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Damian Moppett’s artistic practice uses a wide variety of media to question existing notions of mastery, craftsmanship and value. Drawing on broad references from the history of modern art, Moppett uses the mediums of sculpture, painting, photography, drawing and video, often in relationship to each other, as a meditation on the activity of making art. Much of Moppett’s recent work blurs the boundaries between mediums in an effort to force, for example, sculpture to act more like a two-dimensional painting or visa versa. The role of tradition in art is questioned while historical precedents are exposed, played with and enveloped in the gestures that evolve out of a studio practice.

Damian Moppett received his MFA from Concordia University in 1995 and his BFA from Emily Carr College of Art + Design in 1992. He has exhibited in Canada and internationally, including recent two-person shows at the National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Alberta, with Ron Moppett (2016/2017), and the following recent solo exhibitions: The Bells, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby (2014); Vancouver Art Gallery Off-site (2012); Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver (2011); The Sculptor’s Studio is a Painting, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2010); Yvon Lambert, Paris (2007); Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (2007); Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (2006); The Visible Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2005). Moppett has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Shine a Light, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2014); Not Photographs, Presentation House Gallery Satellite, Vancouver (2011); Everything Everyday, Vancouver Art Gallery (2010); Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2006); A Tribute to Cezanne, Yvon Lambert, New York (2006); Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium (2005); The Cave and the Island, White Columns, New York; Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna (2004); Bounce, Power Plant, Toronto (2002); Hammertown, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2002). He is represented by Catriona Jeffries: www.catrionajeffries.com.

Julie Andreyev is an artist, reasearcher and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design where she teaches in the New Media + Sound Arts major, Critical Studies and Foundation courses. Her artwork has been shown locally, nationally and internationally, and she has published essays in academic journals, books, catalogues and magazines.

She enjoys walking with her canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi, paying attention to the liveliness of the local animals, trees and plants, and Earth forces. She is currently working on creative co-productions with birds, including the crow family whose territory includes her home (Bird Park), and investigating the creation of immersive media depicting experiences within old-growth forest ecologies (Wild Empathy).

Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator and printmaker who works within a documentary genre. His work focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. Drennan ElAwar attended Syracuse University, and later Parson's School of Design, both New York and Paris campuses.

In 2009, he founded a Beirut-based artists' collective, ‎جمع اليد (Jamaa Al-Yad), which produces posters, calligraphy, and other artworks of a social activist nature. The collective’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum and Museum of Modern Art along with other international venues.

He was formerly associate art director of Saveur magazine in New York City, and most recently worked as an assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut, where he lived for 12 years. From March through September, 2017, he was named a resident artist at the Newark Print Shop in New Jersey.

Justin Novak has been an Associate Professor of Visual Art and Material Practice at Emily Carr since the Fall of 2007. He teaches in the areas of Ceramics and Illustration. After receiving his BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, Justin spent fifteen years working as a freelance illustrator in New York City, for a range of clients (including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Macmillan Publishing, Harper Collins, Tor Books, and the Book-of-the-Month Club, among others).  A second career followed, as an exhibiting artist working primarily in the medium of ceramics. Much of his ceramic work, which has ranged from figurative sculpture to utilitarian objects, has been developed within international residency programs, including the Kohler Factory in Wisconsin, the Walbryzch Factory in Walbryzch, Poland, the Arabia Factory in Helsinki and the National Workshops of Art and Crafts in Copenhagen.

In his artwork, Nick Conbere investigates ways to convey changes in the character of landscapes over time through multi-layered narrative imagery. He received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Past exhibition venues include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the International Print Center. Much of his artwork has been created through residencies, including Anchor Graphics in Chicago and Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. His illustration clients have included McGraw-Hill Publishing and The New York Times. Conbere's current studio work is supported through an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Brendan LS Tang was born in Dublin, Ireland of Trinidadian parents and is a naturalized citizen of Canada. He earned his formal art education on both Canadian coasts and the American Midwest, where he learned to appreciate the ceramic medium. Tang has lectured at conferences and academic institutions across North America and Europe, and his professional practice has also taken him to India, Trinidad and Japan. He has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT) and has participated in an international residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre ('s-Hertogenbosch, NL). 

Ruth Beer is an artist and Professor and Assistant Dean of Research in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recent artistic research projects within the Mapping Change Studio for Art, Culture and the Environment (ACE) include Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines (2013-2018, Beer - PI) tradingroutes.ca; Mapping Change (2018- ) mappingchange.ca; Feminist Energy Futures: Power Shifts and Environmental Social Justice (Wilson PI, 2017-2021)

https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/b5999n351r#.WhXZ5RO3xsY;  and IMPACT! Creative Production, Education and Social Change (Beer, PI 2017- 2021). These federally supported Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Council of Canada (SSHRC) projects, with particular interest in northern regions, engage with issues related to culture, community and the environment in relation to sustainability and transition. These projects are excellent opportunities for student research assistants to gain research experience working collaboratively on aligned interests with faculty researchers/mentors.

 The projects include multi-disciplinary artistic production in a variety of media and forms including sculpture, textiles/woven structures, experimental video, interactive installations and curatorial practice. Ruth Beer’s artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries including at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Reach Museum, Bellevue Museum WA, and Nordic House, Iceland.

She teaches Sculpture, Interdisciplinary Visual Art and Graduate Studies studio courses.