Creative Innovation + Excellence

Associate Professor Peg Campbell's film Your Mother Should Know was selected to screen as part of the 25th Anniversary Retrospective Film Festival held this past January.

"Peg Campbell’s deeply personal narrative explores the hopes and fears in mother-daughter relationships. Using archival family footage and current interviews, Campbell weaves an evocative tapestry of three generations of women."

Assistant Professor Lorelei Pepi, is the recipient of a Creative Capital award for her interactive installation project proposal, Vigil. This work will engage with people and Emily Carr University resources, such as the S3D Centre.

Creative Capital is pleased to announce its 2015 awardees in the categories of Moving Image and Visual Arts, representing a total of 46 funded projects selected from a nationwide pool of more than 3,700 proposals.

Assistant Professor, Animation, Lorelei Pepi, has recently released her newest animation film, Happy & Gay.

To date, the film has received the Juror's Best Animation Award at Image+Nation Film Festival of Montreal (Canada), Les Gai CineMad Film Festival of Madrid (Spain), and at the Atlanta Out On Film Festival in Georgia (US), which also delivered the Audience Award for Animation.

The film debuted at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September, and is currently screening internationally.

Visit the Happy & Gay Facebook page for more information.

Alumni duo Jesi Carson and Theunis Snyman - founders of Basic Design recently designed an installation, We Will Learn, as part of L A M P 2014, an international lighting design competition featuring a curated exhibition of 10 jury-selected finalists.

The University is proud to announce that Nadia Myre has been named winner of the 2014 Sobey Art Award.

A multi-disciplinary artist of Algonquin heritage, Nadia graduated from the University in 1997; she received her  MFA from Concordia in 2002.

A member of the Wuikinuxv Nation, Bracken Hanuse Corlett is a graduate of the Enowkin Centre of Indigenous Art in Penticton and Emily Carr University of Art & Design ('11). He is a multi-disciplinary artist who began first working in theatre and performance prior to transitioning to digital-media and visual arts.

We're incredibly proud to share news of Judson Beaumont's ('85) 2014 BC Creative Achievement Award of Distinction.

Emily Carr alumna Tiziana La Melia ('08) received the distinguished $25,000 RBC Canadian Painting Competition award Wednesday, October 1, 2014, for her work, Hanging onto the part. The award, now in its 16th year,  is one of the largest in Canada and recognizes emerging artists.

Tiziana's work, along with the two runner-up winners, will now become a part of the RBC Corporate Art Collection, which currently numbers more than 4,000 pieces.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is currently exhibiting Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey. This major exhibition presents works from Professor Landon Mackenzie’s career, alongside a set of remarkable paintings by the iconic West Coast modernist Emily Carr (1871-1945), which Mackenzie has specifically selected.

The Edmonton International Film Festival has awarded 2014 graduate Breanna Cheek the Jury Award for Best Animated Short Film for her graduation film, Fallow.