Tag: student artist

The Art of Clanny Mugabe

Biography Clanny Mugabe is a second-year student in the faculty of Arts and Sciences. She’s currently majoring in English and would describe herself as heavily inspired by world mythology, speculative fiction, and character design. She primarily draws digitally, and each digital painting often has...

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Poem: Unspoken Words

I have to thank you for dancing on tables In the basement of Brock. I took your hand and we rose above the sea of sweaty faces. You flashed me a grin of red lips and I twirled you around the dance floor of Stages, Laughing in the summer crowd. Hidden coats stuffed under cushions and above tiles Were...

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Poem: We Agreed That I Should Leave You in Toronto

We sit on the couch in your apartment and the clock pushes August away, hands squeezing the thick air to rain.   Two hours left before my bus back to Kingston and we’re still dragging  songs into the last Spotify playlist we’ll make together. You slide    into a black hoodie and Icona Pop swells through...

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Julia Fast-Grass reimagines the past—with solo cups

Picture this: the Bible on a modern day university campus, heavily plagued by a binge-drinking culture. Julia Fast-Grass is creating that. A Fine Arts major and an Art History minor, Fast-Grass, ArtSci ’20, uses her academic knowledge to tackle religious paintings in her work. In her painting, “The...

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Living through a lens

In his final year of university, John Fleming is patiently taking a shot at his dream of becoming a filmmaker.    “You want to find your passion, and if you [can] make a living off it, then that’s your career. That’s what people should do, in my opinion,” Fleming, ArtSci ’18, said.   Despite his love...

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Student artist’s work to be featured on an upcoming wine bottle

Dry, intense, bold and full-bodied – that’s Kelly Baskin’s art.  Baskin, a fourth-year Fine Arts student and wine enthusiast will have her art featured on a Cabernet bottle after winning the 2016 Magnotta Winery Art Competition.  Her painting, Presence of a Night Walker, won for its striking design...

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Social issues on canvas

Aspiring arts conservationist Mackenzie Higgins, BFA ’17, uses realistic painting to speak out about social issues that are important to her. At the end of her second year, Higgins completed her “Six Paintings in Six Weeks” series focusing on violence against women. The artist wanted to encompass...

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