Andrew Testa, BFA, MFA (York)
Visiting assistant professor - Visual Arts, School of Fine Arts
Phone: (709) 637-7645
Research interests/expertise
Through my current research-creation explorations, I pose and respond to the question: what does a mutual and nurturing conversation with the other-than-human look like and what would the ethics of such an endeavour be? In my investigations, I perform gestures that bring me to a space parallel to the other-than-human, a space I attempt to not impose upon but rather sit beside: to watch, to listen and to wait with. In such acts I hope to allow the opportunity for the other-than-human to perform its own language - a language that isn’t an attempted translation into the familiar words and voices I may know but rather one that exists in its ambiguity and acknowledged for its difference and distance.
Testa works through printmaking, drawing, artist books, words, sound, and installations.
Teaching
- 2020/21 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Printerly: Exploration in print methodologies, (special topics course) VART 2905 *remote
- Printmaking: Relief and Screenprinting, VART 1310 *remote
- Extended Practice in Printed Multiples, VART 3310 (winter 2021)
- The Material Book, VART 2901 (winter 2021)
- (Undergraduate Advisor) Independent Senior Studio I, and II, VART 4950, VART 4951 (winter 2021)
- 2019/20 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Printmaking: Relief and Screenprinting, VART 1310
- Printmaking: Lithography, VART 2321
- Print Media (Contemporary Printing Technologies), VART 2330
- Extended Practice in Printed Multiples, VART 3310
- (Undergraduate Advisor) Independent Senior Studio I, and II, VART 4950, VART 4951
- (Graduate Advisor) Self-Directed Studio/Research, VART 670A, VART 670B
- 2019 Sessional Instructor, School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Directed Studies in Printmaking, VART 3350 (taught through St.
- Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, NL)
- 2018/19 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Printmaking: Relief and Screenprinting, VART 1310
- Printmaking: Intaglio, VART 2311
- Print Media (Contemporary Printing Technologies), VART 2330
- Extended Practice in Printed Multiples, VART 3310
- (Undergraduate Advisor) Independent Senior Studio I, and II, VART 4950, VART 4951
- 2018 Sessional Instructor, Department of Fine Arts, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
- Home, Place, and Space (co-taught/co-designed special topics course), VISA 3026
- Printmaking II (Lithography/Intaglio), VISA 3586
- Advanced Studio II, VISA 4027
- 2017 Sessional Instructor, Visual Arts Program, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
- Printmaking: Screen Printing 1, VISA 2510
- 2016/17 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio, VART 2311
- Introduction to Printmaking: Relief, VART 2310
- Intermediate Drawing I, VART 3000
- Intermediate Drawing II, VART 3001
- Intermediate Painting II, VART 3101
- (Undergraduate Advisor) Independent Senior Studio I, and II, VART 4950, VART 4951
Representative scholarly contributions
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 (forthcoming) over and over, again and again, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), Edmonton, AB
- 2019 A Constellation of Sorts (2nd iteration), Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 CB Nuit, Arts Festival, Corner Brook, NL
- from here, with you there, Modern Fuel, Curated by Henry Heng Lu, Kingston, ON
PUBLICATIONS
Awards and recognitions (optional)
SELECT GRANTS and AWARDS
- 2020 Teaching and Learning (Opportunities for Innovation within Remote Teaching), Robert Hengeveld (principle applicant), Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- Scholarship in the Arts (Community Engagement in the Arts: Roundtable discussion and tool-kit building workshop with Jane Walker, Melissa Tremblett, and Sally Wolchyn-Raab), Joint application with Print/Photo Technician, Robyn Anderson, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- 2019 VP Grenfell Campus Research Fund, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Scholarship in the Arts (Mitch Mitchell artist talk and workshop), Joint application with Print/Photo Technician, Robyn Anderson, Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL
- 2016 Samuel Sarick Purchase Prize, York University
- York University Thesis Prize Finalist, MFA
- 2015 SSHRC, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship CGS Master Scholarship
- Open Studio Editions Residency Award, Open Studio, Toronto, ON
- 2014 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
- Entrance Scholarship, MFA Program, York University