Faculty of Visual Arts + Material Practice News

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.

grunt gallery has been given the reigns to program content on a new non-commercial urban media screen over a five-year period in Mount Pleasant.

The urban screen is being constructed on the second floor of the RIZE building on the western side of Kingsway Avenue facing the street. The Mount Pleasant Urban Screen will provide a wide range of artwork representing different parts of the Mount Pleasant community. One of our first initiatives for the screen is a series of digital stories workshops. We are inviting you to become part of grunt gallery's new Urban Screen project by participating in a one-day Digital Stories workshop!

Students in Book Media and the Democratic Multiple invite you to their end of year Book Fair and Sale. Come see (and collect!) artists books, zines, anthologies, and publications produced during this final semester at the Granville Island Campus.

ECU Library
April 12, 2017 | 12-2pm

Exhibit at TED 2017 international conference and learn with artist + costume designer Leah Weinstein | Deadline to register is January 15, 2017

Emily Carr University of Art + Design and TED2017 are offering ECUAD students the opportunity to create an artwork to exhibit in this prestigious event. Participation includes a four-part workshop with sculptor, social practice artist + costume designer Leah Weinstein to produce new work based on the theme “Wearing the Future”.

Participants will be guided through envisioning and planning their project, intros to wearable electronics and sewing labs, and creating their work*.

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. 

Oil is one of the most pervasive substances in our daily lives, powering economies, shaping political decisions, and fueling debates. Yet it is largely invisible to us. In States of Matter Professor Ruth Beer addresses the ambiguous quality of oil as both a conceptual and material proposition.

Comprised of sculpture, video and fibre-based works, Beer traces the movement of the substance from its subterranean origins to its atmospheric impacts, testing the possibilities of beauty and vulgarity in the convergence of oil, soil, water and sky.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 - JANUARY 8, 2017

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.

Artspeak invites submissions for its inaugural STUDIO FOR EMERGING WRITERS, taking place June 2016–April 2017.

Led by Vancouver writer Sheryda Warrener, the aim of the studio is to facilitate a dialogue between post-secondary/recent graduate students ages 20–24 from the visual art and creative writing disciplines to address the problems and pleasures of using language as both a mode of communication and an art medium.

Professor Ruth Beer will be presenting a new series of monotype and intaglio prints along with sculptural work in polyurethane rubber and copper at Malaspina Printmakers.

 "And they thought, where do we go from here?"..... is a 40th anniversary exhibition of Malaspina Printmakers Society founders: Gary Bowden, Chris Brady, Bob Evermon, Monique Fouquet, Michael Jolliffe, Deborah Koenker, and Renée Van Halm.