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  • Printmaking Alumni Achieve Recognition Worldwide

    Current MFA printmaking candidates Grace Sippy and Amanda Forrest-Chan at the University of Alberta have won significant awards this year. In addition, former printmaking graduates Matthew J. Rangel, Mitch Mitchell, Shannon Collis and Tracy Templeton have all recently been granted tenure track appointments in Canada and abroad.

  • Award designers' creativity snowballs into fitting tribute

    (Edmonton) Sun-splashed white winters and its northern location have inspired the design of the University of Alberta’s first-ever Community Connections Awards. When the winners are honoured May 23 at Edmonton City Hall, they will each take home a white snowball-shaped sculpture created by two proud U of A Faculty of Arts students.

  • Art and Design Professor Launches New Book

    Lianne McTavish’s new book Defining the Modern Museum (published by the University of Toronto Press) explores the history of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, as well as other organizations in Canada, the United States, and Europe, to challenge assumptions about what a museum is, what function it serves, and who partakes in its ongoing formation. In particular, McTavish focuses on the culture of exchange ‘between museums,’ linking economic, educational, and other interests. She has undertaken extensive archival research in order to study such themes as the commodification of museums, museums and entertainment, and the professionalization of museum workers, which are currently debated in scholarship devoted to critical museum theory and museum practice.

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