FCCS Artwork – FCCS ART

October 10, 2025

Pulse: A measured rhythmical beat, vibration, impulse – Jim Kalnin

Jim Kalnin is an emeritus professor from our fine arts program, where he taught drawing and painting from 1987 to 2009. He was the founding Curator of Lake Country Art Gallery from 2010 – 2011. He has taught art in many community settings, eager to convey his belief in the value of art in people’s lives. Jim has published two...

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October 2, 2025

Prelude – Annual FCCS Faculty and Staff Exhibition

Annual FCCS Faculty and Staff Exhibition An annual exhibition and speaker series featuring the artwork of selected faculty and staff in FCCS. All of our visual art and media studies instructors are practicing artists, as are many of our staff. This is an opportunity to showcase their work and offer opportunities for our students to learn more about our faculty...

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July 10, 2025

Tara Yadollahi – ‘Be In My Chador’ and Robyn Hodgson – ‘Half Life’

May 24th to July 6th 2025 Tara Yadollahi, Be in My Chador “Self-censorship lives in our body language, in the clothes we choose, and in the silent decisions we make every day. It transcends boundaries and physical forms, quietly shaping how we present ourselves to the world. I began to wonder how much of our expression is truly our own...

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June 30, 2025

Everything And Then Some – Year End Show

The show will include works from graduating students from both our Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Media Studies fourth-year students. Students have been working hard to create a body of original and engaging works over the course of the year and this April they will show their best works. The exhibition will highlight a wide variety of work...

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June 18, 2025

Matter of Time – VISA 382: Advanced Practice in Media Arts

Matter of Time: Memory | Motion | Machine is a group exhibition that investigates the impact of time on relationships and being. Through digitally manipulated stills and moving images, the works explore the passage of time, blurring the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. With layers of distortion, repetition, and transformation, these pieces invite viewers to reflect on...

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June 18, 2025

Form and Substance – MFA

Drawing on different media and approaches the Masters of Fine Arts students in first and second year combine their works with an emphasis on saturation, media, form and substance. The conceptual approaches in the artwork on display, include the value of visiting over a cup of tea, diasporic identities, trans rights, a consideration of different abilities and the freedom to...

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March 17, 2025

13 Lenses – Advanced Practice in Photography

13 Lenses, an exhibition showcasing photography by the Advanced Practice in Photography class at UBCO, pays homage to 13 Cameras, Vancouver, a photobook published by the National Film Board in 1979. This collection featured renowned artists like Roy Kiyooka, Paul Wong, IAN BAXTER&, and Barrie Jones, among others. 13 Cameras, Vancouver always resonated with me as a symbol of a...

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March 13, 2025

Be in My Chador- Tara Yadollahi

In the past few years, my projects have been engaged with themes of feminism, societal norms, and freedoms of expression; “Be in My Chador” is a video installation to explore themes of self- censorship and imposed identity. The installation consists of two videos, each projected onto opposite sides of a room through painted fabrics installed in the gallery’s center. The...

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February 19, 2025

Solace: Healing Through Art

Solace: Healing Through Art Exhibition from members of the UBC Okanagan Black Student Association in the FINA Gallery, CCS Building. February 10 to 20, 2025 Artists Names and Blurbs Jordan Hermanus Given that weather is often linked to emotions I wanted to capture the way seasonal depression can feel like it is creeping up on you as one tries to...