Filmmaker Kevin Eastwood's ('99) latest documentary, The Death Debate, premiered February 26 on Telus Optik Local, and is now available online to the public. The film tells the story of the people behind the landmark 2015 Supreme Court of Canada case on physician assisted-dying.
Watch the film here.
Alumnus + Print Media Studio Tech Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) is holding a solo exhibition at Striped House Gallery in Tokyo from June 18 to 29, 2016. An opening reception will take place on June 18 from 4:30 to 6:30pm.
A poem reading performance by Ryoko Minegishi will take place on June 25 from 7 to 8pm.
Visit Striped House Gallery to learn more!
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.
Shaw represented West Coast and Yukon in the prize, alongside finalists Brenda Draney (MAA '10), representing Prairies and Northern Canada; Charles Stankievech, representing Ontario; Hajra Waheed of Québec; and William Robinson of the Atlantic region.
Previous winners include Nadia Myre (1997), Duane Linklater (2013), David Altmejd (2009) and Brian Jungen (2002).
We congratulate Jeremy on this prestigious achievement.
Read more at Canadian Art.
Documentary AMPLIFY HER Coming to the Rio Theatre with Two Back-to-Back Screenings Official Trailer
Local filmmakers are bringing the documentary AMPLIFY HER to Vancouver with two back-to-back screenings at the Rio Theatre on November 28th - featuring work from 3 Emily Carr alumini; Kristen Turcotte (animation), Krista Gibbard and Molly AppleJohn (illustration).
Expect to meet many amazing members of various studios from around town at the screening!
AMPLIFY HER is a documentary film, graphic novel and animated motion comic series exploring the rise of female artists in the electronic music scene. Imagined and brought to life by more than 21 female creators across North America – many of them based in Vancouver – the 89-minute feature follows seven up-and-coming stars as they find their unique voices within a male-dominated realm. On the surface, it’s a story about women in the electronic music industry, but the film’s deeper message is the resurgence of “the feminine” in Western culture.
Screening Tuesday, November 28 Location: Rio Theatre, 1660 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5N 1W1
Advanced tickets recommended. Get a student discount!
Early show: 6 pm (doors at 5:30pm) Featuring a live performance by c o z y before the screening.
Late show: 8:30 pm (doors at 7:45pm) Featuring 60-minute performance by Kytami following the screening.
Fun Facts:
6 out of 7 illustrators on the project live in Vancouver.
4 out of 6 animators live in Vancouver Animators on the project have worked for: DHX, Atomic Cartoons, Bardel, Titmouse, Amazon Studios, Netflix, NFB. and Knowledge Network.
The Illustrator/Animators on the project studied at Vancouver Film School and Emily Carr.
AppleCat is a music Producer who grew up in Vancouver.
Blondtron is also a music Producer who studied sound and audio engineering in Vancouver where she started her career.
Hope to see you there :)
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.
Sonny Assu's work investigates Indigenous iconography and the representation of First Nation's culture. This exhibition, titled in reference to the residental school system, reflects a history of systemic discrimination and an eradication of Indigeonous culture and language within Canada. The work in this exhibition reflects the artists' personal history and also examines larger narratives of the colonial education system and the lack and loss of Indigineous language within this system.
Sonny Assu is Laich-kwil-tach (Kwakwaka'wakw' of the We Wai Kai First Nation (Cape Mudge). He graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2002 and went on to exhibit in galleries across North America. His work has appeared in solo shows at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Oakville Art Galleries, Two Rivers Gallery, West Vancouver Museum, Belkin Satellite, and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Mantioba. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and Museum of Arts & Design, New York. Most recently, his work has appeared at l'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
Sonny Assu | Day School
Equinox Gallery
June 13 to July 11, 2015
Emily Carr alumna Seeun Kim ('10) won a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions 2015 for her recent project Look at Me for Samsung.
As a creative art director she worked on the campaign at Cheil Worldwide and developed an app which helps children with autism make eye contact. The campaign which already has won both Silver and Bronze in Mobile this week at Cannes Lions, as well as a Silver Lion in PR.
Seeun Kim also received awards at D&AD, One Show and New York Festivals for Look at Me campaign this year. Cannes Lions is the world's biggest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry. Often called the world's biggest ad festival the annual event commonly attracts thousands of delegates from around the world attend the festival to view shortlisted work, attend seminars, workshops and master classes.
Alumnus Richard Heikkilä-Sawan('15) is the British Columbia Regional Winner for the 2015 BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition.
Richard's piece, Freedom Flag, consists of a large buffalo hide dyed in the six colours of the rainbow. The strips of hide have been placed on a wooden stretcher intended to be mounted on a gallery wall. Freedom Flag will be exhibited at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto from October 22 - December 19, 2015.
Heikkilä-Sawan works with painting and sculpture. His work explores First Nations culture and identity from a personal lense. As a biracial artist not brought up within his birth culture, Heikkila-Sawan offers a unique perspective within a larger narrative.
Alumnus and Print Media Studio Tech Shinsuke Minegishi participates in a group exhibition Process/Expression: Prints/Impressions.
Join the Langley Centennial Museum as they showcase the talent and creativity of local and regional print artists. This exploration of printmaking techniques will inspire a new affection for pressure, paper, and ink. From woodblock prints, to linocuts, to monotypes, the exhibition examines the complex processes behind the creation of printed artworks. Process/Expression: Prints/Impressions challenges perceptions while inspiring a new appreciation for light and shadow by investigating the unique, creative and innovative use of print media to express individual artistic points of view.
Langley Centennial Museum
February 28, 2016
Alumnus + Print Media Studio Tech Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) is the recipient of the ART ZONE KAGURAOKA PRIZE at the 7th Annual Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition.
An exhibition of winning works will be held at Kyoto Municipal Museum March 22 - 27, 2016.
Congratulations Shin!
The Bakery and Dynamo Arts Association present Bend Toward the Sun, Bring the Sky Beneath Your Feet, a group exhibition presented across two spaces, curated by alumna Jasmine Reimer (Toronto).
Bend Toward the Sun, Bring the Sky Beneath Your Feet renders the words ‘flexible’ and ‘material’ as indefinite. Material, the matter from which all things are made or can be made is dilated, including not only physical objects and images but also mind and spirit. Materials produce materials. Seeped in charm and grace, flexibility is slippery evading specificity and explanation. Unexpectedly, we are confronted with the danger in bending, stretching, in risking a break, in the pleasure of meandering. Splinters and sagging slits, universal footwear and monochrome flora, wayward glue and terry cloth comfort set up the circumstances in which flexibility is equally an advantage and handicap. Confronting the ostensible relationship between supple maker and elastic thing, this exhibition questions the purpose of limitations; revised and confronted, boundaries become fluid, distant and permeable.
February 19 - March 4, 2016
Opening Reception(s) - Friday, February 19th, 2016
The Bakery 6pm-8pm
Dynamo Arts Association 8pm-10pm
Featuring work by: Johnny Burgess (Vancouver), Jessica Groome (Berlin), Steve & Meghann Hubert (Vancouver),Jenine Marsh (Toronto), Ella Dawn McGeough (Toronto) and Les Ramsay (Vancouver).
Filmmaker Kevin Eastwood's ('99) latest documentary, The Death Debate, premiered February 26 on Telus Optik Local, and is now available online to the public. The film tells the story of the people behind the landmark 2015 Supreme Court of Canada case on physician assisted-dying.
Watch the film here.
Alumnus + Print Media Studio Tech Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) is holding a solo exhibition at Striped House Gallery in Tokyo from June 18 to 29, 2016. An opening reception will take place on June 18 from 4:30 to 6:30pm.
A poem reading performance by Ryoko Minegishi will take place on June 25 from 7 to 8pm.
Visit Striped House Gallery to learn more!
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.
Shaw represented West Coast and Yukon in the prize, alongside finalists Brenda Draney (MAA '10), representing Prairies and Northern Canada; Charles Stankievech, representing Ontario; Hajra Waheed of Québec; and William Robinson of the Atlantic region.
Previous winners include Nadia Myre (1997), Duane Linklater (2013), David Altmejd (2009) and Brian Jungen (2002).
We congratulate Jeremy on this prestigious achievement.
Read more at Canadian Art.
Documentary AMPLIFY HER Coming to the Rio Theatre with Two Back-to-Back Screenings Official Trailer
Local filmmakers are bringing the documentary AMPLIFY HER to Vancouver with two back-to-back screenings at the Rio Theatre on November 28th - featuring work from 3 Emily Carr alumini; Kristen Turcotte (animation), Krista Gibbard and Molly AppleJohn (illustration).
Expect to meet many amazing members of various studios from around town at the screening!
AMPLIFY HER is a documentary film, graphic novel and animated motion comic series exploring the rise of female artists in the electronic music scene. Imagined and brought to life by more than 21 female creators across North America – many of them based in Vancouver – the 89-minute feature follows seven up-and-coming stars as they find their unique voices within a male-dominated realm. On the surface, it’s a story about women in the electronic music industry, but the film’s deeper message is the resurgence of “the feminine” in Western culture.
Screening Tuesday, November 28 Location: Rio Theatre, 1660 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5N 1W1
Advanced tickets recommended. Get a student discount!
Early show: 6 pm (doors at 5:30pm) Featuring a live performance by c o z y before the screening.
Late show: 8:30 pm (doors at 7:45pm) Featuring 60-minute performance by Kytami following the screening.
Fun Facts:
6 out of 7 illustrators on the project live in Vancouver.
4 out of 6 animators live in Vancouver Animators on the project have worked for: DHX, Atomic Cartoons, Bardel, Titmouse, Amazon Studios, Netflix, NFB. and Knowledge Network.
The Illustrator/Animators on the project studied at Vancouver Film School and Emily Carr.
AppleCat is a music Producer who grew up in Vancouver.
Blondtron is also a music Producer who studied sound and audio engineering in Vancouver where she started her career.
Hope to see you there :)