The Open Studio Life Drawing at Dawson College, are weekly drawing sessions where students can avail themselves after class time to refine their handling of drawing materials, hone their observational skills, and enhance their drawing techniques as the observe from the human figure. Sessions will be offered September 1, 2017 to May 10, 2018. The fall schedule...

The Deans` Choice Awards begun in 2013 is an allocation of $500 granted to a Visual Arts Sector Program on an annually rotating basis for final exhibition work of their graduating students judged by a jury of 3 Deans. There is a $300 first prize and two $100 honourable mentions. The student work is judged...

Dawson Media Night is the prime event for Dawson College’s Cinema-Communications department. Divided into four categories; animation, narrative, experimental and documentary, the screening features the work of students that, throughout the semester, have striven to create creative and professional material. Prizes are given, students host the event along with live performances, art installations in the lobby and food/beverages...

Cinema-Communications department The Dawson Game, Launching May 10, in the lower atrium of Dawson College. “Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself” – John Dewey In the Cinema and Communications Integrating Activity class, students are taking Dewy at his word by launching an educational augmented reality game. With a population of...

On May 4 and 5, a multimedia exhibit will be held. The Resist Violence 2017 event will feature works from all of the students involved in the paired Cinema/Communications and Humanities course, Imaging Violence and Nonviolence. The projects that will be showcased are related to the subject of resisting violence with the theme of “checkpoints”,...

“Power to the People” brings together two Arts + Culture graduating classes in the production of an innovative multi-disciplinary exhibition and poster campaign celebrating the power of collective action to advance social and political change. The exhibition will include theatrical, musical, media, inter-active, literary and visual artworks to be presented as a program of ‘performances’...

The Art, Literature and Communication (ALC) festival is a student-centered event that is designed to engage students from the planning stages to the presenting of all the some 30 events. This festival celebrates the work of our students beyond the classroom, giving them a greater arena to showcase their work. ALC 2017 Program

This event gives talented students from Fine Arts and Illustration & Design an opportunity to paint live for 2 hours, while family, friends, and community members watch their paintings come to life. The paintings are then auctioned off and the money raised this year will support Rosie Animal Adoption.

Field trip to Graphiscan (Lithography Presses) Mirazed Serigraphie (Large Format Silkscreen Presses) printers in the South Shore area. The students will be able to see how silk screening, lithography and large format digital printing is done in our industry.  A survey will be given to the students for them to evaluate their experience.

Students in the Visual Arts program to collectively visit exhibitions at museums and galleries of both historical and contemporary Canadian and International Art in Toronto. This trip to visit Toronto’s museums and art galleries is proposed as an alternative pedagogical incentive to enhance student’s ability “to collect, organize and evaluate information from a variety of sources,...