DC student pop-up art catch attention across campus

Unique pop-up art installations appearing across Durham College’s (DC) Oshawa campus over the last few months have caught the eye of students, employees and visitors. From underwater scenes and fire-breathing dragons to dresses made of sheet music, these displays were created by students in DC’s Foundations in Art and Design program and interact in different ways with formerly empty wall space.

In the fall, students were tasked with staging a Guerilla Art Installation event, appropriating the campus as their temporary gallery to present impromptu performances and install non-defacing and non-destructive displays of art and sculpture. The spirit of the event was then carried over to project work in their second semester, resulting in the work that has been appearing around campus. These projects have allowed students to explore their art form deeper, preparing them for their Grad Exhibition Thesis Show and the Annual All-Student Juried Art Exhibition in April and May.

You can catch the final art projects at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery until Sunday, May 5 and Station Gallery until Monday, May 27. For more information on current student art across campus or what DC’s artists are up to, visit the Foundations in Art and Design Facebook page.