Media + Concourse Gallery Exhibitions

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Featuring more than 300 works from this year's Design, Media and Visual Arts graduates, The Show at Emily Carr University highlights student creativity and innovation. View the Online Catalogue.

Situated within the Faculty of Culture + Community, the Foundation Program provides a wide range of academic and studio-based courses in material practice, visual literacy and critical and conceptual thinking. Our curriculum also encourages student participation in local and global communities and culture through research and studio practice.

In Foundation, or first year, students are encouraged to improvise and experiment with new ideas, processes and materials. This provides an introduction to imaginative thinking and creative experiences across a variety of mediums and disciplines while preparing students for future studies.

The Foundation Show is a culmination of student progress shown through the work completed during their first year of studies.

The Vegan Congress hosts the Vegan Tea Party!, a week-long series of lunchtime events in the Abraham Rogatnick Media Gallery, March 16 -21, 2015. Vegan Tea Party! draws attention to vegan practice, ethics, and art and design. Join us for these FREE public lunch-hour events:

On National Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2013, the Mayor of the City of Vancouver took the extraordinary step of declaring a Year of Reconciliation, a year-long effort that seeks to heal from the past and build new relationships between Aboriginal peoples and all Vancouverites. A year later, on June 24, 2014, the City of Vancouver formally acknowledged that the city of Vancouver is on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. This was an important acknowledgement, as it validates what First Nations have been saying since before confederation.

Join Andrew Zo ('11) and Jessica Wong ('10) as they present a prototype of their collaborative pop-up book created in part during their Fall 2014 Studio Residency in The Leeway community studio. Andrew and Jessica will present their work and discuss their collaborative process, the experience of working in a shared studio environment (The Leeway) and their experience as alumni returning to the Emily Carr community.
 

It could have been... is a proposed defiance against time. Going back to failed hopes, unrealized projects, and alternate realities we propose to bring back from dead to life. We will reconstitute dreams. We will reconfigure our faculties of knowing, so that our vision looks backwards yet extends to future.

The exhibition features works that are generated around the idea of proposals. They assume a tone that rubs against the grain of fast-forwarding economic and social systems and are somewhat nostalgic, in a sense that constantly revisits the question of “what could have been.”

It could have been...
Concourse Gallery
February 4 – 12, 2015
Opening Reception | February 5, 6pm

Through a mimesis of domestic living space, this exhibition considers the ways in which the objects and architecture that comprise the home simultaneously mediate, reflect and construct our relationship to the world around us. The intimacy granted to commodity objects of the home will be observed as a site for the production and mediation of gender, class and familial relations.

This home is arranged according to the individual sensibilities and understandings of the artists, as well as the collectively experienced cultural phenomena of what is defined as the house, the home, the dwelling, the living space.

The Technical Services Department at Emily Carr University of Art + Design consists of a team of shop and studio technicians who specialize in a broad spectrum of disciplines.

Yet little is known about the personal creative practices of these individuals who provide curriculum support to the University’s students, faculty and staff. Most are professional artists with technical specialization in disciplines that aren’t necessarily showcased within their Emily Carr work environments: book arts, textiles, fine woodworking, conceptual installation, video, and metal working, to list a few nomenclatures. Their breadth of knowledge in materials, processes and emerging technologies contributes to the cross-disciplinary nature of Emily Carr’s learning environment.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Type Brigade present The Pop Up Type Museum of 2014!

Come join Emily Carr's 4th year Advanced Typography students as they present their expressive and educat

Addressing notions of shelter and protection, Gimme Shelter, a campus-wide exhibition features a range of works by Emily Carr University students who examine issues from affordable housing, and homelessness, to comfort and sanctuary.The selection of works showcases a variety of disciplines and levels of study.

In addition to the Concourse Gallery, supplementary sites will function as exhibition space around the University campus. These include the library, the cafeteria, and a series of peripheral spaces.