Alumni news

Martha Sturdy (78) has donated an exclusive, custom-designed steel sculpture to Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) for placement in the hospital’s wellness garden located next to the Centennial Pavilion on Willow Street in Vancouver.

The sculpture, designed to represent the bond between two beings – be it doctor and patient, mother and child, husband and wife, good friends or partners, consists of two steel figures standing 24 feet and 28 feet in height.

John Boehme (97) has been invited to participate at the National Review of Live Art New Moves Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. New Moves International is an arts production company which presents radical live and mediated performance work within the context of international festivals. New Moves International presents an annual festival entitled new territories. The new territories festival runs from Wednesday, February 6 to Saturday, March 8, 2008.

ECI alumni, Nairne Morris and Cory Van Ieperen and their band, SKOOKUM, release their debut CD "Big Phat Sounds" and their premier Comicbook "SKOOKomix" on December 7th at Cheers Nightclub in Delta. Read the article featured in the Now Newspaper in Surrey: SKOOKUM in the Now Newspaper, NOW! or learn more about the band at SKOOKUM.

Emerging Vancouver-based artist Erica Stocking (04) creates a new site-specific installation consisting of a bachelor apartment visible from both inside and outside Gallery Two of the Richmond Art Gallery. The contents of the apartment will be on loan from a Sears Department Store. Minimal aesthetic and phenomenological relationships with viewers are complicated by narrative spectacle. Theatricality is utilized to conflate public and private space, shopping and cultural engagement, exhibitionism and voyeurism.

Advertising industry heavyweights Rethink, DDB and TBWA took the stage for much of last night’s Lotus Awards (www.lotusawards.com) at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver; meanwhile, a name known to few in the audience also gained a number of mentions. smashLAB earned Merit in the Best Logomark category for the Sinkit logo design; Merit in the Best Self Promotion category for the “Send” campaign; and, most importantly, a Lotus in the Best Interactive Miscellaneous category for Design Can Change (www.designcanchange.org).

Etienne Zack (00) has a solo exhibition - Authorshop - at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver from November 24 - December 22. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, November 23 from 6-8pm. Visit www.equinoxgallery.com for more information and to view Etienne's work.

Barb Moore (07) has a solo exhibition Take That, at the Jeffrey Boone Gallery, November 7 - December 2, 2007.  Moore has created a series of oil paintings based on reflections in metallic objects. At times, she tends toward the distortion of environments represented in the reflections; in other pieces, she uses that distortion as a means to a purely abstract picture. Inevitably her own person, history and identity all collapse within the choice of object, environments reflected and treatment of image.

Eric Karjaluoto (95) and the gang at smashLAB are excited to announce the beta-launch of their new web service: MakeFive. The new website works to mash-up social networking and "best of" lists in order to connect people through what they think. The team behind the effort believes that everyone’s a critic, can give a few pointers, and has some insight, whether it’s political, cultural, or philosophical.

Cinematographer, Kim Derko (86), was recently interviewed by Kodak Canada's Cinema and Television On Film publication. She has photographed art projects that were displayed at the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Biennale, and has more than 20 narrative credits as a director of photography, including the television productions Show Me Yours and Dark Oracle, and the independent features Kardia, Interviews With My Next Girlfriend, The Law of Enclosures, A Winter Tale and I, Claudia.

True North a special solo exhibition to honour Graham Burnett’s (91) memory and his lifetime achievement in art, captures his excitement and awe of the scenery in Canada’s north. The exhibition will be held at the Marilyn S. Mylrea Art Gallery from November 2 – 14, 2007. An opening reception will take place Friday, November 2, from 7:30pm – 10pm.