NUIT BLANCHE EVE

The Gordon Snelgrove Gallery is featuring an exhibition by Staff and Sessionals of the University of Saskatchewan's Art and Art History - School of the Arts.

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191 Murray Building

A selection of works by artists Asia Wills, Tess Johnson and Julianna Phillips, three students who took both ART 231 (Animation & Digital Space) and ART 237 (Digital and Integrated Practice) in the 2023/24 academic year. The pieces use a variety of types of animation (stop motion, drawn, and 3D), digital manipulation, sound design, miniatures, crochet, food, and many other mediums and approaches that combine to create three distinct styles.

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Location TBA

"I Refuse to be Invisible" presents three major bodies of photographic work by artist Jeff Thomas: The Bear Portraits, Indians on Tour and Strong Hearts: Powwow Portraits. Developed over the course of four decades, these photographic suites explore and recontextualize the complex dialogue between historical and contemporary representations of Indigenous identity in photography, while simultaneously investigating the absence of images produced by Indigenous people.

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Administration Building

The Museum of Antiquities is a hidden gem on the prairies, featuring a collection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern artifacts. The collection includes full scale replicas of famous sculptures like the Venus de Milo, the Sleeping Hermaphrodite, and panels from the frieze of the Parthenon. It is also home to a large original coin collection, original ancient glass, and pottery from across the ancient Mediterranean.

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Administration Building

This solo exhibition by artist Audie Murray features recent work that address and consider the revolutionary potential of dreaming. It is titled Pawatamihk after the Michif word for 'dream'. Nanaimo Art Gallery curator Jesse Birch writes that “dreaming is dangerous for colonial worldviews as it allows a window of time and space to listen to the earth and to ancestors, to imagine the world differently, and to prepare to enact change.

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Agriculture Building, second floor

As humans, we are inherently driven to assign meaning to our surroundings. Whether it is the concrete or the abstract, the external or the internal, the familiar or the unknown, we find significance in everything. This act of meaning-making is a fundamental aspect of "The Characters" as it explores the meanings and values we assign to an individual's character based on their outward appearance. Essential to this investigation is philosopher David Hume's belief that character is deemed virtuous or vicious upon the specific pleasure or unease our interpretation evokes. Consequently, these representations may be interpreted as malevolent, benevolent, whimsical, or nightmarish, blurring the lines between the extremes of our perception of character.

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Outside the Agriculture Building

A celestial symphony! Take in a cluster of stars, the result of approximately 600 children attending the USask art camps this summer. The other celestial objects shown in this galaxy were made by the staff who launched and ensured the art camps were stellar. This galaxy represents all of the people who have rocketed the art camps to new heights.

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Museum of Natural Sciences (W. P. Thompson Biology Building)

During the Winter 2024 term, students enrolled in ART 331/461 explored Character Animator, After Effects, and Blender, embarking on a journey of experimentation within these programs. The course provided a path for students to progressively merge 2D elements into 3D environments, with each project serving as a stepping stone to build on their skills and push their imaginations.

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Airplane Room (Thorvaldson 271)

This installation is a fully-functional digital arcade machine. It features an interactive animation which shows users, without words, equations, or numbers, how novel materials behave at a quantum level, reflecting some aspects of current research at USask. This interactive installation allows everyone to participate in learning about quantum sciences in a readily accessible way.

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Outside the Thorvaldson Building

In ISAP’s Troposphere, visitors are invited to help a new kind of cloud take shape. Connect grounding words (nuclei) with storied ribbons of transparent film and paper, building an illuminated and embodied mahkaskwâw (great cloud) that reflects the many ways our experiences intersect, reflect, and celebrate relationship, similarity, and difference.

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Top of the Arts Ramp (second floor) and the Trish Monture Centre (Arts 250)

Join members of the Indigenous Students’ Union as they incorporate powwow dancing, live music, and visual art into a full night of cultural performance and practice.

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Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre

"Blurred Lines" explores the passing of time and how the comfort of daily routines can cause us to lose ourselves in its rhythm. This project symbolizes the blurring of our life as a whole; actions, memories, experiences, and relationships, which are simultaneously created and lost as time progresses. "Blurred Lines" aims to inspire people to maintain an inherent curiosity, to experience life beyond the mundane day to day. It asks visitors to fight for more beyond simply existing and to fully embrace the joy and possibilities that their time here has to offer.

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Outside the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery

“What it Means to be a Woman” is in collaboration with the USSU Women’s Center. The project features a large-scale acrylic painting with an interactive element alongside it. The painting portrays Kernaz’s best friend, “one of the strongest women I’ve ever met”, who was born in South Korea and came to Canada when she was just 11 years old. After conducting a short interview with her friend, Kernaz captured her with elements that are dear to her and what she feels it means to be a woman. While the hardships and challenges of being a woman can be draining, Kernaz aims to create positivity and uplift the voices of women with this project.

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Painting Studio (Murray 290)

In collaboration with the Neuroscience Students' Society, this project aims to blend science and art to communicate the mechanisms behind vision. Vision is the summation of complex neural circuitry and electrical signalling, which allows us to see the world. With this project, we will explore how the anatomical pathways that exist in darkness can light up our perception of the world.

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Drawing Studio (Murray 190)

MIX aims to foster community engagement and share their love of printmaking with a block printing demonstration and workshop. Stop by their pop-up sale in Upper Place Riel and try out block printing for yourself! Choose from a variety of pre-carved designs and MIX will show you how to ink it and print it so you have a mini print to take home.

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Upper Place Riel

Get a glimpse of the stars at the University of Saskatchewan’s Observatory, open late for Nuit Blanche Eve.

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The Observatory, 108 Wiggins Road