News for Alumni

The Canadian Art Foundation Gallery Hop features a panel conversation Air Land Sea with Kara Uzelman ('04), Charles H. Scott Gallery Curator Cate Rimmer ('86), artist Charles Stankievech and Canadian Art Foundation's Christine Shaw.

The panel conversation will explore expanded notions of landscape in contemporary art and our relationship to the air, land and sea. The discussion takes place on Saturday, April 27th from 11am to 12:30pm at VIFF's Vancity Theatre. For more information visit Canadian Art.

Thanks to Board of Governors member Bob Rennie, who created a generous matching fund, Emily Carr will now be able to match donations made by university alumni. In celebration of this new fund, Emily Carr has launched a campaign on Indiegogo, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. This campaign, called Match It Up, includes a video produced by Leah Nelson and Jay Grandin, Emily Carr alumni and founders of Giant Ant.

In January, Jason DaSilva (MAA ’08) made a second visit to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of his film, When I Walk.  His first visit was ten year’s earlier with the award-winning documentary short, Olivia’s Puzzle, which qualified for an Academy Award. In these ten years Jason’s life changed significantly, both personally and professionally.

"Do You Really Want to Know?", the award-winning documentary produced by alumnus, Kevin Eastwood (‘99) had its broadcast premiere on November 13 on Knowledge Network.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Zaritsky, the film tells the story of three families who must decide whether or not to be tested for Huntington's Disease - a degenerative neurological disease that is akin to having ALS, Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. The film premiered at this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary (Science/Medicine/Technology category) and Best Director at the Yorkton Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Okanagan Film Festival and Best Documentary (Science + Technology category) at the Columbus International Film + Video Festival.

Emily Carr alumna Heather Anderson has been appointed as the new curator at Carleton University Art Gallery.

Heather brings to the CUAG an extensive knowledge of and passion for contemporary art, and an exemplary record of curatorial projects and publications. Since 2006, she has worked at the National Gallery of Canada, as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, and more recently, Assistant Curator of Modern Canadian Art.

Sessional faculty member Sara Vipond is guest curator for the upcoming exhibition, To Follow a Line - Explorations in Contemporary Drawing at the Campbell River Art Gallery.

Exhibiting artists include Anne Palmer ('11), Joyce Lindemulder ('10), Julia Crucil ('10), Sarah Stein ('11), Madelaine Elia ('11) and Deborah Sears ('11).

The exhibit runs to June 22, 2012.

Claire Madill ('07) recently returned from Toronto where she successfully participated in the Spring One of a Kind Show and Sale after being nominated by Emily Carr to be placed in the Craft Community of Canada Section. Her booth was one of 10 booths in the section and showcased her works, including the "Vintage Jar Series" which was photographed for the show’s marketing campaign and flyer.

Alumnus Kevin Schmidt's ('97) latest undertaking is to launch a weather balloon carrying a homemade 4-by-5 camera that will take one photograph from the stratosphere and fall to earth. Read the feature in Canadian Art Magazine.

Kevin currently resides in Vancouver and is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

The Applied Arts Photography and Illustration Annual has selected three images of Albert Law's ('11) work with the Canadian Forces for their upcoming publication.

Watch for the May/June issue.

Burnaby Art Gallery presents Chance Operations², an exhibition of recent collaborative drawings, prints and collages by Associate Professor Rodney Konopaki and alumna Rhonda Neufeld (‘79). The two have worked together since 2007 exploring the act and meaning of collaborative art making through projects which involve sharing, interfering, walking, observing, recording, reflection and dialogue.