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School of Fine Art and Music
Our school offices are located in Zavitz Hall, the MacKinnon Building (MCKN), Johnston Hall, and Alexander Hall. Operating hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
School Director
The Director oversees all academic and administrative activities within the department. Contact Kimberly Francis for inquiries related to departmental policies, strategic planning, faculty matters, or if you need high-level guidance on academic programs and departmental initiatives.
Kimberly Francis
- Office: MCKN 129
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54344
- Email: kfranc02@uoguelph.ca
Administrative Assistant to the Director
The Administrative Assistant to the Director is the main point of contact for scheduling meetings with the Director, handling day-to-day administrative tasks, and assisting with departmental documentation. Contact Nicola Ferguson for assistance with administrative forms, meeting requests, or general inquiries about the department’s operations.
Nicola Ferguson
- Office: Zavitz Hall 204
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53988
- Email: nifergus@uoguelph.ca
Academic Programs Assistant
The Academic Programs Assistant supports students with questions regarding degree requirements, course enrollment, and academic policies for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Reach out to Barbara Merrill for assistance with navigating course selection, understanding program prerequisites, or resolving enrollment issues.
Barbara Merrill
- Office: Zavitz Hall 201
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54671
- Email: bmerrill@uoguelph.ca
Faculty Advisors
These advisors support undergraduate School of Fine Art and Music students, providing guidance on course selection, program requirements, and academic resources available to studio art majors. For assistance with your undergraduate program, reach out to your respective advisor.
Music Advisors:
Kimberly Francis
- Office: MCKN 129
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52362
- Email: kfranc02@uoguelph.ca
Art History Advisors:
Susan Douglas
- Office: Johnston Hall 111
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53024
- Email: sdouglas@uoguelph.ca
Studio Art Advisors:
Sandra Rechico
- Office: Zavitz Hall 370
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52324
- Email: facultyadvisorstudioart@uoguelph.ca
Faculty
Reach out to faculty members for course-related questions, research inquiries, and mentorship opportunities. They are experts in their fields and can provide insights into specific academic topics, research methodologies, and professional development within the School of Fine Art and Music.
| Full Name | Contact | Areas of Research |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Boetzkes | Office: Johnston Hall 125 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56741 Email: aboetzke@uoguelph.ca |
Contemporary art history and theory, focusing on ecology, energy use, and environmental perception. |
| Diane Borsato | Office: Alexander Hall 374 Email: dborsato@uoguelph.ca |
Social and interventionist art practices focusing on performance, experiential learning, and the intersection of art with everyday life. |
| Susan Dobson | Office: Zavitz Hall 409 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56112 Email: sdobson@uoguelph.ca |
Contemporary photography, focusing on temporal perspectives and the evolution of photographic art practices. |
| Susan Douglas | Office: Johnston Hall 111 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53024 Email: sdouglas@uoguelph.ca |
Modern and contemporary Latin American art, art and crime, visual communication, digital art history, cultural heritage, museums and art institutions, contemporary art and visual cultures. |
| Robert Enright | Office: Zavitz Hall 309 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53012 Email: renright@uoguelph.ca |
Art criticism and theory, contemporary art, cultural journalism, and interdisciplinary studies in visual and performance arts. |
| Kimberly Francis | Office: MCKN 129 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54344 Email: kfranc02@uoguelph.ca |
Feminist musicology focusing on Nadia Boulanger, 19th- and 20th-century French music, music and medicine, occultism and religion, and the intersections of gender and cultural engagement in musicology. |
| Christian Giroux | Office: Alexander Hall 371 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56853 Email: cgiroux@uoguelph.ca |
Contemporary sculpture, public art, and film installations exploring modernity, architectural discourse, and the built environment through modernist abstraction and industrial methods. |
| James Harley | Office: Alexander Hall 187 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52989 Email: jharley@uoguelph.ca |
Composition and digital music, focusing on electroacoustic media, multi-channel audio, and the application of chaos theory to music. |
| Sally Hickson | Office: MCKN 273 Email: shickson@uoguelph.ca |
Art history focusing on women and friendship networks in Renaissance visual and material culture, women patrons and patronage studies, constructions of gender and identity in early modern visual culture, and early 20th-century Canadian women artists. |
| John Kissick | Office: Zavitz Hall 316 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53191 Email: jkissick@uoguelph.ca |
Contemporary painting and abstraction, art criticism, and writing on modern art practices. |
| Devon Knowles | Office: Zavitz Hall 414 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53659 Email: knowlesd@uoguelph.ca |
Material-centered art practice focusing on sculpture, installation, public art, and exploring how materials and production methods influence perception and social meanings. |
| Nestor Kruger | Office: Zavitz Hall 410 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56852 Email: krugern@uoguelph.ca |
Digital media and sculpture, utilizing computer software functions like mirroring, duplication, simulation, and repetition to explore concepts of familiarity and uncertainty in art. |
| Kristie MacDonald | Office: Zavitz Hall 407 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56854 Email: kristie.macdonald@uoguelph.ca |
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| Dominic Marner | Office: Johnston Hall 121 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54382 Email: dmarner@uoguelph.ca |
Medieval European art and architecture, museum studies, visual literacy, and colonialism in art. |
| Marta McCarthy | Office: Johnston Hall 124 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54377 Email: mmccarth@uoguelph.ca |
Choral conducting, choral music, music education, musicianship, and choral techniques. |
| Martin Pearce | Office: Zavitz Hall 203 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56930 Email: pearcem@uoguelph.ca |
Drawing and painting, exploring the relationship between images as representation and as records of process. |
| Sandra Rechico | Office: Zavitz Hall 370 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52324 Email: srechico@uoguelph.ca |
Studio art focusing on maps, routing, wayfaring, walking, everyday life, public space, and curatorial work. |
| Christina Smylitopoulos | Office: Johnston Hall 120 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53783 Email: csmylito@uoguelph.ca |
Art history specializing in 18th- and 19th-century art and visual culture, focusing on the late early modern period and arts-based pedagogical methodologies. |
| Howard Spring | Office: Johnston Hall 112 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 58579 Email: hspring@uoguelph.ca |
Jazz studies focusing on performance and arranging, improvisation, swing era music, the relationship between jazz and dance, ethnomusicology, and multicultural ear training. |
| Monica Tap | Office: Zavitz Hall 405 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56275 Email: mtap@uoguelph.ca |
Contemporary painting and drawing, focusing on perception, time, and the relationship between representation and abstraction. |
| Alyssa Woods | Office: Johnston Hall 113 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54985 Email: awoods08@uoguelph.ca |
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