The Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD) is an educational, clinical and research centre serving adults with developmental disabilities and other special needs populations.
The Centre provides four types of creative arts therapies: art, drama, music and dance/movement, used to promote autonomy and self-confidence, improve social skills and enhance overall quality of life for the Centre’s participants.
The Centre conducts public outreach programs and stages original musical performances to showcase the creative abilities of the participants.
Operated under the auspices of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies, the Centre provides clinical internships for many of its graduate students.
Since its inception in 1996, the Centre has conducted research, supervised through the Department of Education, into the efficacy of its creative arts therapies program and has designed assessment tools for measuring the initial status of participants and their progress over time.
The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art seeks to foster a greater appreciation for Canadian visual culture of all eras.
The Institute maintains a dialogue within the academic and museum communities on the evolving nature of Canadian visual arts study and supports research on Canadian art. Activities and resources include the creation of scholarly publications, bibliographies, collections of archival documents, catalogues raisonnées, electronic and image-based databases, and public events and conferences.
The Institute for Studies in Canadian Art was established in 1998 through the generous financial support of Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky. Mr. and Mrs. Jarislowsky are lifelong art collectors and have works by Canadian artists such as Maurice Cullen, Jacques de Tonnancour, John Fox, Dorothy Knowles, Jean Paul Lemieux, and David Milne among their most recent acquisitions.
Dr. François-Marc Gagnon, the first Director and Chair of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, has an international reputation as an outstanding scholar in Canadian history and art. He is also prolific researcher who received the Governor General’s Medal for his 1978 critical biography of Paul-Emile Borduas.
The Hexagram Institute is the largest arts and design based new media lab in Canada and is recognized internationally as the Canadian pole for interdisciplinary research in new media art, design, and interactive performance and technologies.
Established in 2001 to provide state-of-the-art equipment, resources and management infrastructure to new media art and design researchers principally at Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), the Institute now includes researchers from the Université de Montréal and McGill University.
More than 80 researchers are currently members of Hexagram and over 400 graduate students have used the resources in their research projects.
The Hexagram Institute has two parallel thrusts:
1. It houses a critical mass of researchers based at Concordia and UQAM where their local, national and international collaborators work on expressive and experimental new media research and research-creation projects. Funding for these projects comes from provincial and federal university funding agencies, arts funding agencies, foundations and many other sources.
2. Some researchers develop processes, applications or products for transfer to industry. This is usually co-funded by the MDEIE (the Quebec ministry for economic development, innovation and export), the universities and private industry.
Research is focused in areas where Quebec is emerging as a world leader, including:
Click here to find out more about our Hexagram researchers and their labs.
Click here to view the facilities and services provided by Hexagram-Concordia.
If you want to pursue a Masters or Doctoral Degree with Hexagram Researchers these are the paths currently available to you:
Master's (MA or MFA)
Apply via the Special Individualized Programs (SIP). The SIP program requires an interdisciplinary committee of three Faculty members. You should contact the program and also directly contact Hexagram researchers you would like to study with, or Lynn Hughes, Associate Dean, Research and International Relations at lynn.hughes@concordia.ca.
Apply to the MFA Studio Arts program. Most of the Hexagram researchers from Studio Arts take students via the Humanities PhD or the SIP program but Yves Bilodeau, Leila Sujir, Tim Clarke and Lynn Hughes work both with these programs and the MFA program in the Open Media section. For additional information, please contact Maureen Kennedy, Assistant to the MFA Director at mak@alcor.concordia.ca.
PhD
Apply via the Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD OR the Special Individualized Programs (SIP). You will also need to directly contact the Hexagram researchers you would like to study with. Lynn Hughes, Associate Dean, Research and International Relations is also available for consultation by contacting lynn.hughes@concordia.ca.
Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice.
Please consult the Design and Computation Arts webpage for more information.
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