“I was having a flashback to my first year here at UTM when people in my class asked me why I was smiling all the time,” says Professor Maria Hupfield, reflecting on her years spent as a student in the Art and Art History program at UTM back in the late 1990s.

“It was just such a dramatic change from living in the bush up by Parry Sound. I couldn’t believe how fortunate I was to be someplace where I could study art and do what I wanted to do.”