Celebrate and learn about the work of our MFA Full-Residency students.
Join us to celebrate the incredible achievements of this year’s graduating class of MFA Full-Res students as they present their final thesis work. Several events are happening over a few days, both online and in-person and everyone is welcome!
Whether you’re a friend, peer, faculty or ECU staff member or community guest, we hope you’ll take part in this exciting week of presentations, creativity and inspiring discussions.
Our two-year full-residency MFA degree offers a concentrated on-campus academic experience, with year-round access to studios, facilities and research centres.
Tuesday, April 7
Trinidad Landajo
Navigating the Operational Landscape
Encountering the Technological Sublime Amongst the Digital, the Fleeting and the Insignificant
9:30am – 10:45am
D2315
External Reviewer: Susan Gibb
Supervisor: Randy Lee Cutler
Chair: Amanda White
Laur Flom
Queering the Book
A Material Investigation Into the Conventions of the Book Form
1:00pm – 2:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Kitt Peacock
Supervisor: Beth Howe
Chair: Randy Lee Cutler
Hok Kiu Cindy Shum
Between the Shores
4:00pm – 5:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Diane Wong
Supervisors: Ingrid Koenig + Gwenessa Lam
Chair: Amanda White
Wednesday, April 8
Jupiter Ahonen
Thee Arboreal Timescale
1:00pm – 2:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Liz Toohey-Weise
Supervisor: Amory Abbott
Chair: Janet Wang
Naimah Amin
To Such Love and the Duty of Dreaming
2:30pm – 3:45pm
D2435
External Reviewer: Sadia Shirazi
Supervisor: Rachelle Sawatsky
Chair: Randy Lee Cutler
Grace Edwards
Untitled
An Exploration of Matrilineal Knowledge Systems as a Counter-Archival Practice
4:00pm – 5:15pm
Join on Teams
External Reviewer: Brenda Draney
Supervisor: Diyan Achjadi
Chair: Lee Gilad
Thursday, April 9
Jennifer Wood
Patterns of Power and Control
Intimate Partner Violence & the Construction of Home
11:30am – 12:45pm
D2435
External Reviewer: Deborah Koenker
Supervisors: Alex Phillips
Chair: Justin Langlois
Chelsea O’Byrne
Post-Apocalyptic Printmaking
A Manifesto for Materiality
1:00pm – 2:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Emily Dundas Oke
Supervisors: Mark Johnsen + Ingrid Koenig
Chair: Randy Lee Cutler
Jaeden Blewett
Material Thresholds
Informing the In-Between
2:30pm – 3:45pm
D2435
External Reviewer: Lisa Baldissera
Supervisor: Laura Newlon
Chair: Amanda White
Gibson Switzer
Fake it ‘Til You Make it
Collecting, Photography, Vancouver
2:30pm – 3:45pm
CDM Meeting Room
External Reviewer: Andrew Witt
Supervisor: Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez
Chair: Lee Gilad
Luigi Pulido
A Body That is Gooey, Blurry, and Full of Seams
4:00pm – 5:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Melanie O’Brian
Supervisor: Randy Lee Cutler
Chair: Justin Langlois
Friday, April 10
Florence-Ariel Tremblay
Excavating Consumer Mythology
What We Leave Behind
9:30am – 10:45am
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External Reviewer: Rosalyn Burgin
Supervisor: Alex Phillips
Chair: Randy Lee Cutler
Rin Yu
Once Upon a Time
9:30am – 10:45am
D2315
External Reviewer: Viahsta Yuan
Supervisor: Janet Wang
Chair: Amory Abbott
Sichen Grace Chen
Painter to Water, Skin to Coast
1:00pm – 2:15pm
D2315
External Reviewer: Astrida Neimanis
Supervisor: Ingrid Koenig
Chair: Randy Lee Cutler