Modern Living. An exhibition of the recent work of Alumni from Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Photography, Industrial Design, Cinema, Interior Design, and 3D animation. Each department was represented by 2-3 former students who are currently working in their respective fields.

The Open Studio Live Model project is an essential part of our students’ life drawing practice. It provided all visual arts students with an opportunity to practice their drawing skills and refine their observational abilities while drawing from live models. These weekly drawing sessions were offered after school one day per week and were highly...

The students in the Integrating Activity course designed and produced a catalogue for their exhibition: Julianna Joos’ Class of Art. The catalogue was the result of a semester of collaborative work between the students. The planning of the catalogue began week 4; the students met regularly in their common studio space to share and discuss the...

Media Night winter 2015 was filled with great opportunities to celebrate the diversity of media that is made in our department. This year’s hosts, student committee, student volunteers and cin/com faculty worked hard to get as many films screened as possible, and jurors worked on a tight schedule to get prizes to over 20 student films. It...

Students from Interactive Media Arts created three interactive art pieces, this included: a Light Wall that would react, when anyone would walk by, by creating different patterns of colour; “Taps” an interactive pop-up installation was placed in the cafeteria on the second floor, this piece let the viewer create audio and visual patterns by touching...

This year’s CALL festival was based on the theme METAMORPHOSIS. The festival featured some twenty different events, and almost all of the projects showcased were the work of Dawson students. This was also a lunch time concert that inaugurated the festival. Eleven students received awards for their IA project as well as two students received...

Thirty student artists joined together to help raise money for the “Bruno Mital B Positive Scholarship Fund” at the eighteenth annual Artists in Bloom auction held on Thursday, April 23. Artists had only two hours to complete a painting, as attendees gathered and watched artworks come to life before their eyes. The auction raised a...

There were three end of the year gallery-based events, the first of which, Glitch a screen culture exhibit. The second, Flash Back Friday (FBF), a charity fundraiser with all proceeds going to the Montreal Children’s Hospital and the third event lnsitewas a social media experiment. These events were an excellent opportunity for students to showcase...

Students from Professional Theatre attended a brand new play “The Envelope” written by Montreal playwright, Vittorio Rossi. The play sheds light on the Canadian Film Industry and its relationship with the film industry in the United States, particularly in Hollywood. It was an opportunity for students to see a local artist and actors bring to...

The Interior Design Program has been providing an opportunity for 2nd and 3rd year students to visit the llDEX Canada tradeshow in Toronto every other year since 2010. It is the largest Interior Design tradeshow in Canada, providing students with the ability to learn about the vast range of products and professional services available and...