SHERIDAN ART AND ART HISTORY
Buff is an annual publication documenting the work produced by students in all four years of the Art and Art History Program during the past academic year. Art and Art History is a joint program between Sheridan College in Oakville and the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). This program has offered an unusual and exciting approach to studying art since 1971, emphasizing both studio art and art history in a visual studies context.
Sheridan offers six core studios that students complete in their initial two years of study: drawing, painting, sculpture/installation, print media, design, and photography. Video, sound, performance, and art education practice have also joined the range of disciplines available for study. At UTM, students take art history courses in the Department of Visual Studies and have the opportunity to engage in the academic study of art, architecture, new media, and curatorial practice. Courses span the history of art from the ancient to the contemporary world, across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia.
Art and Art History graduates often work in art education, at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Graduates also work as professional artists and art historians, commercial photographers, illustrators, gallery directors, curators of contemporary and historical art, graphic designers, and in a host of other related professions. Many graduates go on to further education in post-graduate and other college programs as well as to study at the Masters and PhD levels.
Buff is assembled by a team of faculty, technologists, and students, with work selected by the students in our third-year design course. Buff encompasses the range and currency of both our curriculum and the expressions of our students’ individual visions. The mix of studio practices and art-historical knowledge is distilled and synthesized by our students into the works in a wide variety of media showcased in this publication.
We want to thank all the students who submitted artwork to Buff, the students who worked on this publication, and the faculty and technologists who assisted and advised them. We hope you will enjoy this selection of artwork produced between September 2017 and the beginning of the winter semester in 2018. You will see in the work of our students their quest for artistic identity, and their inquisitive responses to the worlds that surround them.
John Armstrong, Program Coordinator, Art and Art History, Sheridan College
Alison Syme, Chair, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
Sheridan offers six core studios that students complete in their initial two years of study: drawing, painting, sculpture/installation, print media, design, and photography. Video, sound, performance, and art education practice have also joined the range of disciplines available for study. At UTM, students take art history courses in the Department of Visual Studies and have the opportunity to engage in the academic study of art, architecture, new media, and curatorial practice. Courses span the history of art from the ancient to the contemporary world, across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia.
Art and Art History graduates often work in art education, at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Graduates also work as professional artists and art historians, commercial photographers, illustrators, gallery directors, curators of contemporary and historical art, graphic designers, and in a host of other related professions. Many graduates go on to further education in post-graduate and other college programs as well as to study at the Masters and PhD levels.
Buff is assembled by a team of faculty, technologists, and students, with work selected by the students in our third-year design course. Buff encompasses the range and currency of both our curriculum and the expressions of our students’ individual visions. The mix of studio practices and art-historical knowledge is distilled and synthesized by our students into the works in a wide variety of media showcased in this publication.
We want to thank all the students who submitted artwork to Buff, the students who worked on this publication, and the faculty and technologists who assisted and advised them. We hope you will enjoy this selection of artwork produced between September 2017 and the beginning of the winter semester in 2018. You will see in the work of our students their quest for artistic identity, and their inquisitive responses to the worlds that surround them.
John Armstrong, Program Coordinator, Art and Art History, Sheridan College
Alison Syme, Chair, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga