Ruth Beer is an artist and Professor and Assistant Dean of Research in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recent artistic research projects within the Mapping Change Studio for Art, Culture and the Environment (ACE) include Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines (2013-2018, Beer - PI) tradingroutes.ca; Mapping Change (2018- ) mappingchange.ca; Feminist Energy Futures: Power Shifts and Environmental Social Justice (Wilson PI, 2017-2021)
https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/b5999n351r#.WhXZ5RO3xsY; and IMPACT! Creative Production, Education and Social Change (Beer, PI 2017- 2021). These federally supported Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Council of Canada (SSHRC) projects, with particular interest in northern regions, engage with issues related to culture, community and the environment in relation to sustainability and transition. These projects are excellent opportunities for student research assistants to gain research experience working collaboratively on aligned interests with faculty researchers/mentors.
The projects include multi-disciplinary artistic production in a variety of media and forms including sculpture, textiles/woven structures, experimental video, interactive installations and curatorial practice. Ruth Beer’s artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Reach Museum, Bellevue Museum WA, and Nordic House, Iceland.
She teaches Sculpture, Interdisciplinary Visual Art and Graduate Studies studio courses.
