Faculty news
Harry Killas | Picture Start
Picture Start, directed by Associate Professor Harry Killas, documents how a small group of artists put Vancouver at the leading edge of contemporary art.
Landon Mackenzie in Canadian Art Magazine
Long time Emily Carr Professor Landon Mackenzie is featured in the current issue of Canadian Art Magazine in an article by Robin Laurence called "The Centre of the World: Landon Mackenzie in the Studio and the Classroom."
Heidi May + Jody Baker | CAA New York 2011
Sessional faculty members Heidi May and Jody Baker are part of the New Media Caucus panel "Fight the Power: Open Source, Free Software, and Critical Digital Practice" at the 99th annual conference of the College Art Association, which takes place in New York from February 9 to 12, 2011. In their presentation "Processing Digital: Opening up to a Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy," they will examine how ideas behind "open source" can be applied to the studio and the classroom, drawing from their experience with online learning and focusing on the current "remix" phenomenon in digital culture. The panel is made up of artists and scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ben Reeves | everyday hallucinatory
Associate Professor Ben Reeves is featured in a solo exhibition, everyday hallucinatory, at Equinox Gallery.
November 19 - December 23, 2010
Opening reception | November 19, 6-8pm
Read the Canadian Art Magazine review.
Konopaki + Neufeld | Chance Operations²
Chance Operations² is an exhibition of sixty-three recent collaborative drawings, prints and collages by faculty member Rodney Konopaki and artist-in-residence Rhonda Neufeld (from Armstrong, BC). The two began working together in 2007 curious about the possibilities andexploring the act and meaning of collaborative art making through projects which involved sharing, interfering, walking, observing, recording, reflection and dialogue.
Elizabeth McIntosh | Violet's Hair
Associate Professor, Elizabeth McIntosh, exhibits Violet’s Hair, a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Primarily known for her painting, McIntosh also works in collage. In Violet’s Hair, she will work in both mediums. For this exhibition, as well as exhibiting new paintings, she builds two large-format collages: one will wrap the exterior of the gallery, using the window vitrines, and the other will occupy one of the galleries; each carrying a dimensional quality. This is not the first time Elizabeth has worked with collage in this scale, but it is the first instance in which she has built a structure as the ground.
Hon. Professor Bill Moggridge Wins British Design Award
Honorary Emily Carr Professor, Bill Moggridge, was awarded the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize by Britain’s Design Council on Tuesday. Mr. Moggridge is the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and designed the first commercial laptop computer in 1982.
He is the first designer to lead the museum, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
Shinsuke Minegishi | Transfer and Transformation
Julie Andreyev | passages at the Mississauga Art Gallery
Associate Professor Julie Andreyev takes on dogs and the Mississauga cityscape in her upcoming exhibition julie andreyev: passages, featured at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
Art Gallery of Mississauga
September 16 - October 31, 2010
There will be a live performance of Four Wheel Drift by artists Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall Thursday, September 16, 8pm.
Kyla Mallett | Following A Line
Kyla Mallet (97), Assistant Dean of Research + Collaborations, Faculty of Culture + Community is featured in a group exhibition, Following A Line at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG).
Join the CAG for the opening of their fall exhibition, Following A Line, which is as “in following a line of investigation.” But here the line has no delineated starting or end point.
