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📣 Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Integrated Arts (iArts) Awards presented by the McMaster Museum of Art @macmuseum

Click the link in bio @macmuseum to read our latest interview with the students. 🔗

Presented as part of the exhibition iARTS XPO: 2026 Graduating Cohort, these awards celebrate artistic excellence, collaboration, experimentation, and community-building across this year’s graduating class.

🏆 SOTA Mission Award: Maia Nguyen & Vikaash Arunmozhi
Honourable Mention: Tahmia Thomas

🏆 Leadership & Community Spirit Award: Riley Payne
Honourable Mention: Miriam Georgis

🏆 Interdisciplinary Art Award: Pocket Lint Collective (Amelia Doty & Charlie Saltzman)
Honourable Mention: Jacob Byck

🏆 Risk-Taking & Bravery Award: Kior Barrow
Honourable Mention: Gemima Mukendi

The exhibition iARTS XPO: 2026 Graduating Cohort remains on view at the McMaster Museum of Art until June 26, 2026.

Join us during May @ Mac Open House on May 9 for drop-in tours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Please join us in congratulate all the graduating students for their incredible work. by @sotamcmaster

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Our third IARTS EXPO artist highlight features Tahmia Thomas @t4hm14 , who created The People Who Have Shaped Me, an installation combining hand-sculpted figurines, poetic fragments, and a digital diary exploring memory, identity, and personal relationships. The work invites viewers into a space of intimate storytelling, where small figurines and written reflections reveal the people and moments that have shaped who Tahmia is.

The IARTS EXPO is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art, from March 26 to June 26, 2026.

Shot, edited and music by @izomura taken in McMaster Museum of Art by @sotamcmaster

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💌 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening reception of iARTS EXPO: 2026 Graduating Cohort last Saturday. Congratulations to all of the graduating students on an incredible and thoughtful presentation of their work. The exhibition is just one part of the Expo—head over to @sotamcmaster to see the full lineup of student performances last week.

This exhibition brings together the inaugural graduating classes of McMaster University’s iARTS (Integrated Arts) BA and BFA programs. Launched in 2022, iARTS fosters interdisciplinary approaches across art, performance, art histories, critical theory, and research-creation. Grounded in social justice, the program supports diverse, collaborative practices spanning acting, game design, painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, playwriting, dance, and filmmaking.

Featuring a wide range of capstone projects, the exhibition explores identity, memory, the body, and culture through media including animation, film, gaming, photography, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed-media installation. Across these forms, artists transform personal experiences—of illness, culture, coming of age, queerness, migration, spirituality, and grief—into reflective and resonant acts of storytelling.

Thank you to Vice-Provost (Faculty), Office of the Vice-President, Teaching & Learning, Dr. Kim Dej, for attending, and to advisors @peter_cockett_sota and @syrusmarcus for your wonderful remarks to students.

The reel is just a snapshot of all the wonderful works — visit the exhibition at @macmuseum until June 26, 2026. Admission is free, with no registration required. by @sotamcmaster

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So impressed with how our students represented their own work and themselves at the McMcmaster Museum of Art exhibit and at the gala film screening! So much substance to these fine young artists! 🧑‍🎨 (Phones need better artist emojis!!!) 🔥⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ by @sotamcmaster

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Ok, the old man may be getting carried away with his Insta action here, but wanted everyone to know to find their way around on Saturday. ☝️👉👇👈Can’t wait to celebrate with the first graduating class of iArts students! 🎊🚀🎉🎉🔥🕺🕺🕺Hope you can join us!! Links for the live performance tickets and the film gala in Linktree by @sotamcmaster

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Performers are getting ready for the iArts Expo! Check out these shots from three productions starting tonight! Tickets are now available for Next Time’s Coming by Jacob Byck, Coming and Going Out by Amelia Doty and Charlie Saltzman and The Tunnel by Pariwash Sundrani.

This is all part of a new three-day festival of the arts featuring the the exciting work of the graduating classes of McMaster University’s iArts (Integrated Arts) BA and BFA programs.
Come join us this weekend! Learn more about when and where through the link in our bio! by @sotamcmaster

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Live performance open tomorrow Thursday 26 and run to Saturday 28, in the Lyons Family Studio. 💃🕺👯⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️🔥 Tickets are free but book through Showpass to make sure you don’t miss out!! 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️Links to booking sites through Linktree in Bio!

Three unique new shows, devised and produced by iArts students. Don’t miss them!! 🔥🤩🤩🤩🤩🔥 by @sotamcmaster

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This weekend at @sotamcmaster I will be closing my year-in-residence with New Moon V:Listening Party, a research exposition sharing the last 3+ years of research, new works, and a few exciting public engagements!

On Friday, March 27 from 5-9p, Chef Evy of @cantinetoca will share a special gallery version of her Sabi Sabi Culinary Lab, giving a hands-on introduction to prized ingredients and samples of flavours from sacred plants of the African Diaspora.

On Saturday, March 28 from 1230p, I'm conducting Ex# 21 - SENSORY SAUNA. We will use the heightened sensitivity to explore expression in communal ritual of heat, smoke, steam, and rest followed by journaling. Registration REQUIRED, more info via link in my bio!

Both days, the Fitzhenry Studios will host sound installations featuring the 15 New Moon V artists from @orchidcontemporary @moeclark , Wellington Sanipe, and @nkariuki_ , whose experimental compositions have been deeply woven into the project since I saw her perform in a church in Utrecht in 2023. Aside from these audio works, I'm especially excited to share 12 sneak peeky prints of my upcoming risoprint poster zine series, and a media gallery of artifacts from the past 20 experiments.

The show opens at 4pm on Friday March 27th, and it all closes on March 28th with my most cherished ritual - COMMUNAL MOVEMENT - with @b.a.d.j.u.d.a bringing her love for ancestral sounds to the gallery for a 3-hour set starting at 9p on Saturday.

New Moon V: Listening Party is a part of the roster of engagements in SOTA's iArts Expo. Come to learn, smell, taste, touch, sweat, dance, and take in works from SOTA students while you're here!

Huge thanks to Adrien Crossman and Dr. O, all of the New Moon artists, and all of SOTA McMaster for this amazing year of collaboration, and to @trinitysaunainc for providing the mobile sauna to make this dream project a reality! taken in McMaster School of the Arts by @sotamcmaster

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Students in the iArts program are getting ready for iArts Expo: Pilot! This is a new three-day festival of the arts featuring the the exciting work of the graduating classes of McMaster University’s iArts (Integrated Arts) BA and BFA programs. Students are preparing performances, getting their video projects ready, and putting up artwork ahead of the expo happening this weekend. Let's go behind the scenes with some of the setup over in the McMaster Museum of Art!

Find out when the festivities are happening through the link in our bio! by @sotamcmaster

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It is happening! Big shout out to the Museum team who have been an amazing support to the students. 🔥🔥⭐️⭐️Busy installing as I write! See bio for link to full derails! by @sotamcmaster

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Moving from new plays and films to our multi-disciplinary arts exhibit, I am struck by the depth and range of iArts’ talented students ❤️🤩🙏🏼Linsy is creating such a powerful piece and I can’t wait to see it installed in the McMaster Museum of Art🔥🔥🔥🔥Doors open on the exhibit on Thursday evening! Take a moment to engage with the complex and varied work of our students. Link to details the whole iArts Expo in bio! by @sotamcmaster

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