ECU news

Launch of Associate Professor Randy Lee Cutler's commissioned essay by Other Sights for Artists Projects. The writing explores Sessional Faculty member and MAA alumni Holly Schimdt's public art project Grow, on the periphery of the Olympic Village In South East False Creek.

 A group of engaged volunteer staff at Emily Carr has championed and managed a composting initiative to decrease waste and the amount of methane created in landfills. Because Emily Carr pays for waste by weight, this initiative not only provides sustainability benefits and emissions reductions, it also provides cost savings for the university. This project goes above and beyond what is required. Emily Carr is not alone in championing organics diversion projects; Simon Fraser University, Selkirk College, and School District 61 Victoria, among others have similar programs to reduce waste. Composting is a great program to instill behaviour change as it is accessible to almost everyone.

Faculty members Celeste Martin and Deborah Shackleton, working with third year design majors, have developed and designed two ebook apps distributed through the App Store. These apps are free and can be downloaded from the App Store under the category of Education.

You can now access a big part of Emily Carr's history online.

We were thrilled to receive a grant from the BC History Digitization Program to digitize 83 years of school calendars. By digitizing this collection we're able to broaden access and preserve the physical materials in our archive. This unique collection will be useful to people who are interested in the history of art, design and media education, as well as the administrators, faculty and staff who have made huge contributions to the creative sectors in Vancouver, BC, Canada and around the world. The format and design of the calendars are beautiful, quirky and reflect the culture of this institution as well as being excellent examples of design from different eras.

Rennie Collection is pleased to present an evening of cinema by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. This event is the first exhibition of Vezzoli’s work in Vancouver. 

Join us for A Folding Chair Affair - a showcase of work by student design teams in Associate Professor Christian Blyt's Wood Product Design course.

Students were tasked with designing a minimal folding chair, conscious of the material used to produce it. These unique designs utilizing larch wood will be on display at a special industry event, Thursday, May 3, from 6-8pm. See the chairs, meet the makers, discuss the ideas.

A Folding Chair Affair
Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm
*Student speakers | 7pm
18Karat | 3039 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC

WRAP, a collaborative public art project between Emily Carr's Faculty of Culture + Community, and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association has just been awarded a 'Best in the West' Award in the Private & Public Spaces category of the Business Improvement Association of BC.

A beautification and graffiti mitigation initiative, WRAP features 12 unique student designs that 'wrap' around the electrical boxes along the length of downtown Granville Street. Each box is a stand-alone art piece. Together, they’re a collection of public art that can be toured by walking from West Cordova to Drake Street on both the east and west sides of the street.

WRAP is a collaborative public art project between Emily Carr's Faculty of Culture + Community, and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.

A beautification and graffiti mitigation initiative, WRAP features 12 unique designs that 'wrap' around the electrical boxes along the length of downtown Granville Street. Each box is a stand-alone art piece. Together, they’re a collection of public art that can be toured by walking from West Cordova to Drake Street on both the east and west sides of the street.

We're thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Marian Penner Bancroft, artist/photographer, is the recipient of this year's Audain Prize for Visual Arts for lifetime achievement. The $30,000 prize is awarded annually by the Audain Foundation.

Marian's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council Art Bank. Marian is represented by Republic Gallery, Vancouver.

The Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and the VIVA Awards will be presented at the Great Hall of the BC Law Courts May 9.

Congratulations Marian!

Situated in 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 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 exhibition is a culmination of student progress shown through the work completed during the year of studies.