MFA Full-residency 2025 Thesis Defences
Part of Grad Studies Thesis Week, the MFA Full-residency 2025 Thesis Defences celebrate the culmination of artistic exploration and academic research conducted over the last two years by our talented graduating cohort.
Location
On Campus
A mix between virtual + on-campus
520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map
Online Attendance
Contact
Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies | gradstudies@ecuad.caOpen to Public?
Yes
Come join us! This year the spring defences are a mix of online and in-person events at ECU. All are welcome to attend and support our MFA Full-residency students as they present their projects.
April 7
Claudia Goulet-Blais
mére-fille: an archive of care
9:30-10:45am
D2435
Jianing Li
The Inner Tide of Bodies of Water: Living through Ancestral Memory and Celestial Time
9:30-10:45am
D2315
Pip Mamo
I Am in the Guts of This House: Haunting as a site of artistic inquiry
1:00-2:15pm
D2315
Sansa Wu
An Inward Journey of Self-Exploration: Autobiographical Graphic Novels as Slices of Life
1:00-2:15pm
Zoom
April 8
Xuemei Zhou
0.5 in Limbo
9:30-10:45am
Zoom
Manuele Arias
Soul of Stones
1:00-2:15pm
Zoom
April 9
Naomi Watkins
E kitsc-kt ne pésellkwe, me7 méllelc-kt. (When we get to the lake, we will rest.): An exploration of reconnection, displacement and animacy.
11:00am-12:15pm
Zoom
Lucine Luo
Finding Agency in Material Practice: Moving From Isolation to Connection in the Post-COVID Era
1:00-2:15pm
D2435
April 10
Devin Chambers
Gaps: I’m not sure this is going anywhere. I’m afraid this is going to end. There might not be anything else.
9:30-10:45am
Zoom
April 11
Lam Hoang
The Last Christmas Eve: Animating the Past through Styles and Materials
1:00-2:15pm
D2315
Boya Liang
Becoming in Uncertainty: Bridging Ways of Knowing Through Process
4:00-5:15pm
D2315
Be sure to also check out Everything Vibrates, the MFA 2025 Thesis Exhibition!