UNews - Mandy Espezel

Events - February/March

trevor.kenney — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:06:06 +0000

Pronghorns Athletics

Feb. 18-19 | Canada West Men's Hockey | Saskatchewan vs. Horns
7 p.m. nightly, Nicholas Sheran Arena

Feb. 18-19 | Canada West Basketball | Winnipeg vs. Horns
Women's games, 6 p.m.; Men's games 8 p.m. nightly
1st Choice Savings Centre gym

Lectures

Feb. 15 | Chemistry & Biochemistry Guest Speaker: Dr. Paul Sidhu
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Solid Metal Acetylacetonates | 12:15 p.m., C640

Feb. 15 | Political Science Public Lecture: Collin May | Lawyers, the Judiciary and the Empire of Law
3 p.m., AH117

Feb. 16 | Art Now: Geoffrey James
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Feb. 16 | New Media Seminar: Pilar Alessandra | The First Draft, three-hour seminar for aspiring screenwriters | 6 p.m., PE264

Feb. 17 | Prentice Brownbag Series: Dr. Trevor Harrison | Guaranteed Annual Income: The Return of an Old Idea | 1:30 p.m., Prentice Institute Boardroom, L1102

Feb. 17 | Prairie Universities Physics Seminar Series: Dr. Can-Ming Hu
Spin Dynamics in Spintronic and Magnetic Materials
1:40 p.m., C640

Feb. 28 | Art Now: Spring Hurlbut
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Feb. 28 | Architecture & Design Now: Elizabeth Songer
6 p.m., C610

Mar. 2 | Art Now: Dean Drever
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 4 | Art Now: Jackson 2Bears
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 7 | Art Now: Reece Terris
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 7 | Architecture & Design Now: Reece Terris | 6 p.m., C610

Mar. 9 | Art Now: Billy McCarroll
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 11 | Art Now: Emily Falvey
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 14 | Art Now: Vince Varga
Noon, ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 14 | Architecture & Design Now: Vince Varga | 6 p.m., C610

Mar. 14 | Discovery Lecture Series: Jeffrey Simpson | Improving Canada's Poor Climate Change Record | 7 p.m., PE250

Mar. 15 | Brain Awareness Week: Dr. Bruce McNaughton | How memory works and why it sometimes doesn't
7 p.m., Yates Memorial Centre

Performances

Mar. 3-5 | TheatreXtra – Title of Show | A musical comedy that chronicles its own creation from inception to opening night
8 p.m. nightly, 2 p.m. matinee on Mar. 5, David Spinks Theatre

Mar. 5 | Awake My Soul and Sing: A Choral Celebration | Concert featuring Vox Musica, U of L Singers and LCI Chamber Choir | 7:30 p.m., Southminster United Church

Mar. 8 | Music at Noon: Jamie Eckert (percussion) | 12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Mar. 15 | Music at Noon: Cecilia's Circle | Featuring Janet Youngdahl (soprano), Vivian Montgomery (harpsichord), Julie Andrijeski (baroque violin) and Ann Marie Morgan (viola da gamba) | 12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall (W570)

Miscellaneous

Feb. 15-17 | Pink Shirt Campaign
Boys and Girls Club of Lethbridge Pink Shirt Day T-Shirt-Sale
Students' Union Building

Feb. 15-19 | In Progress
MFA Exhibition featuring Mandy Espezel, Mark Porcina and Collin Zipp
Noon to 4 p.m. daily, The Penny Building (324-5th St. S.)

Feb. 16 | U are the Plan Luncheon
All campus luncheon celebrating our efforts in relation to the 2009-2013 Strategic Plan | Noon, UHall Atrium

Mar. 1, 8, 15 | Student Speaker Challenge | What is Global Justice and How Can it be Achieved?
Semifinal sessions, Mar. 1 & 8
4:30 p.m., SU300A
Final session, Mar. 15
7 p.m., AH100

SAAG exhibit truly collaborative

trevor.kenney — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:32:54 +0000

It is a rare opportunity for a graduate student and her supervisor to be able to exhibit their artwork, arrived at collaboratively, in the same exhibition in a nationally respected art gallery. Mandy Espezel, one of the first Master of Fine Arts (Art) students at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, and professor Dagmar Dahle, spent last summer working on a series of paintings that appeared at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery as part of On Your Marks.

"We both invest a lot in the process and the materials," says Espezel. "Over the summer we exchanged studio visits, talked a lot and shared our working process."

According to Dahle, "For us, doing is thinking. It is both an intuitive and analytical process. We think and communicate through the visual."

Dagmar Dahle and Mandy Espezel at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

She explains that their working relationship was very equal.

"Ours is not a traditional teacher/student relationship where information goes from the teacher to the student," says Dahle. "We work in a more collaborative manner, with open communication. That means I have to be more vulnerable, open to learning from my student. It's an exciting two-way street."

Espezel was not quite sure what to expect when she came to the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ.

"I wanted to broaden my experiences," she says. "I did my undergraduate studies at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta, where the emphasis is more on the formal elements of painting. Here, the focus is much more conceptual."

Originally, Espezel was attracted to the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge because of the Art Department's strong reputation, and the fact that the professors are nationally and internationally recognized.

"I found an open attitude where I'm encouraged to explore all sorts of media," she says. "I was given permission to experiment."

She was also exposed to a variety of approaches that helped her understand her craft from a variety of perspectives.

"Although the main approach here is based in the conceptual, I found that the faculty were all working and thinking in many different ways," says Espezel. "I've learned there is no one correct way; rather, there are lots of ways of understanding. Studying here is really helping me find my own language and voice. The program has exceeded my expectations."

Only in its second year, the MFA (Art) degree program accepts one to two students per year.

"The upside of our MFA program being small is that graduate students get lots of individual attention," says Dahle. "They are embraced and welcomed into a large creative community, both on campus and off."

For a look at the full issue of the November Legend in a flipbook format, follow this link.

Grad Studies celebrating 25 years

trevor.kenney — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:21:32 +0000

It's been 25 years since the debut of graduate studies at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge and while the programming has expanded to touch all areas of campus, the basic tenets of graduate education have remained the same.

As the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) celebrates its silver anniversary with the slogan, A Sterling Past, A Golden Future, it offers the opportunity to delve into the school's beginnings and see how they are reflected in an unfolding future.

A total of 12 students were admitted into the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ's first-ever grad studies program, offered in 1984 through the Faculty of Education.

Paul Hawryluk and Irwin Warkenten were the first two graduates from the SGS. They were promised a program focused on professional development, the foundations of education and research. With elective courses designed to allow students to customize their programs to suit individual goals and interests, flexibility was a major draw.

"I taught for 15 years before going back to school, and the program really validated my experiences and my own expertise," Hawryluk says. "I never intended to go on to do a PhD, but I did, directly as a result of the great experience I had at the U of L."

Warkenten looked to the SGS as an opportunity to invigorate his career.

"The grad program gave me the tools to take my career to another level," he says. "The courses energized me. They re-instilled my belief in teaching. If I hadn't taken the program, I'm not sure I would have stayed in the profession."

It is 25 years later and the SGS has stuck to its roots, striving to maintain a very interactive educational experience.

"We are a school on a personal scale: whatever program you choose, we offer close interaction between faculty and graduate students," says Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske. "We recruit faculty and students from around the world, enhancing learning experiences through cultural diversity and intellectual breadth."

That is what drew Mandy Espezel to the U of L. A graduate of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta, Espezel is among the first class of students pursuing the new Master of Fine Arts degree.

"The Faculty of Fine Arts is staffed with excellent professors, there are fantastic facilities and technical support, and there is an extremely active and well supported contemporary art community here," she says. "Having these resources for my professional development is wonderful."

Acacia Doktorchik is studying in the new Master of Music program and sees the addition of grad studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts as a benefit to both students and the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ as a whole.

"This is just another opportunity where people can come and study with some of the best musicians in Canada," she says. "There are many opportunities for performance here, and at the same time the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ are still very important. This is an aspect that I really like because it will give me the performance experience I need as well as the academic knowledge behind it."

The School of Graduate Studies continues to evolve but always with a keen eye to its beginnings.

Celebrating an anniversary

trevor.kenney — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:21:49 +0000

A total of 12 students were admitted into the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ's first-ever grad studies program, offered in 1984 through the Faculty of Education.

Warkenten looked to the SGS as an opportunity to invigorate his career.

It is 25 years later and the SGS has stuck to its roots, striving to maintain a very interactive educational experience.

That is what drew Mandy Espezel to the U of L. A graduate of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Alberta, Espezel is among the first class of students pursuing the new Master of Fine Arts degree.

The School of Graduate Studies continues to evolve but always with a keen eye to its beginnings.

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