Alumni news

Lindsey Pollard (94) received an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 8, 2007. Pollard was nominated in the category Outstanding Animated Program for her work on Where's Lazlo? (Camp Lazlo) on the Cartoon Network.

P. Roch Smith's (97) practice engages with the construction of male identity with GI Joe figuring prominently for the past several years. In phantoms, Smith presents a collection of used 1970's era GI Joe's cast in plaster. Covered with a grid of 250 white figures, the gallery space resembles the interior of a mausoleum. Scratches and missing limbs on the figures evoke vigorous childhood play, and serve as an index to activities long since past. At the Access Artist Run Centre, September 8 - October 13, 2007.

Curated by Mark Soo (99), The Presentation House Gallery presents Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me, a group exhibition featuring fourteen internationally recognized artists who examine the concept of inversion with works of art that are literally and figuratively upside-down, turned over, or skewed off-axis. September 15 - November 4, 2007.

Opening reception: Friday, September 14, 2007, 7pm

The Visual Arts Development Award (VADA) is a Vancouver Foundation initiative, administered in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery, to assist the growth and development of British Columbia's visual artists. The award offers opportunities for exploration in new techniques or processes to emerging or mid-career visual artists and artisans from all cultures who are working in traditional or contemporary media or techniques.

Projets ART45, Montreal, Quebec, hosts a solo painting exhibition by Etienne Zack (00), September 8-29, 2007. For complete details, see the Press Release.

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

Jeremy Hatch (00), Alwyn O'Brien (05) and former faculty member Linda Sormin, will exhibit pieces in this large-scale exhibition of ceramic installations and sculptures at the Surrey Art Gallery.

September 15-December 16
Opening Reception: September 14, 7-9pm | Formal remarks: 8pm

For complete details, contact the Surrey Art Gallery.

ECI alumna Kimberly Baker (07) had an article published in the Common Ground’s August issue entitled, Creative License vs. Copyright Law. The article investigates how artists will be affected by Canada’s new Bill C-47, The Olympic and Paralympics Marks Act, legislation that provides the Vancouver Olympic organizers with extreme power over the symbols and language linked with the Olympics. The subject is relevant to artists who incorporate appropriation art in their practice.

A multimedia 25-year reunion show from four artists: Jan Bell, Joanna Kobylka, Patricia Maré, Leza Macdonald. Their 1982 multimedia group graduation show at the Charles H. Scott Gallery was a celebration of the close relationships nurtured at The Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver Canada. The women sculpted, painted, photographed and imagined the future of a friendship not yet traveled. Each depicted the others in their individual mediums.

Two ECI graduates have placed first in the National and British Columbia divisions of BMO Financial Group's 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, 2007. Photographer Blaine Campbell was selected to receive the $5,000 National prize for two photographic panels titled, "Transient Architectures for New Tomorrows n.

Eric Karjaluoto (95), Eric Shelkie, Peter Pimentel (04) and the others at smashLAB (www.smashlab.com) continue to gain recognition for their campaign to unite the graphic design community to combat climate change. To date, hundreds of blogs, forums and sites from around the world have been discussing the Design Can Change initiative, and tens of thousands have visited the site. Groups including ICOGRADA and The Institute of Designers of Ireland have also rallied around the project.