Student news

The IDEA Art Award is inviting all Emily Carr students enrolled in a credit program (minimum 12 credits) and all Emily Carr alumni who graduated between 2008-2010 to submit their works for the IDEA Art Award competition.  The winning piece will become part of the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation Healing Art Committee's permanent collection, be displayed at VGH and win the $5,000 prize!  For more infomation on competiton details, submission forms and guidelines please visit www.escene.ecuad.ca

Science helps to define our universe, yet so much remains unknown. The unexplainable becomes poetic through our efforts to understand. Current fourth year student Stephanie Frame's practice is driven by a desire to render the 'supernatural' visible, and search for a reaction beyond our everyday expectations. Much of Stephanie’s work is formed through a physical process, primarily printmaking, but also includes other forms such as sculpture and bookmaking. She finds "the manual process of printmaking allowing for an intimacy and visceral connection with this intangible subject matter.” As her artistic practice evolves, her investigation into the ephemeral unknown grows.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Emily Carr Students' Union are pleased to announce that the U Pass BC Program will be introduced to Emily Carr students beginning in January 2011.

The U Pass BC program is an integrated comprehensive transportation package that provides students in Metro Vancouver with universal, accessible and affordable access to public transit and other sustainable transportation programs. It is a mandatory program for all members of the Emily Carr Student Union and costs $30 per month ($120 per semester). The program was approved via student referendum in October 2010.

The January 2011 U Pass BC will be distributed as follows:

On December 1, 2010, Myron Campbell (MAAMA candidate) was awarded Interactive Designer of the Year at the Canadian New Media Awards Gala held in Toronto. Myron’s multimedia ‘storytelling’ includes work on Switch United’s award-winning interactive installations for the 2010 Olympics – the 110 foot Digital Gateway and the Curious Tree multi-touch digital cube projects.

Film/Video students Sophie Bégin (4^th year) and Diego Rodriguez (3^rd year), have, as part of their internship with the City of Vancouver, created a blog to encourage discourse on the topic of public art and bring awareness to the City's public art program. The blog references local public art and discusses some of the politics and poetics that are involved in executing commissions.

The students have been working with the City and are pleased to invite readers to join in on the discussion - www.ourcityourart.wordpress.com.

Join the Facebook page here.

Students in HUMN 311/GEVA 310 Black Holes and Other Transformations of Energy have their work on exhibit at TRIUMF - Canada's Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics.

In Fall 2010, they participated in TRIUMF’s Artist in Residence program. During two visits in October, students  met with physicists, toured the laboratory and spent studio time around the facility developing ideas and inspiration for visual arts projects. Through contemporary art in its many forms the narrative of science enters the human story and becomes materially transformed.

The exhibit runs from December 3 to 17, 2010.

For more information, please visit TRIUMF.

Sparkle & Spin celebrates the darkest days of the year with candles, lights and chandeliers hung from the ceiling with care. The group exhibition, showcasing a variety of disciplines, includes work from graduating BFA and MAA students including: Anja P. Braun, Karen Garrett de Luna, Jules Francisco, Michelle Sound Perich and Desmond Wong.

With artworks hung from above, the audience's gaze is drawn away from the walls and up into the space above their heads. Shimmering in the shadows of winter, Sparkle & Spin will brighten spirits, preparing the way for the return of the sun.

First year Master of Applied Art students exhibit Dirty White Project, a one evening, one event art show that will invite the viewer to sensorily engage with the exhibition on display.

The students are interested in observing what happens when the art is taken out of the white cube. The intent is to see if the artwork will undergo a transformation over the course of the evening through interaction with the general public.

Friday, December 3, 2010 | 6-10pm
Origins Coffee Roastery
1245 Cartwright Street, Granville Island

The event is sponsored by Origins Organic Coffee and Storm Brewing Limited.

Emily Carr MAA graduate students, Jeremy Herndl and Sara French, will be speaking at the next PechaKucha Night Volume 4 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, November 25, 2010
Doors open at 7pm, with event starting at 7.30pm
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad Street, Victoria, BC

The annual Sumptuous Symposium returns, this year it's covering all things magnificent, extravagant, luxurious and lavish. The Symposium features over 30 artists, including current Emily Carr students Nomi Chi, Brianne Tweddle and Alison Woodward.

The Fall

November 5 - December 5, 2010

Opening Reception | November 5, 8pm
Featuring 09 alum Brandon Hartley's band, Maria in the Shower. Dress to impress.

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