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Toni Latour BFA ’98
A multidisciplinary artist working in video, sound, photography,
installation, text-based work, drawing and performance art,
Vancouver-based Toni Latour made a splash on the national and
international scene two years ago when her show “The Drag King
Project” toured extensively and was acquired by the National
Portrait Gallery of Canada. Her work was a series of images
featuring butch lesbians in men’s clothes.
Latour, who teaches at Capilano University on Vancouver’s
North Shore, held her first commercial show this year, “The Family
Project,” at the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery in Vancouver.
“Using humour as a strategy, much of my work deals
with the drives, desires and anxieties bound up in my own art
production,” she writes in her artist statement. “Often depicting the
carnivalesque quality of the artist/performer, my work seeks to be
both deprecatingly funny and poignantly honest.”
Andrew Lochhead BA ’86
Andrew Lochhead, who received his Bachelor of Arts in Art History
at the University of Windsor, is currently working on a series of
fictional video histories centred in and around his hometown of
Windsor.
The labour arts co-ordinator at the Workers Art & Heritage
Centre in Hamilton is also working toward his master’s degree
in Visual Critical Studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. A
multidisciplinary artist, writer, curator and critic, Lochhead is
interested in historical narratives both on and in contemporary
cultural space.
“In my work I am currently developing in-house and outreach
programming for the centre as well as facilitating collaborative
projects between artists, community groups and trade unions and
assisting them in applying for Artist in the Community/Workplace
Grants from the Ontario Arts Council,” he says.
Lochhead has held various teaching and research assistant
positions with School of Visual Arts professors Michael Farrell, Julie
Sando and Lee Rodney.
Colleen Schindler-Lynch BFA ’90
For Colleen Schindler-Lynch, former professor Dan Dingler was the
one who “broke through the fog for me.”
“He challenged me, guided me and pushed me to be the
problem solver I am today,” she says. “I learned that LeBel was a
wonderful workhorse school. I learned that everything counts no
matter how small the experience. It feeds who you are and that
feeds your art – no matter what discipline you explore.”
Schindler-Lynch teaches fashion illustration, accessory design
and history of fashion illustration at Ryerson University. She is also
continuing education co-ordinator for fashion and has a jewelry
design company, Coco’s Closet.
Besides Dingler, whom she
often quotes, she retains great
memories of “various dog parties,
watching Carl Kuramoto skate
the hallway with rollerskates [and]
no laces, a hockey stick with
no end and a roll of electrical
tape to open the door at some
ungodly hour to let some poor
student who couldn’t get press
time at a normal hour, and pure
uninterrupted time to work.”
LeBel, she says, “was one
of the strongest influences in
my life.”
Michele Tarailo BFA ’76
Michele Tarailo, an associate dean at UWindsor’s Faculty of
Education who filled in as acting director of the School of Visual
Arts in 2009 and was education curator at the Art Gallery of
Windsor in the 1980s, has enjoyed a long history with the School
that’s rich with memories.
She recalls her first year at the School in 1972 when it was
housed in the building that is now UWindsor’s School of Music. The
next year when the School moved to its current location on Huron
Church Road, Tarailo recalls how great it was to be working in a
large, well-equipped, clean space. The faculty was young and came
from mostly the U.S. and the atmosphere was one of “optimism and
excitement.”
One experience that stands out in her memory occurred in
1975 when she attended the visual arts summer courses that the
university offered in Yoevil, England with Dan Boles and Bob
Photography from “The Drag King Project” by Toni Latour.
“Legs” illustration by Colleen
Schindler-Lynch.
