Image Arts at The Creative School

We are deeply saddened to announce that Professor Emeritus Ed Slopek has passed away.

A talented artist and beloved professor, Slopek taught in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University for over twenty years. His legacy will endure through his former students who were all touched by his spirit of adventure and curiosity. We will miss him.

A Celebration of Life will occur at the Tranzac Club in Toronto on May 24th, from 6:00 - 11:00 p.m. All are welcome.

You can read more about Ed's impact as an artist and educator at the link in our bio.

https://www.torontomu.ca/image-arts/news-events/2026/04/remembering-ed-slopek/

🎓✨ Convocation 2025 ✨🎓

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 - we had a blast celebrating you!

The 30th Anniversary of Maximum Exposure was full of thought-provoking and visually stunning photographic work. The future of photography is bright ✨

MaxEx, which ran from April 26-May 4, featured work from the Photography program’s 3rd and 4th year students as well as work from across The Creative School.

On Opening Night, MaxEx welcomed a special guest: Founder of Maximum Exposure, Narcena Wong (pictured here, holding the original poster for the first edition of Maximum Exposure in 1995!) It is the work of generations past that has made MaxEx what it is today and we’re grateful to have had such incredible students across many years.

Congratulations to all of our students who exhibited in and ! We feel so lucky to watch your artistry grow into this incredible showing of talent. ⭐️📸

As our graduates cross the stage today, we pass along our deepest and most heartfelt congratulations on making it to this point. We hope your journey at Image Arts has been one filled with growth, new friendships and endless opportunities for creative expression.

Bright futures loom, but today enjoy this accomplishment and remember all the hard work it took to get here. We are so proud and excited to see what you will do next.

Congratulations to the Image Arts Class of 2024 🎓 ✨

Every year Image Arts holds an Awards ceremony in November to honour the creativity and achievements of our students and alumni. Each year, five notable alumni are chosen by comittee and inducted as a 'Visionary' to the Image Arts Wall of Fame. 🖼️

Spanning generations and industries across the globe, Image Arts is overjoyed to announce the 2023 Visionaries: Dan Ehrenworth, Alan Goluboff, Michael Kennedy, Margaret Malandruccolo and Davida Nemeroff.

Congratulations all! We are so proud to have such incredible creatives as a part of our legacy. 🎥 📷 🌟

(L to R: Dan Ehrenworth, Alan Goluboff, Michael Kennedy)

Please welcome Dr. Heather Diack who is joining Image Arts as Associate Professor in History of Art, Photography and Visual Culture.

Heather Diack is an art historian, curator, and critic who works at the intersection of the history of photography, modern and contemporary art, visual culture, curatorial studies, and critical theory. Within these fields, Diack specializes in the history and theory of conceptual art, global contemporary art practices, and social conflict with an emphasis on art from the late 1960s to the present.

She is the author of Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) which was awarded an inaugural Photography Network Book Prize (2021) and a Wyeth Foundation for American art /College Art Association publication grant (2018). This book grapples with the relationships between art, the politics of protest, and mass media photography in the United States during the late 1960s. Diack is also co-author of Global Photography: A Critical History (London: Routledge, 2020), a book decentering dominant narratives of the history of photography in order to consider international contemporary photographic practices in relation to their historical pasts and to bring out important and often overlooked interconnections and convergences across time periods and geographic specificities.

Diack’s writing has appeared in journals such as The History of Photography, Visual Studies, photographies, Public, and RACAR, as well as Artforum, The Miami Rail, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Her publications include studies of civil rights photography, acts of feminist resistance in photography, war photography and activist art, the role of images in relation to the climate crisis, the radicality of humour and performance, the shifting status of documentary practices, and the politics of mobility. Her current book project, Imagined Meetings of the Horizon: Migratory Passages in Contemporary Art, interrogates the role of art and visual representation in relation to the humanitarian crisis of forced migration during the past two decades.

🎉 CONGRATS, Class of 2023! 🎓🌟

We couldn't be prouder of your incredible talents, dedication, and creativity. You've captured memories, told powerful stories, and pushed artistic boundaries throughout your journey with us. The world is now your canvas: you are ready to showcase your unique vision and make your mark. Keep shining, keep creating, and remember: the best frames are yet to come! 📸✨

Due to the interest in touring our facilities, we've released more tour dates for July!

Please see the Google Form here to sign up for a tour.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct-RDntEfAIP7JLB0g3ih5bZ2S3TWWW5gj5lQ9jtzmM3pFSQ/viewform

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