ECU news

It is with great pleasure that we announce a transformational gift of $5-million from BC arts philanthropist Michael Audain and his family foundation, the Audain Foundation for Visual Arts. This is the single largest individual donation the University has received and will be a cornerstone for the new Emily Carr Great Northern Way Campus.

The donation will create the Audain School of Visual Arts - an enhanced visual arts learning environment offering a studio-based education reflective of the diversity and complexity of contemporary art. The School will encompass the existing Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice which houses Painting, Ceramics, Print Media, Illustration, Photography, Sculpture and Drawing.

Join Kent Monkman (Cree) on a journey into his art and life as an artist. His works are diverse: installations, performance art, large-scale paintings, digital media art, illustration, and short films. Each work is startling in its imagination, seductive in its beauty and powerful with its narrative authority.

This presentation is part of the SFU Public Square Events and was programmed by award-winning filmmaker and writer Loretta Todd. It is the final public program associated with the exhibition co-curated by Peter Morin and Dr. Martine Reid, Carrying on “Irregardless”: Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art, at the Bill Reid Gallery

Thursday, March 14, 2013 | 7 - 9pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre (#1900), SFU
515 Hastings Street, Vancouver

Thursday March 7th, 2013
10am-12pm

Join us in the Library Mezzanine for cookies, cake, tea, and embroidery!

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Emily Carr University Library Mezzanine Gallery
1400 Johnston St.
Granville Island, Vancouver

The following notice was provided to Emily Carr by CMHC, outlining the traffic impact to Granville Island for a capital maintenance upgrade to the Granville Street Bridge:

RE: Granville Street Bridge Upgrades March – December, 2013

The Film, Video + Integrated Media program at Emily Carr is a collaborative model of interdisciplinary learning and technical skill development, encouraging students to craft their own education by pursuing their interests in media art be it for the cinema, online or gallery installation. Courses combine collaborative and individual studio production, technical instruction, theory, critical analysis, history, storytelling, professional practices and internships in community, gallery and industry media placements.

Sans Façon and Emily Carr's Graduate Studies were in the news this week following the success of the Limelight Saturday Night project in Vancouver both in Marpole and Downtown.

Their travelling public art installation discreetly replaces two street light heads with theatrical spotlights, creating an open invitation for passersby to perform and transform the street into a stage. The artists were joined by Bryan Newson, Public Art Program Manager for the City of Vancouver and Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Dean of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Emily Carr's ceramic students explore a range of utilitarian, decorative and sculptural approaches to the material practice. The program actively promotes the integration of ceramics with digital media and is continually creating bridges to curriculum in other areas of the University, including Industrial Design, Illustration and Print Media.

View this video for our vision of the new Emily Carr Great Northern Way Campus.

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Today, Premier Christy Clark announced the Province's investment in a new Emily Carr Great Northern Way Campus.  This is a historic moment for our institution and for championing the creative sector and innovation in British Columbia.

The new campus will be purpose built and provide students, faculty, alumni, life-long learners and the community with a world class state-of-the-art facility for 21st century learning. Emily Carr will have a home to match our global reputation as a leader in art, design media and applied research.

An exhibition by Ellen Tahatakis in the Library Window Gallery

January 21 to February 2,  2013