Faculty news

Sally Michener (former faculty and Dean) will hold an illustrated presentation that will focus on her experiences during a trip to China in 2007 at the Surrey Art Gallery. Highlights will include being one of ten Canadian ceramic artists who completed a month-long residency to create permanent artworks for the opening of the Canadian Ceramic Museum, located in the Fuping Pottery Art Village. Michener has also completed a residency in the city of Jingdezhan, which has long been known as a ‘capital of porcelain’.

Susan Stewart's (Associate Professor) film Policy Baby: The Journey of Rita/Bev will be premiering at DOXA (Documentary Film Festival) in Vancouver.

Julie Andreyev (Associate Professor) will present her recent art practice and her curatorial involvement with Interactive Futures at the second edition of the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA), organized alongside the Elektra festival between May 7th and 11th, Montreal. Please visit www.fourwheeldrift.com for further information.

Dirk Staschke, Sessional Faculty, is in a group show at The Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia entitled (In)Between; an exhibition based loosely on the idea of Vanitas- 16th century Dutch still-life paintings that celebrate life's pains and pleasures while meditating on their inevitable loss. Featured artists include Damien Hirst, Randall Sellers, Adelaide Paul, Tim Tate, Anne Siems, Dirk Staschke and Joe Boruchow.

The show will run from May 2 to June 28 2008

An Opening Reception will take place on Friday, May 2 from 5pm-8pm

Dirk Stasche, Sessional Faculty, has a full length article on his work in the current issue of Ceramics Art and Perception (# 71). The article entitled "Industrial Chinoiserie" is written by Glen Brown.

ECI Associate Professor Julie Andreyev, (Head, Digital Visual Arts), gives an artist talk at Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Andreyev discusses her recent practice, including projects Four-Wheel Drift and Animal Lover. For complete details, click here.

On Friday, March 28, 2008, the 30th biannual Graphex Awards Gala will honour the best of Canada's visual communications, as judged by an international panel of judges including ECI Associate Professor Sam Carter, and Part-time Faculty member Marian Bantjes.

The BC150 Applied Arts History Project is a celebration of creativity, production and innovation in the province of British Columbia, marking its 150th anniversary.

ECI Associate Professor, Sam Carter, has selected ten examples of applied arts from each of the 15 decades (1858-2008) that best contribute to the identity and collective spirit of British Columbia. View the Media Release.

Marian Penner Bancroft (Associate Professor) has a new solo exhibition HUMAN NATURE (Alberta, Friesland, Suffolk).

Assistant Professor Rita Wong's book, forage, won The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes in Poetry. This distinguished award is for a book of poetry written by an author from British Columbia or the Yukon.