Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
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Emily Carr University of Art and Design (formerly the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) is a public post-secondary University located on Granville Island
in Vancouver
, BC
, Canada
. Initially established in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, it is named after Canadian artist Emily Carr
.
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design's arms
, supporters
, flag
, and badge
were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority
on April 20, 2007. On April 28, 2008, the Provincial Government announced its intention to amend the University Act at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
to finally recognize Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as a full university, named Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The university officially began its operation under the new name on September 1, 2008.
What students bring to Emily Carr—experience, vision, vitality, energy, discipline and commitment—is balanced by what the University offers in quality, breadth, vision and choice. Students who come to Emily Carr will find themselves working in studios, classrooms, and the concourse gallery, and interning with community groups or at a local company. The co-op program is one of the most active in British Columbia.
Over the last 85 years, the university has had an enormous influence on the development and growth of the arts in Canada and internationally. The alumni and faculty are among the most influential and important artists working in their respective fields. Students go on to careers in many different fields, as well as being accepted into graduate studies in all of the major universities and art institutions in the world.
Emily Carr encourages its students to develop new and innovative ways of thinking and creating within a university-based undergraduate and graduate curriculum. At the same time, we encourage students to prepare themselves for life after school. It is a learning community devoted to excellence and innovation in visual arts, media arts and design. Emily Carr's curriculum is flexible, personal, multidisciplinary and based on the learning needs of students.
, photography, new media, visual arts, media, interactive media, animation, industrial design, product design, ceramics, sculpture, communication design and general fine arts.
The current president of the institute is Dr. Ron Burnett
who has been in the position for 14 years.
Current degree programs include:
In November 2009, Emily Carr University teamed up Lucasfilm spinoff, Kerner Studios, announced the establishment of a stereoscopic 3-D research studio.
These dynamic technologies will significantly expand the capacity for creative exploration, experimentation and innovation. This unique research facility provides a flexible environment where researchers with specialized knowledge in art, design and technology can collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner.
in Vancouver, separated from the downtown peninsula by False Creek
. It is composed of two buildings, the South building and the North building, the latter of which was once a flour processing factory.
The University has recently expanded its campus with studio facilities on West 3rd Ave and at the Great Northern Way Campus
, an educational consortium operated in conjunction with BCIT, the University of British Columbia
, and Simon Fraser University
on
22 acres (8.9 ha) of downtown land donated to the educational institutions by the Finning Corporation.
There is a student union, and a small radio station, Radio Free Emily. Radio Free Emily can be found at frequency 89.3, but the station's weak signal strength makes it only possible to listen to it on or near Granville Island, or online.
Granville Island
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in False Creek directly across from Downtown Vancouver's peninsula, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge....
in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, BC
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Initially established in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, it is named after Canadian artist Emily Carr
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...
.
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design's arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
, supporters
Supporters
In heraldry, supporters are figures usually placed on either side of the shield and depicted holding it up. These figures may be real or imaginary animals, human figures, and in rare cases plants or inanimate objects...
, flag
Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric with a distinctive design that is usually rectangular and used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.The first flags were used to assist...
, and badge
Badge
A badge is a device or fashion accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath , a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple...
were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Canadian Heraldic Authority
The Canadian Heraldic Authority is part of the Canadian honours system under the Queen of Canada, whose authority is exercised by the Governor General. The Authority is responsible for the creation and granting of new coats of arms , flags and badges for Canadian citizens, permanent residents and...
on April 20, 2007. On April 28, 2008, the Provincial Government announced its intention to amend the University Act at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....
to finally recognize Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as a full university, named Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The university officially began its operation under the new name on September 1, 2008.
History
Emily Carr is one of the oldest post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and the only one that is dedicated to professional education and learning in the arts, media and design. Formerly known as the Vancouver School of Art, it was established in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. In 1978, ECU was designated a provincial institute before moving to Granville Island in 1980. A second building on Granville Island was opened in 1995. In 1995, ECU was granted authority to offer bachelor degrees: BFA and BDes and honorary degrees: Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt), Honorary Doctor of Laws (D.Laws)and Honorary Doctor of Technology (D.Technology). In 1997, ECU was granted authority to offer Bachelor of Media Arts degrees (BMA). In 2006, ECI launched a Master of Applied Arts (MAA) and opened the Intersections Digital Studio. In 2007, the Great Northern Way consortium made up of Emily Carr, UBC, SFU and BCIT launched the Master of Digital Media program (MDM) at the Great Northern Way Campus.Profile
Emily Carr is dedicated to fostering an educational environment that is professional, practice-oriented and at the same time rooted in history and critical theory. Its three undergraduate degrees in visual arts, media arts and design offer a balance of studio and academic programming. The Master of Applied Arts degree focuses on the specialized skills and knowledge needed to link art, design and media to industry and professional practice while promoting critical reflection and intellectual inquiry.What students bring to Emily Carr—experience, vision, vitality, energy, discipline and commitment—is balanced by what the University offers in quality, breadth, vision and choice. Students who come to Emily Carr will find themselves working in studios, classrooms, and the concourse gallery, and interning with community groups or at a local company. The co-op program is one of the most active in British Columbia.
Over the last 85 years, the university has had an enormous influence on the development and growth of the arts in Canada and internationally. The alumni and faculty are among the most influential and important artists working in their respective fields. Students go on to careers in many different fields, as well as being accepted into graduate studies in all of the major universities and art institutions in the world.
Emily Carr encourages its students to develop new and innovative ways of thinking and creating within a university-based undergraduate and graduate curriculum. At the same time, we encourage students to prepare themselves for life after school. It is a learning community devoted to excellence and innovation in visual arts, media arts and design. Emily Carr's curriculum is flexible, personal, multidisciplinary and based on the learning needs of students.
Programs
Emily Carr is one of Canada's best known Art and Design institutions specializing in sustainable designSustainable design
Sustainable design is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability.-Intentions:The intention of sustainable design is to "eliminate negative environmental...
, photography, new media, visual arts, media, interactive media, animation, industrial design, product design, ceramics, sculpture, communication design and general fine arts.
The current president of the institute is Dr. Ron Burnett
Ron Burnett
Ron Burnett is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, and How Images Think. He is the editor of Explorations in Film Theory. Burnett is the President of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He is the author of over 150 published articles and book chapters...
who has been in the position for 14 years.
Current degree programs include:
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation, Film/Video, Visual Arts, General Fine Arts, or PhotographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Bachelor of Design in Communication Design or Industrial DesignIndustrial designIndustrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...
- Bachelor of Media Arts
- Masters of Applied Arts in Visual ArtsVisual artsThe visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
, Design and Media Arts (2006)
University research
Emily Carr University has recently launched Intersections Digital Studios, a research facility that is unique in Canada. Students and faculty have access to new state-of-the-art equipment such as a motion capture studio for research in animation, ergonomics and interactive entertainment, a CNC machine for cutting prototypes in new shapes and forms, thermal printers, spatial, full-body and flatbed scanners for work in 2D and 3D, a Bailey kiln for proto-typing in ceramics and industrial design, digital HD video cameras, and an Apple Xserve server system for high speed rendering, as well as the more traditional resources available at the University.In November 2009, Emily Carr University teamed up Lucasfilm spinoff, Kerner Studios, announced the establishment of a stereoscopic 3-D research studio.
These dynamic technologies will significantly expand the capacity for creative exploration, experimentation and innovation. This unique research facility provides a flexible environment where researchers with specialized knowledge in art, design and technology can collaborate in an interdisciplinary manner.
Information technology
Information technology includes e-mail and web access, online registration, library computer workstations, word processing, curriculum labs, digital editing suites, digital prototyping equipment and a completely wireless campus. Smart classrooms are being introduced across the campus. The school’s gigabit LAN is connect to CA*4net, providing an advanced network environment for faculty, students, and staff.Buildings and features
The Emily Carr University main campus is located on Granville IslandGranville Island
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in False Creek directly across from Downtown Vancouver's peninsula, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge....
in Vancouver, separated from the downtown peninsula by False Creek
False Creek
False Creek is a short inlet in the heart of Vancouver. It separates downtown from the rest of the city. It was named by George Henry Richards during his Hydrographic survey of 1856-63. Science World is located at its eastern end and the Burrard Street Bridge crosses its western end. False Creek is...
. It is composed of two buildings, the South building and the North building, the latter of which was once a flour processing factory.
The University has recently expanded its campus with studio facilities on West 3rd Ave and at the Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus Ltd is a private limited company and educational enterprise located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the offspring of a consortium of four local academic institutions that has attracted...
, an educational consortium operated in conjunction with BCIT, the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
, and Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
on
22 acres (8.9 ha) of downtown land donated to the educational institutions by the Finning Corporation.
There is a student union, and a small radio station, Radio Free Emily. Radio Free Emily can be found at frequency 89.3, but the station's weak signal strength makes it only possible to listen to it on or near Granville Island, or online.
Non-residence
The University does not operate a residence. However, it is located near a large residential area offering a wide range of off-campus housing options and has recently established a student housing website, http://housing.eciad.ca/, to assist students in finding accommodation.Distinguished alumni
- Arnold BelkinArnold BelkinArnold Belkin was a Mexican painter and mural artist. Born in Canada, he moved to Mexico to be closer to the Mexican artists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Siquerios. In the '50s he befriended the latter, collaborating with him on two murals in Mexico City...
- Phillip BorsosPhillip BorsosPhillip Borsos was Canadian film director and film producer.Borsos showed an early interest in film-making while attending high school in Maple Ridge, B.C...
- Molly Lamb BobakMolly Lamb BobakMolly Lamb Bobak, is a prolific Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada’s war effort, and in particular, the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps...
- Neko CaseNeko CaseNeko Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers....
- Douglas CouplandDouglas CouplandDouglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
- Murray DevlinMurray DevlinMurray Devlin was a painter who blended images from the natural world with text to create works that spoke of an individual's experiences in discovering his spiritual core...
- Stan DouglasStan DouglasStan Douglas is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005...
- Ann Marie FlemingAnn Marie FlemingAnn Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist who was born in Okinawa, in 1962, of Chinese and Australian parentage. She has a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open...
- E. J. HughesE. J. HughesEdward John Hughes, CM, OBC was a Canadian artist.Hughes was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent a significant part of his childood in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Raised during the Depression he studied at the Vancouver School of Applied Art and Design where he graduated in 1933...
- Donald JarvisDonald JarvisDon Jarvis was a Canadian abstract artist.Born in Vancouver in 1923, Don Jarvis took up drawing at an early age. An aspiring cartoonist as a teenager, Jarvis enrolled at the Vancouver School of Art and Design and was encouraged by his teacher, B.C...
- Lynn JohnstonLynn JohnstonLynn Johnston, CM, OM is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.-Early life:...
- Brian JungenBrian JungenBrian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry...
- Terence KohTerence KohTerence Koh is a Canadian artist. Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. Koh has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy", though it appears that name...
- Brian KokoskaBrian KokoskaBrian Kokoska is a contemporary artist currently based in New York. He attended Emily Carr University of Art and Design, graduating with a BFA in early 2010. His work became more publicized after moving from his hometown of Vancouver to New York...
- Attila Richard LukacsAttila Richard LukacsAttila Richard Lukacs is a Canadian artist.-Biography:In 1985, Lukacs graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia and is a member of the loosely defined category of 'Young Romantics'. He moved to Berlin in 1986, working at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien...
- Jack ShadboltJack ShadboltJack Leonard Shadbolt, OC, OBC was a Canadian painter.-Early life:Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in 1912...
- Edith L. SharpEdith L. SharpEdith Lambert Sharp was a Canadian writer.She was born near Carroll, Manitoba, daughter of Charles Lambert and Edna Louise Sharp. She dropped out of high school in Penticton, British Columbia after one year...
- Michael SnowMichael SnowMichael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
- Heather SpearsHeather SpearsHeather Spears is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark. Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated to Denmark in 1962 where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen....
- Jeff Chiba StearnsJeff Chiba StearnsJeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animation and documentary filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques.- Biography :Chiba Stearns was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, of Japanese and European heritage...
- Ronald ThomRonald ThomRonald James Thom, OC was a Canadian architect.He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, the son of James Thom and Elena Myrtle Fennel, he graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1947....
- Rita WongRita Wong-Biography:Wong grew up in Calgary, Alberta and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of two books of poetry, monkeypuzzle and forage. Her work investigates the relationships between social justice, ecology, decolonization, and contemporary poetics...
See also
- Higher education in British ColumbiaHigher education in British ColumbiaHigher education in British Columbia is delivered by 25 publicly funded institutions that are composed of eleven universities, eleven colleges, and three institutes. This is in addition to three private universities, five private colleges, and six theological colleges...
- List of colleges and universities named after people
- List of universities in British Columbia