Student news

Third year Communications Design student Cheryl Loh is the recipient of the first Ray Hrynkow Scholarship for the “thinking designer” through the GDC National Scholarship Awards. Cheryl's winning project was designed in Assistant Professor Chris Hethrington’s class and will be featured in the November issue of Applied Arts. Cheryl is also featured in a special article about the Hrynkow Scholarship.

Congratulations, Cheryl.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Pacific Centre present Vanity - a collaboration that will inspire Vancouver shoppers to reflect on their fashion fantasies.

Led by Associate Professor Tom Becher, students from the Bachelor of Design program have developed a series of over-sized fashion accessories to create a “Fashion Wonderland” installation to surprise, delight and entice shoppers. The project was initiated through the University’s Exhibit Design class and executed by a group of students in The Creative Lab.

Join us for the launch event -
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at 1pm in the Pacific Centre Rotunda

Bruce Emmett's (Low Residency MAA candidate) Mill Project re-imagines a site in West Vancouver which has held three unique histories: the Vedder River Shingle Mill, West Vancouver Secondary School and the Inglewood "Mill" Skatepark.

Constructed in 1977, the skateboard park was the first in Canada, only to be deliberately buried underneath six feet of soil and rock, little more than seven years after its creation. The community's reaction against youth skate subculture was marked in time by this physical act of erasure.

The subterranean artifact of the skatepark embodies the Mill Project: an evocative investigation of subcultural identity, dominant ideologies, mythologies, and local history.

The 8th Annual Carter Wosk British Columbia Creative Awards for Applied Art and Design is accepting submissions until June 13, 2012.
 

Emily Carr's Illustration Club (ILL'N) presents the Velvet Elvis Show! from April 5 to 21 at the Chapel Arts Gallery. Please note there is a small cover charge for the evening of the 21st.

In combination with the show, the club will be hosting smaller events on April 12 and 19. These nights are open to anyone interested in screen animations, host demos, live painting, or any other medium! These events are also free and open to the public.

For more information, please visit ILL'N Club or visit us on facebook.

Monocles and bubble pipes encouraged!

Fourth year photography student Hua Jin will show her project My Big Family at the Richmond Art Gallery. 

My Big Family (2010-present) is a long-term and ongoing project that Jin started in the summer of 2010. More than just a portrait of her own big family, the project's purpose is to examine the gradual disappearance of the traditional large families in contemporary Chinese society since the inception of the One-Child Policy in 1978. During six months traveling in China, Jin visited over forty members of her extended family and documented their lives via the media of photography, video and text.

Emily Carr's Faculty of Culture + Community and TransLink present Art On Transit, a rolling showcase of student artwork – now in its second year! The project features 38 unique works by students displayed on reserve advertising panels on buses and Sky Trains around the lower mainland.
The project provides TransLink customers with visual interest during their travels, and an opportunity for our emerging artists to display their work to a wide audience.

The selection panel included judges from both Emily Carr and TransLink, who based their choices on artistic excellence and suitability for the transit environment. Students received an honorarium from TransLink and will have their work displayed for a one-year period.

Fourth year Visual Art student Vanessa Brown will be screening her video Famille Vivant at this year's Art Souterrain and Nuit Blanche. The video will be installed publicly in the Montreal World Trade Centre for Nuit Blanche on February 25, 2012, and remain up for the following two weeks as part of Art Souterrain.

Emily Carr and Canada Line, Skytrain’s newest line, have launched round two of a project that will see student animation on video display terminals for the month of February, 2012.

Many Worlds, led by Associate Professor Martin Rose, was produced by students in Emily Carr’s third year Experimental Animation class. The joint project will see one new clip featured each week over the course of four weeks. The 10-second thematically related films will be shown every two minutes in each station along the line. Animations range from paint-on-glass, 3D puppets, 2D cut-outs, digitally drawn methods and stop-motion with masking tape.

Emily Carr’s “Ill’n” Illustration Club and The Fall gallery will be holding a closing auction and celebration for the Deck Show, on view now at The Fall. A portion of the proceeds from the show sales will benefit Fair Trade Vancouver. Early bird bids will be accepted as early as Monday, February 13, 2012.