Chloe Wise is a graduate of Arts and culture at Dawson College. She is a successful Canadian artist based out of New York City. She specializes in oil painting, sculpture, digital collage and video art.  Ms. Wise will be working in the presence of Visual Arts students in the Fine Arts Resource room making films and...

This project is a catalogue of Penelope Stewarts’ three projects done at Dawson College this past year- an exhibition, print portfolio and outdoor sculpture. Her work has engaged the students as participates and as artists. This catalogue will include photos of students help making the art work in the gallery to create a community or...

This informal event will give our 1st year Visual Arts program students a chance to meet as a group, and be introduced to several members of the Fine Arts Faculty. This gathering will also provide a chance for our 2nd year students to meet our incoming cohort which allows the potential for friendships and mentoring...

This is a hands-on project. It is the natural final stage in a project that consisted of Professional Photography taking 9 students to photograph in the streets of Havana last January, 2016. The Photography department is  currently mounting an exhibit. The catalogue will serve to help promote the exhibit but more importantly, after the exhibit students...

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 they observe from the human figure. Sessions will be offered September 7, 2016 to May 10, 2017 (12x...

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 and the comments of each...

Thirty-five students were involved in this production of Down the Rabbit Hole, Up A Tree. This was an original script written by the students and their teacher, Laura Mitchell.  We began with Lewis Carroll’s two short novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.  Then using Dawson as the backdrop, we explored the ways students find themselves...

Media Night was held on May 6, 2016 and, as usual, was well attended. This is the event in which production-oriented students in the  Cinema Communication department present their end-of semester work. All the films are posted and can be seen @ DawsonMediaNight.com. Students produce films in four categories Narrative, Documentary, Experimental and Animation. The films are judged by three invited...

An immersive, interactive environment that represents nature being crudely represented by technology attempting to mimic it. Nature is corrupted and manipulated by technology. It aims to create a dark, brooding atmosphere that evokes thought about human interaction with nature. It aims to create a dark, brooding atmosphere that replaces interactions with the natural world with...