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Ian Wallace Honoured with Prestigious Order of the Owl
December 2, 2024
Spotlight
Farewell, Old Fire Hall
November 12, 2024
Alumni, In the Media, Spotlight
AHVA Alumnus Abbas Akhavan to Represent Canada at 2026 Venice Biennale
October 25, 2024
Achievement, Announcement
2024 Audain Travel Award
September 20, 2024
Student
Isabel Chen Recipient of the Spring 2024 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund
August 26, 2024
Announcement
AHVA Initiative Received Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund
August 26, 2024
Announcement
Paul Wong – AHVA Artist in Residence 2024
August 21, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
AHVA Welcomes Assistant Professors of Visual Art
July 8, 2024
Alumni, Announcement
Alumni Spotlight: Anton Lee
July 5, 2024
Alumni, Announcement
AHVA Alumna Trish Kelly Appointed Emily Carr University of Art + Design President
June 3, 2024
Announcement
Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory
March 25, 2024
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA Alumna Shahana Rajani wins the Han Nefkens Foundation—South Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023
January 15, 2024
Announcement, Student
Competition Announcement: Indigenous Graduate Fellowships
January 3, 2024
Student
47th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers
December 15, 2023
Student
47th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks
December 15, 2023
Announcement
Linnea Jericho Watts in Memoriam
December 14, 2023
Rosalin Te Omra (1949–2023)
November 9, 2023
Announcement, Student
Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People
October 27, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, In the Media
Dana Claxton Wins 2023 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
September 26, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
AHVA Welcomes Assistant Professor Camille Georgeson-Usher
July 10, 2023
Announcement
Bronze Disc Base Installed at the base of The Reconciliation Pole
June 2, 2023
Alumni
AHVA Alumnus Séamus Kealy Appointed Executive Director of Oakville Galleries
May 12, 2023
Announcement, Event Highlight
Diamond Point: ya:y̓əstəl̓ (Working Together)
May 5, 2023
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA Alumnus Woojae Kim Longlisted for the 2023 Sobey Art Award
May 2, 2023
Announcement, Spotlight
Robert Young (1938-2023)
April 27, 2023
Announcement
Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory
March 30, 2023
Announcement
David Rimmer (1942-2023)
February 10, 2023
Achievement, Alumni, In the Media
AHVA Alumna Simranpreet Anand Wins 2022 Lind Prize
February 3, 2023
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA Alumna Jenn Jackson Appointed Director/Curator of Or Gallery
February 3, 2023
Student
46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers
January 5, 2023
Student
46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks
January 5, 2023
Achievement, Announcement
Congratulations to Andrea Tuele, Dean of Arts Award for Staff Excellence Winner
December 14, 2022
Achievement, Alumni, Announcement
AHVA Alumni Shortlisted for the 2022 Lind Prize
November 28, 2022
Announcement
Statement on protests in Iran
October 31, 2022
Announcement
Rodney Graham (1949–2022)
October 28, 2022
Achievement, Alumni, Announcement, Student
2022 BMO 1st Art! BC Regional Winner
October 27, 2022
Announcement, Student
Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People
October 13, 2022
Announcement
Diamond Point – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2022
October 5, 2022
Announcement
Autumn Star Chacon Concludes Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship
September 27, 2022
Student
VISA 250 & 350 Students in Connecting the Dots Exhibition at Emily Carr
September 8, 2022
Student
Apply now! Student work learn jobs with AHVA this academic year!
August 4, 2022
Announcement, Faculty
Welcome Assistant Professor and Audain Chair Alexandra Peck
July 26, 2022
Announcement, Faculty
Welcome Assistant Professor Nikki Georgopulos
July 25, 2022
Announcement, Faculty
Welcome Assistant Professor of Teaching Jillian Lerner
July 22, 2022
Announcement, Spotlight
Seeking Director/Curator, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Assistant or Associate Professor)
July 21, 2022
Student
Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison Featured in Polygon Podcast
July 19, 2022
Alumni
MFA Alumni Marty Katzoff: The Light Within the Shell Exhibition
July 7, 2022
Achievement, Announcement, Research, Spotlight, Student
2022 Art Canada Institute Inaugural Research Fellowship
July 6, 2022
Alumni
MFA Alumni Sol Hashemi: After petal fall spray Exhibition Opening
April 14, 2022
Announcement
Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory
March 28, 2022
In the Media, Spotlight, Student
Reconciliation Pole: Bronze Disc Base
March 11, 2022
Achievement, Spotlight, Student
Art History Major Ivy Li Recognized by Faculty Scholarship
March 2, 2022
Announcement, Faculty, Research
New Publications by Professor Joseph Monteyne
March 1, 2022
Announcement, Exhibition
Visual Art Undergraduate Exhibition 2022 Virtual Tour
February 9, 2022
45th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Artworks
January 11, 2022
45th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition: Call for Papers
January 11, 2022
Announcement, Faculty
Welcome Associate Professor Nuno Porto
January 10, 2022
Seeking Assistant Professor of Teaching, Art History
December 1, 2021
Seeking Open Rank Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art and Cultural Practices
December 1, 2021
Announcement, Exhibition, Faculty, Research, Spotlight, Student
AHVA Faculty and Students involved in SANKOFA – African Routes, Canadian Roots at Museum of Anthropology
November 19, 2021
Announcement, Faculty, Publication
New Book by Dana Claxton, The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate
November 15, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight
Autumn Star Chacon – 2021 Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellow
November 4, 2021
Announcement
Seeking Research Assistants for Red on Red on the Workshop Floor: Indigeneity and The Labour Theory of Value
October 22, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight, Student
Call to Action! Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People
October 14, 2021
Announcement
Andrew Gruft (1937-2021)
October 4, 2021
Announcement, Spotlight
Orange Shirt Day | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 24, 2021
Announcement
Garry Neill Kennedy (1935-2021)
August 12, 2021
Announcement
Seeking Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Arts (tenure-track/stream)
August 11, 2021
Announcement
Welcome Lecturer Karice Mitchell
July 16, 2021
Announcement, Faculty
Welcome Assistant Professor Dan Starling
July 9, 2021
Announcement, In the Media
UBC Flag Lowered In Memory of the 215 Children Buried at the Former Kamloops Indian Residential School
June 8, 2021
Achievement, Alumni
Congratulations to Art History Honours Graduate Niklas Groschinski
June 2, 2021
Alumni, Exhibition, Faculty
AHVA Faculty and Alumni involved in Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo at the Vancouver Art Gallery
May 31, 2021
Announcement, Faculty, Publication
New Book by Professor Erin Silver, Suzy Lake: Life & Work
May 7, 2021
Announcement
Call for applications: Art History and Visual Art Sessional Lectureships
April 26, 2021
Achievement, Alumni
Dustin Brons Selected as Winner of 2021 New Generation Photography Award
April 6, 2021
Announcement
Seeking Canada Research Chair (Tier II, tenure-track) in Art History — History of South Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture
March 29, 2021
Announcement, In the Media
Statement Denouncing Anti-Asian Racism
March 25, 2021
Announcement
Seeking Lecturer in Visual Art, Photography
March 24, 2021
Announcement, Exhibition, Faculty
VISA 330 Painting Showcase at Audain Art Centre
March 24, 2021
Announcement
Call for Applications: Ellen Neel & Beau Dick Award in Art History, Visual Art & Theory
March 11, 2021
Announcement, Faculty
AHVA Welcomes Professor Rachel Boate
January 25, 2021
Achievement, Announcement
Germaine Koh – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2021
January 25, 2021
Event Highlight, Exhibition, Faculty
Visual Art Professor Gu Xiong’s Exhibition - Galleries West Stories
January 20, 2021
Alumni, Announcement, In the Media
AHVA MFA Alumni Jay Pahre Featured in the Winter Issue of Canadian Art
January 19, 2021
Announcement
Call to Action! Joanne & Alice Application Support Fund for Black and Indigenous People
November 30, 2020
Announcement
Updates on Spring 2021 Course Delivery in AHVA
October 23, 2020
Achievement, Alumni
BMO 1st Prize Regional Winner for BC
October 15, 2020
Achievement, Alumni
Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship
October 15, 2020
Achievement, Research
2020 Audain Travel Award
October 15, 2020
Announcement
ARTH 382—Is Art History Queer?
July 17, 2020
Announcement
ARTH 230—Art and Feminism(s)
July 17, 2020
Spotlight
ARTH 464—Seminar on Japanese Art
June 29, 2020
Spotlight
ARTH 323—Heaven and Earth: Renaissance Art and Culture in Northern Europe
June 29, 2020
Spotlight
ARTH 253—Asian Architecture
June 29, 2020
Achievement, Faculty
Professor Dana Claxton Awarded 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award
June 24, 2020
Announcement, In the Media
Department Statement on Black Lives Matter
June 12, 2020
Announcement
Fall 2020 Courses in AHVA
May 31, 2020
Announcement
CrDF Standing and AHVA Undergraduate Programs
March 31, 2020
Announcement
Department COVID-19 Update: March 31
March 31, 2020
Announcement
Department COVID-19 Update: March 17
March 17, 2020
Achievement, Faculty
Dana Claxton and Kenneth Lum Honoured with Major Art Awards
March 15, 2020
Achievement, Alumni
Former AHVA Student Derrick Chang Appointed Centre A Executive Director
February 13, 2020
Announcement, In the Media
Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Statement
February 10, 2020
Alumni, In the Media
Gordon A. Smith (1919-2020)
January 20, 2020
Achievement
Professor Dana Claxton Awarded 2019 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award
January 13, 2020
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA Alumni Vanessa Parent Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship
December 17, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 311—Art in the Early Medieval West
December 12, 2019
Announcement, Faculty
Stan Douglas – AHVA Koerner Artist in Residence 2019-2020
September 3, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 376—Arts of the Northwest Coast Peoples: The North
July 31, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 397A—Special Topic: Mexican Muralism
July 25, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 361—Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art
July 25, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 360—Chinese Painting: Word and Image
July 25, 2019
Spotlight
ARTH 351b—Art and Architecture in the Islamic World
July 25, 2019
Achievement, Alumni
2019 Lind Prize Announcement
June 20, 2019
Alumni, Announcement
AHVA Alumna, Jayne Wilkinson is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Art
May 31, 2019
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA PhD Candidate Pamela MacKenzie wins pre-doctoral fellowship
May 31, 2019
Achievement, Faculty
Professor Dana Claxton is a 2019 YWCA Woman of Distinction Winner
May 14, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight
Shawn Hunt
March 25, 2019
Achievement, Faculty
Professor Althea Thauberger Shortlisted for 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award
March 21, 2019
Alumni, Announcement, Spotlight
MFA Alumna, Olivia Whetung 2018 Recipient of the John Hartman Award
February 28, 2019
Announcement, In the Media
Department Statement Regarding Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders
January 10, 2019
Faculty
Professor Emeritus Serge Guilbaut Curates New Exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía
November 15, 2018
Faculty
Visual Art Professor Dana Claxton's Solo Exhibition Opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery
October 27, 2018
Achievement, Alumni
MFA Graduate Christopher Lacroix Wins Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize
September 21, 2018
Faculty, Publication
First Book by Jillian Lerner: Graphic Culture
September 6, 2018
Alumni
AHVA PhD Candidate Gloria Bell Receives Assistant Professor Position at McGill
July 31, 2018
Achievement, Faculty, Student
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O'Brien Receives Darat al Funun Fellowship
June 8, 2018
Achievement, Alumni
AHVA Alumna, Jeneen Frei Njootli Is Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award
May 29, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight
Professor Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Foucault on Painting
May 23, 2018
Faculty, In the Media
Geoffrey Smedley (1927–2018)
May 16, 2018
Announcement, Faculty
AHVA Welcomes Professor Althea Thauberger
January 29, 2018
Faculty, Publication
Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Her Work in the Foucault Archive at the BnF
January 9, 2018
Achievement, Faculty, Publication
Dana Claxton Shortlisted for bpNichol Chapbook Award
November 10, 2017
Faculty, Publication
Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting - forthcoming in November 2017 from University of Minnesota Press
November 2, 2017
Announcement
41st Annual Graduate Symposium: Call for Papers
October 20, 2017
Faculty, In the Media
Professor Jaleh Mansoor featured in TEXTE ZUR KUNST
June 8, 2017
In the Media
Chief Beau Dick (1955–2017)
March 28, 2017
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty, Student
2017 Lind Prize Nominees from AHVA
March 21, 2017
Faculty, Publication
First Book by Professor Jaleh Mansoor: Marshall Plan Modernism
November 21, 2016
Faculty, Publication
Release of Foucault on the Arts and Letters, Catherine M. Soussloff, ed.
November 8, 2016
Achievement, Faculty
Dana Claxton Wins 2016 Mayor's Arts Award for Visual Arts
October 17, 2016
Alumni, Faculty
A Thousand Kinds of Wind Unveiled at Gordon Neighbourhood House
June 8, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight
Ian Wallace
June 3, 2016
Alumni
MFA 2013 Graduates
May 30, 2016
Announcement
May 30, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight
Alexander Alberro
May 25, 2016
Publication, Spotlight
Postcard to Moscow
May 20, 2016
Announcement
Test Slide 2
May 18, 2016
Announcement
Test Slide
May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight
Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War
May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight
Camera Atomica
May 18, 2016
Publication, Spotlight
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade
May 18, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight
Ken Lum
May 18, 2016
Faculty, In the Media
James Caswell (1937–2016)
February 15, 2016
Announcement
Do I have to apply separately for funding?
January 18, 2016
This exciting exhibition is a joint effort between AHVA and the AMS.
December 15, 2015
Faculty, Spotlight
Dana Claxton: Made To Be Ready
December 15, 2015
Alumni, Announcement, In the Media
AHVA MFA Grads A Akhavan and R Boisjoly in the news!
October 29, 2015
Announcement, In the Media
International Election Observers to Monitor Monday’s Vote
October 16, 2015