(June 3 – June 23, 2019) Four (4) students will travel to China to participate in joint student design projects, and cultural activities, along with students at Shanghai Normal University, Suzhou Art & Design, Technology Institute, and Hubei Fine Arts in Wuhan. The Dawson students would participate in design charrettes that would place each Dawson student with a team of...

South Star Design is inviting Dawson’s 3D Animation & CGI and Industrial Design students to collaborate on a project that will be presented in Midtown Tokyo Design district on May 31st, 2019. 3D animation students and Industrial Design students will be teaming up together to create a presentation inspired by the 2019’s exhibition theme, “BRIDGES”...

The Deans’ Choice Awards began in 2013 on a rotational basis within the Visual Arts Career Sector. It is used in recognition of student achievement within a particular career program each year with the recipient chosen by three Deans: the Dean of Creative Arts, the Academic Dean and upon invitation another Dean from another sector...

The design and production of an exhibition catalogue is a learning activity within the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course. The Comprehensive Assessment takes place in this course for the students registered in the Studio Arts Profile. The catalogue will contain the works created in the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course, some comments from the students,...

The ALC festival is a student-centred event that is designed to engage students from the planning stages to the presenting of more than 25 events. This festival celebrates the work of our students in and beyond the classroom, providing them a greater arena to showcase their work.

The Cinema and Communications students come together in groups to create various interactive activities. Each group is responsible for designing an interactive activity using AR technology related to one of the various Sustainable Dawson initiatives scattered around Dawson Campus much like a scavenger hunt. All of the different activities are then combined by the students...

This event gives talented students from Visual Arts, Illustration, and 3D Animation the 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 half the money raised this year will go to Youtheatre, supporting their Indigenous productions, and the...

Students in their graduating year of Illustration will take a 1-hour guided tour of the Thierry Mugler retrospective currently on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition is the first museum presentation of Mugler’s full breadth of work. The tour expounds on the designer’s history, his evolution of work, and connection to...

Visual Arts students will visit the University of Ottawa’s Fine Arts department, the Ottawa Art Gallery and the National Gallery. An evening activity is planned, and students are free to explore the ByWard Market and other downtown landmarks. The next day students visit the History Museum in Hull and the artist run centers including Axe...

Hairdresser’s Hymn to Venus: a performance project will bring esteemed performance artist Michelle Lacombe to Dawson, introducing her work, and the cutting-edge practice of performance art, to our students and the Dawson community. This project will particularly interest students in Fine arts and ALC, in addition to gender and feminist studies, Peace studies, Theatre, etc....