This student-organized club is to create a space where students are invited to learn how to engage in critical dialogue, make relationships with their peers, and discuss critique feedback. Guest alums will assist with the critique and share their perspectives.
- Thursday, March 14, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
- MCA 330, 100 McCaul St, 3rd floor
- Guest alum: Evgenia Mikhaylova
Evgenia Mikhaylova is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, video, sound, drawing and performance. Her work examines communication eco-systems, the underbelly of language, meaning-making, and epistemology through interdisciplinary research-based practice that investigates parallels between the ways we experience the world through our senses and the ways we interpret the knowledge we acquire.
- What is the Faculty of Art Critique Club?
The Critique Club is a student-organized activity that provides a platform for critical dialogue, conceptual development, technique sharing, and networking. We welcome students from all programs and levels of the Faculty of Art to participate in this activity. During the club, participants are encouraged to present finished work or work in progress for feedback and open-minded conversation.
- What kinds of critiques can I expect?
The Critique Club is focused on students' conceptual development and, accordingly, we emphasize examining each work of art in its totality rather than as a collection of formal details. We are chiefly interested in improving each other's artistic thinking, though critique focus may vary from student to student and can include feedback on technique.
- Who can attend the Critique Club?
The Critique Club is open to all students in the Faculty of Art.
- What if I don't have any work to show?
You don't need to present finished work; if you would like feedback about a work in progress or an unrealized project, we would be happy to accommodate you. If you would simply like to experience the format of a student-run critique, you are welcome as well.
- Do I need to bring anything for installation?
We will provide a hammer and nails, as well as an easel for two-dimensional work. If you will require any additional materials or equipment for setup, you must bring your own or borrow from tool loans.
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- Thursday, February 15, from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
- MCA 330, 100 McCaul St, 3rd floor
- All FoA students are welcome
About guest alumni, Luca Soldovieri on Feb 15
Luca Soldovieri is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Soldovieri’s labour-intensive practice sources materials that once held significance like personal love letters, family heirlooms, forgotten objects, and even household dust. In returning these materials back to their organic form, Soldovieri is able to pay tribute to the past while fostering new conversations about loss, memory and transformation.
Soldovieri received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University and has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States.