Author: samneal

 Misanthropocene: The New Epoch These works by students of VISA 382: Advanced Practices in Media Arts are inspired by the term used by poets Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr in their poem #MISANTHROPOCENE: 24 THESES. Exploring the negative and the positive, our students have created work that observes the effect humans have on the planet and also on one another....

Heads Up!   VISA 322T: Advanced Practice in Sculpture Instructor: Crystal Przybille   Thom Ayling Carmen Bouvier Clara Cho Makeena Hartmann Bella Jiang Yaya John Garvin LeBlanc Amy Marui Ziv Wei Wayne Xie   Heads Up! is an exhibit of plaster casts of sculptures first created in clay. The casts are the result of an intensive, skill-building process involving the creation of an armature, clay sculpture,...

Printmaking at UBC Okanagan is extremely varied.  In our modest print studio, students work with five different media areas – stone lithography, zinc-plate etching, ultra-violet screen printing, relief printing, and letterpress.  Not only do students become adept at whatever print media they are studying but they learn how to work cooperatively in what can sometimes be a bustling and chaotic...

  Connor MacKinnon graduated in the Masters of Fine Arts Visual Art programme at the University of Victoria in 2022. He is now a Workshop and Studio Technician for the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBCO.   Generating and using algorithms as tools for creation is a curious process. In many ways, they can be deterministic, repetitive, and...

Con•com•i•tance   The fact of existing or occurring together with something else.   by Jordan MacDonald, & Nayaab Master   Con•com•i•tance: the fact of existing or occurring together with something else, features elevenartists from VISA 482: Advanced Art Practices who work with a variety of, mediums, including drawing, painting; printmaking, sculpture, photography, and new media, to explore themes related to...

BECOMING KNOWN is a collection of works created by nine BFA and BMS students enrolled in VISA 482: Advanced Art Practices. Because these students are exploring a number of ideas ranging from themes of the natural world to neurodivergence, this show does not have a specific theme or prompt. However, these students have discovered a common interest in the theme...