St. Thomas University
Student Art Gallery
James Dunn Hall
Fredericton New Brunswick Canada
The gallery
is designed to serve the campus community including students, alumni, staff and
faculty. The gallery showcases university based art projects, fostering student
creative agency, and serves as an on-campus cultural research space.
Art galleries provide public research spaces that function as laboratories for creative learning and exploration.The
student art gallery was developed by professor William Forrestall in response
to the pedagogical needs of visual arts students. The gallery offers a venue enabling students to negotiate the process of public creative and conceptual arts enquiry, production and presentation. The student art
gallery provides an on campus venue for supporting both student creative
development as well as situating their work within the broader relationships
between individual art practice and dialogic forms of cultural engagement,
research and gallery pedagogy.
The Student
Art Gallery is located on the second floor of James Dunn Hall on the university
campus in a mixed-use space, which also functions as a general study, gathering
and social space for all St. Thomas University community members. The public
use of this space may constrain the range of works that can be safely accommodated.
Although some three-dimensional work can
on a case by case basis be accommodated the gallery space is most suitable for
the display of lightweight flat works.
The gallery
provides a running wall space of approximately 41 running feet, against both
brick and gyprock surfaced walls. Hanging of works is facilitated by the use of
chains and hooks. Exhibitors should take care to avoid damaging the wall surfaces
with nails, screws or other damaging modes of installing art works.
Art works
that are unstable, may fall and injure, or protrude from the wall may not be
suitable. Exhibition planning, installation and take down of art works should
take the mixed-use criteria of the space into respectful consideration to
ensure the safety and respect of a broader community.
The gallery
guidelines regarding works displayed have and continue to reflect the inclusive
and collaborative nature of creative research on a campus with a diverse
cultural population. Art works that can or could be perceived as causing
offence to members of the St. Thomas University community or any of the
protected criteria under the New Brunswick Human Rights Act (http://www.gnb.ca/hrc-cdp/08-e.asp)
may not be suitable for display.
Applicants with works that do not meet these inclusive and collaborative
criteria are encouraged to seek alternative venues.
Gallery based security cameras provide some oversight
to the exhibition space but it should be noted that the gallery is in an open
public space and all works are displayed at the owners risk of loss or damage.
