Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts

The Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University is thrilled to announce our new Songwriting and Music Production microprogram in the School of Performance — an exciting opportunity for emerging and established creators to develop their voice, refine their craft, and gain hands-on experience in contemporary music-making.

It joins an already dynamic suite of Fine Arts microprograms, including:
🎬 Screenwriting and Film Producing
🎥 Fundamentals of Digital Filmmaking
🖥️ Web Design and User Interface

Whether in music, cinema, or design, these microprograms and certificates reflect Concordia’s commitment to accessible, innovative, industry-relevant, and practice-driven arts education.

Ce nouveau microprogramme offre une formation flexible et pratique pour développer des compétences créatives en musique, et s’ajoute à nos microprogrammes en cinéma et en design.

✨ New ways to learn, create, and grow your artistic practice!

En savoir plus sur ce nouveu programme de musique : https://www.concordia.ca/academics/undergraduate/songwriting-music-production.html

Concordia University Future Students

Looking to build new skills or pivot your career without committing to a full degree?
Concordia’s microprograms offer short, focused training in a wide range of in-demand fields, from creative practices to emerging technologies.
Designed to be flexible, these programs help you gain practical, career-ready skills on your schedule.
🎓 Start exploring what’s possible: https://concordia.short.gy/new-microprograms

Envie de développer de nouvelles compétences ou de réorienter votre carrière sans vous engager dans un programme complet?
Les microprogrammes de Concordia proposent des formations courtes et spécialisées dans plusieurs domaines en demande, des pratiques créatives aux technologies émergentes.
Flexibles, ils vous permettent d’acquérir des compétences concrètes, à votre rythme.

🎓 Découvrez les options: https://concordia.short.gy/concordia-micro-fr

The Faculty of Fine Arts is proud to congratulate faculty members who were recognized this month through Concordia University's President's Excellence in Teaching Awards, Academic Leadership Awards, and major research honours.

🏆 President's Excellence in Teaching Award

Congratulations to Juan Ortiz-Apuy, recipient of the award for Excellence in Teaching for Experiential Learning. His innovative approach connects sustainability-focused, land-based workshops, community partnerships, and field-based learning to create meaningful educational experiences for students.

🏅 Academic Leadership Awards

Congratulations to Erika Adams, recognized for her outstanding leadership in the Department of Studio Arts. Through her generosity, collegiality, and dedication to students, she has helped foster a thriving department community.

We also celebrate Elaine Cheasley-Paterson, whose leadership across multiple mandates as associate dean, academic programmes and pedagogy, has advanced decolonizing practices, supported curriculum innovation, and strengthened the Faculty through times of significant change.

🏅 Research Prizes and Awards — Quebec, Canada and international recognition

Congratulations to:
• Martha Langford — Order of Canada
• Hannah Claus — Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
• Jason Edward Lewis — SSHRC Impact Partnership Award
• Nadia Myre — Prix du Québec Paul-Émile-Borduas

👏 Félicitations à toutes les personnes lauréates pour ces réalisations exceptionnelles! Your achievements continue to enrich our community and inspire future generations of artists, researchers, educators, and cultural leaders.

Photos: Copyright Concordia University

📣 Calling all Faculty of Fine Arts students and recent alumni!

Applications are now open for Échos du Canal 2026: Emerging Public Art Showcase, presented in collaboration with Provenance Art Advisory.

Taking place in Griffintown in August 2026, this public art initiative invites artists to propose innovative site-specific works responding to the history, evolution, and future of Griffintown and the Lachine Canal.

✨ Une occasion unique pour les artistes émergent·e·s de la Faculté des beaux-arts d’exposer leur travail dans le cadre d’un parcours d’art public à Griffintown et au canal de Lachine, et plus encore!

Eligible applicants:
• Current Faculty of Fine Arts students
• Fine Arts alumni within 3 years of graduation

Selected artists will receive valuable exhibition, curatorial, and professional development opportunities. Artists exhibiting in the Hangar space will also be automatically considered for the Échos du Canal Grand Prix, which includes a production grant, one year of studio space in Griffintown, and professional exposure through Provenance Art Advisory.

🗓️ Submission deadline: July 31, 2026

Learn more and apply via the Échos du Canal submission page: https://provenanceadvisory.art/provenance-x-echos-du-canal

Concordia Alumni Échos Du Canal

From gardens to questions of belonging: Fine Arts alumna Khadija Baker, BFA 07, MFA 13 & PhD 24 is featured in the solo exhibition Les semences de nos lendemains at Salle Alfred-Pellan. 🌱

The exhibition expands on her participatory project Performing Community Garden (2021), where participants adopted plants named after strangers—creating reflection on care, memory and interdependence.

Through video, performance and conceptual work, Baker explores how human and vegetal relationships reveal deeper social and political structures, including how naming shapes belonging and otherness.

Diplômée de la Faculté des beaux-arts, BFA 07, MFA 13, PhD 24, Khadija Baker est à l’honneur dans l’exposition solo Les semences de nos lendemains présentée à la Salle Alfred-Pellan.

À travers la vidéo, la performance et des démarches conceptuelles, l’artiste explore les liens entre humains et monde végétal, et la manière dont les systèmes de nomination influencent les notions d’appartenance et d’altérité.

Une visite commentée en compagnie de l’artiste et de la commissaire Geneviève Wallen, BFA Art History, 12, aura lieu ce dimanche 7 juin 2026, de 14 h à 15 h.

Details: https://bit.ly/4dTVfTu

Visite commentée de l’exposition de xecê, Khadija Baker Visite commentée de l'exposition en compagnie de la commissaire Geneviève Wallen et de l'artiste xecê, Khadija Baker.

Today, we're celebrating 30 years of creativity, inclusion and community at Concordia’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD).

For three decades, the CAHD has supported neurodivergent adults in expressing themselves through art, while also training students and therapists who learn and grow alongside them. Rooted in the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Centre brings together creative arts therapies, research, and community practice in a shared space of expression and care.

This anniversary video honours the journeys, voices, and collaborations that have shaped CAHD since 1996 — and the many people who continue to make it a place of belonging, creativity and transformation.

Depuis trois décennies, le CAHD soutient des adultes neurodivergents dans leur expression artistique, tout en formant des étudiant·e·s et thérapeutes qui apprennent et évoluent à leurs côtés. Ancré à la Faculté des beaux-arts, le Centre réunit thérapies par les arts, recherche et pratique communautaire dans un espace partagé de création et de soin.

🎥 Watch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0_6gLDeEI&feature=youtu.be

📍 Tonight’s celebration event:
Thursday, June 4, 2026
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Guadagni Lounge, Central Building (CC)
7141 Sherbrooke St West
Fee: $25

Concordia Alumni

Concordia’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development: 30 years of creativity and connection https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/research-creation/cahd | For 30 y...

Yesterday we launched the 2026 Art Volt Collection at FOFA Gallery.

Made possible thanks to an initial gift in 2020 from the Peter N. Thomson Family Trust and their representative, Leslie Raenden, the Art Volt platform has evolved through partnerships with cultural institutions and has supported more than 1,000 recent Concordia graduates in launching their careers.

We are proud to welcome 14 new artists into the Collection this year:

Antonia Brown
Ayam Yaldo
Catherine Desroches
Colin Canary
Danica Olders
Gaëlle Legrand
Hannah Alsdorf
Médéric Corbin
Melissa Roxanne Ross
Nina Vroemen
Po B. K. Lomami
Rosy Hanna
Rose de la Riva
Sam Duquette

Their work was selected by a distinguished jury composed of Anne Roger, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Mojeanne Behzadi, Roxanne Arsenault, and Sarah Amarica.

Warm thanks to our institutional partners, donors, jury members, and supporters whose contributions make this program possible!

Félicitations aux artistes, et merci à nos donateurs, partenaires et à la communauté.

📸 Explore the full photo album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/concordiaalumnipics/albums/72177720334023948/
The exhibition continues until June 30.

Concordia University Concordia Alumni FOFA Gallery Art Volt / Art Volte

🌟 Muram Idris, a BFA Film Production student with a Minor in Art Education, has been selected as a Pathy Foundation Fellow. She is the first Concordia student to receive this national fellowship, which supports young leaders in developing community-based initiatives across Canada. Congrats, Muram!

Muram’s project focuses on community youth filmmaking in Ottawa, working with marginalized youth to expand access to storytelling, creativity, and empowerment.

“I found the Pathy Fellowship strongly aligned with certain goals of mine, especially as an art educator. I want to strengthen community identity amongst the youth, our future leaders. Seeing the support offered by the Pathy Fellowship, I knew it would be a great fit for my initiative and myself.”

“I am a filmmaker and always strive to make change with my work. I took a minor in art education [at Concordia], not thinking much of it. Once I found a passion within it, I found the strong connection between the two paths I’ve chosen to explore. I found filmmaking fits perfectly within community-based art education, and my pedagogy as an art educator,” noted Muram.

La Bourse de la Fondation Pathy soutient de jeunes agent·e·s de changement partout au Canada qui mènent des initiatives communautaires.

Nous sommes fiers de suivre Muram dans cette belle aventure!

About the fellowship: https://pathyfellowship.com/about-the-fellowship/

Pathy Foundation Fellowship

✨ Reminder to our Fine Arts community: applications for the new Volt-Age Spark Fellowship close on June 15!

Open to recent MFA, MDes, and PhD graduates from Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, this unique research-creation fellowship supports emerging artists exploring electrification, climate transition, and socio-environmental futures through practice-led artistic research.

🎨 Fellowship includes:
• Approximately $50,000 in funding
• Postdoctoral affiliation at Concordia
• Exhibition, publication, and presentation support
• Access to Volt-Age labs, networks, and collaborative projects

An exciting opportunity to connect artistic practice with climate innovation and interdisciplinary research.

📅 Deadline: June 15, 2026

🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eSViczCh
👉 Applications must be submitted via email with ‘Volt-Age Spark Fellowship Application’ in the subject line to [email protected].



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✨ Rappel à notre communauté des beaux-arts : les candidatures pour la nouvelle Bourse Étincelle de Volt-Age se terminent le 15 juin!

Ouverte aux diplômé·e·s récents de MFA, MDes et PhD pratique de la Faculté des beaux-arts de Concordia, cette bourse de recherche-création soutient les artistes émergent·e·s qui explorent l’électrification, la transition énergétique et les futurs socioenvironnementaux à travers leur pratique artistique.

🎨 La bourse comprend :
• Environ 50 000 $ en financement
• Un statut postdoctoral à Concordia
• Un soutien pour exposition, publication et présentation
• L’accès aux laboratoires, réseaux et projets collaboratifs de Volt-Age

Une occasion unique de faire dialoguer création artistique, innovation climatique et recherche interdisciplinaire.

📅 Date limite : 15 juin 2026

🔗 En savoir plus : https://lnkd.in/eSViczCh
👉 Postulez ici : https://lnkd.in/eUa68U9b

Photo: Rouge, Oil, Blood, presented at Electrify Society Summit. Two performers in the photo are Nathaniel Cancela Edsell and Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh. The piece was conceived by Kian Moradi, directed by Homeyra and includes sound and lighting design by Kristian North and costumes by Luna (Xuexin) Tang.

🎨 Ancienne étudiante de la Faculté des beaux-arts de Concordia, la céramiste Mel Arsenault est mise de l'avant dans Le Devoir via sa série Mise en lumière.

Diplômée de la maîtrise en arts visuels (2022), on y apprend comment elle développe une pratique où science, matière et intuition se rencontrent à travers des œuvres céramiques organiques et lumineuses.

📰 À lire dans Le Devoir: https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/983867/mel-arsenault-vers-emerveillement

🎨 A Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts alumna, ceramic artist Mel Arsenault is featured in Le Devoir’s Mise en lumière series.

A graduate of the MFA program (2022), her practice blends material experimentation, chemical research, and a deep attention to the living world. Her work is known for its organic forms and vibrant glazes developed through rigorous experimentation.

📰 Read more in Le Devoir!

Concordia Alumni

Mel Arsenault, vers l’émerveillement Entre affects et rigueur scientifique, les vases de la céramiste rayonnent bien au-delà du Québec.

🎓 We are proud to share that Mia Scroggins-Hadley, a student in Art Education – Visual Arts at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, has been selected as one of only 20 Canadians to join the 2026 cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at McGill University.

The prestigious scholarship covers full tuition and living expenses, and includes mentorship and leadership development opportunities within an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

Mia’s work reflects a strong commitment to community-based education, accessibility, and creative practice. They founded a disability studies book club and a chronic illness peer support group, and have contributed to the Faculty as library coordinator in the Fine Arts Reading Room.

🍃 Une expérience de terrain à Concordia au Costa Rica, ainsi que des recherches créatives indépendantes, ont contribué à façonner l’approche de Mia en matière d’apprentissage et de pratique autonome — en reliant de manière significative l’art, l’écologie et l’expérience vécue.

👏 Congratulations, Mia — and bravo pour cette belle réussite!

Discover Mia's profile & journey: https://bit.ly/4nQnrey

Concordia Art Education student Mia Scroggins-Hadley earns McCall MacBain scholarship | News - Concordia University ‘You have to be humble, but you also have to know what you’re bringing to the space and how to talk about your work.’