Year End Show

Each year students in the fourth year of the BFA and BMS programs host an exhibition showcasing their artwork that was created over the course of the year. The students transform the Creative and Critical Studies building and classrooms into an exhibition space to present a range of the next works created by these emerging artists.

Graduating Exhibition – BFA and BMS students

What: Forty Feet Forward, 4th year exhibition
Where: CCS Building, UBC Okanagan Campus
Opening Reception: April 21, 2023, 6:00 to 9:30 pm
Exhibition dates: April 22 to 28, 2023, open daily from 10am to 4pm

The show will include works from graduating students from both our Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Media Studies fourth year students.

Students have been working hard to create a body of original and engaging works over the course of the year and this April they will show their best works. The exhibition will highlight a wide variety of work created by both fine arts and media studies emerging artists over the course of the year. The collection will include sculpture, performance, installation, painting, drawing, digital media, and animation.

Bachelor of Fine Arts

For the 2020 and 2021 year-end shows, BFA students shared their work as a virtual exhibitions.

Bachelor of Media Studies

BMS students develop capstone projects in their last year that brings together everything they have learned, and become the basis of their year-end exhibition.

The top students in the graduating class are recognized for demonstrating outstanding academic and artistic achievement over their final years in the BFA program, with a number of donor funded and faculty and university awards.