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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;color:#060606">FLUX
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#050505;background:white">47<sup>th</sup> annual undergraduate thesis exhibition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#060606">opening reception: Saturday March 27<sup>th</sup>, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#050505;background:white">The opening reception will be streamed on YouTube Live.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwflux"><b>https://www.facebook.com/uwflux</b></a><b><span style="color:#060606">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:#060606">Follow us on Instagram:
</span></b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/uwflux"><b>https://www.instagram.com/uwflux</b></a><b>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is with great pleasure that the <b>Department of Fine Arts invites you to the virtual opening reception of FLUX,
</b><b><span style="color:#050505;background:white">the 47<sup>th</sup> annual undergraduate thesis exhibition</span></b><span style="color:#050505;background:white">.
</span><span style="color:black;background:white">The virtual launch will be filled with reasons to celebrate!!! Alongside the more formal thank you’s, acknowledgements and announcements (including the winner of the Curator’s Choice Award), the event will feature
talks by a number of the exhibiting artists, Q&A’s with the artists, and much, much more! You can even join the students in a live toast so come prepared!</span><span style="font-family:inherit;color:#050505"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black">On Saturday March 25<sup>th</sup> the FLUX website,
</span></b><a href="http://www.uwflux.com/"><b>http://www.uwflux.com</b></a><b><span style="color:black">, will go live</span></b><span style="color:black">. You have to see this site. It is a deep and rich dive into all things art. Produced collaboratively
by the students, it foregrounds their many skills—organizational, design, retouching, writing, and critical, not to mention their incredible artwork. On the website you will find artists’ bios, interviews, and samples of their production, along with accompanying
artist statements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#060606">And there’s still more—later this month the FLUX catalogue launches, so
</span><span style="color:black">stay tuned for this date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Our students have been diligently working on this initiative. It was not easy to let go of what was the “normal” rollout of the 4<sup>th</sup> year show held in UWAG. As Professor Tara
Cooper who taught them in the fall term, and Lois Andison who have taught them in the winter term can attest to, these students are kind, supportive, inventive, and resourceful. They had to say goodbye to the tools and equipment that they would have access
to at East Campus Hall and to dig deep into their</span> home-based toolkits<span style="color:black">. We think that you’ll find what they’ve conceived, uncovered, and
</span>created to be <b>extraordinary.</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Lastly, to put FLUX into context, we share an excerpt from the class:
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<i><span style="color:black">Flux is a state of flowing, a state of change, an in-between space, and the prefix of the Fluxus movement: an international art movement of the 1960s-1970s that centred art making’s democratization, chance, accidents, play, and
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<i><span style="color:black">Our fourth year class has experienced quite a state of Flux since September, along with the rest of the world, and in its midst we take up our artistic practices as tools to reflect on the past, and to seek change in our present.
Throughout our degrees, we have built skills as emerging artists that we will always carry, and amongst them, flexibility and connection have become crucial in this online world. We would not have made it here without each other. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">We invite you to join us in this flowing, changing, in-between state of Flux: the changes might be hard, but at least we will experience them together.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">The Fine Arts Department is a community with a vibrant and caring ecology and everyone from the custodians, technicians, staff and professors have had a stake in the lives of these wonderful
students. And in return they have given us so much back. Thank you class of 2021! There is much to celebrate.
<b>See you on Saturday. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#060606">p.s. if you cannot make it for the live event
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#060606">please make sure to visit the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lois Andison & Tara Cooper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FINE Fourth Year Honours Instructors<o:p></o:p></p>
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