Le juin – 2006 – June
Published by the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans
Publié
par l’association canadienne des doyens des arts
Le juin – 2006 – June
Published by the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans
Publié
par l’association canadienne des doyens des arts
Chair’s Message
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any CAFAD member
organizations were represented at the recent Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at York
University. Of special note were the sessions focusing on the new SSHRC Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts
program. The program, now approaching the third round of competition, offers
significant grants to practitioner/scholars in Fine Arts. The sessions at York provided an overview of
the program, a discussion of criteria for fundable projects, and reports on
projects-in-progress from a number of recipients. It is clear that research initiatives will be
increasingly central to the vitality of all institutions of higher learning, including
those in the Fine Arts. The recent opportunity
to develop a greater understanding of the Research/Creation program in particular
was appreciated by those in attendance at the York Congress.
The next deadline for Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts is
September 22, 2006. Program guidelines
are posted on the SSHRC website (www.sshrc.ca).
CAFAD Secretary/Treasurer David MacWilliam of the Emily Carr
Institute along with other British Columbia colleagues, is coordinating plans
for our upcoming annual meeting (to take place in late October in Vancouver.) Details regarding the itinerary and
registration will be available in the next months. I hope that you will all be
able to attend.
Best wishes for a productive
and pleasant summer.
Barbara Lounder
Dean, NSCAD University
CAFAD Conference News
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lanning
has begun for the annual CAFAD Symposium and AGM scheduled for October 26-28 in
Vancouver. David MacWilliam is liaising with his CAFAD colleagues at
SFU, Capilano College and UBC to develop a well rounded roster of events both
informative and social.
As
in recent years, registration will take place Thursday evening; there
will be a day long program on Friday, plus a reception and possibly a concert
on Friday evening. Saturday will be devoted to CAFAD business, with the
AGM, a focused Round Table, a possible update from SSHRC and other
relevant reports that may present themselves between now and October.
There will not be any events scheduled for Sunday.
Hotels
under consideration are the venerable Sylvia Hotel in the West End where rooms
range from $75 to $105, and the Granville Island Hotel which is a few minutes
walk from Emily Carr Institute where the meetings will take place. Rooms
at the Granville Island Hotel will be $95 and up.
A
conference registration fee is to be determined, and more information will be
sent to the membership via email as it becomes available.
CAFAD.com
For information on recent job postings, visit www.cafad.com.
– Look under Information – Fine Arts Opportunities.
A list of CAFAD member institutions and their representatives is
available on the website.
Music at McGill
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he Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT) has received
funding from the International Opportunities Fund of the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council. This support will enable CIRMMT to participate in
the European Commission funded Integra Project, a research/creation project involving
professional ensembles, research institutions and production centres from
Europe. The Integra Project focuses on music with live electronics and involves
the commissioning and performing of new works, the development of a new environment
for the composition of these works and the modernization of important works
from the repertoire that use obsolete technologies. CIRMMT (the only
non-European full member of Integra) will participate in all research and
artistic activities of the project. The application for funding was made by Sean Ferguson, the newly appointed
Associate Director of CIRMMT and coordinator of artistic activities, along with
Stephen McAdams, Director of CIRMMT,
and Marcelo Wanderley, also recently
appointed an Associate Director and coordinator of scientific activities.
On January 22, the Conseil
québécois de la musique awarded eight (of 27) Prix Opus to many
colleagues, graduates, and students of the Schulich School of Music for
their activities during the 2004-2005 season:
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Concert of the Year (Contemporary
Music):
"Les yeux dans les
roues" - Claire Marchand, flute,
Patrick Wedd, organ, Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
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Concert of the Year (Jazz and
World Music): Joel
Miller - Mandala
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Album Of The Year (Classical,
Romantic Postromantic and Impressionist Music):
"Brahms - Lieder" - Marie-Nicole Lemieux,
contralto, Michael McMahon, piano, Nicolo Eugelmi, viola (Analekta)
o
Article of the Year: William E. Caplin for "The Classical Cadence: Conceptions and
Misconceptions" (Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol.
57, no. 1)
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Prix
Hommage: Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord,
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Discovery of the Year: Nicolas Gilbert, composer
o
Composer of the Year: John Rea
o
Musical Event of the Year:
Opera McGill’s Production of Louis Riel by Harry Somers -
Opera McGill, Dixie Ross-Neil, director; McGill Symphony Orchestra, Alexis
Hauser, conductor
Carleton Contributes
Art History Carol Payne will be presenting a paper at the conference Collective memory and the uses of the past:
An interdisciplinary conference held at the University of East Anglia, in
Norwich, UK, July 7-10
NSCAD News
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SCAD University awarded world-renowned ceramicist Betty Woodman with an honorary
doctorate at graduation ceremonies in late April. Betty Woodman has had a long
and distinguished career in the field. A
major exhibition of her work opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York the day following graduation events in Halifax. Ms. Woodman’s visit to NSCAD University was
especially memorable for graduating MFA and BFA students in the ceramics
program, with whom she shared a wonderful breakfast reception.
Recent NSCAD University graduate Margot Durling (Bachelor of Design, Honours, 2006) was recently presented
with an Outstanding Young Canadian Award
by the Junior Chamber International in Halifax.
The OYC Award recognizes leadership in various categories; Ms. Durling
was recognized in the Innovation category for contributions to health and
science. She has developed a device named The
Ambulator, which is a patient transfer belt to be used by caregivers and
health professionals. Ms. Durling began work on the design during her first
Product Design course at NSCAD several years ago, and went on to prototype,
test and refine it in conjunction with staff at the QEII Health Sciences Centre
in
Halifax.
The town of Lunenburg, Nova
Scotia is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the home of the Bluenose, and more recently, a partner with NSCAD University in
creating a residency program for young artists. As of earlier this month, two
recent NSCAD graduates, Kristy O’Leary
and Dustin Wenzell, have taken up
residence for the year in a refurbished historic fire hall. In return for
rent-free accommodation and studios, the two will host a number of studio
presentations and other public events. Kristy, an Intermedia artist, will carry
out a video story-telling project with Lunenburg senior citizens this coming
year, while Dustin will be creating new sculptural works inspired by natural
history specimens from local collections.
Emily Carr Institute
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he Province of BC has
allocated $40.5 M in one-time funding for Canada’s first professional digital
media master’s program, at the Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) in Vancouver,
to help ensure that BC students can access employment opportunities in this
rapidly growing sector.
The Great Northern Way Campus
is a unique partnership of SFU, UBC, BCIT and the Emily Carr Institute. The collaboration
allows creation of programs that leverage the strengths of all four
institutions. The one-time government funds will help attract the best faculty
members in the world, meet the capital costs of constructing labs and classrooms,
and create an endowment to help meet ongoing operating costs. The first intake
of students is slated for September 2007. Approximately 200 students are
expected to graduate by 2010.
The program will be in the
World Centre for Digital Media, which is being championed by New Media BC with
strong support from the GNWC and the partner institutions. The program and the
World Centre itself will both be supported with additional funds from direct
industry contributions.
The global interactive
entertainment market is projected to double over the next few years to $65.9
billion in 2011, according to a recent ABI Research report. Digital media/new
media is the use of new and emerging interactive digital content for the
purposes of entertaining, educating and informing. It bridges the arts, culture
and technology, including web design, mobile content, e-learning, interactive
entertainment and games, and digital film and animation.
ECI is pleased to announce the
signing of a protocol agreement with The University of Northern British Columbia
(UNBC) that may lead to the development of the first Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree to be offered in northern BC.
The proposed new Bachelor of Fine Arts degree will combine Creative Writing and
Studio Arts and be comprised of courses from both institutions. In particular,
UNBC will provide courses that reflect its strengths in creative writing,
fiction, cultural studies, poetry, and drama, as well as other courses from
First Nations Studies, History, and Anthropology. Emily Carr has particular
strength in studio arts and provides courses in drawing, visual communication,
photography, and digital visual arts.
The new program is in development and will go before the UNBC Senate and Board
of Governors and ECIAD’s Education Council, before being sent to the Government
of BC for final approval.
Welcome
New Faculty
Dr. Joy
James (Critical + Cultural Studies) has taught courses in Critical +
Cultural Studies at Emily Carr and in the Centre for Research in Women’s
Studies and Gender Relations at UBC. She
received an Honours diploma from ECI, and later received a MFA and PhD, in the
Individual Interdisciplinary Studies program, UBC.
Dr. Glen
Lowry (Critical + Cultural Studies) has taught courses at Simon Fraser
University and ECI. He received his BA
from Trent University, and MA and PhD in English, both from Simon Fraser
University.
Ben Reeves (Visual Arts - Painting) comes to ECI from the
University of Guelph, Ontario, where he served as an Assistant Professor in
the School of Fine Art and Music. He received
his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and his MA in
Fine Arts from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
Regina Reports
Welcome New Faculty
Dr Carmen Robertson, tenure-track appointment, Department of Visual
Arts (Art History). Dr Robertson was formerly
the Head of the Indian Fine Arts Department at First Nations University of
Canada.
Dr Christina Stojanova, 3-year term, Department of Media Production and
Studies (Film Studies). Dr Stojanova joins the faculty from the Theatre and
Film program of the School of the Arts at McMaster University.
Ms Margo Regan O’Flaherty, 2-year term, Department of Theatre
(Acting/Directing). Ms O’Flaherty was a visiting Assistant Professor in the
Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC.
This spring Fine Arts and Luther College hosted Interdisciplinary Positions, a
conference for humanities graduate students at the University of Regina. Students
in the social sciences, arts and fine arts had the opportunity to present
their research, gain conference experience and meet others engaged in
interdisciplinary thought and research. Conference organizers were Dr Barbara Reul (Luther College); Dr Randal Rogers (U of R); and Avila Lotoski (Graduate Student, Music,
U of R).
Music
University of Regina hosted “Spanning the Distance: Regionalism and
Reflections on Popular Music in Canada,” the 2006 International Association
for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada Conference from May 5th to 7th,
2006. Dr Charity Marsh of the Music
Department was the conference organizer.
Media
Production and Studies
In
late March the Department hosted “mispon”, a four-day celebration of Indigenous
filmmaking, featuring workshops, lectures, screenings and other community
events. Well-known Canadian filmmaker Alanis
Obomsawin gave the Keynote Address.
Visual
Arts
U
of R Alumni artist and gallery owner Rob
Bos won the Emerging Artist Award at the 2006 Regina Business and Arts
Awards. Boss was recognized for his contributions to Regina‘s art community
in the development of the Projects Gallery and his work as an exhibiting
painter.
Theatre
In
May the department hosted the Saskatchewan Playwright’s Centre Spring Festival
of New Plays. The festival involved staged readings from a number of
Saskatchewan playwrights, many with connections to the department and the U of
R including Natalie Meisner, Daniel MacDonald and Kelly Jo Burke.
Music
at the University of Toronto
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hristopher
Bagan, a piano student of Marietta Orlov, won a $20,000
scholarship from the Johann Strauss Foundation in Edmonton, Alberta. The 2nd
year Master of Music student is the sole recipient of the special scholarship,
awarded in 2006 to a pianist in celebration of Mozart’s 250th anniversary. The
scholarship will allow Christopher to pursue musical studies in Austria
for three summers at renowned institutes such as the Salzburg Mozarteum, the
Wiener Musikseminar and the Internationale Summerakademie Prag-Wien-Budapest.
The
Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto is both proud and saddened to
announce the appointment of violinist/violist Scott St. John to the St. Lawrence String Quartet, beginning in
fall 2006. The Quartet has an academic affiliation with
Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, requiring that St. John take a leave of
absence during 2006-07 with the possibility that this will become a permanent
move at the end of that academic year.
St.
John replaces Barry Shiffman (BMus
U. of Toronto 1988), who recently accepted the position of Director of Music
Programs at the Banff Centre. The St. Lawrence String Quartet has a long
association with the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. Founded by Barry Shiffman and Geoff
Nuttall (BMus 1988) as students at the Faculty, the Quartet returns
annually as a Visiting Ensemble. Annalee Patipatanakoon, violinist for the Gryphon Trio, will teach violin
next year in St. John’s place, and will serve as co-head of the string program.
Joint
Concerts
For
the third time maestro Raffi Armenian brought together two orchestras of students from
the Montreal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto for successful
performances in Toronto and Montreal. The program offered this year included
two Russian works: the Rite of Spring
(1913) and the 10th Symphony of Shostakovich, written in 1953.
The combined orchestras totalled 138 musicians, 60 from Montreal and 78 from
Toronto. To share the tasks and to familiarize themselves with the challenges,
the principal musicians exchanged chairs in the middle of each work. The double
orchestra performed Feb 2nd, in Toronto and Feb 4th in Montreal. The concert
was recorded by the CBC with a national broadcast to be scheduled later.
Following
the receipt of a Round II Award for Student Experience improvements, the
Faculty was granted $750,000 to add additional world music ensembles, bring a
visiting world artist to campus each year, expand ensemble facilities,
develop community projects, and increase international exchange programs. The
World Music ensembles, which include Balinese gamelan, Japanese taiko, West
African percussion and dance, Chinese string ensemble, steel pan, and tabla
serve the needs of ethnomusicology students, the performance division, music
education and outreach efforts.
Andrew Staniland (D.Mus candidate) and Abigail
Richardson (D.Mus, 2004), have been named Affiliate Composers with the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, effective immediately. In that role, Staniland and
Richardson will each compose a work for the Orchestra to be performed in the
2006-2007 season. Mr. Staniland and Ms. Richardson were selected by Maestro
Peter Oundjian after an intensive review of several scores by young Canadian
composers.
Grant MacEwan College
The Leslie Nielsen School of Communications is proud to announce the first published collaboration by two faculty members, an innovative book of photo-illustrated poetry.
Jannie Edwards, an instructor in both the English and Professional Writing programs along with Paul Saturley, an instructor in the Design and Photography major, Design Studies program, have collaborated to bring this book to fruition. Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems is Jannie's second book of poetry. Both MacEwan faculty members have developed a beautiful mesh of illustration combined with the power of words to create poetic justice.
Jannie states, "In this book you will find various tangos: the intense dances of intimacy; the dances of individuals and their angels and demons: desire, ideology, ambition; and interspersed you'll read Raven's laconic one-liners on the mysteries of human existence." Brock’s School of Fine and Performing Arts
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he Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Matthew Royal as Assistant Professor,
effective 1 July 2006. A specialist in
music theory (16th century to modern) and music cognition, Matthew
also brings significant pedagogical experience, including the development of
highly successful university curricula in aural skills.
On March 3, 2006, guest
artists The Eros Ensemble premiered “Four
Miniatures for Harp and Small Ensemble”, a new composition by Associate
Professor Dr. Peter Landey.
In 2006/07 academic year the
Department is also introducing new recital courses, in which senior
performance students can elect to prepare large-scale end-of-term recitals as a
separate university half-credit.
In the Department of Dramatic
Arts, Associate Professor Gyllian Raby
is again leading intensive summer courses in Shakespeare in Performance in
collaboration with the Stratford Festival.
Beginning in September 2006, a new class on GBS Text and Performance
will be offered in collaboration with the Shaw Festival.
The past year has also seen
innovative community partnerships. A
collaboration between the School of Fine and Performing Arts and the Breast
Cancer Research and Education Fund, spearheaded by Assistant Professor Dr. David Fancy, produced a series of
creative workshops for women living with and beyond breast cancer led by local
artists and DART students. A successful
pilot project with Carousel Players and Teams of Adults Listening to Kids
(TALK) will be continued with a 4th year Advanced Theatre class
creating and performing a work based on teens’ experiences in order to catalyze
discussion.
In 2006 the Department is
also introducing new concentrations in Performance and in Stagecraft and
Design.
This level of activity will
be supported by three new faculty. Virginia Reh (M.A., University of
California) brings considerable experience as director, actor, and teacher, and
she will direct Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round
the Moon as a mainstage production in November 2006. Natalie
Alvarez (Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto) will anchor courses in
Theatre as Cultural Practice as a cross-appointment with Great Books and
Liberal Studies. Finally, Brock students
will benefit from the knowledge and experience of our new voice teacher, Danielle Wilson (M.F.A., York University).
In the Department of Visual
Arts, Chair Jean Bridge (who also
serves as Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities) has led the
development of an interdisciplinary Minor in Interactive Arts and Sciences,
which will use theory and practice to examine how text, image, and media are
transformed by interactivity.
In the area of Art History,
the Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Keri Cronin (Ph.D., Queen’s University), whose research
addresses discourses in landscape and environment.
Finally, Associate Professor Derek Knight has received the Faculty
of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognized that, “As a
teacher, scholar, curator and artist, he … fosters in his students an abiding
appreciation of the ways in which art can and does question, challenge and
ultimately shape society.”
University of Lethbridge
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ate Smith (BFA – New Media '02) won
Designer of the Year at the Canadian New Media Awards in recognition of his
significant achievements in new media over the past year. From 43 finalists, 15
awards winners were selected in a variety of disciplines, including online,
interactive, animation and video game. The jury was recruited from industry
peers and higher education institutions. The CNMA are presented in partnership
with the Department of Canadian Heritage, Telefilm Canada, CBC.ca and Delvinia.
Smith’s Company, Vacuum Design, headquartered in Nelson, BC, was a finalist
for Most Promising New Company at the CNMA.
Earlier in the year, Smith and his company were also finalists in
Toronto’s Flash in the Can Awards -- Smith in the Best Canadian Designer category
and Vacuum in the Best Canadian Studio category.
Artist, art professor and
Associate Dean Carl Granzow, with Chris Babits and Dan Westwood of
Ferrari Westwood Architects won a national competition to create a major donor
appreciation monument at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in
Calgary. Standing near SAIT’s main building on the edge of a field, the
installation has a gently sloped path through a spruce grove to the node where
the path intersects with an arching concrete screen where donor recognition
plaques are installed. The node and surrounding plaza provide a panoramic view
of the city. To be installed over the summer, the monument unveiling is in
early fall.
Three
music majors, Michael Lowings, Peter Monaghan, and Theo Tams, were selected for the National Youth Choir,
which performed at the Assoc. of Canadian Choral Conductors national
conference in May. In July, the concert
will be broadcast on the CBC Radio 2’s Choral Concert.
Jesse Plessis, a first-year music major, won the Land's End Composer Competition with "Ancient Festival" for prepared piano, violin and cello. In addition to a cash prize, the work was performed by Land's End Ensemble and broadcast on CBC Radio 2’s Our Music.
The U of L Art Gallery is undertaking a conservation
project to expand and refine its storage facilities, storage techniques and
handling of small sculpture. This project will create new protective
environment and provide greater access for curators and researchers. All pieces
will be photographed and researched, resulting in a significant increase in the
information on the Art Gallery’s collection database, improving public access
to the works.
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Beaux Arts Concordia Fine Arts
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n May 8th
the Faculty of Fine Arts handed out its 2006 Awards of Distinction. The awards ceremony took place in the new Hexagram space on the 11th floor of the recently constructed
EV building. These awards are
designed to acknowledge and honour individuals and corporations who have distinguished
themselves as benefactors to the arts and whose substantial philanthropic
contributions have furthered the development of the arts. The winners this year
were: Michal Hornstein CM,OQ, Avrum Morrow and
Liliane M. Stewart.
Mr. Hornstein CM,OQ has been a major arts contributor for decades and at
Concordia he established The Romek Hornstein Memorial Endowment and the Renata
Hornstein Graduate Fellowship in Art History. He has also served on the
Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Board of Directors since 1970.
Mr. Morrow is a
long-time supporter of Concordia. He is one of the original contributors to the
Sir George Williams Art Gallery; more recently, he established the Dora Morrow
Fellowship for Excellent Achievement in Visual Arts. As well, Mr. Morrow opened
a private gallery with more than 300 works of art in old Montreal.