LAKEHEAD RESEARCH EDUCATION GALLERIES
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From the Curator
2022 March
The Galleries celebrated another virtual launch with the theme Climate Action in Action to honour Lakehead's Year of Climate Action. We also celebrated a Galleries-sponsored residency. $2250 was granted to artists in LAIR Gallery Awards 2021 February Our first virtual gallery walk-through launched with Research and Innovation Week. $2750 was granted to artists in LAIR Gallery Awards 2020 February The Lakehead International Office Gallery opens. A Gallery Tour is offered as as part of Research and Innovation Week. 2019 February The SPACE Gallery (Science, People, Art, Creativity Engineering), in the CASES (Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering and Sciences) Building, and Minogin Gallery in the Graduate Education Department open. 2018 A SSHRC Connections grant is secured to develop and implement the Lakehead University Community Connections Showcase, three events offered as part of Research and Innovation Week including our first artists' tour. 2016 January A Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation Internship is secured to fund a Gallery Coordinator. 2015 October The virtual gallery opens and features juried submissions from innovative researcher-artists beyond Lakehead. 2015 April The Baggage Building Arts Centre becomes a community partner, offering exhibition spaces at their Marina Drive location. 2015 LAIR Gallery Award Recipients: Melissa Oskineegish, Dayna Slingerland, Varainja Stock and Holly Tsun Haggarty 2014 September Through the support of the Canada Research Chairs program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund and the Department of Education, three physical art spaces open for juried exhibitions: The LAIR (Lakehead Arts Integrated Research) in the Bora Laskin Education Building In Other Words in the Education Library The Junction: Where Science Meets Art in the ATAC Building in the Northern School of Medicine |