Faculty of Fine Arts
Concordia is home to Canada’s most comprehensive fine arts faculty, with nearly 4,000 students in nine departments. It offers a wide range of visual, performing, cinematic, design, digital and therapeutic arts programs.
Donations support facility upgrades, financial aid, and enable students to explore new artistic ideas through travel grants. This allows students to participate in art exhibitions, conferences, concerts, performances and festivals.
The generosity of our community also highlights the impact of arts on health and wellbeing, facilitates collaborative relationships across disciplines, and creates opportunities for Concordia students to contribute to the broader community.
Art Volt Collection
The Art Volt program supports recent Fine Arts alumni as they transition out of their academic degrees and embark on their careers. Art Volt reinforces the knowledge and practices students gain during their degree, while providing real-world experiences and connections they can build on in their personal and professional lives.
This includes the Art Volt Collection (AVC), a professional, juried sales and rental marketplace that showcases the works of recent Faculty of Fine Arts graduates, helping them launch their careers by connecting them with art patrons.
Art Hives
Open to both Concordians and the public, Art Hives are free, non-directed community spaces that foster connection, creativity, and self-care among participants.
At these community studios, everyone is considered an artist, and people are encouraged to talk, make art, build communities, and respond to critical matters creatively.
Creative arts therapy facilitators schedule and lead regular creative sessions, which welcome participants in the two fixed studio locations. Art Hives also hosts pop-up events in collaboration with other on-campus events such as Open House, Orientation, and the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation.
More Fine Arts initiatives to consider
Jean-Marc Vallée Memorial Fund
Honour the memory of the Montreal native, award-winning, internationally recognized Canadian filmmaker, film editor and screenwriter and support the next generation of filmmakers.
Martin Peach Memorial Award for the Electronic Arts
Martin Peach was a beloved and respected technician in Concordia’s Intermedia program in the Department of Studio Arts.
Honour his outstanding contributions to Electronic Arts and support the next generation of Intermedia Arts students.
Christopher Jackson Bursary
A Fine Arts student support inititiative led by Perla Muyal and Rebecca Duclos: a one-time bursary for fine arts students who are experiencing serious financial difficulty.
We welcome the opportunity to help make your philanthropic priorities a reality.
Contact us at giving@concordia.ca or 514-848-2424, ext. 3884