Alumni Success Stories

Second year MDes candidate Caylee Raber (BDes '10) has been named one of the Top 25 finalists of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's 2015 Storytellers Challenge.

As part of Capture Photography Festival, FIELD Contemporary is presenting Patryk Stasieczek’s ('14 MAA) solo exhibition Asking for It, curated by Avalon Mott ('13).

Stephanie Jonsson (MAA '12) is an artist working in ceramic and fabric sculpture who is currently doing a year-long residency at Canada's leading contemporary ceramics residency: Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Since graduating from the University of Alberta in 2005 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in sculpture, Stephanie’s practice has grown to include glazes and fabrics. In 2007/2008, Stephanie did a year-long residency at Harcourt House Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, and was nominated for the Emerging Artist of the Year for the Mayor’s Evening of the Arts Awards in Edmonton.

The Prism Prize recently announced the Top Ten Best Canadian Music Videos of 2014, including a nomination for Emily Carr alumnus Kheaven Lewandowski ('10), for directing "Same Temptation" by Fur Trade. Kheaven, who holds a Bachelor’s of Design degree from Emily Carr University, won the 2014 Prism Prize Audience Award for The Belle Game’s “River” last year.

“Unlike windows, birds are disappearing in North America.” – Department of Bird Safety, 2014.

Deanna Fogstrom ('07) exhibits paintings of both Vancouver and Paris from her ongoing series entitled, Urban Reflections. The paintings are being shown in three venues: In Vancouver, her work is located at Cambie Village Massage Therapy and the Evergreen Community Centre. Exhibiting in Burnaby, for this weekend only, her work is being shown at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre. 

For her second solo exhibition at MKG127 in Toronto, Liza Eurich ('10) will be presenting work that: emphasizes negative space, is hollow, has a faceted surface, contains other work(s), is concealed, is layered, has multiple components, is not a multiple, is like a drawing, incorporates text, is stationary, has reticent characteristics, is monochromatic, uses straight lines only, references Agnes Martin, is fragile, consists of more than three materials, is made of ceramic, wa

Unity Gallery is pleased to present new work by Vancouver artists Scott Bowering and Deirdre McAdams ('08).

Topographics, curated by current student Dan Brown Hozjan and alumna Zandi Dandizette (’14), opens at James Black Gallery and features work by emerging local artists, Emily Carr students and alumni. This exhibition explores landscapes of the imagination. The artists involved reflect on the wild places that we travel to in dreams or the land that exists beyond the edge of the last horizon. Landscapes are expressed through a multiplicity of disciplines, from painting and photography to sculpture and performance.

Angell Gallery is pleased to present GAVIN LYNCH: <