Two Art Education MA Students' Thesis Research Wins Awards

Petra Zantingh

Petra's thesis, Space for drawing: Women, art, love, and fear, was awarded the Graduate Prize from the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education, part of the Canadian SSE. Petra's thesis is an arts-based research project that investigates a group of older women as they develop their drawing skills and aesthetic awareness.

Scott MacLeod

Scott MacLeod's thesis, Dans l'Griff / In Griffintown, was the recipient of the  2014 Award for Excellence in Oral History. The thesis focuses on a two-generation French Canadian family, who through a series of interviews and a selection of their personal photographs from the 1940s to the 2000s, describe their Griffintown community experience. Griffintown is a former industrial inner-city neighbourhood reflecting Montreal's industrial past, just south of the city's downtown.