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January 17, 2008 | Vol. 3, No. 8
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ purchase of Rick Leong’s Dancing Serpent in Dawn’s Quiet was among the reasons he made the Montreal Mirror’s list of noisemakers this month. The piece was part of his MFA thesis show, which makes him one of several on the 2008 list with ties to Concordia.
Concordians are extremely well-represented in the Montreal Mirror’s round-up of local movers and shakers. Just on the film front alone, we count Marie-José Saint-Pierre, Kara Blake, Joe Balass and Sharon Hyman among our alumni.
The environment gets a nod with green entrepreneur Sarah Hanneman and former boy-band member turned politico Peter Schiefke, who co-piloted an inititative to commit Concordia students to pledge funds to go green, and is currently trying to get other universities on board. Aimée Van Drimmelen works in eco-sales while she maintains an art practice and co-produces an annual film festival (they don’t get named noisemakers for nothing — these folks are multi-taskers).
Photographers Elena Willis and Pierre Dalpé (who works here too) were singled out, as was DJ/producer Kanwar Anit Singh Saini aka Sikh Knowledge. Faculty are represented by Joanabbey Sack, a part-time instructor in Creative Art Therapies. For more of Leong’s work (above), drop by the Parisian Laundry before his show ends on Feb. 23.
Next issue: January 31, 2008
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