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François-Marc Gagnon was an affiliate professor on the Department of Art History. Son of famous art critic Maurice Gagnon, he was born in Paris but eventually moved to Montreal with his family. He studied theology with the Dominicans in Ottawa from 1956 to 1962 but Gagnon would go back to France in 1968 to do his doctorate on Jean Dubuffet at Paris Sorbonne. Gagnon had been hired by the Département de l’histoire de l’art of Université de Montréal in 1966 and he would teach there until retiring and getting a professor emeritus honour in 2000. He would however quickly get back to work, founding the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in 2001, after a substantial gift was made by the financial analyst and art collector. Gagnon is well known for his presence at Télé-Université and Canal Savoir but also for the many conferences, books and exhibition catalogues, scholarly articles he took part in. He passed away on March 28, 2019.

• Gagnon’s first publication was his doctorate thesis, Jean Dubuffet, aux sources de la figuration humaines, published by the Presses de l’université de Montréal in 1970.
• His 1975 book La Conversion par l’image, Un aspect de la mission des Jésuites auprès des Indiens du Canada au XVIIe siècle won the Prix Saint-Marie en Histoire, given by the Government of Ontario.
• Gagnon was the recipient of the Governor-General’s Award for his book on Paul-Émile Borduas in 1978.
• In 1987, Gagnon became a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Gagnon received an honorary degree from Concordia University, in June 1992.
• Gagnon was named to the Order of Canada in 1999.
• On March 6 2001, The new Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art welcomed Gagnon as his first Chair. Gagnon gave a lecture on Cornelius Krieghoff for the occasion, at the Faculty Club.
• Gagnon was honoured by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) with the 2007 Prix André-Laurendeau, in recognition for his exceptional contributions made to research.
• Gagnon was awarded the 2010 Prix Gérard-Morisset as part of the Prix du Québec for his significant contribution to the preservation of the province's cultural heritage.
• The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas book has won its Concordia editor the 2013 Canada Prize in Humanities, given by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• In 2015, Gagnon was inducted into the Order of Quebec.

• The Institute is launched on March 6, 2001.
• First Nations Artists in Canada by Joan Reid Acland was the first book published by the Institute in 2001.

Television Sir George (TVSG) came into existence in October 1966, with the ratification by the Students’ Association of Sir George Williams University (later the Day Students’ Association) and made its home in the then newly erected Henry F. Hall Building. The first organization staff was composed of James Joyce as executive producer, Rob Joyce as creative director, and Barry Barnes as technical advisor. Membership was open to all undergraduate students. TV Sir George’s first show appeared on Channel 9 on November 21st 1966. TVSG became CUTV in January 1975.

Concordia University Television (CUTV) is a closed circuit television station under student management. TV Sir George became CUTV in January 1975, following the creation of Concordia University in August 1974. CUTV enjoyed a good working relationship with the Concordia Audio-Visual Department. The arrangement they had was mutually advantageous. CUTV had special borrowing privileges which represented a substantial saving. The AV Department, on the other hand, looked to CUTV for the skilled people it needed as part-time workers. CUTV was a club member of the Concordia University Student Association (CUSA) and then the Concordia Student Union (CSU) until 2003 when CUTV transferred its ownership to the Concordia Student Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of CJLO radio.

Les Lawton is a former interim director of the department of Recreation and Athletics. He began his career at Concordia in 1982 as the assistant coach of Concordia’s women hockey team, becoming head coach the following year. Lawton had previously coached the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Maroons hockey program before moving on to guide Loyola High School. In the fall of 2000, he coached Concordia’s newly formed golf team. He would ne named Interim Director of Recreation and Athletics department in 2001, a position he kept until he returned to coaching in 2003. Health issues forced him to step down from being a Stingers coach in 2015 but he has since redirected his energy to fundraising.

• In 1994, Lawton is chosen to coach Canada’s gold-medal national women’s hockey team. He would lead the team to a gold medal at that year’s World Championship.
• Lawton received a Merit Award from the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) in 1998 for his contribution in building women’s hockey ‘from a social pursuit to a serious sport’.
• In 1999, Lawton received an Athletic Award for his 400th coaching victory, on January 17, 1998. By 2003, he would have won his 500th game, a historic milestone in women’s college hockey.
• Lawton is named top women’s university hockey coach in the country by the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) in February 2000 at the all-Canadian banquet held at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
• Lawton served as a consultant to the Italian women’s national hockey team in 2003. He helped them prepare for the B Group World Championships and mentored the Italian coaching staff.
• In 2005, Lawton was the director of the Concordia Junior Stingers Summer Sports Program, a camp providing an opportunity to local children age seven to 16 to learn, participate and discover the passion for sport.
• In 2011, Lawton coached Canada’s women’s team at the Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.
• Les Lawton was inducted in Concordia’s Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2022.

The Sir George Williams University Art Gallery officially opened in 1966 in the Henry F. Hall Building. In 1984, the space was renamed the Concordia Art Gallery. In 1992 the Gallery was renamed in honour Leonard and Bina Ellen.

Magnus Isacsson, cinéaste canadien-suédois, est né en Suède en 1948. Il est immigré au Canada en 1970. Il a étudié les sciences politiques à l'Université de Stockholm en Suède. Il a continué ses études à Montréal, où il a obtenu un baccalauréat des arts de l'Université de Montréal en 1973. Il a également étudié l'histoire et le cinéma à l'Université McGill et suivi des cours à l'Université Concordia. Il était marié à Jocelyne Clarke, documentariste et fondatrice des Productions Pléiades. Ils ont eu deux enfants, Anna et Béthièle.

Au début de sa carrière, Isacsson a travaillé comme producteur de radio pour la radiodiffusion suédoise et Radio-Canada. De 1980 à 1986, il a été producteur pour les réseaux anglais et français de la Radio-Canada et a travaillé comme producteur pour plusieurs émissions comme Le Point, The Fifth State et Contrechamps. En 1986, Isacsson est devenu cinéaste indépendant en 1986.

Pendant sa carrière de réalisateur de documentaires de plus de 25 ans, Isacsson a produit, écrit et réalisé plusieurs documentaires sur des questions sociales et politiques critiques. Au cours de sa carrière, il a remporté plusieurs prix. Notamment, il a reçu le Golden Sheaf Award pour Uranium en 1991, et son film Tension a gagné les prix du meilleur documentaire au Festival international du film sur l'environnement de Paris en 1997 et au festival de Lausanne en 1999. Opération Salami – Les profits ou la vie? (1999) a reçu le Québec Film Critics award pour meilleur documentaire en 2000.

Magnus Isacsson a reçu le 2004 Prix Lumières de l'Association des réalisateurs du Québec, et en 2012, Isacsson a été nommé membre émérite de l'association. Il a également été membre de l'Association Canadienne du Documentaire, de l'Association des Réalisateurs et Réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ), de la Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (Sartec), et a été le vice-président de l'Observatoire du documentaire.

Isacsson était également un éducateur et tout au long de sa carrière, il a enseigné plusieurs cours et des ateliers sur la production de films documentaires. Il a enseigné à l'Université Concordia à Montréal, au Whitman College, à l'école de cinéma du Québec et à l'Université de Montréal, entre autres. Il a également enseigné la production audiovisuelle en Afrique du Sud et au Zimbabwe et il a collaboré dans la production du matériel pédagogique Produire en Vidéo Légère volumes 1, 2 et 3.

Son dernier film, Granny Power (2014), a été complété et sorti posthume par son épouse Jocelyne Clarke.

Magnus Isacsson est décédé en août 2012.

Born in Montreal in 1926, Professor Jack Bordan received a B. Eng. (Engineering Physics) and M. Sc. (Physics) degrees from McGill University in 1950 and 1952 respectively. He joined Sir George Williams University in 1952 as Lecturer and became Assistant Professor in Physics in 1955. He was made Associate Professor of Engineering in 1957 and Professor of Engineering in 1962. The following year, Professor Bordan became the first Sir George Williams University Dean of Engineering, a post he held until May 31, 1969. Following John O’Brien’s appointment as Rector, Jack Bordan was made Acting Vice-Principal, Academic in August 1969. He was appointed to the position in February 1970, effective June 1. With the merger of Sir George and Loyola College to form Concordia University in 1974, Professor Bordan was appointed Vice-Rector, Academic of the new institution. He held this position until his retirement in May 1980.

Ana Cappelluto is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University where she teaches Design for the Theatre. She is also the Faculty of Fine Arts' Associate Dean, Planning and Academic Facilities. Ana Cappelluto first came to Concordia Fine Arts as a young student in Design for the Theatre in 1984. Born in Rome, Italy she lived in England for many years before settling in Montreal. After completing her degree, a BFA in scenography (1987), she was hired as assistant to the props master at the Department of Theatre in 1988. In 1993 she earned her Master’s from McGill University. In the fall of that year, Ana began teaching in the theatre department where she served as Chair from 2004 to 2007. Before serving in her current position as Associate Dean, Planning and Academic Facilities, she held the position of Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies.

She is an accomplished, award-winning scenographer and an integral member of the Montreal theatre community. Her longstanding professional relationships with 7 Doigts de la main, Repercussion Theatre, Geordie Productions, Black Theatre Workshop, Porte Parole, Dulcinea Langfelder & Co, Imago Theatre and Pigeons International have established her reputation for artistic dedication and excellence. Her research, financially supported by Hexagram Research Institute, Industry Canada, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, and the Gouvernement du Québec Ministère de l'Industrie et du Commerce and the CANARIE initiative, focuses on the development of new scenographic tools.

In 2000, she completed a two-year project on the works of major Quebec costume designers that dominated the Quebec theatre landscape since the mid-1960s. The project involved researching, documenting and photographing works of costume designers from over 800 the theatrical costumes at the Montreal-based Centre national de recherche et de diffusion du costume (CNC). Established in 1994, CNC was a non-profit organization and housed one of the largest and most important private collection of theatre costumes and accessories in Canada. At the core of the CNC collection was the inherited inventory of l’Atelier de Costume B.J.L. founded in 1972 by the designers François Barbeau, Louise Jobin and François Laplante. In 1996, CNC acquired the whole costume collection of the Théâtre Populaire du Québec.

Because of the lack of financial resources, the CNC was closed and the costume collection was dismantled in 2005. A website in French, entitled “Centre national du costume – recherche et diffusion: La Collection de costumes de théâtre” was created by Ana’s research team in 2000 with the CNC collaboration. The website was part of the Canada’s Digital Collections (CDC) operated by Industry Canada. In 2004, the Industry Canada CDC Program was stopped and later on, all the websites of the program were deactivated. At the end of 2015, the web site was reactivated on Wordpress, under a new name: “Archive de costume de Montréal / Montréal Costumes Archive”. At the same time, some costume descriptions were revamped and English translations were added.