Faculty news

SUM Gallery's second exhibition Naked Napi presents new work by two-spirit Siksika artist Adrian Stimson. Stimson previously curated the UnSettled visual art exhibition for our 2017 Two-Spirit and Indigequeer curated Queer Arts Festival. Naked Napi is Stimson’s first solo exhibition since winning the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts earlier this year.

In this site-specific installation of sculpture, drawings, and paintings, Stimson reimagines the traditional Siksika (Blackfoot) tales of Napi in the present and challenges the colonial erasure of Indigenous bodies, power, and sexual histories.

Invitation to artists to exhibit their work in the Zack Gallery.

Call to artists for our spring Festival Ha’Rikud in celebration of Israel at 70, on the theme of Israeli Music through the years.

This is an unjuried call to artists of all levels who would like to participate in a group show in celebration of Festival Ha’Rikud at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre:

Sessional faculty Elvira Hufschmid performs TV drawings at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, in the context of the symposium “Out of the Blue – From the Provisional to Improvisation”, (October 27-29, 2017).

“52°N 106°W - Measured and Marked” is an exhibition by faculty member Rodney Konopaki and his collaborative partner, Rhonda Neufeld at The Gallery/art placement in Saskatoon, SK.

The site-specific work was inspired by the urban and natural landscapes in and around the city of Saskatoon and was completed during their residency there last summer. In the work, the artists bridge visual representation and physical experience to record time, space, and geography. Their diverse body of work, includes drawings, traditional prints, photography and unexpected fusions. Konopaki and Neufeld have been collaborating together for ten years. The show at Art Placement runs from June 17 through July 13.

Associate Professor, Lucie Chan, is exhibiting her work in The Connections, a show at the Foreman Art Gallery. The exhibit explores contexts where the boundary between the self and others is erased, and the individual is necessarily and integrally linked to the outer world.

Also ncluded in the exhbiition are Caroline Boileau, Lucie Chan, Aleesa Cohene, Pierre Durette, Shié Kasai, Leisure, Marc Ngui and Sam Taylor-Johnson. The Connections is curated by Gentiane Bélanger and Zoë Chan.

The Connections runs from January 19 to March 11, 2017.

Other Sights for Artists' Projects is presenting a new public art commission, Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Sessional Faculty members Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed (’06).

Taking place over the course of a multi-year engagement at Queen Alexandra Elementary School (located at Clark and Broadway in East Vancouver), Big Rock Candy Mountain expands traditional notions of public art. The work is comprised of a multi-faceted program of workshops, printed matter, artist editions and installations addressing multiple audiences and venues.

Mobilizing the Arts for Community Connection and Change will explore art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.

The one day summit will be moderated by Emily Carr Assistant Professor, Justin Langlois, and features presentations from Emily Carr faculty, Zoe Kreye and Holly Schmidt, along with talks and workshops by artists from the wider Vancouver community including: Corey Bulpitt, Alex Grünenfelder, Carmen Papalia and Ayotzi 68. 

Oil is one of the most pervasive substances in our daily lives, powering economies, shaping political decisions, and fueling debates. Yet it is largely invisible to us. In States of Matter Professor Ruth Beer addresses the ambiguous quality of oil as both a conceptual and material proposition.

Comprised of sculpture, video and fibre-based works, Beer traces the movement of the substance from its subterranean origins to its atmospheric impacts, testing the possibilities of beauty and vulgarity in the convergence of oil, soil, water and sky.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 - JANUARY 8, 2017

Faculty member Karen Kazmer and former Associate Professor Deborah Koenker, working collaboratively as Volcano Collective, have completed a six week residency at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture—“The Natural and the Manufactured”—with an installation titled Northern Howl --- at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, Yukon. The opening took place on August 11 and the show runs though to September 17. 

Workshops are currently taking place to introduce you to our new website that will replace insideEC. Feel free to drop into any of the following dates/times to learn more!

North Building | Room 210
10AM - 10:30AM or 1PM - 1:30PM

The above-noted two times are available on the following days:
Tuesday, August 16
Thursday, August 18
Tuesday, August 23