Tag: art
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Nuit Blanche 2014
VIDEO BY PALWASHA TEMOR PHOTOS BY BRITTANY MCAULEY & JEANYLYN LOPEZ & CHRIS COUTTS On Oct. 4, thousands of artists, art admirers, suburbanites and partygoers flooded in to Toronto’s downtown core to take part in the all-night public art exhibit known as Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Artists from all over Canada and the world over displayed their work in…
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LIVE – Toronto Transformed
COVERAGE BY BRITTANY MCAULEY, CHRIS COUTTS AND JEANYLYN LOPEZ On Saturday Toronto will shut down its streets and open up our eyes when Scotiabank Nuit Blanch lights up the night from dusk until dawn with art installations and projects. Join the Sheridan Sun team who will be there to cover the event live and bring Scotiabank…
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Preparing for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY If you’re going to miss Scotiabank Nuit Blanche this year in Toronto don’t fret. You still have ten projects from the all night street level art show that will be on exhibit throughout Toronto for the remainder of the week. “We did six projects last year and that was very successful…
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Betts Engell and her journey through Alzheimer’s
VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPH BY MEHREEN SHAHID Prof. Emeritus Betts Engell taught at Sheridan College in the Social Service Worker program for more than two decades. She was known as a kind, generous, active and hands-on person. She was involved in many community projects and had the power to rally people behind her for all social…
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Getting obsessed with ceramics
STORY BY AMANDA SPILKER “You have to be obsessed.” For Linda Sormin, who has been exhibiting ceramic sculptures since graduating in 2003, obsession is the key. “You have to be willing to spend all your time looking at things as an artist,” she said. “Without it, you end up being in a medium space. The…
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Achieving artistic balance
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEHREEN SHAHID He slowly takes off his robe, his nakedness exposed to the probing eyes. Doing a little pirouette, he deliberately, but gently shows off the most intimate parts of his body. When rapt onlookers have become desensitized to each curve, nook and cranny of his body, he strikes a pose.…
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Furniture students build across continents with Finnish furniture maker Nikari
STORY AND PHOTO BY MEHREEN SHAHID FURNITURE PHOTOS COURTESY OF PETER FLEMING Having the highest GPA in class can bring a student prestige, but it can also bring them added work and responsibility. The top five final-year students from the Bachelor of Craft and Design (Furniture) program at Sheridan are participating in an international project…
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Makeup students blend bodies with blankets
Students in the Makeup for Media and Creative Arts program were asked to do something usual for a final project: paint some bodies. The program, which is rare in Ontario, prepares students for a career as a professional makeup artist. As part of their Studio Techniques class, students were asked to replicate a pattern on…
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Look through the window what do you see?
STORY BY CHAD MASON-AUBERTIN Sheridan’s Visual Merchandising Arts, (VMA) students spend two years perfecting the art of “pleasing the eye.” They even take their skill and showcase it around Sheridan. Ever wonder what the 10 display cases sitting single file in front of Tim Horton’s are? Or the big glass box that housed the inspiration…
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Animation student captures hearts of contest judges
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT SGOTTO ARTWORK BY MICHAEL WANG Sheridan’s talent left multinational video game developer Ubisoft in awe last Thursday. Ubisoft, known for games such as Assassins Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, hosted their first ever Ubi Gallery contest at their Toronto studio on Wallace Avenue. “We want to see students…
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TIFF Cinematheque launches Godard retrospective
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIFF Girls, guns and style. Fans and newcomers alike can now experience Jean Luc-Godard’s films by attending TIFF Cinematheque’s massive, two-season retrospective. Godard Forever Part One spans the French New Wave master’s “Golden Age” beginning with Breathless (1959) and ending with his apocalyptic black comedy Weekend (1967). The…
