Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice

Join READ Books for a reading by writer and performer Jacob Wren and to celebrate the launch of his new book.

Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavour to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of “being yourself in a performance situation.”

The Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to present QULLIQ: In Darkness, Light, a solo exhibition of new work by Maureen Gruben.

The qulliq is a traditional oil lamp that was once the heart of the home. It was used to heat, to cook and to bring continuous light during the darkness of the Arctic winter. The new work included in this exhibition explores notions of light and transparency related to the light of the oil lamp as well as the translucence of ice.

Film Screening: Nuclear Savage and Sandwars

Friday, January 12th at 5:30pm FVIM Screening Room | D1375

Please join us for a screening of two films, Nuclear Savage and Sandwars, in conjunction with our exhibition The Pacific.

Nuclear Savage (2012) | 87 minutes Written and directed by Adam Jonas Horowitz. He shot his first film in the Marshall Islands in 1986, and was shocked by what he found there, in this former American military colony in middle of the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive coconuts, leaking nuclear waste repositories, and densely populated slums were all the direct result of 67 Cold War U.S. nuclear bomb tests that vaporized islands and devastated entire populations.

Please visit READ Books from December 5-12 for our annual holiday reading sale!

READ Books features a wide selection of artists’ books, monographs, critical theory, exhibition catalogues, comics, and more. Treat yourself or a loved one to a new book!

The bookstore is located alongside Libby Leshgold Gallery at the new Emily Carr University of Art + Design campus.

READ Books 520 E. 1st Ave Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2 Tel: 604-630-7411 Email: readbooks@ecuad.ca Web: readbooks.ecuad.ca

Rennie Hall | Room B2160

Please join us for a discussion with artists Jane Chang Mai, Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Michael Drebert, Genevieve Robertson, Paula Schaafhausen, Taloi Havini and curator of The Pacific, Cate Rimmer.

Room C4290 – Painting Crit Room | 4th Floor

Julie Trudel’s work is included in the new exhibition Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery opening Saturday September 30. She is an artist from Montreal where she is a newly appointed Assistant Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Please join us in the ceramics studios for a lunchtime talk by guest artist Clint Neufeld.

Neufeld was born and raised in small town Saskatchewan. Prior to pursuing a career in art, Neufeld spent three years with the Canadian military, which included a deployment to the former Yugoslavia in 1994. After a failed attempt pursuing a career as a firefighter Neufeld began his BFA at the university of Manitoba in Winnipeg and finished at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. In 2006 he completed his MFA at Concordia University. He now lives and works on an acreage near the town of Osler, Saskatchewan.

This talk is presented by Ceramics and the Audain Faculty of Art.

Please join us for a lunchtime talk with drawing artist Vida Simon I Room 340, South Building

Vida Simon's work incorporates various media to form site-responsive installations and performances. A running thread throughout her work is drawing, a form that most directly expresses the artist's interests in visual storytelling, improvisation, and elemental materials. She has presented projects internationally in a wide range of contexts—galleries, hotel rooms, storefronts, theatres, rooftops, a former synagogue, an old horse stable, and a century-old house on Fogo Island, Newfoundland.

Recently, Vida completed a long duration residency with 3e impérial (Granby, Quebec) and is currently preparing for a solo show at Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany) in 2017.

Vanessa Brown, Nomi Chi, The Dusty
Babes Collective and... James Harry
WORKING ARTISTS PANEL SERIES
Free and open to everyone

Dr. Heather Igloliorte
REWRITING INUIT ART HISTORY | TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | 7 to 9PM
Lecture Theatre | Room 301, South Building 

Join us for a lecture, Rewriting Inuit Art History - Towards an Inclusive Future, with Curator, Art Historian and Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement at Concordia University, Dr. Heather Igloliorte.