OUR MISSION

Canvas is the academic journal of McGill’s Department of Art History and Communication Studies. We give students a platform to publish their work, gain editing experience, and collaborate. Moreover, we encourage students to produce original, innovative research and quality writing. Canvas is a space for new and emerging perspectives on art and media theory.

McGill University and our department are situated on land that has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

OUR TEAM

OUR TEAM

  • Paige Suhl

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Paige is in her third year completing a double major in Art History and English Literature. She is particularly interested in studying activism in twentieth-century American art and literature. When she’s not in school you can usually find her updating her Goodreads, binging a tv show, or at the front row of a concert.

  • Emily Vescio

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Emily is in her fourth year studying Honours Art History with a minor in European Literature and Culture. Her current research approaches presentations of labour and the home in Postwar Italian Art through a feminist lens, though she has an indelible soft spot for devotional arts of the Northern Renaissance. Emily is a voracious reader, a marginally skilled chef, and is liable to mention Joan Didion in almost any conversation.

  • Courtney Squires

    SENIOR EDITOR & AHCSSA CANVAS REP

    Courtney is in her third year studying Honours Art History with a second major in Psychology. She has an interest in late nineteenth and early twentieth century European painting and sculpture, post-impressionist visual culture, and a personal indulgence for contemporary feminist paintings. Some women artists she loves are Sasha December, Helen McNicholl, and Annie Hopf. In her free time, you can find her curled up on the couch with a book, a blanket, a warm drink, and a really good playlist (if she does say so herself).

  • Flavie Deveaux

    EDITOR

    Flavie is currently in her fourth year doing an honours in Art History and minoring in Anthropology with a focus on archaeology. She is primarily interested in the material culture of clothing from Medieval to contemporary times, especially pertaining to uniforms across all cultures. Flavie is also passionate about the use of symbolism in visual art, and enjoys analysing it with a postcolonial and feminist viewpoint. In her free time, she enjoys film photography, oil painting and digital art, and playing with her cat.

  • Iris Bednarski

    EDITOR

    Iris Bednarski is a third-year Honours Art History student completing a double minor in Religious Studies and European Literature and Culture. She is primarily interested in representations of love and lust across visual culture. Currently, her research focuses on late medieval manuscripts and textiles. Outside of school, she enjoys drawing and going to the movies.

  • Rachel Barker

    EDITOR

    Rachel is in her second year majoring in Art History with a minor in English Literature. She is interested in contemporary art reflecting the environmental crisis, and art’s ability to express the conflicting emotions circulating climate change. When not found cutting up posters from art books to stick on her bedroom walls, Rachel is often watching rom-coms, reading, or plotting with friends.

  • Beatrice Moritz

    EDITOR

    Beatrice is a third year Honours Art History student minoring in World Cinemas and Russian Culture. She is primarily interested in examining gender in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, talking with friends on her balcony, and writing one-line letterboxd reviews.

  • Mathieu Lajoie

    EDITOR

    Mathieu is in his first year studying Honours History with a minor in Art History. He is mostly interested in the decorative arts and in exploring the role of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Exoticism in the Western perceptions of foreign cultures. In his spare time, you will most likely find him browsing flea markets for porcelain or trying to fit newly bought antiques in his tiny shoebox room.

About AHCSSA

Canvas is a division of the Art History and Communication Studies Student Association (AHCSSA). The AHCSSA aims to work as a liaison between students, professors, and the broader cultural community. The Canvas Representative makes sure the voice of every editor on Canvas is heard. They also plan events with the AHCSSA to foster community and student life within the Art History and Communication Studies Department. Events include the yearly journal launch, gallery crawls, exhibitions, and more. Canvas works closely with other divisions such as the McGill Fine Arts Commission (FAC). Learn more about the AHCSSA here.