Great Moments: Fine Arts
From many media, artistic greatness
A brief list of Faculty of Fine Arts instructors may say as much as the generational legacy they helped create: János Sándor, Mowry Baden, Lorna Crozier, Alan Gowans, Mary Kerr, Ian McDougall, Joan MacLeod, Martin Segger, John Krich, Pat Martin Bates, Jack Hodgins, Anthony Welch, Sandra Meigs, Brian Richmond, Christopher Butterfield—even this slim list is practically a who’s-who of the local and national creative community.
With the establishment of the School of Fine Arts in 1964, and the subsequent transition to full faculty status in 1969, UVic still boasts BC’s only stand-alone fine arts faculty. With over 150 instructors spread across four buildings and five departments (visual arts, theatre, writing, history in art and music), fine arts welcomes over 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students each year, offers the most scholarships and bursaries of any faculty, and has the third-largest Indigenous enrollment on campus—and is a cornerstone of the vibrant cultural atmosphere on campus and throughout Greater Victoria.
Between the Phoenix Theatre’s full season of dynamic productions and the School of Music’s busy concert schedule—over 150 performances a year—plus the annual exhibitions by visual arts students, the Faculty of Fine Arts continues to stand as both a teaching and creative institution of note.
- Vikes Athletics
- Congress 1990 and 2013
- Commonwealth Games
- Iqaluit convocation
- Indigenous research partnerships
- Learning and Teaching Centre
- Malahat Review
- Destination university
- Making science fun
- Graduate studies
- IESVic
- Norma Mickelson
- First year residence guarantee
- TRIUMF to CERN
- Links to Asia
- CanAssist
- Bamfield
- Fine Arts
- Climenhaga observatory
- Engineering faculty
- ONC Observatory
- CFUV
- LE,NONET
- Alumni association
- Island Medical Program
- Research growth
- Bob Wright Centre
- UVic writers
- Gustavson School
- Maclean's rankings
- Climate solutions (PICS)
- Birth of UVic
- Olympians and Paralympians
- Lafayette String Quartet
- Speakers Bureau
The full set of nearly 250 Great Moments in UVic History nominated and submitted by members of the university community during 2012 is also available on the 50th Anniversary website.