Alumni news

Kevin Schmidt (97) was named a recipient of the 2008 VIVA Award for exemplary achievement by a British Columbian artist in mid-career. Kevin works primarily in photo and video and his work often represents nature as a sublime spectacle. He has had exhibitions in Vancouver, Frankfurt, New York, Edmonton and Edinburgh.

Blaine Campbell (07) has a solo exhibition, a repurposed architecture, at Republic Gallery.

John Ferrie (88) exhibits Fallen Angel at Main Space Gallery. The exhibit is also the launch of John's 24 page hard bound book.

Main Space Gallery

350 E Second AVE

April 17 to April 30, 2008

Artist Reception April 17 at 6pm

Gina Chen (07) has been accepted into the California Institute of the Arts where she will study Film Directing in the Fall of 2008. Also, Gina’s film S/HE will be aired on the Shaw Multicultural Channel as part of the FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE on May 11, 2008 at 10:34 p.m. With the help from Video Out Distribution, S/HE has been screened and will be screened in numerous film festivals in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Lisa Cinar's (04) Children's Book The Day It All Blew Away has been short listed for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes.

Malcolm X. Both men stopped speaking publicly and publishing around the same historical moment in 1965. Malcolm X / J.D. Salinger is comprised of photographs, a

travelogue video, and book works that examine their last public significations. The artist reconfigures these materials and what they might represent in order to consider the formation of cultural memory in a society preoccupied by celebrity, racialization and authenticity.

An artist talk for Dan Starling will be held on Saturday, March 29 at 2pm.

Richmond Art Gallery

March 8 to April 20, 2008

Charlene Vickers (94) presents two bodies of work in Brown Skin Before Red. In Sleepwalking, Vickers recontextualizes items often sold as metonymic simulations, or souvenirs of First Nations culture. She re-creates moccasins and blankets with materials that point to current social and cultural conditions in urban First Nations life and combines them with personal artifacts. Her painting series Supernatural Indian reinterprets the copper plate photographic portraits of First Nations peoples taken/constructed by Edward Curtis in collaboration with his subjects.

Sam Shem (99), Director, Vancouver Pasty Art and Design Association, presents a lecture by Masami Waki, Pastry Chef at Le Club Chasse et Pêche Restaurant in Montréal. Masami’s workshop will be on plated desserts.

Monday, March 10, 2008, 5:30 pm

Vancouver Community College
250 West Pender Street

Please register with Sam Shem at 604 312 0854 or info@vancouverpastry.ca

The fee for the pastry workshop is $100.

Art of Noise has come a long way from avant-garde roots in the 20th century

The "art of noise" has come a long way from its avant-garde roots in the 20th century. Current sonic art encompasses a wide array of practices, from unaltered field recordings to re-edited pop songs, from installations in art galleries to radio specific broadcasts, and from film soundtracks to live performances.

Vancouver artists Hadley+Maxwell, Hadley Howes (98) and Maxwell Stephens (98), produced two silkscreen prints for the Or Gallery in late 2007, while finishing their residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, in Berlin. The two prints, Sentences on Conceptual Art 1st Draft (Sol Lewitt) and Bungled Open Cube are derived from an envisioned conflation between Sol LeWitt’s 1969 Sentences on Conceptual Art, and the tales of knight errantry read by Miguel de Cervantes’s antihero Don Quixote.