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  • Michael Cadamia Takes Home Salazar Award for Print Design

    Congratulations to Emily Carr student Michael Cadamia, recipient of the 2009 Salazar Award for Print Design.

    Co-sponsored by Metropolitan Fine Printers, the Salazar Student Awards recognize projects of up-and-coming design students across British Columbia. Selected by a panel of distinguished design professionals, a winner is selected in three areas: Print Design, Advertising and Interactive Design.

     

  • Frances Mei Yi Ho: Passing Perceptions

    Frances Mei Yi Ho (08) exhibits acrylic landscape paintings that mix the realms of sensation and interpretation. The absence of a specific narrative leaves the viewer in a boundless meditative space, stimulating them to investigate what it is they are seeing through a process of discovery and recollection.

    Exhibition: Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 28 2009
    For more information, please visit Nyree Hazelton Arts

  • Joji Fukushima – Halving

    In this solo exhibition, Joji Fukushima (08), takes everyday objects and ‘halves’ them. This simple act of cutting yields new interpretations, understandings and possibilities.

    May 22 - June 14, 2009
    221A Artist Run Centre

  • Act II | Daniel Hutchinson
    Daniel Hutchinson Short-Listed for the Halifax Mayor's Award

    Daniel Hutchinson (04), is among this year's finalists for the Halifax Mayor's Award of Distinction, Contemporary Visual Art.

    Mayor Peter Kelly and HRM’s Cultural Affairs staff invite the public to meet the artists during the opening event of a public exhibition of short-listed works for the Mayor's Award of Distinction, Contemporary Visual Art.

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  • The Displaced Project: Nomadic Object of Domestic Comfort | Raneen Nosh
    2009 Grad Awards

    The 2009 Grad Awards were selected Friday, May 1, 2009, by a prestigious jury including alumni Daina Augaitis (83), Chief Curator/Associate Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery; Attila Richard Lukacs (85), acclaimed Visual Artist; and, Rod Roodenburg (88), co-founder of Ion Design and 2008-2010 President, Society of Graphic Designers of Canada.

    The following graduating students were recognized:

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  • loop, print, fade + flicker: David Rimmer's Moving Images

    Former faculty member, David Rimmer, one of Canada's foremost experimental filmmakers, is the subject of loop, print, fade + flicker: David Rimmer's Moving Images (2009), the inaugural title in Pacific Cinémathèque's new Monograph Series on Western Canadian media artists and Anvil Press's new film series 24 per second.

    In conjunction with the launch of the book, Rimmer's distinctive and emotionally resonant body of work, at once subtle, structurally meticulous and profoundly moving, will be the subject of a two-part retrospective at Pacific Cin

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  • Kim Derko: Luminato Competition Toronto

    Kim Derko (86) and Su Rynard directed Coronation Park a one minute silent film portraying nature in the urban environment. The haunting Maple and Oak trees of Coronation Park in Toronto reveal an urban paradox. As automobiles blur past the trees, the word breathe appears then disappears on each tree, each time in a different language: ??????, oddychaj, ??, respire, ????, breathe. These trees transform the carbon dioxide, ultimately they "breathe" for everyone in the city.

    The film is currently competing in the Luminato competition.

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  • Briony Morrow-Cribbs: Illustrations in Wicked Plants Book

    The hardcover book titled, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, written by Amy Stewart and published by Algonquin Books, contains 40 of Briony Morrow-Cribbs' (05) slightly menacing botanical illustrations and is now at local bookstores and online.

    Accompanying the release of the book will be a show at the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery in New York and another at Eureka Books in California that will feature hand-tinted versions of the illustrations.

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  • Governor General's Award Recipients

    Emily Carr is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Governor General's Awards, which were presented at the Convocation Ceremony, May 2:

    Rok Oblak is the recipient of the Governor Generals' Gold Award for Academic Excellence, presented to the student who achieves the highest academic standing at the Graduate level.

    Helma Sawatzky is the recipient of the Governor General's Silver Award for Academic Excellence, presented to the student who achieves the highest academic standing at the Undergraduate level. 

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  • H1N1 Flu Update

    For the most up-to-date information on the Swine Flu, please visit the BC Government or Vancouver Coastal Health websites.

    Emily Carr is monitoring the Swine Flu situation and will provide updates as appropriate. Individuals can contact HealthLink BC (or by phone at 8-1-1) for more information.

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