- About
- Centre for Communications and the Arts
- Calendars of Events & Happenings
- Event Poster Collection
- The Communications Centre: Experiment in human experience
- Jade: Flower-child happenings and conceptual art projects in 1969
- Nini Baird: A Day in the Hectic Life of the Arts Centre Director
- Sound Recordings: Faculty Lectures from 1967 Communications Course
- Dance
- Film
- Literary Arts
- Music & Sound
- Music & Sound image gallery
- My "a-ha" moment with Murray Schafer
- World Soundscape Project
- Phillip Werren's electronic music
- Radio CKSF "on the air" fall 1966
- Robert Aitken performs with the Purcell String Quartet & Soundscape on radio
- David Skulski and the early music revival at SFU
- Phyllis Mailing: SFU Singer Who Reached the Top
- Purcell String Quartet: In High Demand
- Theatre
- Theatre image gallery
- How the early days of the arts at SFU changed my parochial little life
- Norm Browning, Jackie Crossland and Cece Granbois in Beverley Simons' new 1-act play "Greenlawn Rest Home"
- The Centralia Incident: "A theatre in search of a town—A town in search of its memory."
- The only escape: The early years of the SFU theatre
- Robin Patterson and the SFU Mime Troupe
- Theatre of Total Limbo
- Visual Arts
Visual Arts
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Visual Arts image gallery
Browse a selection of archival photographs capturing artists and exhibitions during SFU's its first decade. learn more
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Visual Arts in the early years
During the first 10 years of the Centre for Communication and the Arts, painting, photography, calligraphy, and silkscreening were taught at SFU. learn more
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Conceptual art: Seen any good ideas lately?
Before the Simon Fraser Gallery was established, resident Jim Felter resourcefully turned this lack of dedicated space into an opportunity to transform the campus itself into a gallery. learn more
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Joel Smith: No-Name Art
SFU resident artist, Joel Smith, discusses teaching visual art at the Haney Correctional Institute in 1971. learn more
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Inuit Art Collection at SFU
In 1970, SFU hosted its first exhibition of work by Inuit artists. Referred to as "Eskimo" art at the time, Curator-Director Jim Felter built the university's collection of Inuit graphics from the early days of the SFU Gallery. By 1972, the university had acquired one of the largest collections of Inuit art outside of Ottawa. learn more
Explore stories, images and archival materials from SFU's past
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Browse a selection of archival photographs capturing artists and exhibitions during SFU's its first decade.
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During the first 10 years of the Centre for Communication and the Arts, painting, photography, calligraphy, and silkscreening were taught at SFU.
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Before the Simon Fraser Gallery was established, resident Jim Felter resourcefully turned this lack of dedicated space into an opportunity to transform the campus itself into a gallery.
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SFU resident artist, Joel Smith, discusses teaching visual art at the Haney Correctional Institute in 1971.
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In 1970, SFU hosted its first exhibition of work by Inuit artists. Referred to as "Eskimo" art at the time, Curator-Director Jim Felter built the university's collection of Inuit graphics from the early days of the SFU Gallery. By 1972, the university had acquired one of the largest collections of Inuit art outside of Ottawa.