Student news

A selection of 2011 Emily Carr students have donated work for Goat Money – Vancouver Art in Action Silent and Live Auction. Every $20 raised at this event can buy one goat for the Masaai Women’s Groups of Olkoroi, Kenya.

For more information, please visit Baron Gallery.

Emily Carr industrial design students take part in Solutions, the assistive device and health technologies design exposition sponsored by BC Rehab and the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre.

Students work with persons with disabilities across the life-span in order to research and design effective assistive devices. In the past, many of these interesting and innovative projects have entered into the market-place as solutions for a greater audience.

GF Strong Rehabilitiation Centre
April 14, 2011 | 12:30-3pm

For additional information please visit Vancouver Coastal Health.

The PNE Container Art Show provides an exhibition opportunity for artists. This unique, multi-disciplinary show is housed in 12- to 20-foot shipping containers, which will be set up in the Spirit Plaza area on the PNE grounds. The 17 day show will be open-themed. The jury will select work that reflects the diversity of Vancouver artists. It will be up during the PNE Fair and we are anticipating drawing almost 1 million people over the 17 day fair.

The social model of disability challenges the idea that it is a medical problem requiring “treatment”, and asserts that it is a problem of overcoming barriers to ordinary life. Design seeks to serve this by providing solutions that are rooted in deep contextual understanding and integrate multiple criteria.

A Furtive Conundrum: Practicing the Furtive is a group exhibition that concerns itself with the reifications and translations of stealth and visibility in creative practices. This exhibit showcases works that investigate a change in social structures of space through barely perceptible actions. These pieces might be considered furtive, that is, they operate on the level of camouflage and demonstrate the potential to seep into an environment. Exhibiting these works potentially counteracts their ‘unframed’ nature. This exhibition seeks speculative ways of negotiating this conundrum while paradoxically drawing attention to the very qualities that are required for a work to be qualified as ‘furtive’.

Curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte and Ryan Mathieson.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design's ILL'N (Illustration) Club presents the Deck Show. A silent auction and exhibit exploring the skateboard deck as canvas.

The Deck Show
April 1-13, 2011
Opening Reception + Silent Auction | Friday, April 1, 7pm
Third Skateshop + Gallery
434 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC

Eyes will definitely be raised this year, at least on buses and Sky Trains!

Emily Carr's Faculty of Culture + Community and TransLink present Art On Transit, a rolling showcase of artwork. The project features 31 works by Emily Carr students, displayed on over 700 advertising panels on buses and Sky Trains around the lower mainland.

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 over a two-year period.

The Registrar has put out a call for nominations for two students to serve on the Board of Governors and four students to serve on the Senate.

Under the University Act, student elections to the Board and Senate are conducted by the Registrar.

The Board: Two students elected by students will serve on the Board of Governors for a one year term commencing May 1, 2011.

The Senate: Four students elected by students will serve on the Senate for a one year term commencing May 1, 2011.

Candidates shall be nominated in writing by three students, who are entitled to vote and by the nominee.

(zero.O.lab) is a space for artists, designers and creative thinkers to conduct research on zero waste art and design concepts. Using collaboration as method for exploration and dissection on fashion production and consumption, this project will serve as an incubator into the conversation between art, fashion, and the commerce of identity.

Emily Carr MAA graduate students, Lois Klassen and Karen Garrett de Luna, will be speaking at the next PechaKucha Night Volume 5 in Victoria.

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world.

Thursday, February 10, 2011
Doors open at 7pm | Event start 7.30pm
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad Street, Victoria, BC
$10/$8 students

(The first two Emily Carr students with valid ID cards will get free
tickets at the door).