Photographic Portrait of Tia Halliday

Tia Halliday

B.F.A, B.Ed, M.F.A, PhD (c)

Affiliations

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts , Department of Art and Art History

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts , Department of Art and Art History

Contact information

Email

thallida@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Professional Website

Preferred method of communication

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Research partners

Research collaborators and graduate students interested in cutting-edge transdisciplinary, arts-based and education focused research initiatives.

Background

Credentials

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Distinction), Studio Art (Painting) , Alberta University of the Arts , 2006

Masters of Fine Arts, Studio Art (Drawing & Painting), Concordia University (Montreal) , 2008

Master of Teaching, Werklund School of Education , 2012

Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Curriculum and Learning , Werklund School of Education , 2021

Biography

Halliday has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions, performance projects, presentations and publications across Canada, the US and Europe. Halliday's work and research was recently featured in a dedicated chapter of the international book: Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today's Artists (Abrams Books New York NY) in 2022 and showcased at the AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) International Conference on Pedagogy and Higher Education in Glasgow Scotland (2023) and San Francisco USA (2024). 

Halliday was independently nominated for the National Gallery of Canada's Sobey Art Award (on behalf of the Walter Phillips Gallery) in 2018, which is the largest financial award for a Canadian artist under 40.  Halliday was also selected to represent leading artistic research in Alberta through inclusion in the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2017 (Art Gallery of Alberta).  Halliday's work has also been featured at the Glenbow Museum (2019), Contemporary Calgary (2015) and was identified as one of Canada’s top female artists though her inclusion in the XX (Chromosome) Exhibition at Herringer Kiss Gallery (2020). 

Halliday is also the recipient of the Mary Hofstetter Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts (on behalf of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity). Halliday's work and research has been showcased in such publications as The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Frieze, Canadian Art, The Edmonton Journal, and the Calgary Herald and others. 

Halliday is the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for post secondary teaching, including the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teacher Award in 2020.

 

Research

Areas of Research

Transdisciplinary Research, Research-Creation, Artistic Research (Studio Art), Education Research

My dynamic research interests include expertise and interest in the following themes and topics: 

·Transdisciplinary Approaches to Artistic Research, Pedagogy & Curriculum

 ·Research-Creation Practice

 ·Painting as Expanded Practice

 ·Drawing as Expanded Practice

 ·Performance & Photographic Practice

 ·Embodiment, Performativity & Choreographic Practice 

 ·Art & Social Media

 ·Phenomenology

 ·Queer Phenomenology

 ·Post-Human Performativity

 ·Qualitative Research

 ·Research of Human Subjects

 ·Wearable Design for Health

 ·Transdisciplinary approaches to Wearable Technology & Curriculum

 ·Research in Education (Specializing in Post-Secondary Education)

 ·Experiential Learning & Curriculum

 ·Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Brain and mental health

Child health and wellness

Engineering solutions for health

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ART 561 LAB 02 B02 Honours Studio Research I 2020
ART 66101 SEC 01 S01 Advanced Studio Practice 2020

Projects

Wearable Design for Mental Health

I am the primary investigator and co-investigator on several transdisciplinary, arts-based and education focused research initiatives past and present. Such projects include: 

Wearable Design for Mental Health: What Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Look Like? (Primary Investigator, Ongoing)  

This research project that looks at the potential of transdisciplinary education, touching on approaches, practices and outputs relating to art, engineering, design and entrepreneurialism.  Funded by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning.

Drawing Outside the Lines: Challenging Conceptions of the Body Online in a Studio Art Classroom (Primary Investigator, Ongoing) 

This qualitative research project in curriculum and post-secondary education involving human subject showcases a detailed analysis of multi-modal artifacts to showcase how participation in a studio art course enabled students to rigorously challenge common conceptions of the body in social media. Support Received through the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Research Fund. 

Gestures of Care - The Weight of the World (Primary Investigator, Ongoing) 

(Primary Investigator, Ongoing) This body of research embraces dance-based performance, drawing and painting to explore themes of care and resilience.  Through the confluence of performance and static image, this research embraces choreographed abstractions as a touchstone for an analysis connectivity, responsibility, and radical care.

The Sense Economy - The Institute for Spatial Bemusement (Co-Investigator, Complete) 

 In collaboration with artist Megan Dyck, Alberta University of Arts) this body of research draws inspiration from various examples of eighteenth century French furniture design, feminist performance art from the dada period and gymnasium accoutrement.  Involving the creation of five human-scale kinetic sculpture this research queries the hybrid and phenomenological space between objects and moving bodies. Fully funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. 

In the Skin of a Painting (Primary Investigator, Complete) 

This project looks at painting as an expanded practice that is both informed and informing many means of contemporary inquiry. Using performance, photography, video and dance as a way of physically negotiating paradigms of painterly abstraction, these performed paintings, are a mode of generative research; to analyze, create and pose questions about the body’s relationship to painting and sculpture. Fully funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. 

Still photograph of performance
Still photograph of performance
Photograph of aluminum artwork
Photograph of aluminum artwork
Photograph of aluminum artwork
Photograph of a painting
Photograph of a painting

Awards

  • Mary Hofstetter Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts , Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity . 2017
  • Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teacher Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2020
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Alberta University of the Arts . 2015
  • Faculty Award , Alberta University of the Arts Students Association . 2015
  • Enbridge Alumni Professional Development Award , Enbridge & The Alberta University of the Arts . 2016
  • Alumni Honour Award , Alberta University of the Arts . 2016

Publications

Dance Vision Publication

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