Treasure Fatile Wins 2024 Akimbo “Let’s Talk About Me for a Minute!” Award

Treasure Fatile, 2024

This year’s winner of the Akimbo “Let’s Talk About Me for a Minute!” Award is Treasure Fatile.

The annual Akimbo “Let’s Talk About Me for a Minute!” Award recognizes excellence in Studio Art for an artist graduating from Art and Art History at Sheridan and the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Treasure Fatile is a visual artist currently enrolled in the joint Sheridan and University of Toronto Mississauga Art and Art History Program and in the Criminology Program at UTM. Rooted in traditional painting techniques, her evolving practice incorporates explorations in collage, printmaking, and textile work. Central to her art is an investigation into cultural identities and environments that shape experiences of joy, belonging, loss and sorrow. Treasure’s current work seeks to understand how these environments influence the lives of women, the roles they assume, and the sacrifices they are compelled to make.

Heather Kelly, Director of Akimbo, presented the award to Treasure Fatile at the Art and Art History Program Awards Gala on Wednesday, November 6, 2024.

Treasure Fatile, 2024

The University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan joint Art & Art History Program is the longest standing partnership of its type in Canada. It combines the study of studio art practices at Sheridan and art history at UTM. The program offers six core studios that students complete in their initial two years of study: drawing, painting, sculpture/installation, print media, design and photography. In these studios, students are introduced to contemporary art practices through problem-based learning, which encourages a range of personal approaches and solutions to visual expression. In the upper-level studios, students go on to further expertise in two of the core-studio streams, developing a body of self-directed artwork in a class environment of discussion and exchange. At UTM, students in the joint program enroll in Art History courses in the Department of Visual Studies. These courses provide students with the opportunity to engage in the academic study of art and architecture. Students will learn to analyze visual objects, considering their form, materials and techniques, meaning and historical and political contexts. Courses span the history of art from the ancient to the contemporary world, across Europe, North America and Asia.