MAP@UofR

Congratulations to @ureginafilm faculty member Dr. Matthew Thompson on the publication of his book. Join us today to celebrate the launch.

We look forward to welcoming you at the annual Creative Technologies & Design Student Showcase on Thursday, April 9 from 4-7 p.m. in the Shumiatcher Theatre, Riddell Centre. Formal comments will begin at 5 p.m. The Creative Technologies & Design Showcase will feature 12 capstone students’ projects, along with selected artworks and projects from across many of our Creative Technologies and Design courses taught this past academic year. These projects include 3D animations, augmented reality experiences, virtual reality, video games, projection art, graphic design, 3D printing, digital and interactive storytelling, creative coding, interactive art installations, sound design, and more. We look forward to celebrating our students with you. Come play with us!

The 4th Year Film students showcase their work this Saturday @darkehall The screening is free and open to all. @ureginafilm @fsa_regina

SAVE THURSDAY: Please join the Department of Visual Arts for the Annual Open House on Thursday, April 9 from 4:00 to 7:00pm. All three floors of the Visual Arts area of The Riddell Centre (RC139) will be open. Come by, take in the ceramicS, photo-based media, sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing facilities. The Open House also showcases student artwork, the Art History student’s Corner Gallery, and open studios for faculty and graduate students. After you visit for Open House, please join the BFA students from the Department of Visual Arts for the reception of the graduation exhibition 4:00pm to 7:00pm in the on-campus student-run Fifth Parallel Gallery (RC136). Remarks and brief artist talks will begin at 5:30pm. We look forward to hosting you!

Congratulations to Creative Technologies & Design Department Head and Professor Dr. Charity Marsh on being awarded an $866,798 grant from Canada Foundation for Innovation to build GENerate Collaboratory at the University of Regina! The Collaboratory will house a recording studio, an experimental sound design and making studio, and a critical listening and immersion lab. From SaskToday: “A new interdisciplinary hub for sound research and creation will help break down barriers in the music and video game industry. Led by Dr. Charity Marsh, head of the creative technologies and design department, the University of Regina will construct the GENerate Collaboratory. “The GENerate Collaboratory will be a place of experimentation, curiosity, play and a place where mistakes are valued,” said Marsh. Students will have access to equipment, including recording studios, microphones, immersive labs and projectors for research, innovation and expanding possibilities. One key objective of the hub is to amplify the voices of those who continue to be marginalized and underrepresented.” Visit SaskToday[dot]ca to read the rest of the story.

This May, an intensive class in the historical photographic process of cyanotype, the original blue print process. We'll get to spend our time outdoors using the sun to expose our images. FUN!

Congratulations to Music Department faculty member Brent Ghiglione on being awarded the 2025 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence! This award honours an exceptional educator whose outstanding commitment to teaching and learning sets the standard for excellence across the U of R. That sounds like Brent.

You are invited to join us on Friday, November 28 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm in Education Building – ED 113 for the third and final installment of the Fall 2025 MAP Presentation Series. Project Pedestrian – One Step At A Time Prof. Mark Wihak Mark Wihak’s film work explores a range of approaches: dramatic writing and directing, experimental films, broadcast documentary, and film-based installation. His films have been broadcast across Canada, programmed at the most prestigious film festivals in Canada, and screened at festivals on five continents. His most recent project was the feature-length dramatic film Resting Potential and he is currently working on the production phase of @project_pedestrian , a film project about walking, combining solo experiences with walks with other pedestrians, inquiries into the conditions for walking, and experiments in working with moving-images. *Please note that this is an in-person event, however, if you are unable to attend on campus, please e-mail [email protected] to request a Zoom link.

“At all turns, we have reason to lament. Is it time for beauty?,” I asked photo students at the start of this semester. “If we work on beautiful things together, can beauty repair us?” We began by hand-building large-format pinhole cameras for 4x5” paper and film. We went on several field trips in and around Regina to explore these media within the constructed landscape, developing prints on site in a portable darkroom tent… [ continued in the comments…]

Our former MAP colleague Dr. Carmen Robertson returns to Regina this week. @uofrarts

Please join us on Friday, October 24 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm in Education Building – ED 113 for the second installment of the MAP Presentation Series for the Fall 2025 semester. Forgotten Songs: Song Repertoire of Violet Archer Dr. Tina Alexander-Luna Canadian mezzo-soprano, Dr. Tina Alexander-Luna is a singer and teaching-artist known for her versatility. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the art songs of Canadian composer, Violet Archer, and the important role Archer played as a female composer in Canada during the twentieth century. Equally at home in Opera, Concert, Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM), and Choral settings, Dr. Alexander-Luna has performed extensively across Canada in these realms with highlighted roles including Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. As a musician with a passion for community, Dr. Alexander-Luna most recently taught as a tenured faculty member at Northwestern Polytechnic, where she had a thriving voice studio and was co-founder and artistic director of the Peace Region Music Series, a concert series aimed at making professional live classical music more accessible in and around Northern Alberta. Dr. Alexander-Luna is also the Vocal Director at the Adirondack Performing Arts Fellowship summer music program in Upstate New York. Dr. Alexander-Luna was featured as a presenter at the 2025 International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) in Toronto, Ontario in summer of 2025, and is Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Regina. Tina is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest soloist. *Please note that this is an in-person event, however, if you are unable to attend on campus, please e-mail [email protected] to request a Zoom link.

All are welcome to help the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance celebrate the success of Dr. Ken Wilson, the first graduate of our PhD in Media and Artistic Research (2003). Ken’s book, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road, is being published by the @uofr_press This creative non-fiction book is Ken’s doctoral research-creation project, for which he received the University of Regina’s highest honour for outstanding performance by a graduate student, the President’s Distinguished Graduate Student Award. Ken is currently Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina. Award-winning author Candace Savage describes the book as “original, unsettling, and provocative.” Ken’s book will be launched by the University of Regina Press on Tuesday, October 7 at 12:00 PM, University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library & Archives (Regina and Wascana Rooms). After the talk, refreshments will be served, books will be available for purchase, and the author will sign copies. If you can’t make the event on October 7th, Ken will be talking about the book with Trevor Herriot at the Central Regina Public Library on Thursday, October 30th at 6:30 pm. @kenwilsonwriter