Faculty of Graduate Studies News

Join us for the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show 2019 in the Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons on the 2nd floor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design!

INTROSPECTION March 20 - 28, 2019
Opening night: Thursday March 21st from 6 pm to 9 pm

Featuring a performance by Fadwa Bouziane at 7 pm, in the plaza outside the East entrance

Artists: Fadwa Bouziane Russna Kaur Somal Marie-Pascale Lafrenière Xing Rui (Sarah) Ma Teo Monsalve Emelina Soares Reyhaneh Yazdani Mengduo (Dream) Zhang

EXTROSPECTION April 1-9, 2019 Please join us for the second half of the Thesis Show.
Closing night: Thursday, April 4th from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Grow Op 2019 – Call for Submissions The Gladstone Hotel's Annual Exhibition on Urbanism, Landscape and Contemporary Art

Deadline For Submissions: October 30th 2018, 11pm EST
Exhibition Dates: March 20-24, 2019

Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, celebrates in its seventh year in March 2019 an exhibition of art and design considering ENERGY; and cultivates ideas across a broad range of disciplines. Clean energy, dirty energy, social energy, positive energy, negative energy, climate energy, embodied energy, resilient energy.

Do we hoard, waste, commodify, burn it, or do we store, reuse, renew it? How humans and other species live within and without natural systems of growth, change, abundance, scarcity, decay and life.

The Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to announce the 2017 final thesis and interim thesis exhibitions for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Low Residency program:

Maria Tratt

Scott Mallory (MAA ‘17) was selected to attend TEDGlobal 2017: Builders. Truth-tellers. Catalysts. in Arusha, Tanzania this August.

It is an annual four-day TED conference “celebrating ingenuity by exploring ideas, innovation and creativity from all around the world.” As Licensee and Founder of TEDxECUAD, he will participate in a special TEDx workshop hosted the day before the event for building community and creating TED-like experiences through future TEDx Talks events. In addition to live TED Talks, the event involves other community workshops, local tech clusters, social enterprises and art spaces.

Scott Mallory's (MAA '17 candidate) video work will show at the Museum of Israeli Cinema in Jerusalem at Cinema City complex for AVI 2016 (Art Video International) as part of Hamshushalayim, an annual four-week culture festival taking place throughout the city during December.

Scott Mallory (MAA '17 candidate) created a custom soundscape for the Mothership (Capsule) sculpture, a collaboration with Jefferson Pinder acquired by the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. It is the only national museum devoted to African American life. Now showing for the grand opening, where Barack Obama was a guest of honor, the piece is an abstracted replica of the NASA Mercury space capsule made of wood salvaged from Obama's first inauguration platform.

Originally created for the TED2016 Conference, MAA candidate Scott Mallory's video work REM will show at the Zhou Brothers Art Center in Chicago, which is dedicated to "facilitating cultural dialogue by organizing contemporary art exhibitions and programs of international scope."

Mobilizing the Arts for Community Connection and Change will explore art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.

The one day summit will be moderated by Emily Carr Assistant Professor, Justin Langlois, and features presentations from Emily Carr faculty, Zoe Kreye and Holly Schmidt, along with talks and workshops by artists from the wider Vancouver community including: Corey Bulpitt, Alex Grünenfelder, Carmen Papalia and Ayotzi 68. 

Recent graduate student M.E. Sparks (MAA 2016) is the recipient of the Nancy Petry Award. The $10,000 award will be announced on May 14 at the Equinox Gallery.

Emily Carr University is proud to present Scott Mallory at the TED conference this year with his video projection work “REM”.

Scott Mallory is currently a candidate for a Master of Applied Arts degree at ECU. Born in Washington, DC, Mallory has also pursued studies in the arts at the London Film Academy, Prague Film School and at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. His video and audio work has been exhibited and screened in film festivals, art fairs and galleries across the United States.

About “REM”