In past years, students focused their artistic talents on the college cafeteria-an already impressive room adorned with stained-glass windows that used to be a congregation area for a convent-transforming it into a gallery space.
Why don’t I reach out and pick their brains?’ ” She sent a Facebook message to Ladd, a two-time graduate of Dawson College who started an animation company called Studio Syro in 2018, which worked remotely even before the pandemic and was in the midst of creating a 3D virtual workspace. “I thought, ‘Some of my alumni are working in augmented and virtual reality. “I knew we had to make it happen somehow,” says Fresco. The idea was sparked by a fortuitous conversation between Pauline Fresco, illustration program coordinator and department co-chair, and Nick Ladd, a former student of hers. This year’s vernissage was held in an immersive, online 3D gallery, complete with floating avatars, virtual drinks and a bevy of interactive features. “It honestly broke my heart when I heard it might not happen at all.”īut thanks to some last-minute ingenuity, the show went on-albeit in a drastically different format than ever before.
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“This was going to be our big night, where everybody presents their final projects and just revels in the work we’ve accomplished,” says Dalia Nardolillo, who graduated from the Montreal college’s professional photography program this past May.
It was supposed to be a major celebration: a culmination of three years of hard work in programs like illustration, interior design and photography. In mid-April, students in Dawson College’s applied arts programs who were getting set to graduate learned that their final exhibition, or “vernissage” (which means opening), would have to be cancelled because of the pandemic.
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