Faculty of Art
Plotting Possibilities (Career Curiosities Edition)
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
April 2025 | Off to the alternate universe I go!
Okay, so I don’t know if or how this has manifested in your circles, but I swear, based on an n of maybe 10, there is this graduate student phenomenon where we are all actually just fantasizing about opening up one or more of the following three things: a coffee shop, flower shop, or bookshop. […]
March 2025 | It’s been a busy month!
This truly is the busiest time of the year, I say, every month. But really, with many of our flagship events and opportunities opening up in Term 2, a lot has happened here at the Arts Amplifier! So, let’s take this opportunity to recap ✨ what we have been up to (and to showcase a […]
February 2025 | Great Expectations
I don’t really have time to read for pleasure anymore and don’t worry, I would never try to add more recommendations to your endless list of content to get to one day (or never at all)… but here are some books we have been reading at the Arts Amplifier which might help orient you, especially […]
January 2025 | New Year, New Network
New Year’s Resolutions for 2025: 1. Shed the weight… of needing a new job I am an emotional eater. Whenever I feel anxious, despondent, melancholic, brooding, I will inevitably have a pair of chopsticks wrist deep into a family size bag of BBQ flavored potato chips. During what is supposedly the last year of my […]
December 2024 | Bad Feelings
During our panel discussion event on November 21, a group of graduate and undergraduate students from last year’s Entrepreneurship Workshop Series cohorts came together to reflect on their experiences—how they came to the workshops, what they learned, and what has happened in the year since. Among the undergraduates, there was the usual youthful sense of […]
November 2024 | Boss Babes Unite
When I asked a friend recently what came to mind when hearing the word “entrepreneurship,” her exact words in response were: “A dudebro. At a Ted Talk. Saying insufferable BS”, a Six(ish)-Word Poem. Truly, what does entrepreneurship even mean outside of this image it invariably summons (something, something, signified, signifier)? This image and the ethos […]
October 2024 | Playing Pretend (Dream Job Extension Pack)
I find myself struggling to use my imagination these days. As a Master’s student, whether it is having not read anything for fun in years, or hitting a stalemate with my thesis, or being stuck in the worst timeline ever of polycrisis and hellfire—it is difficult to imagine what the next month will look like, […]
Interview with Fall 2023 CCP: Olivia Brophy and Athena Loredo
As part of our Fall 2023 cohort, we interviewed Athena Loredo (DMA candidate, Composition) and Olivia Brophy (MA Student, Medical Anthropology), for their collaborative cohort project with Dr. Letitia Henville’s academic editing business, Writing Short is Hard. In this project, they conducted research and interviews with SSHRC merit review committee members to produce a series of […]
March Newsletter: Using grants to plan your next steps
I was chatting with a friend in a PhD program about encouraging more graduate students to apply for non-research grants. She had a couple successful ones under her belt, all won while completing her degree, so she understood the particular challenges students face when breaking into the world of non-research grants while also navigating their […]