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DONATE NOWFor more than 40 years, Michael O’Brian has matched his extraordinary career in investment banking with a distinguished reputation as one of Canada’s leading arts philanthropists.
Throughout his career, including in his current position as President of Nairbo Investments Inc., Michael has shown an intuitive sense for financial management, and his passion for the arts has lead him to share that wisdom with numerous arts and culture organizations throughout the province. Michael’s understanding of the unique economic obstacles faced by non-profit organizations has informed his many volunteer roles in support of these organizations. These include Directorship roles for the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation, the Thomas Foundation, the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and along with his wife Inna, Vancouver Opera. He is a past trustee of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Museum of Anthropology, and is a past member of the Deans Advisory Board of the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. An avid advocate for education, Michael is also an advisor to Create Change Foundation, an NGO currently sending over 1000 young girls to school in Ghana. Read more →
Vancouver, CAN, November 17, 2014 | Emily Carr University of Art + Design is honoured to announce the appointment of Associate Professors Amber Frid-Jimenez and Dr. Garnet Hertz to Canada Research Chairs recently published by the Government of Canada. This historic milestone marks the first Canada Research Chair appointments for Emily Carr University of Art + Design recognizing the institution’s capacity, faculty and contributions-to-date in the fields of art, media and design research. 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 →
Emily Carr University of Art + Design would like to announce, with the Ministry of Advanced Education and Partnerships BC, that the Applied Arts Team is the preferred proponent for the new campus project at Great Northern Way.
This proponent group will now enter into negotiations with Emily Carr. This milestone marks the next step in the final stages before groundbreaking and will lead to a final announcement in February 2015 when the financial negotiations will be completed.
In 2017, Vancouver will be known for more than rain, and the great outdoors. Emily Carr University of Art + Design will become the heart and hub of a new cultural epicenter.
The preferred proponent, The Applied Arts Team, will now enter into final negotiations with the selection committee and Emily Carr University of Art + Design to establish the final terms so construction can begin in Spring of 2015.
The Applied Arts Team includes:
Our new campus will allow us to be innovative and agile creators and connectors between east and west, art and industry, research and entrepreneurship – growing the creative culture, community and economy. The selection of our preferred proponent allows Emily Carr University of Art + Design to move forward in developing our Big Ideas on how we reshape, reinvent and reinvigorate the Great Northern Way district to become a new cultural hub for the city of Vancouver.
Read the official media release.
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 →
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