ECU 100 | Discover the Alumni Artists Featured in Our ECU 100 Campaign
Evan Sproat's work at Place-des-Art in Montreal for the ECU 100 campaign
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Throughout the Fall, we have been showcasing the works of our illustrious alumni who exemplify our values of creativity and innovation across digital and public spaces across Canada.
As part of this milestone campaign, their artworks appeared across digital channels and in public spaces from Vancouver to the Philippines and beyond, which brought Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU)’s legacy into everyday spaces. Whether you spotted Pablo Mariano’s fantastic furniture on social media or Evan Sproat’s sculptural textile works at Place-des-Arts station in Montreal, the ECU 100 campaign highlights the ways our alumni have transformed the cultural landscape.
Featuring artists Adriele Au, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Evan Sproat, Pablo Mariano, prOphecy sun, and Tsema Igharas, the campaign celebrates the creative legacy that will carry us into the next 100 years. Learn more about the artists below:
Adriele Au
Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C, Adriele Au’s work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture using mixed media and found objects like party streamers. Referencing on her experiences as a caregiver, her works address the themes of emotions, home, time, and nostalgia. After receiving her BFA in visual arts from Emily Carr University in 2019, she has won the People’s Choice Award in 2021 during an exhibition held at the Richmond Art Gallery. She has participated in group, virtual, and solo exhibitions, as well as public artworks, in the Lower Mainland and Toronto. Adriele has also been involved in commissioned projects with private collectors and multinational corporations.
Cheyenne Rain LeGrande
Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ is a Nehiyaw artist, from Bigstone Cree Nation. They currently reside in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan also known as Edmonton, Alberta. Their work is an expression of love, intergenerational resilience and intergenerational joy. Through the use of their body and language, they speak to the past, present and future. Cheyenne’s work is rooted in the strength to feel, express and heal. Their work explores the hybrid space between tradition and nehiyaw pop culture. Bringing her ancestors with her, she moves through installation, photography, fashion, video, sound, public art, and performance art.
Evan Sproat
Evan Sproat is a Prairie-raised, Vancouver-based, Canadian artist who utilizes meditative techniques, materiality, storytelling and performance to create sculptural textile-based pieces, costumes and installations. His work manifests intimate ruminations on queer identity, gender, relationships and personal history.
Through exaggeration, repetition, and scale, Fit to Keep integrates utilitarian and aesthetic qualities of castles and their fortresses into a two-piece suit, resulting in a sculpture-costume hybrid that transforms trousers into towers, sleeves into turrets, and collars into spires. Darts, seams, and woolen melange fabrics mimic the exterior walls of a castle’s facet, evolving Sproat’s corporeal silhouette with a considered architectural presence.
Pablo Mariano
Pablo Mariano is an Argentinian Craftsman and Designer with his roots in Music. With a Bachelor’s in Composition, a Master’s in Design, and over a decade of shop time on his back, his journey in crafts started in Buenos Aires through making electric guitars and furniture, and it now continues in Vancouver, where he established in late 2020. At his shop, he designs and makes furniture and homeware using hand tools only and working wood, metal, leather, and other materials. He also works in other ventures, collaborates with other professionals, and he teaches as a sessional faculty at ECUAD.
prOphecy sun
Dr. prOphecy sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother of three. She holds a BFA and MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a PhD from Simon Fraser University. Informed by her creative studies in vocal and movement improvisation, her practice celebrates conscious and unconscious moments, as well as the vulnerable spaces of the in-between, where art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, and matter, as well as extraction and surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and the West Coast of British Columbia. She performs and regularly exhibits in local, national, and international settings, including music festivals, conferences, and galleries, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on research-creation, sound design, installation, performance, and domestic spheres.
Tsēmā Igharas
Tsēmā is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, mother, and descendant of Tāłtān Matriarchy, currently living and working on Ohlone Lands in Berkley, California. Using strategies of care and resistance, Tsēmā creates work that connects materials to mine sites and bodies to the land. This practice cites her Indigenous mentorships, Potlatch, studies in visual culture, and time in the mountains.
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