Promoting the arts through engagement, advocacy, diversity and inclusion.
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.
UAAC presents an annual conference and a scholarly journal (RACAR, Revue d’art canadienne/Canadian Art Review) representing our members’ views and concerns.
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Call for Papers: Rembrandt’s Material Worlds
Rembrandt’s Material Worlds International Northern Baroque Bader Colloquia Bader College, Herstmonceux Castle, UK 3–6 June 2027 With generous support from Bader Philanthropies, the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen's University, in collaboration [...]
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 [...]