Maritime Art Association
http://maa.concordia.ca/

The Maritime Art Association website presents the first available history of the association and deals specifically with the decade following its formation in 1935. The website provides a detailed record of the activities of the MAA, its exhibition programme and its other projects that served to identify the art community in the Maritime Provinces from the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s. The textual information is supported by illustrations of documents, letters and similar archival materials that help tell the story of the MAA.

Montreal as Palimpsest
http://cityaspalimpsest.concordia.ca/

The city of Montreal is a palimpsest, a series of surfaces upon which various actors, communities and organizations have left their trace in the form of the built environment. What is the nature of the relationship between a city, its memories and communities, and its ongoing transformation? In the context of a graduate seminar in the
Department of Art History, Concordia University, and several public conferences, students in architectural history have chosen distinct sites in Montreal to explore these questions. Using site visits, archival resources and visual culture, contributors to Montreal as Palimpsest explored their chosen sites as cultural landscapes, reading them for their investment in specific pasts, and revealing the traces of their polyphonic histories. The essays that are found on this site, written over a period of three years, are intended to be public, scholarly resources, available to anyone who wishes to learn more about Montreal's architectural and urban histories.

Ensemble, An Exhibition of Art and Jazz
http://www.ensemble.concordia.ca/

Jazz music provides an analogy for explaining modern and contemporary art, by using musical expressions such as distinctive tone colours, energizing and syncopated rhythms, pitch variations, pattern and improvisation. This exhibition and accompanying symposium features Canadian artists Sam Borenstein, Graham Coughtry, Jacques de Tonnancour, Yves Gaucher, Betty Goodwin, John Heward, Harold Klunder, Guido Molinari, Michael Snow, Sylvia Safdie and Joyce Wieland, whose works explicitly evoke associations with jazz. Whether it is through their experiences as jazz musicians, their love for music, or the jazz-like spontaneity communicated in their paintings, this art from the 1960s to the present day can be considered in musical terms. The exhibition is an initiative of Concordia University's art history graduate students, working in partnership with the FOFA Gallery, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Concordia University Archives and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Most of the works for this exhibition were selected from the latter's collection. This exhibition and symposium were the results of a M.A. graduate seminar in Museum Practice taught by Loren Lerner in Fall 2007. The students defined the exhibition theme, selected the works, and handled different aspects of the exhibition, including: the design of the exhibition space; the preparation of the panel texts; the writing and presentation of the symposium papers; the development of the website; and the organization of an educational program to accompany the exhibition.

Metro Borduas
http://metroborduas.concordia.ca/

Every day, over one million people in Montréal ride the métro, a process that orients our experience of the city.
By associating artwork to particular métro stops, this exhibition points to the historical conditions of their production and presentation, as well as to locations of special significance in the lives of the artists concerned. Plotting key moments in the history of non-figurative painting and its legacy, Métro Borduas contextualizes the work socially and politically. In many cases, the details of this history predate the construction of the métro in 1966. It is thus a narrative that will serve metaphorically as a kind of temporal sediment upon which the city's cultural “tracks” were laid.

Canadian Art News
http://canadianartnews.concordia.ca

The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art presents the Canadian Art News website. This website announces conferences and speaker series, major exhibitions, discussion forums, significant publications, and other events within Canada and around the world. There is also a "call for papers section. "In the "calendar section" you can see what is happening each month in one quick look. The cumulated data in the "archives section" over time will become a source of recent and historical information.

Paul-Émile Borduas - Catalogue Raisonné
http://www.borduas.concordia.ca

Funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the objectives of this project are to comprehensively document the works of Quebec artist Paul-Émile Borduas and to make this information easily available to scholars, collectors and the interested public through an innovative tool that combines the extensive research of the catalogue raisonné with the flexibility and accessibility of the Internet.

Visual and Textual Documents on Art and Architecture in Canada
http://art-history.concordia.ca/canada_documents/index.asp

Canadian Art Documents is a virtual anthology of selected print and archival records that relate to the production and dissemination of Canadian art. It is designed to bring students closer to the primary sources of creative and scholarly history in Canada. The material assembled covers the vast array of art documents generated between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. More than a simple bibliographical database, Canadian Art Documents makes rare and hard-to-access material available directly on the Internet. Each entry in this ever-growing anthology includes the scanned reproduction of a record, along with full bibliographical information and an abstract.