Faculty of Visual Arts + Material Practice News

Deborah Koenker, a Vancouver-based artist who recently left the position of Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design to concentrate on her art practice, has completed a public art commission on the theme of food for the city of Richmond.

Kathryn Mussallem (BFA Photo, MAA) has recently exhibited in several international group and solo exhibitions. Her long-term photographic project “Hey Sailor!

‘IN ELSE’ is a two person exhibition by Estonian artists Alina Orav (b. 1989) and Liisa Kruusmägi (b. 1988). 

The show features paintings, photos, drawings and sculptural objects created by the artists during their stay in Vancouver in the fall of 2015.

The display opens on the 15th and continues through 22nd November 2015. 

You are cordially invited to the RECEPTION of the show on Thursday November 19th at 6 pm. 

Artist and photographer, Patryk Stasieczek, will be speaking about touching darkness: contemplating non-photography and the body as a site of callibration, photography as an action-oriented-ontology. Meridian Frame is a month long series of presentations on contemporar y photographic practices at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Twice during the academic year, over the course of a month, the photography studio & the S3D Mocap Studio will serve as opportunites to disseminate photographic research practices by way of weekly lunch-hour presentations. Thursday, Nov. 5, 11:30 to 12:20 PM Photography Studio, 236 NB

Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures is a publicly-engaged, trans-disciplinary art and research project undertaken in the midst of a liminal moment in Canadian history. In the pursuit of the nation’s place among world energy superpowers, debates have emerged about the benefits and social and environmental risks associated with rapid changes brought about from investment in fossil fuel industries.

Alumnus Richard Heikkilä-Sawan ('15) is the British Columbia Regional Winner for the 2015 BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition.  

Created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation, the Sobey Art Award is Canada’s preeminent award for contemporary Canadian art. The annual $50,000 prize is given to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.

The 2015 Shortlist, announced June 3, 2015, includes alumnus Raymond Boisjoly ('06), representing the West Coast and the Yukon. Raymond is an Indigenous artist of Haida and Quebecois descent from Chilliwack, BC. He has previously taught at Emily Carr as sessional faculty and we're pleased to announce he will join us August 1 as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice, Audain School of Visual Arts.

Newly appointed Assistant Professor Mark Igloliorte is featured in a solo exhibition at Grunt Gallery. Hailing from Newfoundland, Mark joins us August 1 as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Visual Arts and Material Practice, Audain School of Visual Arts.

Diptychs features over a hundred observational works of still lifes and studio vignette paintings, a series that has been ongoing since 2010. Painted upon torn phonebook paper, Igloliorte uses this practice to explore ideas of place – both the studio interior and at the city, town or whole region the phonebook paper indexes.

Soon-to-be fourth year student Braden Scheck’s latest film creation has made its way to Hollywood. But it’s not the kind of film you might expect.