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<\/a>Nancy Yakimoski, also a Camosun Visual Arts instructor, says it is great to see students who are \u201cso invested\u201d in their program doing what they\u2019re doing \u201cbecause they want to, not because they have to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of this idea,\u201d says Yakimoski about the art installations around campus, \u201cwas to gain more visibility by having the work in the library and the hallways where people are coming and going. The students make the art, but then part of my course is to give them the skills to install the work. It\u2019s all very student-centred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakimoski says she gave her students three options when it came time to do the projects that are being displayed on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could take the genre of still life, and then respond in a contemporary way,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd still life in photography has been making this amazing resurgence in the last five years.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the second option, students could take a painting of their choice and respond to it in a modern way, or, as Yakimoski says, \u201crestage it with a twist.\u201d The third option was to do a portrait of an artist, which, Yakimoski says, students found surprisingly difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of students said, \u2018I\u2019ll do that one,\u2019 but to stage a portrait of an artist is really difficult work. Each of the projects had very different demands.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakimoski says one of the best parts of Visual Arts at Camosun is how it displays the diversity around campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of the college is dedicated to cultural excellence and also to diversity,\u201d she says. \u201cWe have international students in our programs, we\u2019ve got First Nations students; their ideas, coming from such diverse backgrounds, are voices that we get to see articulated in a variety of mediums, which is always exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakimoski says the effect of the art around campus to the average passerby is a subjective experience, but hopefully a unifying one that creates familiarity through the creativity of the work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea that other people in the college get to see the students\u2019 work and have a moment with it, where you might recognize part of yourself, is great. And it\u2019s always exciting to see part of yourself in somebody\u2019s artwork, in somebody\u2019s writing, in somebody\u2019s performance. I think that just kind of brings us all closer together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun Visual Arts student Megan Quigley says the fact that her program is interdisciplinary is both the best and most challenging part of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of postsecondary art programs where you go and you study painting, and you study drawing, but because our program is interdisciplinary, it\u2019s more about learning the best tools to enhance your practice, as opposed to becoming a master at one. I find that it takes a lot of flexibility, but it\u2019s also, for me, the most rewarding part of our program, because it\u2019s equipping us to be really versatile in our practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quigley says that Victoria has \u201ca really rich but fickle\u201d arts community and that she would like to see more of her peers out showing their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Camosun is a bit of a well-kept secret in the community,\u201d she says, \u201cand I think the calibre of work is regarded as very high.\u201d<\/p>\n
For her project, which will be on display on the second floor of the library, Quigley says she chose to create an abstract series in photography using textiles for subject matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s harder to do than you would think it is,\u201d she says with a laugh, adding that it\u2019s important to showcase the art around campus. \u201cArt isn\u2019t meant to be hidden away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Students from Camosun College\u2019s Visual Arts program are displaying their artwork in three spaces around the Lansdowne campus this month. The works will be on display as of February 16 in the entrance foyer of the Lansdowne library, on the second floor of the library, and at a space between Young 111 and 117. Camosun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-3-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11646,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions\/11646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}