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PAGE 2 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS FORWARD-THINKING, DISCIPLINED, DIVERSE Our faculty is among Canada’s foremost for the study and creation of visual and performing arts
Right-brain or left-brain? Performance or Anchored in Montreal, our fine arts FINE ARTS AT GLANCE: creation? Art history or contemporary programs explore human connections dance? Over four decades, students, to our society and to our world. Our • 4 research centres professors and alumni from Concordia’s professors are at the forefront of innovative Faculty of Fine Arts have built a solid teaching while our research strengthens • Canada Research Chair reputation in all spheres of creative thinking. cultural knowledge. • 9 Concordia University Research Chairs Our community produces work that’s Some 3,700 undergraduate and graduate • other research chair/special research omnipresent in galleries, on stage, in students pursue their studies in our professorship libraries, on film, in media headlines, nine departments. We remain a top in traditional or digital formats and in choice for students; some 80 per cent of • 9 departments public spaces — locally, nationally and graduate applicants hold degrees from internationally. other institutions, and approximately • 58 programs 80 per cent of accepted undergraduate What we offer is unique. We feature applicants confirm their registration. • 3,700 students Canada’s widest range of fine arts disciplines in one faculty — 58 programs in the visual, Our curriculum is grounded in hands- • 3,200 undergraduates performing, design and digital arts. on work, technological exploration, • 570 graduate students scholarly crticism and art therapies. Our educational approach provides a toolkit • 224 international students for big thinking. • 7 full-time faculty Our alumni and professors have earned almost every important arts distinction: • 28 part-time faculty Tonys, Pulitzers, Junos, Jutras, Grammys, Sobeys, Prix du Québec and Governor • 5,900 fine arts alumni worldwide General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Such accolades reaffirm how fine arts education enriches our society.
CONCORDIA first Graduate Diane Morin, MFA 03, becomes the first recipient of the 204 Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec’s Contemporary Art Award of $00,000 — the first accolade of its kind in Canada.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 3 Skawennati Fragnito, GrDipl 96, BFA 92, artist and co-director of Hexagram-Concordia’s Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
“We’re interested in how we train young people to be producers of new media, not just consumers, so they can make things and tell their stories.” — Jason Lewis, associate professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts; 204 Trudeau Fellow; co-director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network; research director, Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media; co-director, Skins Summer Institute; researcher, Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies
PAGE 4 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS OPEN-MINDED Our students and professors experiment in nine innovative departments
Our Department of Art Education Our Department of Creative Arts At our Department of Music, students produces skilled teachers through studio art Therapies uses art, theatre and dance perform, compose and improvise in genres training and apprenticeship. Our programs in therapeutic and rehabilitative settings. from jazz to classical and electronica. Our include the country’s first and only PhD in Students study client-therapist relationships, student community collaborates with art education. group dynamics, psychodynamic approaches peers to create music for drama, dance, and therapy techniques. Our department cinema, animation, installation art and Our Department of Art History, a national has robust research activity and a strong performance art. Areas of study include trailblazer thanks to its commitment to network of field placements in healthcare theory, history, instrumental and vocal Canadian art, takes a transcultural and and community agencies. studies including ensembles and private interdisciplinary approach. Our students study, composition, jazz, electroacoustics/ analyze the vital role visual and performing Our Department of Design and recording and music technology. arts play in forging our culture. Computation Arts features a matrix of labs where our students and Our Department of Studio Arts offers a Our Department of Contemporary professors examine the culture of design discipline-based approach to studio practice, Dance, one of the few departments in in contemporary society. In Design, balanced with openness to interdiscipli- North America dedicated to choreography students work with images, objects and narity and traditional and non-traditional and creativity, propels budding talent to the multimedia before specializing in print, techniques. Our undergraduates major forefront. Each student develops through websites, typography, furniture, 3D in drawing and painting, ceramics, fibres/ technical work, theory, creative thinking, rapid prototyping or display and design material practices, print media, sculpture, self-direction and studio exploration. installations. In Computation Arts, students photography or intermedia/cyberarts. Students stage their own choreographies train as designers, artists and researchers, and collaborate across disciplines. producing work that is aesthetically Department of Theatre students are engaging, conceptually provocative and guided by faculty members active on the technically innovative. local, national and international scene. Students build skills in acting, research, The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema production, design, playwriting and theatre prepares filmmakers, animators, historians, for social change. Opportunities for critics and theorists who appreciate film’s internships and practical experience are history and potential. Our students work offered by the department. in animation, sound and post-production labs, and studios, and can take advantage of modern screening facilities and important
film and video collections.
CONCORDIA first For the first time ever, one in four artists and curators featured in the 203 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Oh, Canada” exhibit — the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art — hail from the Faculty of Fine Arts.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 5 Our award-winning faculty: Gabor Szilasi (Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts 200), Christopher Jackson (Royal Society of Canada 2009), Raymonde April (Order of Canada 200) and Geneviève Cadieux (Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts 20)
PAGE 6 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS FORWARD-THINKING RESEARCH We combine disciplines to exploit new technologies that push boundaries and uncover important social and cultural aspects of art
BIG CHAIRS AND BIG IDEAS Performative environments: Chris Salter, Responsive textiles, wearable computers: an associate professor and director of With a team of graduate research We feature an extraordinary group of the Hexagram-Concordia Centre for assistants and electrical engineers and scholars, including research chairs, and Research-Creation in Media Arts and programmers, Barbara Layne, a professor numerous scholarly journals. Technologies, is founder of labXmodal. He of fibres and material practices in our • The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, focuses on performative environments and Studio Arts program, develops smart Journal of Canadian Art History and his projects include small- and large-scale textiles. These interactive fabrics serve as Recherches sémiotiques – Semiotic Inquiry. public-driven installations that blur the line a digital messaging system that connects between spectator and performer. He digital fibres to micro-controllers. Joanna • Student-run journals include Synoptique also investigates how to merge traditional Berzowska, a professor in the Department (film studies),InArte (art education) performance with computational and of Design and Computation Arts, develops and Concordia Undergraduate Journal media systems. interactive electronic fabrics. Her creations of Art History. harness and store power from the Aboriginal art and culture: Heather human body to light shapes and colours in INTERDISCIPLINARY Igloliorte, an assistant professor in the garments. Department of Art History, explores Our community explores cultural and how preservation of indigenous arts Contextualizing cinema: Haidee societal issues across disciplines. The and cultures has changed through digital Wasson, associate professor at the Mel Canadian Women Artists History Initiative technologies. A member of Concordia’s Hoppenheim School of Cinema, explores — led by Kristina Huneault, Concordia Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute media forms and practices in cinema, University Research Chair in Art History — for Studies in Canadian Art, she examines newspapers, books, radio, film, television unites researchers in the study of historical Inuit and Native North American visual and the internet. Her award-winning book, women artists in Canada. culture as well as colonization, sovereignty, Museum Movies (University of California resistance and resilience. Press, 2005), provides a rich cultural Other highlights include: history of cinema’s transformation from a Challenging boundaries in drawing: Drawing passing amusement to an enduring art. • Shira Avni, a professor from the Mel Lab Dessin is a research lab that provides a Hoppenheim School of Cinema and platform for action and discussion around member of the Hexagram-Concordia contemporary practices in drawing — a Centre for Research-Creation in foundation for other artistic disciplines. It Media Arts and Technologies, explores features exhibitions and collaborations with representations of disability and identity other universities, galleries and museums. through community-based animated Its creation was a collaboration between documentaries. four members of the Department of Studio • Martha Langford, Research Chair Arts: Eric Simon, associate professor and and Director of the Gail and Stephen chair; Luanne Martineau, associate professor; A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in François Morelli, professor; and Patrick Traer, Canadian Art, co-authored the book, associate professor. A Cold War Tourist and His Camera.
CONCORDIA first The Department of Creative Arts Therapies introduces its MA in Creative Arts Therapies, Music Therapy Option in 200 as Quebec’s first fully professional training program.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 7 Lights, camera, action: Film production students at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema shoot and edit films using the same state-of-the-art digital environment as movie studios.
PAGE 8 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS BIG-THINKING INNOVATION Our community of researchers reflects on both tradition and new technologies, as well as develops interdisciplinary collaborations
The Centre for the Arts in Human The Hexagram-Concordia Centre for The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Development carries out teaching, clinical Research-Creation in Media Arts and Institute for Studies in Canadian Art work and research that serves adults with Technologies is the largest new media builds appreciation for visual culture developmental disabilities or special needs. arts and design lab in Canada. Some 55 through exchanges with the academic The centre uses art, drama, music and dance/ researchers and graduate students carry and museum communities. The institute movement therapies to promote autonomy out interdisciplinary research that ranges recently acquired the Centre for and self-confidence, improve social skills and from digital textiles and new theatre Contemporary Canadian Art’s database enhance overall quality of life. technologies to animation for cinema and — an online catalogue featuring more electroacoustic music. than 62,000 images, 3,000 texts and Technoculture, Art and Games, an media files on Canadian artists, writers interdisciplinary research centre commonly ARTHEMIS (the Advanced Research and designers. known as TAG, brings together scholars, Team on History and Epistemology artists, designers, engineers and students of Moving Image Study), based in the from across disciplines and from a variety of Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, universities and industries. investigates the evolution and multiple facets of film and moving images. SUSTAINABLY-MINDED Fine Arts fosters holistic, experimental, sustainable thinking at all levels Learning through teaching: Associate Making a difference abroad: With the Three Mile Meal: Part art, activism and professor pk langshaw, named one of Concordia Volunteer Abroad Program, philosophy, Concordia’s SenseLab — an Concordia’s inaugural Sustainability professor langshaw led fine arts and international network of artists, academics Champions in 200, has worked for a decade engineering graduate students in the design and writers — hosted a Three Mile Meal with the alternative school operated by Dans and building of the Concordia Community between the districts of Outremont, la Rue, a Montreal non-profit that supports Volunteer Centre in Gulu, Uganda, in 202. Mile End and Parc Extension. The event homeless youth. Her students teach featured public kitchens and information computer skills to at-risk youth with teachers Quebec Eco-design: Student-created booths encouraging creative methods and trainees receiving academic credit. furniture projects overseen by Martin as links between cultures. SenseLab was Racine, a professor in the Department founded by Erin Manning, an associate of Design and Computation Arts, garner professor in the Department of Studio significant attention at the Salon international Arts and Film Studies and Concordia du design’s Quebec Eco-design exhibition. University Research Chair in Relational Art Racine is also a member of the education and Philosophy. committee of Mission Design, a consortium of design leaders committed to raising awareness on design’s vital role in Quebec’s social, cultural and economic fabric.
CONCORDIA first The Faculty of Fine Arts partners with the Faculty of Arts and Science in 2007 to create the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture — the first Quebec institution that supports innovative humanities-based scholarship and creative work.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 9 “Art has the power, the potential, to bear witness to emotional dimensions that we are not necessarily aware of and to foster psychological and emotional health.” — Josée Leclerc, associate professor, Department of Creative Art Therapies
PAGE 10 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS THINKING BEYOND OUR CAMPUSES Students, professors and alumni advance community outreach through various initiatives, internships and partnerships
• On our doorstep: Our students share As an interdisciplinary project, Ingrid Our music-centered wellness programs art with disadvantaged communities in Bachmann’s Hybrid Bodies brings provide high-quality professional music ther- homeless shelters and soup kitchens. together artists and scientists to apy for community members to promote investigate the personal experiences and health and wellness, as well as consultation • Studying abroad: For one or two terms, cultural views of heart transplant patients. and continuing education services for health thanks to Concordia’s formal ties with While the bio-medical perspective is well and education professionals. more than 00 institutions in understood, the complex experience of 33 countries on six continents. organ transplant merits exploration to Multimedia approaches adopted by promote discussion and healing. Creative Arts Therapies programs spin • During internships: Students acquire off film and performance art created by priceless practical and research experience The Centre for the Arts in Human celebrated faculty to produce accessible with professional organizations and Development — a research, clinical and learning tools for clinicians and families industrial partners. educational program — engages in public dealing with social issues such as mental outreach using creative arts therapies as health and suicide. • In clinical training: Montreal provides tools for rehabilitation and growth. This many excellent opportunities for creative includes drum circles for at-risk youth and Quebec’s Cross-Cultural Dialogue arts therapies students to work in therapeutic theatre with the blind and Initiative: Talking and Living, Together hospitals, schools and community settings. vision-impaired people in mind. is drama therapy that brings people together to exchange on difficult topics, OUR THOUGHTFUL Our sandplay therapy room — within the such as cultural tensions, to broaden their PARTNERSHIPS Department of Creative Arts Therapies — perspectives. enables adults and children to project their Neighbourhood art hives in the heart thoughts, feelings and fantasies into a small The Community Art Education (CAE) of Montreal — such as La Ruche d’Art created world using miniature figurines. program offered in the Department of St-Henri — serve as storefront classrooms Recent applications include an exploration Art Education places 60 undergraduate that welcome everyone as an art maker of the psychology of transition in the lives of students with more than 20 different and help integrate the entire community immigrants to Quebec. agencies, catering to community centres, through building practical skills, fostering rehabilitation facilities, seniors’ residences, imaginations, nurturing a strong sense of A collaborative project with AMI-Quebec homeless shelters and after-school belonging, and enhancing empathy. (Action on Mental Illness) allows students programs. Graduate students with and faculty to create plays based on the community teaching experience mentor experiences of caregivers of the mentally and supervise undergraduates. ill. Post-performance forums with mental health professionals, family members and others enhance a capacity for well-being and resilience among caregivers.
CONCORDIA first In 2002, Design and Computation Arts professor Joanna Berzowska fashions the future through the first wearable computers, e.g. clothes that blend technology and design.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 11 Enter stage left: Students from the Department of Theatre’s design and performance programs produce theatrical performances through hands-on, practical learning.
PAGE 12 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS BRIGHT MINDS, BIG CITY A close community in a vibrant city provides an ideal creative environment
Our faculty offers a diverse yet close PERFORMANCE VENUES STUDIOS community of teachers, students, researchers and alumni who work in modern, stimulating At Sir George Williams Campus: Fine Arts students enjoy fully equipped settings in the heart of Montreal. • The D.B. Clarke Theatre is a newly facilities for: renovated, fully equipped 380-seat • Picture and sound editing Our students benefit from up-to-date venue for theatre, music and dance facilities, studios, practice rooms and • Post-production productions. lecture halls. • Printing and dyeing • The J. A. DeSève Cinema screens The Engineering, Computer Science and • Papermaking student work and award-winning films, Visual Arts Integrated Complex: Opened in as well as hosts lectures and artist talks. • Analogue and digital photography 2006, the building is at the centre of our Both venues are also used as classrooms. Sir George Williams Campus. It houses • Ceramics the departments of Studio Arts, Design • Hexagram-Concordia Centre for • Metalworking & woodworking and Computation Arts, Art Education Research-Creation in Media Arts and • Maquette building and Art History. Technologies’s Black Box • Rapid prototyping is a state-of-the-art multimedia ART GALLERIES performance space. • Lithography • Mould-making • The FOFA Gallery features works by fine At Loyola Campus in Montreal’s west-end arts students, faculty, staff and alumni. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: • Costume making and dyeing • The VAV Gallery is a democratically- • The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall • Lighting run student space and shows work by hosts 200 concerts, lectures, theatrical • Dance and theatre studios undergraduates. productions and recording sessions each year. • Prop shop • The MFA Gallery, which features thesis • Foundry shows and other exhibitions by MFA • The open-concept F.C. Smith • Keyboard lab students, also acts as a teaching lab. Auditorium accommodates everything from musicals to multimedia and • Shooting studios • The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, interdisciplinary events. • Mechanical Jacquard loom overseen by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, focuses on • The Cazalet Studio, a flexible black- • Networked multimedia contemporary art and features works box venue, is available for student by graduate students at its annual productions. exhibition Ignition.
CONCORDIA first Five Faculty of Fine Arts students launch the first Art Matters festival in 2000, a celebration of student art that has since become Canada’s largest annual student-run festival.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 13 “I started hearing everything differently the day Professor Kevin Austin moved theatrically about the classroom while he spoke to introduce us to the varying acoustic properties of the space.” — Sarah Neufeld, BFA 03 (Electroacoustic Studies), violinist, composer, producer, and member of the Grammy Award-winning band Arcade Fire
PAGE 14 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS BIG-THINKING ALUMNI Our graduates are notable and award-winning. Our community applies its skills in a wide range of fine arts sectors:
Louise Archambault, BFA 93, MFA 00, Rawi Hage, BFA 98, writer, visual artist, Ryan Rice, BFA 93, chair of Indigenous writer and director, Gabrielle, winner of curator, winner of 2008 IMPAC Dublin visual culture and curatorial studies, Ontario Best Motion Picture, 204 Canadian Screen Literary Award for debut novel College of Art and Design, previously chief Awards and 204 Jutra Awards De Niro’s Game curator, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico Yung Chang, BFA 99, documentary Christine Jones, BFA 89, Broadway set filmmaker, best documentary forUp the designer, Tony Award for musical Jana Sterbak, BFA 77, Canadian sculptural Yangtze at 2007 Vancouver International hit American Idiot, professor at artist, 202 Governor General’s Award in Film Festival and 2008 San Francisco New York University, lecturer at Visual and Media Arts International Film Festival Princeton University Sarah Thornton, BA 87, London-based Daniel Cross, BFA 9, MFA 98, producer, Torill Kove, BA 85, Norwegian-born art historian and writer for such esteemed Last Train Home, Best Documentary winner, Canadian film director and animator, 2007 publications as The Economist, The New 202 Jutra Awards; chair, Concordia’s Mel Academy Award for Animated Short Film Yorker, The Guardian Hoppenheim School of Cinema for The Danish Poet André Turpin, BFA 89, cinematographer Barbara Davidson, BFA 90, photojournalist, Vincent Leclerc, BFA 03, revolutionizes and director, 20 Academy Award Pulitzer Prize, feature photography, wearable technologies through his nominee for Best Foreign Film, Incendies; 2006 and 20 company PixMob, turning Olympic multiple Canadian Screen Award and Jutra and Super Bowl audiences into huge nominations and wins for Un crabe dans la Michel de Broin, BFA 95, visual artist, interactive video screens tête, Incendies 2007 Sobey Art Award Diana Nemiroff, BFA 74, MFA 85, Dawn Tyler Watson, BFA 94, singer, actor, Muriel Gold, PhD 94, producer/director, internationally renowned curator and songwriter, 2005 and 2007 Female Vocalist educator, author, member of the Order of writer, 202 Governor General’s Award in of the Year, Canadian Maple Blues Award; Canada (2008) Visual and Media Arts, adjunct professor six-time winner, Quebec Lys Blues Award at University of Ottawa, former curator at (2004-2009); Screaming Jay Hawkins Award Angela Grauerholz, MFA 82, National Gallery of Canada for live performance (France 2003) photographer and installation artist, 2006 Prix Paul-Émile Borduas Kim Nguyen, BFA 97, film director, Oscar- John Zeppetelli, BFA 84, curator, director nominated War Witch, 203 at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
CONCORDIA first The Faculty of Fine Arts becomes the first and only in Canada to offer an accredited master’s program in Drama Therapy as of 2000.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 15 On the cutting-edge: The Department of Design and Computation Arts provides technical and manufacturing facilities that allow students the freedom to develop expertise in several interdisciplinary areas.
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CONCORDIA first The Centre for the Arts in Human Development begins its first artistic — and uniquely Canadian — approach to helping adults with disabilities in 996.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 17 “We are very proud of our Claudine and Stephen Bronfman fellows in contemporary arts and have had the pleasure of visiting the previous winners in many different venues including their studios, gallery exhibitions or shows as part of international exchanges, live performances and showings at art fairs.” — Stephen Bronfman is Executive Chairman of Claridge Inc. and co-chair of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation
PAGE 18 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS THINKING OF OTHERS: TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFTS Our donors have made an immense difference to the opportunities we’re able to provide students and researchers at the Faculty of Fine Arts. These are some recent champions:
• In 204, Michal and Renata Hornstein • Since 200, the Fondation J.A. • Alumni Carla El-Samra, BFA 0, and generously donated $ million in DeSève Graduate Fellowship, through Jason Shatilla, BFA 03, created the annual new support to create recruitment an annual $50,000 gift, supports $500 Surface3 Design Award in 20 scholarships, for both graduate and graduate students enrolled in the Mel to recognize a top graduating student in undergraduate students, called the Hoppenheim School of Cinema. the design program whose work reflects Renata Hornstein Scholarships in Fine Arts. excellence and sustainability. • Autodesk Inc. provided its Smoke • First Capital Realty provided a $5,000 software to the Mel Hoppenheim • Mel Hoppenheim, a Montrealer award for a student-made sculpture School of Cinema in 200 and 202 for instrumental in developing large- to be rendered full scale and installed video editing, advanced visual effects and scale film production in Canada, in Beaconsfield, Quebec, in 203. The compositing tools. gave $ million in 998 to advance the firm also created a $7,000 award for a Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. graduate sculpture student. • Nick Tedeschi, owner of the Parisian Laundry art gallery in • Stephen A. Jarislowsky and Gail • The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Montreal’s St. Henri district, gave Jarislowsky, MA 9, created the Gail Foundation has provided support $ million in 2006 to create the and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for promising MFA, MA or PhD Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts and Chair for Studies in Canadian Art students in fine arts at Concordia Fellowships to support graduate studies. in 998 through a $750 000 gift from and the Université du Québec à the Jarislowsky Foundation that was Montréal since 200. Two Claudine • The Dr. Trevor W. Payne, C.M. matched by Concordia University. and Stephen Bronfman Fellowships Scholarship in Black Music provides a The $.5 million endowment bolsters in Contemporary Art, which provide $2,000 annual award to assist a student the appreciation of Canadian art $55,000 in support, are awarded to whose academic and creative work through research, scholarly exchanges, students at both institutions annually. reflects the Black Music tradition. It is publications and conferences. The The fellowships were renewed through named after Trevor W. Payne, BFA Jarislowsky Foundation also funds a $600,000 gift in 204, which reaffirms 80, founder and artistic director of the an annual scholarship that provide how fine arts faculties are incubators Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir. $25,000 in support to a PhD student. of talent that enrich Montreal’s contemporary arts scene.
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The Faculty of Fine Arts introduces its first queer studies course on literature and film in 989.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 19 PAGE 20 | CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS WHY CHOOSE CONCORDIA? An investment in Concordia is an investment in innovation, sustainability, community — and the leaders of tomorrow
Our unique environment for learning Our commitment to society. Concordia is Our contributions and discoveries. Every and research. Concordia’s academic goals leading the way to a new kind of university, year Concordia faculty and students are are grounded in an ethos of dynamism one that makes higher education accessible. recognized for their accomplishments. and social responsibility. This remarkable The university shares its ideas through free Whether they are Rhodes Scholars, environment was created in 974, after and open access to scientific findings and recipients of Governor General and Prix merging two proud Montreal traditions — seeks ways to make social and economic du Québec awards or members of the the classic liberal arts education offered by justice more prevalent. We offer some Royal Society of Canada, Concordians Loyola College and the practical educational 500 undergraduate and graduate programs, are among the celebrated academics in opportunities offered to wide audiences by diplomas and certificates, while maintaining our country. Our contributions and our Sir George Williams University. formal ties with more than 00 institutions discoveries change lives. in 33 countries. Today, Concordia is an open and engaged Our partnership in Quebec. Concordia’s university that encourages its 46,000 Our strong academic leadership. The value to the Quebec economy is students to become active, critical and Concordia community is proud of its estimated at $.3 billion annually. And concerned citizens. impressive roster of senior faculty, many this doesn’t account for the contributions of them established leaders in their of our 88,000 alumni, 95,000 of whom respective academic fields, across the reside in the university’s home province. Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Engineering and Contact us: [email protected] or Computer Science, John Molson School of 54-848-2424, ext. 7328. Business and School of Graduate Studies. Learn more: concordia.ca/giving.
CONCORDIA first A Faculty of Fine Arts minor entitled “Women — Visual and Performing Arts,” offered in cooperation with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute as of 986, becomes the first of its kind in Canada.
CONCORDIA.CA/FINEARTS | PAGE 21 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS A portrait of the Faculty of Fine Arts would be incomplete without a look at the wider Concordia community. Here’s a snapshot of our students, staff, faculty and alumni:
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7,230 ,64 TFOTAL EMPLOYEES * ACULTY MEMBERS ** 5,287 ,698 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES GRADUATE DEGREES
CONCORDIA'S GRADUATE STUDENTS 7,4 4 CLASSROOMS 34 REFLECT DIVERSITY: SCHOOL OF EXTENDED LEARNING STUDENTS 2,368 ALUMNI CHAPTERS IN CITIES ACROSS 36,460 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS NORTH AMERICA, 4.4% EUROPE AND ASIA ARE VISA STUDENTS
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PORTRAIT OF THE CONCORDIA COMMUNITY: SAMPLING OF WHERE OUR GRADUATES LIVE
Germany: 90 UK: 390
Canada: Russia: 0 3,000 France: 350 Lebanon: 80
Switzerland: 00 U.S.A.: 5,500 Spain: 50 Japan: 95 China: 570 Israel: 70 Italy: 55 South Korea: 40 Bahamas: 60 Greece: 80 India: Taiwan: 40 Mexico: 70 90 UAE: 20 Trinidad & Tobago: 20 Saudi Venezuela: 5 Arabia: 85 Egypt: 45 Nigeria: 50 Kenya: 20 Singapore: 90 Brazil: 30 Peru: 0
Australia: 05 Chile: 20 South Africa: 20
CONCORDIA first The Faculty of Fine Arts introduces a BFA major in modern dance in 979 — Canada’s first higher education dance program to train choreographers.
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