Staff news

Soldiers’ Stories is being recognized simultaneously as the world’s oldest 3-D film and one of its newest! We are proud of the fact that Oscar-winning producer Nicholas Reed and producer/director Jonathan Kitzen brought their powerful story to the modern screen with expertise from Emily Carr’s own S3D Centre.

The film recently debuted in Beverly Hills, has been shown in LA, New York and London, and now runs regularly at the National Infantry Museum (IMAX theatre) outside Fort Benning, Georgia. With the compelling voices of recent American vets, and narration by Mickey Rooney, never-before-seen, soldier-taken, century-old 3-D photographs were converted for the modern screen with the stereoscopic expertise of Dr. Maria Lantin and her research team at Emily Carr University. 

TEDxVancouver is taking place this week, and along with the usual roster of fantastic speakers, you'll find a number of artworks, including live painting by our talented alumni, students and staff. 

Continuing Studies instructor and studio technician, Shinsuke Minegishi's ('98) print work will be presented at Art Toronto, the Open Studio Print Sales Gallery. Curated by Astrid Ho, Print Sales Manager and Archivist, this exhibition features original prints by Canadian artists, reflecting the national scope of this contemporary printmaking centre.

Faculty, staff and students now have unrestricted 24/7 web-based access to the entire lynda.com collection of training videos. Login using your Emily Carr ID and password. Access to lynda.com can be found several ways:

Rebecca Lemire, Project Coordinator in the Emily Carr Research Office, has been awarded the Martin Eli Weil Prize for best essay in architectural history. This national prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) and includes publication of the essay in the SSAC's journal. The essay is called Organic Architecture and Indigenous Design Tenets: Frank Lloyd Wright in relation to the work of Douglas Cardinal.

Congratulations Rebecca!

Gallery 295 is pleased to present new work by Elizabeth Zvonar ('01) .

Elizabeth Zvonar combines new collage work with photographs she has been taking that resemble constructed collage yet are genuine images taken with a camera. The collage images layer contemporary fashion spreads with nebulae implying the body is one in a vast sea of stars. The photographs interspersed throughout the exhibition ground and confuse the constructed images through the improbable reflections and refractions of colour, light and nature within our built world, abstracting how we understand what we’re seeing.

Technician and instructor Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) and Technician Coordinator Vanessa Hall-Patch have won prizes for their printwork at the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2013.

Vanessa won the Awagami Factory Prize for her piece, Lawnside Tapestry III" and Shinsuke won an Encouragement Prize for his piece "resurrection-fish."

An exhibition will be held at Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan from October 12 to November 10, 2013, with an opening/award ceremony being held at the Amenity Centre at Yoshinogawa City on October 12, 2013.

Congratulations Shin and Vanessa!

Emily Carr University proudly congratulates board member Faye Wightman on the receipt of a Giving Hearts Award from the Vancouver chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

We are at once pleased and saddened to announce the retirement of Greg Bellerby ('73), who has led the Charles H. Scott Gallery since 1988!

During his twenty-five-year tenure as Director/Curator, Greg has curated over one hundred exhibitions featuring the work of artists, designers and architects, and has written and published numerous essays, catalogues and books. Included among his many noteworthy achievements are solo exhibitions by Cai Guo-Qiang, Fred Hollingsworth, Ian Wallace, Mary Kelly, John Lautner, Julius Shulman, Medrie MacPhee and Peter Cardew.

Studio Technician Camrose Ducote is exhibiting new work at her first solo exhibition with Elissa Cristall Gallery.

Ducote grew up in Colorado and the light and space of Colorado continue to influence her work. She works in layers, creating then obscuring, revealing then hiding. Using thin layers of tinted acrylic medium she builds up the surface. "Sanding, squeegeeing, scraping is my idea of drawing. Creating 'gel skins', dripping, spraying, spreading medium with the palette knife is my way of painting."

The exhibit of paintings is on now until March 30, 2013.