Alumni news

 Cast your vote for the INDEX People's Choice Award.

Design for Development Society founder, Niki Dun (03), along with the Bambulance Project Team, Chris Ryan (08), Philippa Mennell (08) and Phillippe Schlesser, have been nominated for the 2009 INDEX:Award in the Community category for The Bambulance Project.

Julie Beugin (04), Brenda Draney (09 MAA), and Daniel Hutchinson (04) have been selected as semi-finalists for the 11th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Aparna Kapur (08) received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker, and a $5,000 cash prize at the CFC World Wide Short Film Festival for her film, Amma.

The film is a lovingly hand-drawn animation of a young girl's life and her magical connection to her grandmother.

For more information go to the CFC World Wide Short Film Festival.

Helma Sawatzky (09) and current fourth year student, Wendi Copeland, are award recipients of ARTS 2009, a juried exhibition of work by local artists.

The exhibition features fifty-four works by artists from Surrey and the surrounding region.

Surrey Art Gallery
Arts 2009
June 26 to August 30, 2009
Opening Reception June 25 at 7pm

Gareth Moore (04), Kevin Schmidt (97) and Kara Uzelman (04) exhibit in the group show Sentimental Journey.

The exhibit brings together local artists who use the journey as a starting point, approaching the expedition, or the landscape traversed, with a sincerity made evident by their fascination with documentation and the way documentation is presented.

Contemporary Art Gallery
June 19 to August 16, 2009

Velo-City: Vancouver & the Bicycle Revolution is an exploration of the city's cycling culture, in all its whacked-out glory. The exhibit is curated by Toby Barratt (96), Pamela Goddard (98), and Nik Rust (96) of local lighting and furniture design company Propellor Design.

Velo-City is currently taking place at the newly renamed Museum of Vancouver (formerly the Vancouver Museum).

Emily Carr University of Art + Design alumni are among the most successful visual artists, media artists and designers in Canada and abroad. The following are four mid-career alumni who have informed and inspired - and maintained a strong connection with the Emily Carr community since graduating in the 90s.

Clark & Faria has announced an exhibition of new works by Douglas Coupland (84).

Atelier is a collection of new works by Douglas Coupland exhibited along with materials and objects found in his various working spaces. Offering visitors an organic route into his concentrated visual and verbal modes of perception, the show is cheeky, vibrant and eclectic - characteristics synonymous with his artwork. Viewers will gain a heightened sense of being in a creative space; the show is as much about the physical experience as the visual one.

Sonny Assu (02), John Brent Bennett (03) and Marianne Nicolson (91) are a part of Continuum: Vision and Creativity on the Northwest Coast, a major exhibition of emerging and mid-career Aboriginal artists from British Columbia, Washington State and Alaska.

A number of special programs are planned including artist dialogues, talks and special tours.

Bill Reid Gallery
June 20, 2009 to January 31, 2010

Grace-Gallery is the blank canvas for the upcoming Stone Soup Exhibition. Two Progressive, Site Specific Artworks will be made in the Gallery over the course of the exhibition and reworked each week by a new set of artists.

Lisa Birke (98), Christopher Donnelly (07) and Sascha Yamashita (00) are participating in this collaborative exhibition.