9th Sept 2022 - VA Building 2.45

Chair - Mitch Mitchell

• tenure track hiring plan

• will be a studio arts position next hire
  • what we want? need?
• MM pushing for 3 more TT hires in dept - has had conversations with Annie Guerin

• 8th floor in progress
  • delayed due to waiting on supply - ventilation equip
  • schediled for October
    • Temp woodshop in EV building - almost up and running
    • Temp Fablab on 8th floor space - almost up and running
      • “When it's done it's gonna be beautiful”
      • “healthier, and quieter”
• Sculpture Renovation VA building in progress
• Room and Space at a premium

• everyone should have received an email from Andy
• “work in progress”
• still waiting for a few areas to respond
  • - sort imagaes / finalise text
• hoping to update student images ONCE PER SEMESTER
• Need students to sign off on images waivers
  • KT - “needs to be one central person / place for signing off on these things”
• will be new videos and tours on the site
• HC - “is there a date for launch?” - not yet
  • HC - “so we can still send things?” - YES
• BP - “can grad students update their portfolios?

• full time hire for international and national recruitment
  • Dylan D???
• BC / Saskatchwan / USA
• KT - PORTFOLIO REVIEWS - Oct 29th
  • please send your Zoom link to Sophie - ASAP
• Faculty currently receiving lots of MFA equiry
  • just send them to Kelly Jazvac GPD

• Departmental Programme Committee
• Talk to Kelly if ideas
  • Major changes take two years
• “What is the biggre picture for Dept?”
  • “where going? How organised?”
  • lots of peolpe retiring - there is a changeover
  • we need to be active to hink about
• Following up the DAC report (Department Appraisal Committee)
  • Dean has signed off on the implementation plan
  • we have to do something about it
• Student Accomodations
  • (eg doing course online)
  • “don't need to do hybrid teaching unless you really planned for it”
    • especially if students don't really need class immediately / for graduating
• Independent Studios / Internships
  • make sure courses / forms completed / thorough before signing

• Juan & Kelly (Sculpture) working with Donna Goodleaf and Elaine ??
  • very helpful - demistifies the process
    • curriculum hadn't been changed in 20 years
  • MM - ” like peeling back an onion“
• LS - Christina talking about workshops - decolonizing the curriculum
  • “coming backto the Undergraduate are, I realise it's really necessary and really needed”
    • “we have special topics that are coming”
  • Juan - “it ?? (affects?) every course”

• “everyone working too hard to fit students in program definitions”
• Advising roles - a lot of student can't find an advisor
  • “we've got a lot of lost kittens right now”
    • “I'm like a weird cat lady”
      • “if everyone could take two or three”
• Lightning Talks yes or no
  • spectacle event - faculty asked to about research in 5 minites
    • students invited
      • KJ will organise again this year
• International visiting University - October
  • Need nomination for a French speaking student to present in MFA gallery / do a talk
    • paid a CARFAC fee
    • vernisaage Oct 12th
• WORKING TOO HARD
  • MFA thesis - stick to three on panel rather than five
• KEY MESS
  • hopefully they found Key Req forms
  • YOU CAN ASK SECURITY TO UNLOCK THE DOOR FOR YOU!
    • KT - contact 3rd / fourth year students to give keys back
• LS - Grade information - “really helpfull waht you sent about the grade information”
  • KJ - can explain in a short zoom conversation

• make students aware - if they contract covid, let us know

• MM - working together - we are back tgether, people should share services / responsibilituies
• “we are a community
• RETREAT
  • planning since 2015
  • take opportunity to look at ourselves
  • “how many tears do we need to cry to get to that point?”
• WHAT DO WE NEED TO DEVELOP
  • AARON - Long-term leadership strategy
  • ? - Interdisciplinary MFA
  • Juan - confirmed TT hire
  • HC - ArtX - interdisciplinary - it needs some love
  • DB - crack part-time situation - senioroty
  • ?? (ceramics) - curricula mapping work
    • Juan - there is a spreadsheet that we use
  • MM - re-examining the workload - labour ethics
  • Aaron - what is the future of Art-X?
    • Aaron - Can we have courses that are not specifically attched to any area?
    • DB - Art-X should be bigger and stronger
  • HC - is something hapening to the VA?
    • MM - I don't know - it's in conversational limbo
  • ?? - can we talk about critique?
  • DB - desegregation of the program
    • don't see white faculty doing the same work - eg supporting racilased students
      • can't decolonize anything but can decenter something
        • always been about money -
          • can't just be about optics, has to be about change
  • ?? - property - retreat
  • MM - a retreat
    • Leo - one major topic per day, not two
      • devote yourself to thorough diseection
        • decide your priority