General Lectures & Workshops

The Contemporary Art Gallery in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design presents: An Artist Talk by Federico Herrero.

The Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero is well-known as an abstract painter who uses unconventional locations and surfaces as a context for his large-scale graphic murals. While Herrero at times works traditionally inside galleries, painting on canvas or directly on the walls, his works are primarily site-specific and more commonly produced outside as part of a cityscape.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design will be hosting an information session and portfolio review this fall. Prospective students are invited to attend in order to learn about the programs, tour the University campus and facilities, and have their portfolio reviewed by faculty.

Portfolio reviews are by appointment only and must be booked in advance with the Graduate Office.

Saturday, October 22, 2011| 9:30am – 4pm
Room 245, North Building

For those unable to attend the Vancouver event, the Graduate faculty at Emily Carr will also be participating in the following events:

Emily Carr hosts OCAD University for a Graduate Program information session. Learn more about their offerings including: Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories (MA), Criticism and Curatorial Practice (MFA), Digital Futures (MA, MDes, MFA, Graduate Diploma), Inclusive Design (MDes), Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes, MFA), and Strategic Foresight and Innovation (MDes). 

Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Aboriginal Gathering Place
November 2, 2011 | 11am-12pm

The Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society Present:

Through the Lens: Photography and Contemporary Art is a CPPS Panel Discussion featuring Mark Lewis, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson, and Ian Wallace, moderated by Kathleen Ritter. 

Emily Carr is pleased to present a lecture by Martin Creed in conjunction with his exhibition of works and performances at the Rennie Collection from May 21 to October 22, 2011.

In this Master Class award-winning animator Munro Ferguson introduces SANDDE™, a revolutionary Stereoscopic 3D drawing system that allows you to draw and manipulate your drawing in space.

As an animator, have you ever wanted to reach into the screen with your hand and move your drawings? With SANDDE™, you can. Join us for a rare opportunity to see a master animator in action, and try out the tool for yourself.

Tickets $10. Seating is limited!

Tickets and additional information

Please join us for a free artist talk by Ken Lum, hosted by Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Since he began exhibiting his art in the late 1970s, Vancouver-based artist Ken Lum has developed a complex body of work that includes performances in public spaces, sculptures produced from rented furniture, studio portrait photographs that merge with faux corporate logos, paintings of incomprehensible language, mazes made of mirrors inscribed with texts, and works that mimic the signage found in low-end strip malls. With each of these varied forms, Ken engages with the structures, systems and ordeals that shape our lived experience of the everyday world.

North Building, Room 285
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver 

Malaspina Printmakers, with the support of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver and the Waldorf Hotel, is pleased to present Portland-based American artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins. Jackson’s work is currently on display untill April 11th in the group exhibition Surface Tension at Malaspina Printmakers on Granville Island.

The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas
March 9 - 11, 2011 | 12-2pm and 3-5pm daily
Opening | March 8 at 7pm | READ Books
Artist Talk | March 11 at 7pm | Theatre 301, South Building

READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Gareth Long and Derek Sullivan in residence to perform their on-going project The Illustrated Dictionary of Received Ideas.

The Emily Carr community is invited to attend a SOCS 411 Professional Practice presentation by curator and Emily Carr alumna Kathleen Ritter ('00). Kathleen will discuss WE: Vancouver, the exhibition she recently co-curated at the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as her history as an artist-curator.