Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Emily Carr University of Art + Design (abbreviated as ECU) is a public art university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The university's campus is located within the Great Northern Way Campus in Strathcona. The university is a co-educational institution that operates four academic faculties: the Faculty of Culture + Community, the Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media, the Audian Faculty of Art, and the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Formally established as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1925, the school was renamed three times throughout the 20th century: the Vancouver School of Art in 1933, the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1978, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in 1995. The institution's namesake derives from Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr, who was known for her Modernist and Post-Impressionist artworks. In 2008, the school was designated as a special purpose teaching university under the province's University Act.
History
Emily Carr is one of the oldest post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and the only one dedicated to professional education in the arts, media, and design. In 1978, ECU was designated a provincial institute before moving to Granville Island in 1980, where it would later open a second building on its campus in 1995. Around the same year, ECU was granted authority to offer its own undergraduate degrees (BFA and BDes) and honorary degrees (honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.), Doctor of Laws (D.Laws), and Doctor of Technology (D.Technology)). The first graduate program was added in 2003 (MFA) and would later expand to include the Master of Applied Arts (MAA) in 2006, the Master of Digital Media (MDM) in 2007, and the Master of Design in 2013 (MDes). The MDM program in particular is a professional graduate program that was launched through the Centre for Digital Media, a campus consortium of four post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. Currently, Emily Carr is located at the Great Northern Way Campus after relocating from Granville Island in September 2017. The new campus sits on a former industrial site within the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of East Vancouver.
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 that it would amend the University Act at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and recognize Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as a full university, which would be named Emily Carr University of Art + Design. The university began its operation under its current name on September 1, 2008.
Campus
The university's campus is located within a four-storey building in Strathcona, Vancouver. Designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and completed by EllisDon in 2017, the building houses student commons spaces, exhibition spaces, studios, and three lecture theatres. The exterior facade of the building has white metal panels and glass reminiscent of a blank canvas, as well as back-painted glass spandrel panels to evoke a sequence of colours and transitions. The building's colour palette was selected by faculty members in honour of Canadian painter Emily Carr. In addition, several First Nations design elements were incorporated into the design of the building.
The building forms a part of the larger Great Northern Way Campus, a multi-use property that is shared with four other post-secondary institutions through the Great Northern Way Trust. Emily Carr University, along with the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, and the University of British Columbia, are all equal shareholders in the trust. The Great Northern Way Campus also houses facilities used by the other three post-secondary institutions.
Academics
Emily Carr specializes in art and design education, offering academic programs and continuing education courses in sustainable design, photography, new media art, visual arts, game development, interactive media, animation, industrial design, product design, ceramics, sculpture, communication design, and illustration.
Degree programs include:
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cultural and Critical Practices, Illustration, Photography, or Visual Arts. Visual arts majors can choose to specialize in painting, ceramics, drawing, print media, or sculpture and extended practices.
Bachelor of Design in Communication Design, Interaction Design, or Industrial Design.
Bachelor of Media Arts in Animation, Film and Screen Arts, or New Media and Sound Arts.
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts.
Master of Design with Interdisciplinary and User Experience (UX) options.
Research
In November 2009, Emily Carr University teamed up with Lucasfilm spinoff, Kerner Optical, to announce the establishment of a stereoscopic 3-D research studio.
In 2014, Canada Research Chairs Garnet Hertz and Amber Frid-Jimenez joined Emily Carr, making it the first art and design institution in the country with Canada Research Chairs. In 2015, historian and curator Richard Hill joined the university as the third Canada Research Chair, specializing in Indigenous Studies.
Arms
Notable people
Alumni
Kate Ali
Unity Bainbridge
Arnold Belkin
Alexandra Bischoff
Phillip Borsos
Molly Lamb Bobak
Emily Kai Bock
Annie Briard
Karin Bubaš
Arabella Campbell
Neko Case
Douglas Coupland
Stan Douglas
Kevin Eastwood
Geoffrey Farmer
Ann Marie Fleming
Tommy Genesis
Angela Grossmann
Sophie Hackett
Colleen Heslin
E. J. Hughes
Carole Itter
Donald Jarvis
Lynn Johnston
Brian Jungen
Ann Kipling
Terence Koh
Brian Kokoska
Attila Richard Lukacs
Julian Lawrence
Irene Luxbacher
Jeannie Mah
Sara Mameni
Annie Liu
Dandilion Wind Opaine
Frank Palmer
Jack Shadbolt
Edith L. Sharp
Jeremy Shaw
Elise Siegel
Heather Spears
Jeff Chiba Stearns
Merike Talve
Ronald Thom
Renée Van Halm
Ola Volo
Joy Zemel Long
Faculty and emeriti
Gina Adams
Julie Andreyev
Marian Penner Bancroft
Ron Burnett
Peg Campbell
Randy Lee Cutler
Garnet Hertz
Maria Hupfield (Wasauksing Ojibwe)
Landon Mackenzie
Sandra Semchuk
Gregory Scofield (Métis)
Durwin Talon
Henry Tsang
Frederick Varley
Ian Wallace
Rita Wong
Leonard Woods
See also
Higher education in British Columbia
List of colleges and universities named after people
List of universities in British Columbia
References
External links
Universities and colleges established in 1925
1925 establishments in Canada
Universities and colleges in Vancouver
Colleges in British Columbia
Art schools in Canada