Fine Arts Research & Creative Initiatives
Our faculty, staff, and students are continuously engaged in a vast number of research and creative initiatives on a local, national, and global scale.
Research Profile
Mary Kavanagh | Board of Governors Research Chair, Tier I
Aligning with the 75th Anniversary of the birth of the atomic age, University of Lethbridge Professor Mary Kavanagh explores the Bomb and its legacies in a series of art exhibitions presented across Canada and the US: the multi-faceted Daughters of Uranium and Trinity3, a two-channel video work extracted from the larger project. The exhibitions reach across the nuclear Anthropocene to build connections between nuclear technologies and their lived effects, the nuclear site and irradiated bodies, nuclear fallout, waste, and material evidence.
Student-curated exhibition focusing on the body in art opens in the uLethbridge Art Gallery
For art history student Kelsey Black, curating the uLethbridge Art Gallery’s latest exhibition has been the highlight of her undergraduate program.
Dr. Gabrielle Houle to study international mask and puppetry arts practice with support of SSHRC grant
Dr. Gabrielle Houle is at the forefront of researching the growing global movement of mask and puppetry arts in artistic productions after receiving a SSHRC Insight Development grant to study the art forms …
Renowned artist Mary Kavanagh now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Renowned artist and scholar Mary Kavanagh celebrates her induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.