Academic News

Emily Carr welcomes An-My Lê 

2015 Spring Distinguished Audain-Artist-in-Residence

The residency program, generously funded by Michael Audain, has a mandate to bring internationally renowned contemporary artists to Vancouver, create curriculum specific to each individual visiting artist and support the creation of new works. Lê brings a diverse personal history and a breadth of professional experience to the residency.

HELD OVER!

Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey

Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey, is the fourth in a series of Dialogue with Carr exhibitions organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, in which the art of iconic West Coast modernist, Emily Carr, is situated in relation to work by contemporary artists from this region.

In the summer of 2013, Hannah Jickling initiated a project as part of Traversing Yukon Landscapes, an exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery. Featured Features was a series of events that brought together artists, orienteers and other members of the public throughout the month of August. Themes such as: Topography + Image-Making, Mapping + Movement and Landscape + Navigation were explored.

For one week each semester, Emily Carr’s Concourse Gallery will be transformed into The Commons. Part prototype, part program, The Commons is made up of a kit of modular parts, including spatial, temporal, and creative resources, intended to cultivate dynamic spaces for teaching, learning, and social gathering.

EcoMUSICology

A dynamic public education project in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation and the Roundhouse Community Centre.

This truly collaborative project includes 17 art students, 3 musicians, and 3 city planners all sharing 1 goal: to promote the value of connected green spaces across Metro Vancouver.

Emily Carr University is pleased to welcome David Zink Yi, who will join us in early 2015 as the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. The Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program, funded by Michael Audain and the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, enables the University to bring the world’s leading contemporary artists to live and work in Vancouver for a one to three month period. Guest artists and visiting lecturers are an integral part of the Emily Carr community – artists complement students’ education, work with existing faculty and bringing new opportunities for collaboration and engagement.

Professor Landon Mackenzie has had a long relationship with Emily Carr University – she began teaching visual arts at the institution in 1986, and has seen it grow through several official designations. But it could be argued that Mackenzie has had an even longer relationship with Emily Carr (1871 – 1945), the woman, painter, writer and overlooked pioneer of modernism. Although born in very different historical periods, they each faced cultural influences that shaped their work and, at times, forced them to work outside of conventional practices to interpret the environment in which they lived and created.

Centre Georges Pompidou recently commissioned Associate Professor, Patrik Andersson, to write catalogue text for the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais, Paris and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

Q&A on Imagining Our Future

Learn more about this initiative through an exclusive interview with Laura Kozak, Project Coordinator