Alumni news

Congratulations to alumnus Eric Karjaluoto (95) who has just published his first book, Speak Human. 

Congratulations to Adad Hannah (98) and Aaron Pollard (93), for their recent Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award wins. The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council. Disciplines include: dance, integrated arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing.

Revolving Doors, directed by Kirsten Korns (09), Trolls, directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart (09), Dear John Lee, directed by Amanda Thomson (09) and Nature on Its Course, directed by Su-An Ng (09) have been officially selected to screen at 36th Annual Northwest Film + Video Festival in Portland, Oregon.

The Northwest Film + Video Festival is the most prominent forum for independent work by artists living in the Northwest.

Barb Choit (00) presents her first solo gallery show at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York.

Adrian Livesley (96) presents his first solo gallery show at the Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver.

Since graduating, Livesley has travelled to diverse settings around the world including Finland, Ireland, Cyprus, Mexico and rural British Columbia, to paint directly from the surrounding visual environment.

"My approach to working from landscape has been the same, regardless of where I find myself. I am interested in finding vividly expressive forms and working them into a cohesive image," he says.

Nick Lepard (08) presents his second solo show, Chronophobic, at the Diane Farris Gallery.

Cedric Bomford (03) is featured in a solo exhibition, TOWER BLOCK 2009 at Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto. Bomford's TOWER BLOCK 2009 was built from discarded construction materials - some of which were salvaged from vacant spaces in the building that houses the gallery.

Canadian Art Magazine described the display as "an impressive assemblage of ladders, bleachers, old billboards and even a hockey penalty box that dominates the two-storey office-atrium-cum-gallery."

Emily Carr University of Art + Design is proud to announce that Judson Beaumont (85) and Robert Johnston (98) are recipients of the 2009 BC Creative Achievement Awards for furniture design, and industrial design, respectively.

The awards took place Monday, September 21, and were presented by Premier Gordon Campbell and Keith Mitchell, Chair, British Columbia Achievement Foundation (and former Emily Carr Board of Governor Chair).

Kathryn Macdonald (04) and Lorraine Kwan have redesigned a telecommunications artifact into a wireless workstation, and in the process given new life to found objects destined for recycling.

There are massive quantities of defunct hardware from cell phones to PC components replaced every year. They can become design and architectural elements with huge potential. Taken out of context, and the landfill, these repeating units form a unique and functional art experience Dialosaurus boothus.

Emily Carr grads are showing their films at the 28th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

Diego Maclean's (09) graduation project, The Arts of Drowning is screening in the Roadwork collection of shorts on Monday, October 12 at 9:15pm, and repeats Tuesday at 4pm.

Brianne Nord-Stewart's (09) short film Trolls screens in the Caution Children collection on Wednesday, October 14 at 9:15 and Thursday at 4pm.