University of Guelph graduate Heather Thomson was recently awarded the Don Phillips Scholarship from Open Studio in Toronto. "This is a national competition and it is the first time over the last 20 years+ that I can remember a Guelph student being awarded scholarship", commented Allen Ash.
More information about Heather can be found on the Open Studio website http://openstudio.ca/2017-18-open-studio-residency-recipients/
Congratulations to David Lee, who has successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Outside the Empire: Improvised Music in Toronto, 1960-1985.
Mary King, one of our MA students, has been selected as a winner of the Eden Mills Writing Festival "Read at the Fringe" contest. Congratulations, Mary!
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Recently graduated or fourth-year visual artists, musicians, singers, actors, creative writers - apply to participate in the Guelph Young Artists Mentorship Project, a locally-based program that pairs budding young creatives with established community artists to explore professional practice. The Young Artists Mentorship Project is a joint effort of Guelph Arts Council and the School of Fine Art & Music, sponsored by an Ontario150 Young Artists Grant and by the RBC Young Artists program. Follow this link for details:
Elaine Chang recently was invited by Kobo to contribute to its series The Books That Tell My Canadian Story.
See which books Professor Chang chose—you might be surprised!
http://news.kobo.com/blog/the-books-that-tell-my-canadian-story-elaine-c...
Liberal arts graduates pursue many different career paths. For example, almost 40,000 employed Canadians have a bachelor’s degree in history. Of that group, 18 percent work in management occupations and 23 percent work in business, finance and administrative positions (Statistics Canada, National Household Survey, 2011). View the full report on Universities Canada's website.
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