Alumni news

As part of former student Michael de Courcy's continuing public art project, intermedia 1967, he has published Jazz in the Cellar, a print-work and web installation dedicated to The Cellar Musicians and Artists Society of Vancouver.

Megan Carroll (06) will be exhibiting ceramic sculpture along with Sandrine Pelissier at the North Vancouver District Hall. The show is sponsored by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

November 19, 2008 to January 20, 2009
Opening Night on November 20 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
North Vancouver District Hall
355 West Queens RD, North Vancouver

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) presents Love for Eternity, a foray into the unique creative universe of artist Terence Koh (02), where cultures and identities blend with influences from post-minimalism and 1970's body art to create a personal cosmos governed by decadence and deliberate excess, providing the onlooker moments of fragile beauty.

September 27, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Jay Gazley (MAA 08) will be exhibiting his arresting geometric paintings in Vanish: Art & Illusion, at the Art Gallery of Regina, Neil Balkwill Civil Arts Centre. Curated by Jack Anderson, the exhibition runs from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009.

David Khang 2000 graduate and current sessional faculty, will be presenting his new work Once Septiembre con tankecito (the other 9.11), a site-specific work created for Deformes Biennale, in Santiago, Chile. The work remembers Chile's 1973 coup by Pinochet, Allende's death and contemporary resonances of the event. Once Septiembre is the third iteration in a series of site-specific performances titled Wrong Places.

November 10 to November 24, 2008
Visit Deformes Biennale.

Megan Carroll (06) will be exhibiting ceramic sculpture along with another local artist Sandrine Pelissier in a show sponsored by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

November 14, 2008 to January 19, 2009
Exhibit Opening November 20 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
The North Vancouver District Hall
355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver

Kunal Sen's (08) film Key Tumi has been nominated for Best International Animation Film at the ASIFA India chapter of World Animation Day. The result of the competition will be decided on November 2, 2008. The film was recently screened at the Student Film Showcase of the Toronto International Film Festival in May, as well as the Montreal World Film Festival, Filmstock UK and the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival in Washington DC.

Congratulations to Kasia Piech (01) who was awarded the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics on September 25, 2008.

Yang Hong (01) currently has a solo exhibition Up in the Air at Studio 21 Fine Art Inc. in Halifax. The exhibition runs from October 10 to November 5.

Animation graduate, Nat Dart (08), will be screening his animated film The Nature of Battle at the 27th annual Vancouver International Film Festival this week. The festival takes place until October 10, 2008. VIFF is among the largest film festivals in North America and is one of the largest cultural events in Canada. The Nature of Battle is a short animated film that questions current war spending and offers a dramatic oppositional solution to the wasteful and destructive practice.

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