music offers WindFest, an annual festival that celebrates music that is seldom heard but always loved. Running from June 4 to 18, Windfest, celebrates ‘harmoniemusik’. Hugely popular around 1800 in the courts of Vienna, wind instruments were played in pairs and octets for the first time. Windfest’s 2005 student musicians, coming from Montreal, Rochester, New York City, and Waterloo form one octet—two oboes, two clarinets, two French horns, and two bassoons.

The participants engage in three weeks of intensive private lessons, group coaching, seminars, and concerts. This year’s program focuses on the great wind music of the 18^th century by Mozart, Beethoven, and Krommer, as well as selected wind repertoire of the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Windfest 2005 also features two world-renowned bassoonists as coaches and teachers: Kerry Camden has coached musicians in youth orchestras in the United Kingdom and Europe. Christopher Weait is active in many facets of professional musical life as bassoonist, recording artist, published composer and author. A professor at Ohio State University, he was voted “distinguished teacher of the year” in 1999.

NSCAD University

NSCAD University students continue to earn recognition for their accomplishments in art, craft and design studies. Here are some recent highlights:

Graduating design student Nina Turczyn won the 14th Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annual Student Competition. Her illustrations will be published in the July/August issue of the magazine.

Design student Morgan Mallett won this year’s EnRoute Magazine CBC Literary Illustration Competition, and her illustrations appear in the May issue.

NSCAD textile students took top awards in the Crossley Carpet Student Design Competition in September. Miyoshi Kondo and Yvan Castonguay won first and second places.

The NSCAD Student Art Store celebrates its10^th season, opening for Summer 2005 on May 26. Each summer, the shop occupies an historic storefront on the Granville Mall, an excellent location for this entrepreneurial initiative. The store is managed by and for students; this year’s managers are Lia Coleman and Hilary Dennis.

All Dolled Up, a short film produced in NSCAD University’s film program this winter, was accepted for the Student Film Showcase 2005. Written and directed by Kate Pomerant, it’s one of 11 films from across Canada by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The six-minute mockumentary takes a look at show business and the star system. Pomerant, 23, studied acting last summer at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, and plans to return for another workshop this year at The Actors Center.

Graduating design student Michelle Jospe has received recognition in the highly competitive SEGD Design Awards in the U.S., for her Halifax Transit Bus Map and Street Signage Redesign project. The winning design was one of 44 selected from 330 international entries. Sponsored by SEGD (the Society for Environmental Graphic Design), the award will be presented June 2 in New Orleans.

Photo major Jaret Belliveau will exhibit work in a special exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland this summer and fall. His work was selected from 500 portfolios submitted by 60 international art schools for ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025, at the Musee de l’Elysee, June 23 to October 23. ReGeneration will travel across Europe and North America, and Belliveau’s photos will also appear in an accompanying book to be published by Thames & Hudson, London.

Shiloh, a five-minute experimental film by student Heather Fraser has been accepted for several festivals. Selected by the ArtExpo Next Video Exhibitions, the film will be shown at the International Videoart Festival EROS + FOOD, Ferrara, Italy, and the international video art screening Urban Flesh and Blood, at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kaliningrad, Russia.

MFA student Ehryn Torrell presented a paper at the 13th Annual Graduate Research Conference at the University of New Brunswick, held February 25-26 in Fredericton, and came away with the juried second place prize. She presented Opening Spaces, Moving Places, which examines the essay Monuments of Passaic, written by Robert Smithson in 1967.

This summer, a new audio installation (titled The Hell After High) by graduating MFA student Kenneth Doren will appear in the Aural Cultures exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff.

Anneke Henderson, also just graduated from the MFA program, presented a paper entitled One Thread at the national Graduate Women's Studies Student Association (GWSSA) Symposium at York University, held April 13 & 14th.

Regina Reports

Music

Dr. Alain Perron, Dr. Janina Kuzmas, and doctoral student Sophie Perron toured Lithuania, Ukraine, and Poland from May 6-21. Notable performances were: May 10: Vilnius, Lithuania, as part of the Sugrizimai Festival (Homecoming Festival), May 13: Kiev, Ukraine, as part of the Musical Premieres of the Season, a festival presented by the Ukrainian National Composers' Union. May 20: Cracow, Poland, as part of the International Musical Days of Cracow composers. Dr. Perron did his doctorate in Cracow and has many colleagues there. He spoke at the Institute of Musicology on "New Music of Canada". Programmes for all concerts featured works by contemporary Canadian and Eastern European works, including a new work, La Romance du Vin, written by Dr. Perron for Sophie Bouffard. The tour was highly successful, and has led to return invitations, and a visit by a Cracow musicologist to the U of R.

Music Dept. faculty have recently been featured in an innovative series "New Music in New Spaces.” Regina composer and UR alumna Elizabeth Raum received a grant from the Canadian Music Centre to present a concert at the popular Bushwakker Brew Pub, of new music written by herself and David McIntyre. The concert was such a success that a CD was produced, featuring UR faculty members Pauline Minevich (clarinet), Karen Finnsson (saxophone), and Eduard Minevich (violin), as well as David McIntyre on piano.

This concert led to two others.  In April, the University of Regina Chamber Singers performed at the Capital Pontiac-Buick dealership, featuring new music by Elizabeth Raum in conjunction with the introduction of two new car models.  The second concert on May 14, featured tubist and UR professor John Griffiths performing works for solo tuba in the local Harley-Davidson showroom.



Media Production and Studies



The 19th Annual National Student Film and Video Festival took place May 12 to 14.  This student run festival featured three evenings of  screenings at the Rainbow Cinema as well as a panel discussion featuring guest jurors Ian Toews, Laura Kuffner, and Toronto-based filmmaker John Kneller.  



The recipient of the Sixth Annual Jean Oser Prize in Film Studies was Steve Suderman for his essay "Cognitive Science and Untutored Vision".  The essay discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the cognitive approach to understanding avant-garde film, in particular the work of Stan Brakhage.  The essay impressed the selection committee members with the theoretical sophistication and analytic rigor of its approach to the topic, as well as its integration of examples in proving its argument.  The Oser Prize is sponsored by the Department of Media Production and Studies, and was instituted in  honour of Jean Oser, an internationally known filmmaker and Professor Emeritus of the 

University of Regina who helped to establish the film program at the University.  The winner receives a cash prize and a book.



Visual Arts



David Garneau's national travelling exhibition, "Cowboys and Indians (and Metis?)," runs at the Art Gallery of  Prince Albert from October 8-November, 2005.  This exhibition has recently been featured on CBC and CTV and one painting from the show has been purchased by Senator Joyal and will soon be installed in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.





Other Words on Music - Simon Rattle

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

News from Emily Carr

A new partnership agreement will see North Island College (NIC) and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (ECI) offering students an opportunity to complete a Fine Arts undergraduate degree on-site at North Island College. Starting this fall, under at two-year pilot project, 20 student spaces will be available for those who have completed NIC’s two-year Fine Arts Diploma to move onto the third year of ECI’s degree, right at NIC’s Comox Valley Campus.

This is a unique partnership in BC and will provide a focused program for students wishing to pursue an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts. ECI faculty will teach arts education in years three and four of the Fine Arts program with NIC faculty teaching years one and two.

Faculty Appointments



ECI is pleased to announce the following tenure track faculty appointments, effective August 1, 2005:

Print Media

Rodney Konopaki received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from the University of Saskatchewan. Rodney was an instructor at Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta from 1990 – 2004. From 1976 – 1987, Rodney was a Master Printer at Tyler Graphics in Mount Kisco, NY where he worked with artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, David Hockney and Frank Stella among many others. Rodney has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the US.

Diyan Achjadi received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from The Cooper Union School of Art and a Masters of Fine Arts from Concordia University. Since 2002, Diyan has been an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts in Print Media at the University of Maryland and an Associate Graduate faculty at the same institution. Her most recent show was at the Open Studio Gallery in Toronto in January 2005. In June 2006, Diyan’s work will be exhibited at the Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario in a two-person show. In addition to her prints, Diyan’s video work has been screened across Canada, Europe, and the US.

Foundation

Kelly Phillips received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and a MA in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She currently is an Instructor at Kwantlen University College in Surrey. Kelly has an active career as an artist and has been involved in numerous group and solo exhibitions including most recently Out of Line: A Juried Drawing Exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery, Body Politics, at Access Artist Run Center, here in Vancouver, and Women in the middle: Borders Barriers, Intersections at the Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Henry Tsang completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from UBC and has taught courses at Emily Carr in visual arts, and critical studies since the early 1990’s. In 2003 he received his Master of Fine Arts from University of California, Irvine, where he then taught as Adjunct Lecturer in Visual Culture and Public and Community Art. This past year as a sessional instructor at Emily Carr Institute he has taught Mixed Media Sculpture and Critical Studies. Henry has had an active career as an artist, writer and curator locally, nationally and internationally since 1987. His sculpture “Welcome to the Land of Light” was installed in 1997 at Concord Pacific along the seawall.

Words on Music

From the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta’s Music Department welcomed Shaykh Mohamed el-Helbawy as Distinguished Visiting Professor for a ten day stay in March.

Shaykh Mohamed el-Helbawy is an Egyptian master of the traditional Arabo-Islamic vocal arts and a highly versatile artist. Besides being widely acclaimed in the arts of Qur’anic recitation (tajwid and the call to prayer (adhan) Shayk el-Helbawy also excels in the venerable art of inshad dini religious hymnody). These melodically intricate chants include improvisatory solo supplications called ibtihalat and a composed repertoire known as tawashih diniya, featuring elaborate counterpoint between solo and group. Shaykh el-Helbawy has also memorized a vast corpus of the mystical hymnody accompanying Sufi rituals (inshad Sufi) and has mastered the traditional tonal resources of Arab music (maqamat). Shaykh el-Helbawy is one of only a handful of performers across the Arab world excelling in all of these genres, and he stands today as their principal Egyptian exponent.

In 1980 he formed the Sufi Hymns Group (Firqat al-Inshad al-Sufi) comprising a chorus, percussion and reed flute. Besides numerous performances in Cairo and Alexandria, this group has toured extensively abroad, performing in the Middle East and Europe. Likewise a number of his compact disc recordings have been highly acclaimed as was his performance on “Mozart in Egypt”.

In Cairo he teaches regularly at the Hifni Institute for Music, to Egyptians and foreigners alike, and he has often been invited to lecture abroad. While in Edmonton, Shaykh el-Helbawy engaged the university and city community through a variety of activities, including lecture-demonstrations, classroom visits, workshops, performances and daily rehearsals with a group of committed musicians and singers. Participation in all these activities was open to the general public.

POSITION AVAILABLE:

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College

Term Appointment: Stagecraft

In the 2005 - 2006 academic year Sir Wilfred Grenfell College has an academic position available in Theatre.

8 ½ month term appointment - Stagecraft:

The candidate will serve as resident designer with a strong emphasis on costumes. Expertise in technical theatre is required particularly in the areas of props and costumes. The successful candidate will teach these elements across all four years of the undergraduate Stagecraft stream in both the Studio courses and as a supervisor in the Production courses (Wardrobe). As a designer, the candidate will be responsible for designing costumes or sets/costumes in some combination for 2 to 3 of the main stage shows each semester. Experience teaching at the university level and a strong resume from the professional theatre are required.

For all positions salary and rank will reflect qualifications and experience in accordance with the Collective Agreement governing faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland. All positions are subject to budgetary approval. A letter of application along with a curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier, and the names of three references should be sent to:

The Vice Principal, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College

Memorial University of Newfoundland

University Drive

Corner Brook, NL, A2H 6P9

Telephone: 709 637 6231 Fax: 709 637 6218

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Memorial University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from qualified women and men, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College is a small (1300 students) Liberal Arts and Science institution and the Corner Brook campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Memorial is the largest university in Atlantic Canada and, as the Province’s only university, plays an integral role in the educational and cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador through offering diverse graduate and undergraduate programmes to almost 17,000 students.

At Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, our emphasis is on a small-class environment and teaching excellence in distinctive multi- and interdisciplinary degree programmes with four-year Bachelor’s degrees in Arts, Fine Arts, Science, and Nursing.

Corner Brook (population 22,000) is a safe and friendly city with excellent recreational and cultural facilities, situated in an area of great natural beauty, overlooking the Bay of Islands and affording a spectacular view of the Blomidon Mountains. The City is some 80 kilometers from Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and 10 kilometers from Marble Mountain, one of Eastern Canada’s premier downhill ski resorts.

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