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June 23, 2022

2022 Mural: Painted Turtle

Nine students in the visual arts mural painting course began work in early May 2022, unveiling the finished painting on June 23. This latest mural is located 2820 Pandosy St., and continues the theme of the previous two murals in downtown Kelowna—sensitive habitats and ecosystems of the Okanagan. Each mural depicts local flora and fauna to help bring awareness to...

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June 13, 2022

2022 Outbdoor Banner Exhibition

This project originally launched in 2020, with the first banners erected in the spring of 2021, as a means of creating new opportunities for local artists amidst pandemic-related facility closures. The banner project continues as a unique and engaging way to expand access to exhibition space in the city. Each year, the Outdoor Banner Exhibition Program showcases 13 original works...

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April 14, 2022

Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds

FCCS instructor Emerald Holt (VISA 269.001 “Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds) is pleased to present the class final exhibition of virtual environments that place the artwork in critical, historical, and cultural context within creative inquiry in the arts and digital media production. The virtual worlds explore non-liner storytelling, media aesthetics, modelling, animation, interaction design and coding using 3D modelling...

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April 8, 2022

Spring Mix

BFA Student Exhibition | April 1 to May 25 Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Ave. | Daily Exhibition of student work curated by visual arts instructor, Connor Charlesworth

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April 8, 2022

Behind A Head – Advanced Sculpture

The Advanced Practice in Sculpture exhibit Behind a Head explores the theme of the human head and psyche. Each student developed their concept through a learning process of creating a sculpture armature, oil-clay original sculpture, multi-part silicone mold, and casting the works in plaster. Advanced Sculpture students: Makeena Hartmann Jordan MacDonald Sara Richardson Bruce Zhou Instructor Crystal Przybille

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April 5, 2022

Liminal Connections – Advanced Practice in Drawing

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March 14, 2022

Sea Dreams

Sea Dreams An exhibition by alumni Joanne Gervais (BFA ’06, MFA ’10) and Shauna Oddleifson (BFA ’98) This animated tale that tells a story of a little girl character wearing an octopus mask and her interactions with sea-creatures, underwater plant life and the impact of human negligence. With increasing temperatures brought about by climate change, and the accumulation of plastics,...

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March 14, 2022

Homescape – VISA 215 Introduction to Painting

Homescape UBCO BFA Students Under the instruction of David Doody, this group of Introduction to Painting (VISA 215) students present these paintings that explore the interior landscapes of one’s “own space”. Homescapes consists of portraits of physical and psychological residuals left in the wake life lived indoors, during a year of global pandemic and self-isolation. These works were created during...

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March 14, 2022

Collective Relevance – Advance Practice in Photography

‘Collective Relevance’ can be interpreted in two manners. Meaning can be attributed to seemingly unconnected works through mutual exhibition, but also that the collective remains an important strategy for sharing ideas and values. This term’s component of the Advanced Practice in Photography course is dedicated to independent research, and some of the pictures here were produced in recent weeks. Others were created during autumn, 2021. Regardless of their...

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March 7, 2022

ONE Chair -VISA 105 class project

One Chair What is a chair? Visa 105 sculpture students were asked to reflect on the manner by which we define objects, but also on how objects also define us. Using as a point of departure Joseph Kosuth’s seminal 1964 installation ‘One and Three Chairs’, they had to create a chair that would reveal something about them. These self-portraits in...

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