Visual Arts Graduates Mentoring Activity
February 20th, 2019Two of our Visual Art Program former graduates, Costa Giannoussis and Petros Psillos, who subsequently studied at Concordia U., will guide current V.A. students through their exhibition at our College’s Warren D Flowers Gallery. They will then each present an illustrated lecture to two groups of first and second year V. A. program students. Of 90 minutes duration, and taking place during am & pm sections of year 2 painting class, the events will be publicized and open to students in the ALC and other college programs. Giannoussis and Psillos will mentor current students, in discussing their experiences in evolving from college to university level studies, as well as in engaging with the institutions of the professional art milieu beyond academia.
The Estranged Spaces Exhibition, which brings them here, is an exhibition of five Quebec painters interrogating the phenomenon/materialization of nature as artifice, and the artifice in nature, In the era of the Anthropocene.
Project Update
Two of our Visual Art Program former graduates, Sylvia Trotter Ewens and Constantinos Gianoussis, who studied at Concordia U, guided our V.A. students through their exhibition at our College's Warren D Flowers Gallery. They then presented a lecture to first and second year V. A. program students. Of 90 minutes duration, and taking place during am & pm sections of year 2 painting class. During their talk, Costa and Sylvia mentored current students by discussing their experiences in evolving from college to university level studies,. The also went on to describe how they have begun to engage with the institutions of the professional art milieu beyond academia.
