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Free Workshop Exploring the smArtmob

2012-02-14T22:01:11Z

A Free Workshop Exploring The smArtmob; Collaborative & participatory art production strategies.

A Free Workshop Exploring The smArtmob; Collaborative & participatory art production strategies

In this workshop students will apply strategies of the networked age as approaches for contemporary art production.
Participants will develop a participatory art project by using concepts like crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and smartmobs. Students propose concepts to each other for a 'smArtmob' intervention: an interactive visual intervention in (virtual) public space. Out of these propositions the best idea will be chosen through voting and carried out by all of the participants in small groups. These production groups will follow the 'rules' of the chosen intervention, and may alter the original idea by choosing a creative approach or innovative materials & techniques. The best interventions are those who succeed in attracting the attention of as many people as possible - in real life or on the internet.
At the end of the day the 'smArtmob' approach and the artistic results will be critically discussed among the participants.

Tuesday February 28th, 10AM - 4PM, EV 6.735, SGW Campus, Concordia University

Email your name & contact info to scharb@alcor.concordia.ca to secure a space. All welcome.

If you have laptops, smart phones, and media capture devices bring them along. However, they are not required in order to participate. All other materials will be provided.

Instructor Biography:
Emiel Heijnen is a Dutch art/media educator and researcher. His field of interest is interdisciplinary arts education in connection to contemporary art, popular culture, media activism and urban interventions. He is a senior lecturer at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is a member of the AHK Arts Education Research Group and initiator of (inter)national education projects like Media Connection, MediaCulture and Remix Culture.

With generous support from:
FOFA Gallery
Faculty of Fine Arts
FASA
Graduate Students Association
ArtEGS
Art Education Undergraduate Students Association

PhD Student Maria Ezcurra show Parasites installation at Nuit Blanche

2012-02-14T17:25:07Z

Parasites, Installation by Maria Ezcurra Eaton Centre, Art Souterrain, Nuit Blanche February 25, 2012 6:00pm to 3:00am Parasites an installation by Maria Ezcurra is showing at Eaton Centre, as part of Art Souterrain during Nuit Blanche February 25, 2012 6:00pm to 3am.
Reacting to the commonly oppressive aspects of the fashion industry, Parasites is an installation made with crinolines that questions the feminine roles assigned to women in contemporary western societies, imposed mostly by popular visual culture and media. Despite the fact that they restrict movement, crinolines are still used for keeping the required shapes by women who perform certain kind of rituals, like weddings, and proms. These kinds of ceremonies are also known as rites of passage, and tend to transform a physical body into a social body, providing important clues to the mechanics of society.
For more information go to www.artsouterrain.com/

3rd Annual Art Education Graduate Symposium

2012-02-10T13:30:09Z

March 23, 2012, 9am to 7:30pm
March 24, 9:30am to 3:30pm March 23rd 9am to 7:30pm and March 24th 9:30am to 3:30pm
On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education / Sortir des sentiers battus: se risquer en pedagogie artistique This conference will be a space for graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of art education, studio arts, performing arts, art history, cultural studies, humanities, creative art therapies, educational technologies and other fields of knowledge to address art and education as a site in which risk can be taken and used as a means for transformation. To register please click here.
For more information go to
http://concordiaartedsymposium.wordpress.com/
Or email symposium.art.education@gmail.com

Portfolio Day

2012-02-04T15:21:12Z

Saturday, February 4, 2012
1 to 5 p.m. Portfolio Day is an opportunity for students to receive valuable one-to-one constructive feedback on their artwork from a faculty member from Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts.

When:
Saturday, February 4, 2012
1 to 5 p.m.

Where:
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W., Montreal, 6th floor
Guy-Concordia Metro

We will be evaluating portfolios for the following programs:

Art Education
Art History and Studio Art
Ceramics
Computation Arts
Design
Design for the Theatre
Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice
Fibres
Film Animation
Film Production** (see important note below)
Intermedia / Cyberarts
MFA in Studio Arts (excluding Film Production option)
Painting and Drawing
Photography
Print Media
Sculpture
Studio Art

**Reviews for Film Production will be done by current students in the program. This is an opportunity to meet our students and get advice from them, based on their experience in the Film Production program. There will also be screenings of works from the current students.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

What should I bring to Portfolio Day?
Bring your portfolio! Your portfolio can include finished pieces, work in progress, and sketchbooks. Bring your original artwork whenever possible. We suggest that you do not spend time and money matting or framing your work. Keep your presentation simple; the work itself is what is of interest. Works that are too large or too fragile to transport may be presented as photographs, on a laptop, CD-ROM, DVD or flash drive. A limited number of computer stations will be available to view digital works.

My portfolio is incomplete. Can I still attend?
Absolutely. This is your chance to get on the right track. You will be able to obtain feedback on your work in progress and ask questions about our programs and portfolio requirements. Admission and scholarship decisions will not be made during Portfolio Day.

Do I need to register for Portfolio Day?
No, you do not need to register for Portfolio Day. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early!

For any additional information on Portfolio Day, please send an email to studyfinearts@concordia.ca or find us on Facebook.

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Amelie Brindamour work exhibited in the Eco Art Show at Gallery 1313

2012-01-25T16:36:36Z

Art Education Master's Student Amelie Brindamour exhibits her work at Gallery 1313's Eco Art Show.

Amelie Brindamour will be participating in the ECO ART SHOW organized by Gallery 1313 in Toronto. The exhibition will take place from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5 2012 and will explore a number of environmental concerns such as air quality, urban sprawll, water quality and nature preservation .The work that Amelie Brindamour will be presenting is called GASTRONOMIC GRAFFITI and it consists of series of photos which record temporary actions that she created with materials encountered in green and waste spaces and which reflect her concerns regarding food production and consumption.The opening is January 26th at 7pm.

For more information go to
http://g1313.org/?p=2561

The Saga of Murdo MacLeod

2012-01-24T16:01:29Z

Master's Candidate Scott MacLeod screens his film The Saga of Murdo MacLeod at Hurley's Irish pub, January 25th, 2012 at 8pm.

Hurley's Irish Pub and MacLeod Nine Productions Presents

The Saga of Murdo MacLeod - And his first contact with the Abenaki

A short animated Film by G. Scott MacLeod

January 25^th, 8:00 pm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/MacLeod-Nine-Productions/141446315948586

1225 rue Crescent, Montreal, Quebec

514 861 4111 www.hurleysirishpub.com

Synopsis:

Within the huge diversity that is modern-day Canada, all non-aboriginal people share an immigrant history. For some, the stories are fresh. For many others, the struggles of distant ancestors have long been lost through the passage of time. In The Saga of Murdo MacLeod, the first film in his animated series on Canadian history, from Mike Burns' four published stories, The Water of Life (Chemin des Cantons, 2009), Montreal filmmaker G. Scott MacLeod fuses rich pencil animation with new digital media to provide a deeply moving depiction of an iconic early Canadian immigrant experience.

Expelled from their land on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, Murdo MacLeod and his clan are given passage as ballast on a timber ship bound for Lower Canada. It is the late 1830s. Those who survive the voyage arrive in Quebec City with nothing more than axes in hand and speaking only Gaelic amongst the French and English population. Travelling on foot, they make their way to the region near Sherbrooke, ending up on Abenaki territory near Gould. There, with winter fast approaching, they find their only hope for survival in the hands of Canada's first people.

Written and narrated by Burns, a celebrated Montreal storyteller, The Saga of Murdo MacLeod reveals the history of millions of Canadians whose ancestors found freedom and opportunity only through great sacrifice and the compassion of unlikely allies.

Languages: English and French

Running time: 16:24 B & W & Colour - 2012

16 x 9 Widescreen 1.78

Dolby 5.1 & 2.0

A film by G. Scott MacLeod

Written and narrated by Mike Burns

Direction and Animation G. Scott MacLeod

Editor Phyllis Lewis

Special effects animations Randall Finnerty

Sound recordist by Julia Innes

Sound design Stacy Le Gallee

Line Producer Vuk Stojanovic

Original Score Jonathan Moorman and Jeff McCarthy

Musicians Jonathan Moorman, Jeff McCarthy, Ishbel MacAskill and Linda Morrison

*Advance orders: $20.00 personal use $150.00 Institution use.

MacLeod Nine Productions 2319 Hampton Ave. #1, Montreal, QC H4A 2K5 Canada

514 487 8766 sagaofmurdomacleod@gmail.com macleod_nine@hotmail.com www.macleod9.com

PhD Student Maria Ezcurra @ FOFA Gallery

2011-12-22T16:56:07Z

Jan. 3 to Feb. 3, 2012
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.715 Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery presents

Christopher Moore (faculty, Design and Computation Arts)
The Cuddle Commandos
York Corridor Vitrines

Jeanie Riddle (alumna, Studio Arts)
1 Restoration
Main Gallery

Maria Ezcurra (PhD student, Art Education)
Abiertas (Open)
Ste. Catherine Street Vitrine

Sarah Gotowka (MFA student, Studio Arts)
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
Black Box

From left: Moore, Riddle, Ezcurra, Gotowka

Exhibition:
January 3 to February 3, 2012
Vernissage:
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5 to 7 p.m.

Where:
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.715
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Gallery hours:
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Information:
FOFA Gallery website or 514-848-2424 ext. 7962
(no voicemail, call during gallery hours)

MA Art Education Student Phil Robbins uses Twitter to save Expo '67 fountain

2011-12-14T15:02:15Z

MA Art Education Student Phil Robbins was interviewed by the CBC about his efforts to save the Expo '67 fountain in Corner Brook. Listen to the podcast here. MA Art Education Student Phil Robbins was interviewed by the CBC about his efforts to save the Expo '67 fountain in Corner Brook. Listen to the podcast here.

Stan Charbonneau Honoured for "Decades of dedicated service"

2011-12-07T20:22:37Z

Stan Charbonneau our departmental superhero was recently recognized for "decades of dedicated service." Stan Charbonneau, our departmental superhero, was recently recognized for "decades of dedicated service." To read more and hear an interview with Stan click here.

Isabelle Massey- Exposition Les Cles

2011-12-02T16:17:43Z

December 3, 2011 to January 6, 2012

Undergraduate Art Education student Isabelle Massey exhibition Les Cles opens the 9th of December 2011 at Cafe Rico, 969 Rachel Est, from 5- 9pm. The exhibition runs from December 3rd, 2011 to January 6th, 2012.

Maria Ezcurra- Affaires Domestiques

2011-12-01T17:08:36Z

Art Education

Art Education PhD Candidate Maria Ezcurra's exhibition Affaires Domestiques opens at Espacio México, 2055 Peel St., Montreal. December 8th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The artist will be present at the opening.
The exhibit will remain open until February 3rd, 2012 from Monday to Friday from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2p.m. to 5p.m.

María Ezcurra's work for this exhibition is a series of poetic negotiations that explore the tensions between the intimate and the public spheres as well as her aesthetic and political concerns. Through the use of clothes and other soft materials, the artist deals with issues of positionality and the mental, physical and emotional consequences of moving between and across intellectual, spatial and psychic locations. María Ezcurra's sculptures, done at home and intimately related to her roles as wife, mother and artist, extend from the domestic and into city space, emphasizing that what is personal is also public and therefore political. By sharing her own, unique situation and confessing her anxieties, the artist opens up the possibility for other people to do so, to understand our potential for being meaning makers and produce a collective social body that connects through shared experiences. By bringing us back to the material, discursive and affective sites we occupy, María Ezcurra invites reflexivity upon the crises these diverse and constant negotiations of who we are, where we are and what we are doing, entail. The artist's ability to play with her own positions within a socially predetermined grid denotes a strong desire to question not only the establishment but also her own responsibility in perpetuating arranged behaviors.

Graduate Symposium Call for Submissions

2011-12-01T16:58:34Z

On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education
Proposals Due: Friday, January 20th, 2012

Concordia Department of Art Education

Graduate Student Symposium

On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education

Proposals Due: Friday, January 20th, 2012

This conference will be a space for graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of art education, studio arts, performing arts, art history, cultural studies, humanities, creative art therapies, educational technologies and other fields of knowledge to address art and education as a site in which risk can be taken and used as a means for transformation. The idea of risk may take the form of classroom interactions or in pre-service art education, community events, interventions in technology and urban and visual culture. Risk may also apply in the form of cross-disciplinary methodologies, creative therapies, interventions within different communities, and the development of critical approaches to art and education.

For more information got to http://concordiaartedsymposium.wordpress.com/

Bake Sale! Support Art Education Undergraduates

2011-11-23T14:47:42Z

Undergraduate Art Education students are selling yummy baked goods to support a trip to the 2012 National Art Education Conference in New York, NY.

Undergraduate Art Education students are selling yummy baked goods to support a trip to the 2012 National Art Education Conference in New York, NY. They will be selling their scrumptious wares in the EV building (corner of St. Catherine and Mackay) 2nd floor on Wednesday, November 23 and 30, 2011 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Open House / Portfolio Day

2011-10-22T16:42:50Z

Saturday, October 22, 2011 Future students: don't miss our annual Open House / Portfolio Day! This is your opportunity to learn what Concordia University has to offer.

When:
Saturday, October 22, 2011
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where:
Concordia University, EV building
1515 Ste-Catherine St. West, Montreal

Attend the Art Education information session
Get your portfolio reviewed for constructive feedback
Take a tour of the university
Meet students, faculty and staff members
And much, much more!

For details, visit the Open House website.

Concordia Art Education Faculty and Students Present at CSEA

2011-10-11T20:01:03Z

The Department of Art Education is well represented with faculty and graduate students presenting at this year's CSEA (Canadian Society for Education through Art) Fall Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick (October 13-15, 2011).

For more information on CSEA, please visit: http://www.csea-scea.ca/

For more information on the CSEA Fall Conference, please visit: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=xlhezafab&oeidk=a07e3lk2jzf1c2463e3&oseq=a009gmyv4gx9

Faculty and Student Presentations:

Jessica Aylsworth, MA Student

"Connecting intimate strangers: Learning through family photographs and narratives"

This arts-based research project explores how engaging with art forms and creating artworks can be related sites of learning by investigating the relationship between and learning outcomes from engaging with old family photographs and their accompanying narratives.

Stacey Cann, MA Student

"Creating understanding through participatory online curatorial practices"

This presentation explores how participatory

online curatorial practices can be used as a tool for understanding and researching contemporary art practices.

"Art History education: An online approach"

This research explores using social media and online technology to engage students to curate online exhibitions using art historical pieces and contemporary art as well as their own art. This helps students explore their interests and thematic direction within their studio practice, in relation to art history. Stacey Cann and Jess Aylsworth

Aileen Pugliese Castro, Faculty

"Thinking through mixed media sculpture"

This presentation explores the possibilities of teaching mixed media sculpture to elementary students with limited resources. This creates opportunities for teachers and students to explore ideas and issues like sustainability by thinking through mixed media sculpture.

Juan Carlos Castro, Faculty

"Constraints, challenge and collectivity: Strategies for enabling innovation in the art classroom"

This presentation explores ways of facilitating innovation through constraints, challenge and collectivity in the art classroom. Examples from artists, art classrooms, and research will be shared.

Tina Carlisi, MA Student

CSEA Graduate Student Research Symposium

"Exploring the possibility of dialogical approaches in design education"

Patricia Chambers-Tripunitara, PhD Student

"The sounds and the silence: Creativity and holistic education in the elementary art classroom"

The creative environment of the elementary art classroom begins with the very first word the art teacher speaks. This presentation investigates how art teachers can nurture creativity by using language that reflects the profound experience of making art with children.

María Ezcurra, PhD Student

"Strip(p)ed"

This arts-based research performance uses the body as a place of learning through a series of transformations that explores the connections and intersections between personal experiences and social limits. I will transform clothes for involving participants and viewers in a fundamental understanding of ourselves and our relation with others.

CSEA Graduate Student Research Symposium

"The Emperor's new clothes: transforming clothing into art for creating new ways of knowing"

Sebastien Fitch, PhD Student

"Derailing Dewey: art education and social justice"

Starting from a critical rereading of the writings of Dewey, artist/educator Sebastien Fitch argues that art's inherent potential as a vehicle for ideology has caused many within the field of Art Education to conflate the moral role of teachers within society with their drive to share personally held political beliefs.

"Following Giacometti: A case study for a new pedagogy of art education"

Artist/educator Sebastien Fitch demonstrates how the apparently simple act of copying can serve as the basis for an original, multifacted approach to studio-based research that allows for both analytical and creative thought and introduces students to an experience that mirrors the act of artistic creation itself.

Dustin Garnet, PhD Student

"Creating artistic community: Forming an art collective of past and present fine art students"

Past and present students from a specialized technical fine art public high school were invited to participate in a teacher-led extracurricular art collective.

Jessica Hart, MA Student

"Colour exercises for expressive artmaking"

Using ecologically safe house paint, this 2-hour hands-on workshop will explore a creative set of colour exercises based on Paul Klee's colour pedagogy: part of a new expressive colour curriculum.

Laurel Hart, PhD Student

"Map mashups and mediascapes: Teaching digital

media at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling"

At Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, new media art applications are used to research and disseminate public history. As Digital Projects Coordinator at the Centre, I taught workshops on creating mediascapes, (GPS-enabled multi-media tours), and web-based Map Mashups. Come to learn about art paired with location-based media.

Zachary Kenny, MA Student

"Medical patient education material production from an arts educator and illustrator's perspective"

At McGill Molson Medical Informatics in Montréal, illustrators meet with healthcare specialists to create patient education materials favouring images and animated sequences over text, providing patients with an easy understanding of anatomy, diseases and treatment options. Projects in varying stages of completion will illuminate the feedback-creation process behind each project.

David Pariser, Faculty

"Using Frank McCourt's 'Teacher Man' as a key text with student interns"

A talk that deals with the ways in which this rich and accessible book is used as a stimulant for discussions on a range of topics related to teaching.

Scott McMaster, PhD Student

CSEA Graduate Student Research Symposium

"Creative research for art education: new methods for gathering image based data"

Anita Sinner, Faculty with Pauline Sameshima (Faculty, Washington State University)

"Dialoguing as teacher educators: Reflexive inquiry in post-secondary classrooms"

We explore our experiences as teacher educators in the post-secondary classroom through reflexive inquiry and art practice to develop understandings about how we teach the arts in relation to changing dynamics of teacher induction.

Linda Szabad-Smyth and Janette Haggar, Faculty

"The women's sun mosaic: Narratives of hope,

strength and transformation"

This presentation will provide a visual and narrative account of a community action research project, with women residents of a YWCA in Montreal, that culminated in the creation of a collaborative mosaic mural on the theme of the sun and personal transformation.