University of Windsor Art Students Host Open Studio

The University of Windsor Master of Fine Arts students were proud to announce their 2017 Open Studio. This was an opportunity for the public to gain access and insight into the studios and creative practices of the current student cohort in Fine Arts and Film and Media Arts for free.

The event was held at The University of Windsor Campus in the LeBel Building on March 1, 2017 where Open Studios featured by media/performance artist and educator Camille Turner and work by graduate candidates such as Talysha Bujold-Abu, Shallen Chen, Adrienne Crossman, Alex Curci and Justin Elliott, Katie Huckson, Sarah Kelly, April Morris and Anthony Saracino.

“My work right now deals with my own femininity and how that comes into play in a clinical dynamic because there are hierarchies there, ” says Katie Huckson, second year graduate student in the MFA program. ” I have always wanted to do something creative, I have thought about being an architect but I want to be a professor when I graduate.”

The present group of exhibition works by current MFA candidates in the Visual Arts program vary among different forms of art from pencils and paint, to using real objects such as photographs and old equipment.

“I have always drawn, I have always created, I actually believe everyone has the potential to be,” says Anthony Sarcino, a visual artist from Welland, Ontario. “My practice is kind of two-fold, half of it is in the studio and the other half I try to go out and actually see where the boundary can be dissolved between civilian and the city itself.”

For more information on the MFA program at the University of Windsor visit online.

Feature photo: Shallen Chen, second year student in the MFA program photographed with her wind-mobile made out of postcards. Photo by Chelsea Girard.