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Andrew Testa

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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 
“The Within-ness of Things: Working with/alongside the other-than-human” The Comparative Media Arts Journal. Issue 8: Invisibility (Escaping Notice), 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-eight--invisibility--escaping-notice-/AndrewTesta.html 
 

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

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20 University Drive, Corner Brook, NL
A2H 5G4, Canada

Office: AS 277
Phone: (709) 637-6298
Email: info@grenfell.mun.ca



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