Illustration & Design, 3D animation, Photography, and Fine Art faculty and students went to NYC March 12 – 15/16, 2016. We visited many museums and also other venues specifically targeted for our students. Amongst some were, the MOMA, Metropolitan, American Museum of Natural History, The Frick, Guggenheim, Art and Design, Whitney, Museum of Brooklyn, and...

Penelope Stewart’s exhibition- Cleave a path in to the wilderness was held at the Warren G. Flowers Gallery Feb 18.- March 12, 2016. The show introduced the Dawson Community to a contemporary art practice that involved community participation. Thousands of wax leaves along with large prints of garden icons filled the gallery space. The work...

IceVisions was an artistic collaboration of students, teachers, staff, friends and other members of the Dawson community. IceVisions involved creating a large snow-ice sculpture to address the SPACE theme for 2015-16: Visions. The outdoor sculpture was on the grounds of the college, in the form of a human eye, looking toward the heavens. The sculpture had...

The Alexandre Masino – Yechel Gagnon Exhibition was a great success with the culmination of a catalog and the engagement of the students involved in this project.  Many students helped out with the installation, assisting in the hanging of the works along with meeting the artists during the vemissage. Often simply meeting artists and discussing their ideas...

On January 5, nine students, three faculty and one alumnae flew to Havana, Cuba. The idea was to give the students the experience of doing Documentary Street Photography in what was for most of them, their first foreign environment. They were confronted with the reality of logistics and communication issues in an environment where most...

The catalogue promotes the works created by 22 students in two sections of the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course Two pages were allocated to each student. They contain a portrait, an artist’s statement and an image of their work. Each student worked on a self-directed project during the semester. The catalogue was the result of...

#nofilter was a project initiated by the Fall 2015 Graduating class in Arts + Culture. Comprising a print-based and on-line publication as well as an exhibition of artworks, the project reflected on the limits and possibilities of creativity and expression in the Internet age. In addition to the publications and exhibitions, a PR campaign was launched;...

Media Night gathered approximately 200 audience members from the Montreal community at an evening screening showcasing student video work from various courses offered through the cinema/communications department.  The  2 hour program curated by students  included Narrative, Documentary, Experimental and Animated shorts as well as videos made during our 24h film competition (which served as a fundraiser for...

Over twenty students were involved in this production of The Real Inspector Hound. The fact that they were all directly involved in the producing and/or acting of the play enriched their classroom experience. This project met the criteria for student success as it allowed student to connect directly with the course material: they acted and...

René Bolduc gave a workshop on Nov 2, 2015 for approximately 35 students in the gallery and the exhibition  of his work reached another 200-400 students and people in general. René demonstrated the old technique of wet plate photography, taking the students outside and photographing a student and developing the image in his portable darkroom. He...