UBCO Visual Arts

Congratulations to our BFA and BMS students on such a great year-end show! Odds & Ends features sculpture, performance, installation, painting, photography, drawing, digital media, game design, immersive art, new media and animation - we are proud of all of these students for putting together such a strong show of their work.

What an amazing turnout last night to support these students as they finish their degrees!�
We would like to send a special congrats to the award winners: Johee Yeom (BMS), Sonja Berg (BMS), Grant Malcolm (BMS), Brendan Russell (BMS), Stevie Poling (BFA), Rain Doody (BFA), Trinity Davis (BFA), Talia Gagnon (BFA), Garvin Le Blanc (BFA), Fangting Zheng (BFA), Peony Wong (BFA), Averi Boerboom (BFA).
�Come check out the show this weekend - April 25 & 26 from 10-4pm.

Congratulations to visual arts prof Samuel Roy-Bois as one of the longlisted artists for the 2026 Sobey Arts Awards!

https://www.beaux-arts.ca/a-laffiche/prix-sobey-pour-les-arts/artistes-2026

UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Prix Sobey pour les arts – Artistes Nous sommes ravis de mettre à l’honneur les 30 artistes talentueux sélectionnés pour la longue liste du Prix Sobey 2026.

The year-end show opens this Saturday!

We would love to see you at the reception next Friday, April 24 starting at 6pm- - we can celebrate the amazing work by our students!

UBC Okanagan art students curate final-year exhibition - UBC's Okanagan News Odds and Ends showcases new work from emerging artists and media makers

Annual student film festival opens calls for submissions - UBC's Okanagan News Judges will select the top films, to be aired at the ninth annual festival

Ecotone Festival 2026 Your donation helps the Rotary Centre for the Arts keep creativity and arts education accessible for everyone. Support the performances, exhibitions, and learning programs that inspire connection and community all year long.

Check out what our Creative Studies Dept. Head Shawn Serfas has been working on in his studio....

Nancy Holmes Alumni Spotlight Series: Amy Modahl - UBC Okanagan Events Calendar An FCCS alum working in the areas of ecological or socially engaged research is invited to present their work in conversation with current graduate students.

Join us Monday for the FCCS Visiting Artist Series with Katherine Pickering.

🗓️ Mon. Feb. 23, 2026
🕦3:00 pm
�📍University Theatre, ADM 026

Katherine’s art practice is rooted in material experimentation and the poetics of abstraction, her paintings explore the intersections of drawing, sculpture, and textile, emphasizing the material and conceptual fluidity between mediums. .

Her work can be viewed in ‘Weather, Window, Echo, Hum,’ on now until March 6 at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

Visiting Artists The Visual Arts program brings in a diverse variety of visiting artists for campus talks and public gallery presentations that includes visual artists, filmmakers, sculptors, painters, playwrights, essayists, interactive and digital media artists.

Student Profile: Kyla Smith “When I was actually a very little kid, I used to draw pictures and try and sell them to my family because I wanted to be an artist, even from a very young age.”

Call for submissions! We are now accepting submissions for the The Annual Student Okanagan Film Festival!

Deadline : Submissions for this festival are being accepted until April 15, 2026.

Eligibility: Filmmakers must be a registered student in the Okanagan and the work completed in 2025 or 2026. (secondary or post-secondary institutions)

Student Okanagan Film Festival The annual Student Okanagan Film Festival continues a tradition of celebrating emerging student filmmakers of the Okanagan Valley.