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CONVERSATIONS 

Fine Arts Grad Show / BU Film Festival | 2019

April 3 – April 13, 2019

Student Artists

Maya Berbery, Kaitlyn Card, July-Ann El Baze, Diane Greggain, Saskia Jouneau, Marie-Soleil Provençal, Shannon Taylor 

 

Student Curator

Alexandra Tourigny Fleury  

Overview

A conversation. More open-ended than a discussion, deeper than a chat; more nuanced than gossip and more sensitive than a debate. Rich in complexity, fluid, porous, a process of reciprocal engagement. In this sense, a conversation is dynamic, malleable, the antithesis of monomania and rigidity. No especial dogma prevails and there is nothing particular to achieve, except for the encounter itself—a coming-together of people, ideas, gestures and experiences. Such are the notions informing the 21st Annual Graduating Fine Arts Students Group Exhibition (aka the Grad Show), an encounter marked by movement, intersection and exchange. 

The voices in Conversations belong to the seven young women forming the graduating cohort as they present the works that mark the completion of their program. Over the last four years, each has fine-tuned her unique artistic identity. Their sources of inspiration are diverse, their ideas, heterogeneous and their approaches, multivariate; yet each is motivated by the same desire to engage, not just with her art world peers, but also with society at large. Art is essentially a matter of communication, after all. 

 

VIDEOTANK | BISHOP’S UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL (BUFF) 2019 

Overview

The Foreman Art Gallery is proud to present the 2019 edition of the Bishop’s University Film Festival in conjunction with the exhibition conversations. The Bishop’s University Film Festival (BUFF) celebrates and publicizes the creativity and skill of Bishop’s students, no matter what program they are in, through an annual competition in digital filmmaking. A selection of BUFF films is presented at the Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke held annually in April, and one BUFF film competes in the student competition at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in October. 

Additional information can be found online :  

https://www.ubishops.ca/academic-programs/faculty-of-arts-and-science/humanities/english/events-in-the-english-department/buff/ 

 

LAUNCHING OF THE STUDENT-RUN PUBLICATION THE MITRE 

April 3, 2019

Overview

The Foreman Art Gallery is proud to host the launching of The Mitre during the opening reception of the exhibition Conversations. The Mitre is an annual, student-run publication which accepts all forms of written and visual creative expression. The Mitre, is the oldest student literary journal in Canada. It has been published at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec since 1893. The theme explored this year is Echos and Reflexions. 

 

Additional information can be found online :  

https://www.ubishops.ca/academic-programs/faculty-of-arts-and-science/humanities/english/events-in-the-english-department/the-mitre/ 

 

We would like to thank the following: Bishop’s University Student Association; Michele Murray, Dean of Arts and Science; Stine Linden-Andersen, Dean of Student Affairs; Miles Turnbull, Vice-Principal, Academic Administration and Jim Benson, Chairperson, Fine Arts Department. We would also like to thank Tim Doherty for his contribution as photographer and Claude Lacroix Chairperson, Art History and Theory for his support.