Student news

Fourth year students Mia Daniels and Ellen Russell are participating in The New Clothes, an experimental systems design based on activating collective creativity to negate passive consumerism.

Coinciding with the global movement towards collaborative maker-spaces in which DIY initiatives are enhanced through community resources, The New Clothes maker-space engages the consumer in constructing new meaning, value, and potential from their worn clothing garments.

Unit/Pitt Gallery
March 13 - 15, noon -5pm
Opening Reception | Thursday, March 13, 7pm
Bring a few items of worn clothing to make them new.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, The David Suzuki Foundation and the Museum of Vancouver partner to reconnect residents with the city's "wild side" in Rewilding Vancouver.

Rewilding Vancouver is a dynamic community mapping, storytelling and visioning project between Emily Carr’s Faculty of Culture + Community, Canada's leading environmental organization, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF), and a leader in the reimagining of museums, the Museum of Vancouver (MOV).

Artwork by twelve Emily Carr University of Art + Design students are showcased on the Richmond Art Columns, located at the Canada Line Aberdeen and Landsdowne stations.

The Aberdeen Column consists of artwork by Bitu Chakma, Untitled 2023; Iris Yao, Imagine All the People; Sydney Warnes Welcome to One Eye Dog Farm; and, Stephanie Gagnon Burning House.

The Lansdown Column I consists of artwork by Fiona Tang, Crow and Mr. Bam Bam; Sie Gal, The Raven; Anita Vu, The Cycle of Life and Activities of Time; Sarah Davidson, Natural Histories.

ME+EM | Show us what you love!

We're holding an Instagram contest and we want you to show us what you love about Emily Carr! Be creative and convey your Emily Carr! Check out the Emily Carr Library window display for some inspiration! Think about: 

• Your favourite spot on campus
• Your next masterpiece
• Your favourite way to fuel up - be it books, films, research, people, clubs, food or just making. What keeps your engine going at Emily Carr?

Contest Details
The contest is open to all Emily Carr University students. Contest closes at midnight, October 20, 2013.

LuChan's students of Drawing 308, Visual Arts Core, and Creative Processes  are involved in a mural project for the Crying Room, located at 157 East Cordova Street. Showing for the month of October, students will make changes to the mural each week.

The Crying Room is an independent gallery space in Vancouver that has exhibited local emerging artists since 1999. Mural submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis.

For the past few months, visitors to Emily Carr and Granville Island may have noticed a tiny 154 square foot house located east of the University, tucked near the water's edge.

The house was originally designed and built by Industrial Design students and instructor Charles Dobson for the Bowen Community Housing Association. The association was looking to address the needs of homeless individuals living on the island with affordable and sustainable housing. Unfortunately, the Bowen Island Municipality was unable to facilitate the move to Bowen and the tiny house remained on Granville Island.

On the morning of October 16, 2013, the tiny house was finally picked up by crane and truck destined for a new destination, but still holding true to its original purpose!

This past spring, Yad Vashem, Israel, held an international poster competition, Keeping the Memory Alive, an initiative to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27, 2014, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau (1945).

The Arts Club Stroll is an imaginative and informative walk that connects the dots between the Arts Club’s three stages and their company’s place in Vancouver cultural history.

Current MAA student, Leah Weinstein, is participating in Culture Days in Richmond with three mobile sculptural performances.

The sculptural performances explore the relationship between collective bodies and nomadic architecture in work that aims to blur the line between contemporary art and everyday life in Richmond. This work is commissioned by Richmond Public Art, as part of Art in Unexpected Places, running from  September 27 to 29, 2013.

The Shack (Art) Collective presents a closing exhibition of sculptural works by fourth year student Marc Paris on Saturday, September 21, 2013, from 2 to 4pm.

The marine radar reflector is a locating device for small vessels at sea. It is designed to reflect the signal of a radar system whose operator can detect the presence, direction, distance and speed of the vessel to which it is attached. As a means to reflect on his own transient experience on the water, Paris integrates this object with the gallery space, entering a dialogue regarding walls as ‘sculpture’ and walls as an indicator of place or location.