I completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts and Teachers College at the Lakehead University Campus in Thunder Bay in 2015. I will share about the campus Lakehead University in this blog post. If you have any questions about my time on the campus of Lakehead University don’t hesitate to reach out!
Campus Lakehead University
I really liked the campus Lakehead University. It is a small campus and there is a large pond on campus and lots of trees and trails. Although winters are cold, the landscape of Thunder Bay is really quite beautiful. Since I was a fine art major most of my classes were in one building. When I was in teachers college again, all of my classes were in one building, which was really nice.
Campus Lakehead University- class sizes
Since it is a small campus the classes were also small. I usually had around 30 students in my class with maybe 100 in larger classes like first year sociology or first year art history.
This is the picture of the Visual Arts Building where I spent most of my time.
About the Campus Lakehead University
In my first year on campus at Lakehead University I was living in residence. I met my husband who was my next door neighbour in residence. We started out as friends in the first semester and grew into more after Christmas break. My roommate also married her neighbour in residence too.
Here is a picture of my shared residence room. We had an internet cable for steady connection my first year.
At the campus of Lakehead University in Fine Arts you could choose to specialize in Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking or Ceramics. I chose painting and drawing. Meaning in your third and fourth year you would only take the courses you specialized in. You start taking all the courses in your first and second year to know what you will like.
I liked the professors that I had and they really challenged us to question what is painting and what is drawing. They encouraged us not to paint on canvas or draw on paper. Which was really fun and freeing. They also really pushed us to try mixed media and abstract art which I fell in love with. I started integrating sewing and fibre art with my painting and drawing and created large works on fabric that were suspended.
Since I enjoyed my Bachelor of Fine Arts so much I knew I wanted to do my Master of Fine Arts. I chose to apply to Concordia University and NASCAD in Nova Scotia. Both schools I applied to had Fibre art programs that I really wanted to explore more including learning about how to make paper.
Overall, I really enjoyed my time on the campus of Lakehead University. If you have any questions please reach out to me. If you would like to learn about how to prepare an art portfolio for college and university art applications - click here.
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