News for Alumni

Vancouver Art Gallery Presents BC's Most Prestigious Visual Arts Prizes on April 16, 2015

Audain Prize: Michael Morris ('65)
VIVA Award: Elizabeth Zvonar ('01)

The Prism Prize recently announced the Top Ten Best Canadian Music Videos of 2014, including a nomination for Emily Carr alumnus Kheaven Lewandowski ('10), for directing "Same Temptation" by Fur Trade. Kheaven, who holds a Bachelor’s of Design degree from Emily Carr University, won the 2014 Prism Prize Audience Award for The Belle Game’s “River” last year.

“Unlike windows, birds are disappearing in North America.” – Department of Bird Safety, 2014.

For her second solo exhibition at MKG127 in Toronto, Liza Eurich ('10) will be presenting work that: emphasizes negative space, is hollow, has a faceted surface, contains other work(s), is concealed, is layered, has multiple components, is not a multiple, is like a drawing, incorporates text, is stationary, has reticent characteristics, is monochromatic, uses straight lines only, references Agnes Martin, is fragile, consists of more than three materials, is made of ceramic, wa

Unity Gallery is pleased to present new work by Vancouver artists Scott Bowering and Deirdre McAdams ('08).

Topographics, curated by current student Dan Brown Hozjan and alumna Zandi Dandizette (’14), opens at James Black Gallery and features work by emerging local artists, Emily Carr students and alumni. This exhibition explores landscapes of the imagination. The artists involved reflect on the wild places that we travel to in dreams or the land that exists beyond the edge of the last horizon. Landscapes are expressed through a multiplicity of disciplines, from painting and photography to sculpture and performance.

Angell Gallery is pleased to present GAVIN LYNCH: <

In To Rebel is Justified, Chun Hua Catherine Dong ('11) revisits this dark period of Chinese history in a performative context. “To Rebel is Justified” is the slogan used by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. 

MAKE RE|MAKE UN|MAKE, an exhibition at the Seymour Art Gallery in North Vancouver, highlights the work of six artists, each working in different media, whose work utilizes repetition as a device to inv

Sessional Faculty member Julie Morstad is the recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, one of the 2014 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. 

The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, established in 2006, honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format. Julie was awarded this year's $20,000 prize for her book, How To.