HUMBER COLLEGE COMMUNITY UPDATE
HUMBER GALLERIES
This month at the Humber Lakeshore campus, we’re hoping for change and doubling down on our efforts to protect students, staff and the community. With hard work, perseverance and a little luck, we will come together again soon. In order to reach our goal of welcoming everyone back to campus, Humber College continues to work within the guidelines and guidance of public health. We hope that the college’s compliance and careful planning will result in more students on campus this summer and fall. Most programs will still be run online and oncampus learning will only occur for courses where it is safe and necessary to do so. You’ll notice activity on campus from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week in order to meet physical distancing and class size caps. Something that won’t change is Humber’s commitment to offering a variety of ways for people to get involved via the Internet, geared towards both students and the community.
1890 as the Mimico Branch Asylum. During its operation, the Hospital grounds hosted picturesque gardens that were maintained by the patients as a form of therapy. The Hospital officially closed as the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in 1979 due to the deinstitutionalization movement. Artists were challenged to focus on the importance placed on beautifying spaces and present works that look towards the evolving future of therapeutic design. The works of Alex Da Costa Furtado, Carla Sierra Suarez, Carmina Miana, Rashmeet Kaur and James McDowell will be displayed for three months on the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre’s website at Lakeshoregrounds.ca. Humber Galleries is also offering online exhibits and art viewing. In 2019, Humber Galleries started to work more closely with students and creatives at Humber and the “Campus as a Canvas” initiative was born.
This month, the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre launches a unique and powerful exhibit called “The Aesthetics of Mental Health.” I mentioned in our January update that the Centre was seeking artwork for a digital show curated by Samuel McGuire. The exhibit combines context and ideas from the past, present and future. The red brick buildings that today serve as the Lakeshore campus of Humber College were originally opened in
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