Portfolio + Supporting Material | Graduate Admissions

Your portfolio will provide the Admissions Committee with a set of examples of your studio work to evaluate your readiness to pursue a graduate education at Emily Carr University.

Portfolio requirements for our Master of Fine Arts programs and our Master of Design programs are different.

ECU will not evaluate portfolios that include items outside of our requirements. Read the portfolio requirements for the program you are applying for carefully.

Master of Fine Arts (Full-residency and Low-residency programs):

Submit 12-15 examples of your artwork on Slideroom. This should include single-page files of documentation, in 2D, 3D or time-based media files. Time-based media files should not exceed three minutes in length.

Be selective. Curate and edit your portfolio to present your strongest, most imaginative and recent work.

Master of Design (Interdisciplinary and Interaction programs):

Submit five to seven examples of your design projects on Slideroom. Two of your projects must also show the design process. This should include multi-page files of documentation of your design projects, in 2D, 3D or time-based media files. Time-based media files should not exceed three minutes in length.

Be selective. Curate and edit your portfolio to present your strongest, most imaginative and recent work.

Your written response (500 words maximum) will provide the Admissions Committee with a sense of the direction you plan to take while pursuing graduate studies, and will support your portfolio.

Please answer the following prompts concisely and articulately:

• Your proposed graduate-level studio practice and research goals.
• Choose one project or example of work from your portfolio, and reflect on it. Demonstrate ability to critique.

Your video response (up to three minutes) will provide the Admissions Committee with a sense of your community involvement and personal interests.

Pre-record a video of yourself, and upload it to the media section on SlideRoom.

Please answer one of the following prompts articulately:

• Discuss an issue of importance to you outside of your fine arts, media arts or design practice. Describe why this topic is of interest to you, and tell us about the activities related to this issue that you are engaged in.
• Discuss your experience with community involvement, volunteer or leadership within your community. Describe the scope of your engagement, and tell us why community mindedness is important to you.

Contextualize your work by providing five to ten keywords to describe your artistic practice, creative process and/or research.

List of relevant professional and academic experiences. Include any publications, volunteer and community work, awards and honours or other achievements.

Three recommendation forms are required. Your referees should be familiar with your art or design practice, and research.

Reach out to your referees early, to allow them sufficient time. Recommendation Forms are filled in electronically, directly by the referees, to SlideRoom. Referees must use an official email address associated with an academic institution, or company.

Once an applicant enters an email address of a referee on Slideroom, the referee will automatically receive a message with instructions. The applicant will receive a confirmation from Slideroom once the recommendation form is filled successfully.

You must submit your portfolio and supporting documents online through SlideRoom.

Before you use SlideRoom please make sure that:

• You have applied through the EducationPlannerBC Application Service.
• You have used the same name on both EducationPlannerBC and Slideroom.
• You selected the right program. There are several programs listed on our SlideRoom portal; it is very important that you upload your work into the correct program that you are applying for.

You may upload images (jpg, png, gif) or video (mov, wmv, flv, mp4), music (mp3) and PDF documents.

Using the 'Submit' function in SlideRoom

SlideRoom allows you to log in, upload, and edit your portfolio as much as you like prior to pressing the 'Submit' button. However, once you click the submit button, you will no longer be able to make changes.

You must click the submit button if you want us to review your portfolio. Unsubmitted or pending portfolios will not be reviewed.

Fees

A small fee will be charged at the time of submission.

SlideRoom offers additional instructions and technical assistance

• Technical assistance: support@slideroom.com
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