News for Alumni

Artist Call | Vancity, North Road Community Branch | Info Session

Vancity call to artists North Road Branch 16
Posted: Thu, 2019-02-07 13:33

Vancity is now accepting applications of expressions of interest (EOI) from artists or artist teams who live or work in Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley and Squamish Valley, to design and integrate a site-specific art commission for the soon to be relocated North Road community branch 16. We’re seeking applications for artwork for a curved wall that reflect and interpret, in a celebratory way, the rich and diverse culture of the local community of the North Road branch.

Content / themes must align to Vancity’s vision and values, and can be social, economic, historical, environmental or a combination. Preference will be given to submissions that aim to incorporate up-cycled, recycled, sustainably sourced, salvaged, found and/or other natural media.

Jeremy Shaw Wins $50,000 Sobey Art Award

Posted: Wed, 2016-11-02 11:29

Jeremy Shaw (BFA '00) was announced as the winner of the 2016 Sobey Art Award at a gala event on November 1, 2016, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. 

The Sobey Art Award is the pre-eminent prize for Canadian artists 40 and under. Presented annually, the award celebrates some of our country's most exciting young artists and provides significant financial recognition. The winner receives $50,000 and each of the four finalists receive $10,000.

TELUS Wrap Competition | Update

Posted: Mon, 2016-03-21 14:41

TELUS Wrap Competition | UPDATE
$250 per selected artwork
Submission criteria now available

Emily Carr University is excited to partner with TELUS to offer students and emerging alumni the opportunity to showcase artworks as box wraps as part of the new fibre optic system being installed across Vancouver. The winning artist or designer will receive $250 for each artwork selected. Students may submit more than one work.

Visit our Facebook group page (facebook.com/ecuwrap) to download the wrap template and submission forms. You will also learn about the project’s scope, submission requirements, timeline, etc. on that page. Have questions? Simply post on the group page.

First Capital Realty Sculpture Contest 2015-16

"Bench Way" Christian Zenga (2013-14 FCR Sculpture Contest winner)
Posted: Fri, 2015-09-25 12:57

First Capital Realty Sculpture Contest

$5,000 Prize


Information Session

Monday, October 5, 2015
5:30-6:30pm - Room 340

Emily Carr University is excited to partner with First Capital Realty for a third year to offer students and emerging alumni the opportunity to design and construct a public art sculpture. The winning artist or designer will receive $5,000 to bring the piece from original concept to installed sculpture.

Eligible Emily Carr students and alumni are invited to attend an information session to learn about the 2015 First Capital Realty Sculpture Contest. The contest is open to:

New Curatorial Collective, AgentC, Features Alumni

3155 136 (white) by Aaron Moran ('07)
Posted: Fri, 2015-07-24 10:15

Emily Carr alumni Polly Gibbons ('97), Connie Sabo ('03), and Debbie Tuepah ('11) along with Rhys Edwards have formed a new curatorial collective, AgentC Projects. As part of the Newton PopUp project, The City of Surrey has sponsored AgentC Project's first space, AgentC Gallery. Newton Popup is a cultural initiative working to bring business and communitiy closer though improved safety, quailty of life and engagment in the Newton Town Centre. AgentC's first show, Gross Density Parcel, runs in conjunction with the Day of Drawing Collective and Newton POP UP, July 23rd to October 1st 2015.

Sonny Assu | Day School

Gone Copper!  (Giving It All Away) Copper and wood  22 x 31 in. 2015. Sonny Assu
Posted: Thu, 2015-06-18 12:41

Equinox Gallery presents Day School, a new exhibition of work by Sonny Assu ('02). Sonny Assu is currently a Masters Candidate in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. This exhibition marks his return to Vancouver and is his fourth solo exhibition with Equinox Gallery.

Elizabeth Zvonar | The Challenge of Abstraction

WE PLAY TO OUR WISHES NOT TO THEIR RULES, 2015
Posted: Tue, 2015-06-02 09:01

Working in both collage and sculpture, Elizabeth Zvonar’s ('01) work utilizes strategies of aesthetic seduction and sex often found in advertising as a means of teasing out a possible metaphysical or supernatural undercurrent. THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION draws on advertising imagery found in luxury good magazines from an earlier era and fuses it with that found in contemporary fashion magazines. Zvonar’s positioning and iconization of the subject highlights their ability to act as the sacred.

Sean Mills | Transparent Architecture as Support at Burrard Arts Foundation

Sean Mills. White Cube Projection
Posted: Thu, 2015-05-28 19:36

Burrard Arts Foundation is pleased to present recent works by artist-in-residence Sean Mills ('10). Vancouver based artist Sean Mills’ recent practice has seen him meticulously exploring the materiality of paint to test the boundaries of its objectmaking potential. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art & Design in 2010, Mills has been methodically experimenting with the laborious accumulation and layering of material to create sculptures, three-dimensional paintings and works on unconventional surfaces that examine light, space, and time. Occasionally paralleling the concerns of institutional critique, his laborious work addresses ideas of transparency in both a literal and figurative sense.

Janice Kerbel ('94) Nominated for 2015 Turner Prize

Posted: Fri, 2015-05-15 10:43

Alumna Janice Kerbel ('94) has been nominated for the 2015 Turner Prize for her nine part operatic performance work, DOUG, originally commissioned by the Common Guild.

The Turner Prize is awarded to a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year. The 2015 Turner Prize exhibition preview will take place September 30, 2015 at Tramway, Glasgow with a final Award Ceremony held on December 7, 2015.

Seven Alumni Named to 2015 Sobey Longlist

Posted: Fri, 2015-05-15 09:55

Created in 2002 by the Sobey Art Foundation, the Sobey Art Award is Canada’s preeminent award for contemporary Canadian art. The annual $50,000 prize is given to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.

The 2015 Longlist includes the following Emily Carr alumni:

West Coast
Fiona Ackerman ('02)
Sonny Assu ('02)
Raymond Boisjoly ('06)
Tiziana La Melia ('08)
Jeremy Shaw ('99)

Prairies and the North
Cedric Bomford ('03)
Kara Uzelman ('04)

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