Canadian Art Vancouver Gallery Hop

If you’re looking to get a taste of the Vancouver creative community, you are welcome to join a series of free events on April 27, 2013, organized by Canadian Art.

For full details, please click here to visit the website.

Foundation Show 2013

For those wishing to check out a range of work by current students who are completing their first year of studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, please join in to participate in the Foundation Show 2013.

The exhibition will take place in the Concourse Gallery, along with select classrooms at 1399 Johnston Street in Vancouver, BC. The opening reception is on Friday, April 19, 2013 from 7 – 10pm, and if you aren’t able to make it for the opening night, the show will be up and running from April 20 – 27, 2013.

Thank you, Latin America

After a fantastic student recruitment trip to Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, in conjunction with OCAD University and NSCAD University, it’s time to pack up my bags and head back to Vancouver. Many thanks to the counselors who worked with us to arrange for visits to each respective school, and also to the students and parents who took the time to meet with us while we were in town.

We look forward to our next visit, and I hope to see you on the Emily Carr University of Art + Design campus in the very near future!

Verses Festival of Words

Noted as being like Ted Talks (but with more swearing), the Verses Festival of Words will run April 8 – 13, 2013 at venues around Commercial Drive in East Vancouver, BC.

The mission of the Verses Festival of Words is to celebrate the transformative power of words – written, spoken or sung; to engage diverse groups in cutting-edge, live performances as both audience and participants; to present influential artists from both the oral and literary traditions, and to encourage the next generation of performers and writers. Verses embraces a wide definition of literature and orature that includes page-based poetry, oral storytelling, and singer-songwriters.

Click here for a full festival schedule of events.

Donation Supports Audain School of Visual Arts

 

With the recent announcement of funding for a new Emily Carr campus at Great Northern Way, comes another spectacular bit of news with the generous donation of $5 million dollars by Developer and Philanthropist Michael Audain and his family, in order to help support the new campus development.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design has also announced that it will be establishing the new Audain School of Visual Arts at the new campus.

Click here and click here and click here and click here for more information.

Here’s to an exciting roster of change and development to come!