In May, Emily Carr University announced the launch of Alumni Association Chapters in Toronto, New York and San Francisco. As artists, designers, media practitioners and entrepreneurs, Emily Carr alumni play an integral role in the creative economy. Our goal is to build a community that spans the globe and gives our alumni the opportunity to reconnect, share experiences and support each other. Read more →
In January 2014, alumna Corin Sworn (’02) was announced as the winner of the bi-annual Max Mara Art Prize for Women, run in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery. The prize included a six-month, fully-funded residency in Italy, followed by two major solo exhibtions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Collezione Maramotti near Milan. Read more →
To bring you this article, Emily Carr Communications reached out to Ehren Seeland, Coordinator of Student Recruitment.
Ehren answers questions and shares striking pictures of her travels around the world, as she meets with international students who are interested in studying at Emily Carr University.
ECC: What is your most memorable international recruiting experience?
Ehren: The best moments revolve around connecting face-to-face with prospective students, counselors, parents, Emily Carr alumni, embassy staff and recruiters across the globe. With relationship building, in-person meetings are crucial and I have been both inspired and humbled with how generously people have welcomed us into their respective pockets of the world. Also, that time I ate spicy grasshoppers in Mexico City – tastier than expected. Read more →
Professor Landon Mackenzie has had a long relationship with Emily Carr University – she began teaching visual arts at the institution in 1986, and has seen it grow through several official designations. But it could be argued that Mackenzie has had an even longer relationship with Emily Carr (1871 – 1945), the woman, painter, writer and overlooked pioneer of modernism. Although born in very different historical periods, they each faced cultural influences that shaped their work and, at times, forced them to work outside of conventional practices to interpret the environment in which they lived and created. Read more →
Emily Carr University is pleased to welcome David Zink Yi, who will join us in early 2015 as the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. The Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program, funded by Michael Audain and the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, enables the University to bring the world’s leading contemporary artists to live and work in Vancouver for a one to three month period. Guest artists and visiting lecturers are an integral part of the Emily Carr community – artists complement students’ education, work with existing faculty and bringing new opportunities for collaboration and engagement. Read more →
Soldiers’ Stories is being recognized simultaneously as the world’s oldest 3-D film and one of its newest! We are proud of the fact that Oscar-winning producer Nicholas Reed and producer/director Jonathan Kitzen brought their powerful story to the modern screen with expertise from Emily Carr’s own S3D Centre. Read more →
Emily Carr’s Great Northern Way Campus will be at the centre of a new social, cultural, educational, entertainment and economic engine for British Columbia.”
- Dr. Ron Burnett, CM, RCA
President + Vice-Chancellor
Emily Carr is pleased to welcome Jürgen Partenheimer, Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence, to the school this Spring.
Jürgen Partenheimer was born in 1947 in Munich, and studied the theory and practice of art in Germany, the USA, Mexico and France. He is internationally renowned for his multifaceted work following his participation in the Paris, Venice and São Paulo biennials. As a representative of a subjective abstraction he is considered one of the most important contemporary German artists. Read more →
Waiting to fly out for a destination wedding in Las Vegas, 4th year Industrial Design student Scott Forsythe noticed a new email from Emily Carr University’s Career and Co-Op Office.
An alert for the senior Industrial Design students – the prestigious brand IKEA of Sweden had hand-selected Emily Carr University’s Design program for inclusion in a special internship competition. He was intrigued. Read more →
Kathryn Mussallem (MAA’08/Continuing Studies Instructor) was recently awarded the 2013 Educator Scholarship Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts New York, New York. This $20,000 USD scholarship was awarded for study in the Low Residency MPS in Digital Photography Program. Read more →
