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bold creative thinking meet
We are artists, thinkers, designers, experimenters, educators and leaders advancing the critical role of art and design education in a complex and changing world.
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Emily Carr University is a globally recognized institution, with a reputation for creative excellence and a thriving community of students, faculty and alumni.
Congratulations to the Class of 2026!
Celebrate the Class of 2026, the first graduates of ECU’s next century, at Convocation on May 14 and at The Show from May 13 to 27. Their work comes together at The Show in over 400 projects across creative disciplines, highlighting the next generation of artists and designers.
Showcase
Sonny Assu
Fine ArtsStan Douglas
Film + PhotographyNadia Myre
Visual ArtsChelsea O’Byrne
Fine Arts
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Sonny Assu
Sonny Assu (Ligwilda’xw of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations) (BFA 2002) has been recognized for his mashups of Indigenous iconography and popular culture. Through a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, prints, large-scale installations and interventions Assu’s work maintains a profound connection to past traditions while speaking to pertinent issues of our time.
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Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (alumnus 1982) has created films, photographs, and other multidisciplinary projects that investigate the parameters of their respective mediums. His ongoing inquiry into technology’s role in image making, and how those mediations infiltrate and shape collective memory, has resulted in works that are at once specific in their historical and cultural references and broadly accessible.
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Nadia Myre
Nadia Myre (BFA 1997) is a contemporary visual artist from Montreal Quebec and an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. For over a decade, her multi-disciplinary practice has been inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, and longing. And loss.
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30th Anniversary Indigenous Art Exhibition Highlights Community, Culture and Success at ECU
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Chelsea O’Byrne
Chelsea O’Byrne (BFA 2016) is an artist and illustrator who uses materials including gouache, watercolour, coloured pencil, pastel, graphite, ink, and various printmaking techniques. She has earned awards and recognition from the BC Arts Council, Access Copyright Foundation, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Kirkus, and The New York Times. Chelsea is also a staff member and MFA student at ECU.
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Chelsea O’Byrne Illustrations Illuminate a Pair of Upcoming Children’s Books
The Next Century of Creative Innovation
On the occasion of ECU’s 100th Anniversary, we are currently calling upon donors, corporate sponsors and community partners to support students with the resources needed to prepare them to become the next generation of innovators and leaders in Canada’s creative economy.
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