Welcome to SOFAM

Administered from historic Zavitz Hall (and with studios in MacKinnon, Alexander, Blackwood and Fire Hall Buildings), SOFAM offers an artistically challenging and intellectually rigorous learning environment for aspiring art historians, musicians, music scholars and studio artists in a close-knit and nurturing community ideally suited for developing curiosity, critical acumen and creative drive in today's student. The School of Fine Art and Music is home to the highly competitive and well-respected MFA program in Studio Art; a program with close ties to the national and international art scene and a curriculum that has consistently graduated some of the nation's top emerging talent in the visual arts. The School also provides a variety of experiential learning opportunities through a diverse range of student-centred activities, ranging from various music ensembles, the noon hour concert series and an award winning choir, to student symposia, an active visiting artist/scholar program and a vital student gallery.

In the following pages, you will find information on our various academic programs.

At the University of Guelph, a student can major in Art History, Music or Studio Art in the 4-year (Honours) Bachelor of Arts program. The 3- year general B.A. program is also available with an area of concentration in music. We offer a number of courses through distance learning. You will also find faculty biographies and research projects by the dynamic professoriate that make up the School. There are links to the Fine Arts Network (FAN) and the Music Students Association (MSA) websites, which provide information on extra-curricular student activities in the School — part of the rich mosaic of life in SOFAM.

We hope you enjoy the information provided in the website. If in browsing the website you don't find the information you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact us. Again, welcome to the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.

— John Kissick, Director

Spotlight

Visiting Artists & Speakers | Chris Cran

Chris Cran is an internationally recognized painter who lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. His artwork explores issues of representation, on one hand related to the construction of personal and cultural identities, and on the other involving perceptual / cognitive illusion.  Chris Cran has also ventured into a variety of other related activities including teaching art, curating exhibitions, and theatre set design. Cran was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy in 2002.  He received the ACAD Alumni Award of Excellence in 2011.

Monday March 5th 2012
6pm Mackinnon Rm. 114

ALL WELCOME - FREE ADMISSION

For further information please contact Julia Hall

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Visiting Artists & Speakers | Candice Hopkins

Candice Hopkins, of Tlingit heritage, is the Sobey Curatorial Resident, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She is formerly Director and Curator of exhibitions at Western Front in Vancouver, BC.


 Her writing is published by MIT Press, Black Dog Press, New York University, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Revolver Press, Banff Centre Press, Museum|London and the National Museum of American Indian. She has been an invited speaker at Tate Modern, the Dakar Biennale, Tate Britain, Denver Art Museum. Recent curatorial projects include Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk, (Reg Vardy Gallery in Sunderland, UK, 
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Visiting Artists & Speakers | Gordon Monahan

Gordon Monahan's works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance. The renowned composer John Cage once said, "At the piano, Gordon Monahan produces sounds we haven't heard before."

Monday January 16th 2012
6pm Mackinnon Rm. 114

ALL WELCOME - FREE ADMISSION

For further

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Art History Speaker Series presents: Dr. Ruth Philips
“Dress, Display, and Dispossession Indianness and Visual Culture in 19th Century Ontario”

 

Dr Ruth Phillips is the Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture at Carleton University and former Director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.  Her new research centres on two new book projects, whose working titles are “Museum Pieces: Exhibiting Native Art in Canadian Museums”, and “Transmission and Translation: Visuality and Art in the Great Lakes”.

 

Wednesday January 25th, 5:00 pm
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Lecture Theatre
Reception to follow talk

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Welcome to SOFAM

Administered from historic Zavitz Hall (and with studios in MacKinnon, Axelrod, Blackwood and Fire Hall Buildings), SOFAM offers an artistically challenging and intellectually rigorous learning env

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