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Passion, violence, and sensuality in the most powerful stories in art! Join Professor Erin Campbell to study how Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernini (and more!) break down the boundaries between life and art, reality and illusion, challenging conventions and inciting controversy. AHVS 342A: Baroque Art in Italy 1550-1700 CRN: 10066 Monday, Thursday 1-2:20pm MAC D101

Join Professor Astri Wright to explore aspects of India's art-historical and popular visual culture from historical, modern and contemporary perspectives in AHVS 332A: Bollywood Bound. Open to all undergraduates! AHVS 332A: Bollywood Bound: Popular Visual Culture in India, 1950s to the Present CRN: 10064 Wednesdays 4:30-7:20pm FIA 103

Sneek peak at Art History & Visual Studies grad students Sarah Kapp and Yorika Terada and AHVS professor Melia Belli-Bose planning the “Gendered Threads” exhibit with University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries. So many amazing textiles from China like these hand embroidered coats from the 19th century - a purple Chinese informal coat and red coat from the Manchu Imperial Court!

University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries

Planning the “Gendered Threads” exhibit with Art History & Visual Studies grad students Sarah Kapp and Yorika Terada and AHVS professor Melia Belli-Bose means we get to pull out some of our amazing textiles from China like these hand embroidered coats from the 19th century - a purple Chinese informal coat...

📣Job Opportunity📣: Open Space is looking for an Assistant Curator!

Open Space

Open Space is looking for an Assistant Curator! http://openspace.ca/assistant-curator

Expert opinion you can bank on: AHVS professor Carolyn Butler-Palmer consulted on Canada's new $10 bill.

AHVS professor Carolyn Butler-Palmer a...

AHVS professor Carolyn Butler-Palmer advised on new $10 bill by John Threlfall | Jul 23, 2018 | Art History & Visual Studies, Faculty | When Art History & Visual Studies professor Carolyn Butler-Palmer received an email from the Bank of Canada back in 2017, she didn’t put much stock in it. “To b...

Opening in here in Victoria, the Art of the Book 2018 exhibition will travel across Canada over the next 2 years! 📚 Entries for this juried exhibition came from as far away as the UK, France, Spain and Australia. Check it out at the Audain Gallery here at UVIC until August 26th More information here: http://artofthebook18.ca/

Art of the Book 2018 |

Art of the Book 2018 is an international juried exhibition of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) members’…

Great to see Art History & Visual Studies alumna Andrea Soos as the featured artist in this story about the annual Art Gallery Paint-In! This is her seventh time participating in the Paint-In, but after running her own children’s art school Poppet Creative for a number of years, the Fernwood artist now plans to become a full-time artist. “Teaching has been great and brought me lots of joy and amazing friends, and great personal growth,” she says. “But now it’s time to focus and do it for myself.” http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/for-saturday-s-art-gallery-paint-in-this-artist-is-going-in-a-different-direction-1.23372831

For Saturday’s Art Gallery Paint-In,...

For Andrea Soos, the TD Art Gallery Paint-In this Saturday is a first step in her new role as an artist. After studying art education and art history, teaching art for about 20 years and founding the art website Poppet Creative, the Fernwood woman hopes to create and sell her own art.