Faculty

Victor Arcega is an artist, writer and martial arts sensei. He holds an MFA degree in painting and symbolic anthropology; and has worked for Victoria College of Art for the last 24 years, teaching drawing, painting,... design, illustration.

As a practising artist and teacher, his academic resources include studies and research in Salish petroglyphs, African art, Mayan art, Oceanic art, New Criticism, linguistics and experimental psychology. Born in the Philippines, he has shown his art works in Japan, Australia, Iceland, Denmark, Los Angeles, California and Washington D.C.

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artehute@gmail.com

Alain Costaz has been teaching for VCA for over 20 years including designing the Diploma Printmaking Program while VCA’s former Director in 1996. Currently, Alain teaches fundamental and advanced drawing, watercolour and acrylic painting as well... as printmaking.

Alain Costaz received his degree from Concordia University in Montreal, where he lived, pursuing drawing, printmaking, and mixed media work.  In 1993, Alain joined Ground Zero Printmakers in Victoria and became a member and director. Alain has been active pursuing his studio work, teaching for VCA and giving workshops for Ground Zero Printmakers.

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stocain@yahoo.ca

Steven Dickerson (a graduate from Sheridan College) has been working as a professional artist in a highly realistic style for over 45 years. His work has ranged from Fine Art to Illustration, Design and Animation. As... he enjoys the personal aspects of the Artist/Client relationship, Steven has had much success working on a commissioned basis. His originals and prints can be found in collections around the world.

 Steven has been teaching art for over 25 years, the last 18 of those years at the Victoria College of Art where he teaches courses in Drawing, Painting, Illustration, Design, Photoshop and Animation.

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stevend@stevendickerson.ca / stevendickerson.ca

Glen Kennedy is an experienced Animation Director, Animator, Character Designer and Storyboard Artist who has been working in the Industry for 39 years. He has now joined VCA as an Instructor in 2D Animation. Glen was... nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for "The Looney Beginnings" with Steven Speilberg as the Producer.

Glen has animated for Walt Disney TV, Warner Brothers Animation, Marvel Productions, Cartoon Network, and many more companies.Glen has storyboarded for Disney Playhouse, Cartoon Network, Nine Story Media, Transformers Rescue Bots for Hasbro, Portfolio Entertainment, and Oasis Entertainment.

He was the Animation Director for Tiny Toons Adventures. The TV series won two Emmy Awards for outstanding Animation.

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glenkennedy@kennedyanimation.com

Joyce Kline teaches life drawing, installation, storyboarding as well as, basic and advanced drawing at VCA since 2007. Joyce designs sets for theatre and film and won the 2017 Leo Award for Production Design on the... short film "The Cameraman".

Joyce has exhibited in artist-run centres and public galleries across Canada and Finland and been the recipient of Canada, Ontario and Toronto Arts Council grants. Her theatre pieces have been workshopped or performed in Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto, her articles and reviews published in This Magazine, the Globe and Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. In 2018 she received an honourable mention in New Flash Fiction Review's Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction.

A lifelong learner, she holds a BFA with distinction from York and Cornell Universities with additional post graduate studies at the University of Art & Design Helsinki (now Aalto University).

Joyce won over five other nominees who worked on many films and TV series you’ve probably seen: Juno, The Intern, Aliens vs Predators, The World According to Garp, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Once Upon a Time, Smallville, Miami Vice, Gossip Girl, X Files, The L Word, and Law and Order.

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j.littleworlds.kline@gmail.com

Emily Morgan is a Sculpture Instructor at VCA for many years. Using traditional methods, Emily teaches Figure Sculpting both with terracotta and multi-media. Her experience led to commissioned sculpture portraits and statues for international companies and... sculpting portraits of well-known figures.

Emily was apprenticed under the tutelage of the noted figurative sculptor, Karen Jonzen, in Chelsea, London, UK. Emily began teaching the City and Guild Sculpture Degree in Richmond-upon-Thames, UK. Emily holds a degree in Integrative Arts Therapy and a credited degree in Anatomy and Physiology. Emily has had Sculpture studios in England and in France as well as on Vancouver Island, B.C. where she is currently creating a Sculpture Garden.

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sculptem@hotmail.com / cargocollective.com/emilymorgan

Dr. Yvonne Owens is currently a Professor of Art History, Philosophy of Art, English writing and language, and Critical Studies at VCA. A published author in Art History, Theology, Mythology and Feminist Critique, Yvonne's publications have mainly... focused on representations of women in art and the "unsung" women creators in art and culture.

Dr. Owens is a past Research Fellow at the University College of London. She was awarded a Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellowship in 2005 for her interdisciplinary dissertation on Renaissance portrayals of women in art and sixteenth-century Witch Hunt discourses. She holds an Honors B.A. with Distinctions in History of Art from the University of Victoria, BC, an M.A. in Medieval Studies with Distinction from The Centre For Medieval Studies at the University of York, U.K., and an M.Phil and Ph.D. in History of Art from University College of London, UK.

She has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in three scholarly books, and a full-length art history text, Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: the Witches and Femme Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien (Bloomsbury, 2020). She also writes art and cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. She is co-Editor with Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju for an anthology of essays titled Trans-Disciplinary Migrations: Science, the Sacred, and the Arts, forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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yvonne.owens@uclmail.net / yvonneowens.academia.edu/

Peter Such is an author and educator, Professor Emeritus of York University, Toronto. He has published eight books, and has been active in founding art organizations, art magazines and technology-based teaching initiatives. He has taught and... given seminars as a visiting professor in Helsinki, Cambridge and other European universities as well as in North America. Although he is a critic, and has worked as an archaeologist, Peter is not an artist himself, preferring to be entranced by the magic of art practitioners, who often figure in his novels and plays. He views creativity as the one saving and non-polluting grace left to human beings. Peter thinks of the Victoria College of Art as a joy-oriented creative community and, as its President, he attempts to dispel the dragons of stress and angst whenever they arise. His faculty think likewise.

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peterdsuch@gmail.com