Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. For the past four decades, Heap of Birds has made multidisciplinary artworks that confront the oppression of Indigenous peoples and attest to the artist’s profound bond with the landscape of his Cheyenne and Arapaho homeland.

Please join the Charles H. Scott Gallery for a panel discussion with Emily Carr University's Master of Applied Arts graduates. The select group of graduates will discuss their work in the current exhibition "see level".

Through a reflective conversation moderated by recent Emily Carr MAA graduate Christann Kennedy, the artists will discuss parallels between their disparate practices, searching for commonalities within their respective research, concepts, places, spaces and surfaces.

About the Artists

This exhibition presents the work of Associate Professor Lucie Chan and Jérôme Havre, whose practices employ immersive multi-media installations to explore the transient nature of human connections, communities and territories in an era of cosmopolitanism.

Cosmopolitanism is the view that all human beings are world citizens with responsibilities that extend beyond national borders and imposed borders. Both artists address liminality and space (both psychological and physical) through visual and spatial play bringing to light relationships between people environments, particularly within situations of social transformation.

Experience This Live performance in the Charles H. Scott Gallery

Join us at the Charles H. Scott Gallery to mark the end of Like a Rolling Stone: An Exhibition About Rock and Rock with a performance by Experience This.

Experience This is a three-piece blues band, featuring Laura Piasta, an artist participating in Like a Rolling Stone, along with members Jen Smyth and Johan Björck. In addition to the performance, Vancouver-based artist, Katrina Niebergal will DJ.

Like a Rolling Stone conflates geology and rock music, it considers the ways in which two seemingly unrelated subjects linked by the same homograph share associations and points of contact that are both concrete and implied.

Please join us in welcoming Charles Stankievech, recipient of the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program for Spring/Summer 2016. Stankievech will be giving a public talk in the Emily Carr Theatre, followed by a reception in the Charles H. Scott Gallery.

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For the second installment of After Hours, Justine Gabias (alumna + Student Development Advisor) presents Exportée, a projection of Super 8mm film footage shot by her grandfather during the 1950's and 1960's in Québec.

Justine remixes her family's history into semi-fictional vignettes, adding subtitles of dreamed up conversations between her grandparents and their seven children.

Please join us on Friday March 4th for the first screening of Justine’s Exportee and enjoy a Labatt Bleue tablette* and some delicious poutine. *Biere tablette translates to "shelf beer”, which means the beer is served at room temperature. This is how they would drink it in Québec.

Join us for the launch of The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion, an anthology edited by Associate Professor, Dr. Cameron Cartiere and Martin Zebracki.

The book contains contributions from artists, curators, activists, writers and educators from North America, Europe and Australia—including members of the Emily Carr community, such as Justin Langlois (Associate Professor), Susan Stewart (Dean, Faculty of Culture + Community) and Elisa Yon (MAA alumna). The collection examines the evolution of public art, moving beyond monuments and memorials to focus on the development of socially engaged public art practice.

READ Books in the Charles H. Scott Gallery
March 1, 2016 | 4:30pm

Please join us for a lunch hour talk with faculty member + ECU alumnus Raymond Boisjoly. 

Raymond Boisjoly will be speaking on his own art practice.  Raymond is the recipient of the Fleck Fellowship at the Banff Centre (2010), and has exhibited widely including at SFU Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery and Catriona Jeffries Gallery, where he is currently represented. He was recently honoured by being shortlisted for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award representing the West Coast and the Yukon. He is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Quebecois descent from Chilliwack, BC. 

The Charles H. Scott Gallery and READ Books are pleased to announce After Hours, a new series of projections by artists presented in the bookstore window.

For the project, artists, designers, writers, musicians and curators have selected films and videos, created YouTube playlists or put together slideshows to be screened during the winter months from sunset until midnight. The series kicks off with a staff pick, the project’s namesake After Hours (1985), Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy that follows the misadventures of an uptight office worker as he attempts to return home from a night out in New York City’s SoHo arts district. What ensues is a series of absurd coincidences in a bizarre underworld of outlandish artists and Kafkaesque diversions and traps.

Join us for a lunch hour talk with with Photo Faculty Arni Hararldsson

Lagarfljót Environs: Between the Visible and the Invisible

A talk about two, one-month residencies in 2001 and 2014 at Skriduklaustur, Iceland, regarding photography and ecology. Aside from a few meanders to some local essentrics, the emphasis will be on the harnessing of and the transformation of nature as evidenced by the recent construction of Kárahnjúkar Dam, the largest of its type in Europe, and the resultant alteration to the aquatic colour spectrum of Lagarfljót Lake.