Image: MFA Visual Art exhibition Digging opening. Artwork (L to R): Sarah Haider, !چلو کے چلیں Chalo ke chalein! (let’s go!), 2024; Mahsa Farzi, An Unwritten Poem, 2024. Photo: Rob Bos.
AHVA Open House
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 5:00–7:00 p.m.
AHVA Gallery | 1st floor
Print Media Research Centre | 2nd floor
BFA / BA Visual Art studios | 3rd floor
MFA / CCST studios | 4th floor
Audain Art Centre
6398 University Boulevard, Vancouver
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) invites prospective students and members of the public and wider arts communities to an Open House on December 9 at the Audain Art Centre. Join us for informal presentations of current research and works-in-progress, behind-the-scenes access to research and teaching facilities, and an opportunity to chat with students, faculty, and staff. This social evening will include the presentation of a number of student awards at 6:00 p.m., so please come out to join in the celebration and learn more about the department.
Participants:
MFA Visual Artist Students: Rain Cabana-Boucher, Violet Johnson, Amanda Jordi, Nevada Lynn, Scott Massey, Fegor Obuwoma, Cassia Powell, Yihk Qu, Golriz Rezvani, Lorelei Tepponen, Gloria Wong
MA Critical and Curatorial Studies Students: Cynthia MacMillan, Josie Xu
PhD Art History Students: Aurora Avilés García, Ozan Yildiz
MA Art History Students: Gloria Jin
BFA / BA Visual Art Students: Ava Brown, Talia Brown, Jesse Bullen, Isabelle Calinisan, Zoe Cheng, Dan Driedger, Claire Dyment, Janelle Gage, Selena Ge, Blake Godfrey, Alda Grames, Anya Higano, Evan Hildreth, Colette Kim, Kahlan Kivisto, Madeline Lee, Syd Lewis, Karen Lin, Emma McTaggart, Indian Morgan, Ainsley Morrow, Kaleeka Pather, Juliana Pombo, Griffin Schwam, Zechariah Selinger, Alyanna Sia, Dugan Uribe
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Application Deadlines for Fall 2026 Admission
Graduate programs: January 9, 2026
Undergraduate programs: February 1, 2026