Faculty of Visual Arts + Material Practice News

Quantum Entanglements/VAST class exhibit at Science World is an exhibition of selected works from a Visual Arts Studio course taught by Associate Professor Ingrid Koenig and co-organized with TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics).

"The Harmonograph Swingset, capturing the frequency of love and friendship"

- from the TED Blog

We are happy to celebrate the successful installation of a "Harmonograph Swingset" at this year's TED conference, hosted in Vancouver. A sculpture by Carly Stadelmann and Emily Carr University employee Jeremy Wong literally made waves inviting thousands of global visitors at TED to create interactive art pieces.

Join the Grunt Gallery for an exhibition of work by longtime sessional faculty member Henri Robideau.

“Unlike windows, birds are disappearing in North America.” – Department of Bird Safety, 2014.

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.

Professor Ruth Beer's Trading Routes is featured in a Kimura Gallery Exhibition entitled Mineral Matters from November 19 to December 19, 2014, in Anchorage, Alaska.

For more information, please visit Green and Gold.

Sessional Faculty member Julie Morstad is the recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, one of the 2014 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. 

The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, established in 2006, honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format. Julie was awarded this year's $20,000 prize for her book, How To.

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.