Accolades for the week of May 21
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has announced that Anna-Louise Crago (BA interdisciplinary studies, 2003 and MA Arts 2010) is among this year's 14 Trudeau doctoral scholarship awardees.
Each year, the foundation offers support to brilliant doctoral students from Canada and abroad who are researching innovative ideas that will help solve issues of importance to Canadians. The newest Trudeau scholars will receive a $60,000 grant per year for three years and will join a rich interdisciplinary and intergenerational network. Read the profile published in NOW.
Assistant Professor Ian Reilly, Department of Communication Studies, has won the Carl Bode Award for Outstanding Article published in the Journal of American Culture in 2012. The award, which was granted for his article, “Satirical Fake News and/as American Political Discourse,” was presented in late March at the Popular Culture Association’s national conference in Washington, D.C.
Design and Computation Arts part-time lecturer Andrew Forster has launched menlopark, an online journal on the collision of art, design, architecture and landscape. Read about the first issue.
Janet Werner (Studio Arts) is participating in an exhibition called Perfect Imperfections at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art Gallery until June 14.
On June 4, Sima Aprahamian, research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, will present her research on Armenian genocide at a panel titled, Commemoration of and Resistance to Historic Atrocity. The event will be held at Langara College in B.C.
The following day, as part of the Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture conference, she’ll take part in a book panel on Dorota Glowacka’s Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics, and Aesthetics.
On June 6, Aprahamian and Sociology and Anthropology Professor Karin Doerr, whose work focuses on the Germany’s Holocaust memorial culture, will participate in the panel, Counter or Parallel Narratives to Twenty-First-Century Commemoration of Genocide and Atrocity. On June 7, the two have organized panels titled, Margarethe von Trotta’s Movies: A Discussion of Hannah Arendt, and Screening of Rosa Luxemburg for the Society for Socialist Studies.
On May 25 in Toronto, a new Miss Universe Canada will be crowned and it could be Concordia student Lara Mackenzie. Competitors have to compete with each other in four categories: swimsuit, evening gown, personal interview and fundraising.
Be sure to watch on May 25 and vote for her.
Concordia alumna Caroline Boileau, the communications officer at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, was named artist-in-residence at the contemporary art centre SAGAMIE Centre, which receives support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Alma. The week-long residency was spent working on a new body of photographic images that were combined with drawing.
Boileau's work has been presented in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Finland and Brazil. She holds an MFA from Concordia University. Her work in drawing is represented by Espace Robert Poulin in Montréal and she is a member of the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ).
The band Metric, featuring lead singer Emily Haines, BFA (Music) 97, won big at the Juno Awards ceremony. Their album Synthetica won Alternative Album of the Year, Best Recording Package for album art and Producer of the Year (band member James Shaw).
Andy Keen, BFA (Art History) 93, and collaborators Bernie Breen, Patrick Sambrook and Shawn Marino, won the Music DVD of the Year award for their work on The Tragically Hip's Bobcaygeon.
Annabelle Chvostek, BFA (Interdisciplinary Studies) 03, and Amy Millan, BFA (Theatre) 97, were also nominated (with the band Stars).
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation have announced the long list for the 2013 Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian Art. Of the 25 artists vying for the prize, six are linked to Concordia. They are:
• Diane Borsato, MFA 03
• Anthony Burnham, BFA 97
• Jacynthe Carrier, MFA 12
• Mark Clintberg, MA 08 and current PhD candidate (Art History)
• Peter Flemming, part-time lecturer in Studio Arts (Intermedia/Cyberarts)
• Nadia Myre, MFA 02
The shortlist will be unveiled in June, and the winner announced in October.
Three design and computation arts students were recently honoured at the department’s annual exhibition in late April. Patrizia Bayer was awarded the ADIQ André Jarry prize, awarded annually by the Association des designers industriels du Québec to graduating students in the province whose work demonstrates achievement in industrial design.
Nina Bouchard won the newly established Dpt. Award, funded by Dpt. creative studio leads and alumni, and celebrates overall excellence in computation arts, with a specific focus on a user-centric experience and elegant execution.
The Surface3 Design Award, provided for the second year by Surface3 design principals and Concordia alumni, is given to a graduating student in the design program whose work showcases overall excellence, with a specific focus on concerns of sustainability. This year’s award went to Corrine Trépannier. Congratulations!
Two graduating animation filmmakers have just been invited to screen at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival Student Showcase on May 22. Sharron Mirsky and Eileen Peng will screen, respectively, Blackout and Godfather Death.
Former Stinger Cory Greenwood has signed with the NFL’s Detroit Lions. Greenwood played football for the Stingers from 2006 to 2009.