Alex Alberro – Lecture from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Please join us for a talk by Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City.
Alberro is the author and editor of a number of books on contemporary art, including Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists Writings (2009); Art After Conceptual Art (2007); and Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2004). Alberro has also published essays in a broad array of journals and exhibition catalogues.
His current book project is Abstraction in Reverse, a study of the emergence and development of abstract art in Latin America. He is also at work on a volume that explores new forms of art and spectatorship that have crystallized in the past two decades.

Conversations on Learning – Ross Kelly from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Illuminate 2015 from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Now that you’ve received your letter of acceptance, we’re sure you have some questions about what your time at Emily Carr will be like. We invite you and your family to join us to meet with admissions staff, academic advisors, faculty and students to learn about next steps like confirming your offer, registration, orientation, housing, financial aid and more! This is a big decision and we are here to help with any questions you have!

Shannon Stratton – Visual Art Forums, March 30th, 2015 from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Established in 2003, Threewalls has grown from a start-up exhibition space to a vital visual arts organization supporting contemporary art through solo exhibitions, residencies, grants, publications, conferences and commissioning programs. With Green Lantern Press she founded and published (via Threewalls) PHONEBOOK, a guide to contemporary independant and artist-run projects, now in its 4th volume, and The Artists Run Chicago Digest, a companion, appraisal and extension to the exhibition of the same name at The Hyde Park Center. She is a co-founder of The Common Field, a national alliance of and advocacy group for small-scale visual arts platforms and their producers.

Stratton writes, curates exhibitions and other experimental projects, and relishes opportunity for administrative and pedagogical experiments. Projects include: Resonating Bodies, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Ps & Qs, The Glassel School of Art, Houston and The Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago (with Jeff Ward); Things to Be Next To at Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas/Threewalls, Chicago (with Kate Hackman); Bellwether at Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Reskilling at Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada (with Luanne Martineau) and Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance, and the Politics of Slowness (with Judith Leemann) a panel discussion and exhibition at the College Art Association, Dallas, Texas and The Portland Museum of Craft, Portland, Oregon. In the summers she works with her partner Joe Jeffers on 8550 OHIO in SE Appalachian Ohio, coordinating projects including residencies, festivals and site-specific architecture. Her “weird social experiment” (to quote one of her students), Party As Form, a class in group dynamics and transitional spaces, was hosted by Ox Bow School of Art in Michigan in 2013 & 2014.

In 2010 Stratton was named one of the top 5 most vital people in the visual arts in Chicago by NewCity. In 2011 she was a fellow of the NAMAC Visual Arts Leadership Institute and a finalist for the Chicago Community Trust Emerging Leader Award. Stratton was 1 of 9 leaders in the arts featured in the Chicago Tribune 2011 Chicagoans of the Year. In 2013 Newcity named her one 50 “Visual Vanguards.”

Stratton teaches in Art History, Theory & Criticism and Fiber & Material Studies departments at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was appointed Critical Studies Fellow at The Cranbrook Academy of Art for fall 2012. In 2013 she was a recipient of the Alberta College of Art Board of Governors’ Alumni Award of Excellence.

Current research and upcoming projects include: Threewalls relocation and opening of adjacent speakeasy, The General Idea; curatorial residecies at Elsewhere in collaboration with Joe Jeffers and at The Kinsey Institute in conjunction with Threewalls; residency at Cannonball, Miami (dates TBD); exhibition “A Chain of Conspicuous Absences” (on the limits of exchangeability). Shannon curated the 1st retrospective of Faith Wilding’s painting and drawing work at Threewalls in January 2014. The exhibition will travel to other locations, including Rhodes College, Memphis, TN and The Pasadena Armory, Pasadena, CA in September 2015.

This talk is part of the Visual Art Forums, presented by the Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. It is free and open to the public.

Jeremy Shaw in conversation with Caitlin Jones – March 2, 2015 from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

In Common: Pecha Kucha on Community, February 16th 2015 from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Elspeth Pratt – Visual Art Forums from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Elspeth Pratt’s sculptures demonstrate her interest in architecture and social spaces. She uses a variety of prosaic materials, from plywood to beverage containers, to comment on how architecture structures our lives. Throughout her career, she has shown an interest in public spaces such as shopping malls, gardens and train stations, as well as “pseudo-escapist” spaces such as spas, casinos and resorts. She has also explored airports and is interested in how they control our actions as we navigate them.

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Gwen Allen – January 22, 2015 from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

David Zink Yi – Artist Talk, Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence Public Lectures from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

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.

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Samuel Roy-Bois – Artist Talk from Emily Carr University on Vimeo.

Originally from Quebec City, Samuel Roy-Bois currently resides in Vancouver. He acquired his BFA from Université Laval in Quebec (1996) and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montréal (2001). His work has been presented at SFU Gallery, Carleton University Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Contemporary Art Gallery, Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec and Point éphémère in Paris. He is Assistant Professor in Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan.

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