The Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) provides a national voice for its membership, composed of university and college faculty, independent scholars, and other art professionals in the fields of art, art history, and visual culture.
Membership Benefits
Members-event pricing at UAAC’s yearly Conference. Only UAAC members may present papers or chair sessions.
As a member you can log into our new website to share your news, most recent publications, your call for proposals or papers, and update your information and research/practice interests, as well as to connect with other members listed on the Member Directory.
RACAR is UAAC’s journal available twice a year: a Spring issue and a Fall issue. As a member you can subscribe to the printed version at a 50% off member-only pricing (includes shipping in Canada). If you prefer to read it online, you can go to the RACAR section or we will email you a copy.
Nominate or be nominated for one of UAAC Awards: Lifetime Achievement, Recognition, Award for the advancement of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility and the new Book Prize. Students who presented at the Conference are eligible to submit their work for the Graduate Student Essay Award.
NEWS
Call For Proposals: RACAR Special Issue, Fall 2028
Each fall, RACAR publishes a special issue entirely dedicated to a specific theme. Recent issues have focused on Canada’s Wilderness Parks (2025), Cripping Visual Culture (2024), Sources of Research Creation (2023), and Black Diasporic Visual Histories (2022). To submit [...]
2025 Graduate Student Essay Awardee
Celebrating Excellence: M Gnanasihamany Winner of the 2025 Graduate Student Essay Award UAAC-AAUC is pleased to announce that M Gnanasihamany has been awarded the 2025 Graduate Student Essay Award for their paper, "Seeing Through [...]
From Brazil to Canada, and in Between, Museum of London, Ontario
The Exhibition "Tropi-X: Brazilian Art in Canada, 1970s – Now" curated by Alena Robin & Rodrigo D’Alcântara is showing now and until April 19, 2026 in the Museum of London. To see the [...]