Stfx Art Department

Stfx Art Department Welcome to the official page of the StFX Art Department. Like us to receive information about important dates and events.

The role of the Art Department has always been to teach StFX students the importance of visual literacy in society. This has been so since drawing & painting were first taught in the 1890s. Over the past 125 years art & art history courses have been integral to a quality education for StFX students, regardless of discipline. In fact, drawing was mandatory for all BAs in the early 20th C, and throu

ghout the 1960s every BA or BA Major was required to take an art history survey course in their senior year. The Art Department has grown from the first two studio courses, and currently offers over 35 courses in both Studio Art & Art History; three additional courses in Art History are cross-listed with other departments. This growth has allowed the department to offer students the option of a Pair or Minor in Studio Art; Art History offers a Pair, a Minor and a Subsidiary. Students come to the Art Department from all faculties and schools at StFX. Studio courses teach students how images are made; art history courses teach students the important meaning of those images. Students discover the benefits of creative thinking in the studio, & art history allows them to understand the powerful message in artworks situated within their historical, political, and social context. These concepts - art production and its meaning - actively engage students in the practice and theory of visual literacy: a knowledge that is now fundamental to a fast-developing international creative economy. The Art Department is poised to help StFX students prepare for their successful future.

10/18/2024
Welcome to our open house event at the art department. Get the feel of a real open studio with faculty and student work ...
10/18/2024

Welcome to our open house event at the art department. Get the feel of a real open studio with faculty and student work on display with glimpses into our processes. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

05/19/2023

Antigonight: Art After Dark Festival is seeking submissions for 2023! The festival runs from September 15-16 in We are inviting artists from anywhere in the world who have roots in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada to create experimental new works for the festival, including but not limited to: video, performance, dance, sound, sculpture, and installation, which can be presented in-person in the town of Antigonish. The heart of Antigonight is that all projects are interactive and/or participatory in nature.

Deadline to apply is June 22. Full submission details at: https://www.antigonishculturealive.ca/antigonight-2023

Bring your dancing shoes! Please join us on NYE for an evening with The Working Class Band!- a fundraiser for the Antigo...
12/30/2022

Bring your dancing shoes! Please join us on NYE for an evening with The Working Class Band!- a fundraiser for the Antigonight art after dark contemporary arts festival.

We're partnering with Working Class Band this NEW YEAR'S EVE! Join us at Piper's Pub 8:00pm-1:00am to celebrate.

Advance tickets $20 sold at Piper's and Antigonish 5ยข to $1. $25 at the door. See you there!

Proceeds go to the band and Antigonish Culture Alive projects, including Antigonight Art After Dark Festival

11/22/2022

We were Bery excited in drawing 101 today to get a visit from the North Barn theatre collective.They came to demonstrate one of their many Crankies- an extremely old art form often mixing drawing and music as a way to spread news or entertainment. Both studied various types of crankies while working with the Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont. Thank you North Barn Theatre Collective

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St. Francis Xavier University, Immaculata Hall, P. O. Box 5000
Antigonish, NS
B2G2W5

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+19028672300

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