On-Site Event

The Great British Columbia Shake Out

On Thursday, October 15th, at 10:15am, Emily Carr University will participate in The Great British Columbia Shake Out drill, the largest single earthquake drill of its kind in BC.

What to do:

At 10:15am you will be asked to DROP to the ground, take COVER & HOLD ON! Hold that position for 1 minute. 

If you are in a hallway or don't have access to a desk or table, go to an interior wall away from glass, and crouch forward with your head down towards your legs, and covering your head and neck with your hands. 

We welcome Scottish artist Lucy Skaer as our Fall 2015 Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence.

Primarily working with sculpture and drawing, Skaer’s practice encompasses a wide variety of materials and methods. Engaging with both traditional and contemporary manufacturing processes, her sculptures evoke the sense of a half-remembered history still present in the world around us. Deeply engaged with the materiality and providence of objects, Skaer’s work hovers between recognizable forms and abstracted symbols, drawing the viewer into unravelling narrative associations.

Faculty Show 2015

Open Studio: BYOA (bring your own art)
The Leeway community studio invites artists and designers to attend an open working session. Bring your projects from a variety of disciplines or start something new. All are welcome!

The Leeway | North Building, 2nd floor
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

About Open Studios
Open Studios are self-directed, uninstructed three-hour sessions that provide a space for artists to try working in a communal studio.

Join us for the opening of unsupervised, an exhibition of sculpture, textiles, drawing, painting, photography, architecture, illustration, animation and communication design.

The culmination of our Summer Institute for Teens program, the exhibition is open to the public and features work from over 100 accomplished young artists.

Concourse Gallery
July 30 - August 13, 2015
Opening Reception | July 30, 3-5 pm

Note: The University will be closed Monday, August 3.

arrive, reach, revisit, turn and return is the graduating exhibition for the 2015 Emily Carr low-residency master’s candidates. The works presented feature interactive media, painting, photographic work, text, sculpture, and installation, and represent the culmination of three years of practice-based research.

Through a variety of overlapping concerns, the exhibition reflects on contemporary experience and its historical determinants with sensitivity, curiosity, and humour.

Featured artists:
Galan Akin
Troy Gronsdahl
Christann Kennedy
Melany Nugent
Dionne Paul
Valérie Tremblay Blouin
Trevor Van den Eijnden

Emily Carr's S3D Centre, Spark CG Society, VanVR and VanCG present a very special evening with Dr. Ken Perlin of NYU Media Research Lab.

Mixtape: Black Holes, Trauma and Leather is the interim exhibition by students in the Low Residency Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Join seven artists from Vancouver to St. John's using media that traverse film, soundscape, sculpture, painting and photography as they investigate themes of movement, memory and metal.

Participating artists: Christopher McLeod | Erin Tysowski | Jay Havens | John Rao | Kemi Craig | Rafi Spivak | Ross Kelly

For more information on this exhibit, please visit Mixtape.

Interested in our six-month Interaction Design Essentials Program? Join us for brief presentation followed by an informal Q&A on everything from how to apply to possible career paths. Applications for September 2015 close August 16, 2015.

Register online.

Interaction Design Essentials Info Night
Thursday, July 16, 6pm
Rm. 210, North Building
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston St (Google Map)

The Leeway Studio will host a collaborative drawing workshop with Vancouver paper artist Rachael Ashe as part of Draw Down Vancouver. Rachael will be facilitating the workshop with guest artist Christina Norberg. Together, along with Vancouver Draw Down participants, they will create a large scale drawing using intricate marks and gestures to see how working small, and working as a group can create something substantial. Participants will use a variety of mark-making materials  and experience working collaboratively in a communal studio.