Announcing the 2022 Graduation Award Winners

by Cara Jacobsen

Hive (2022). Cara Jacobsen (BMA)

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By Emily Carr University

Posted on July 21, 2022 | Updated August 15, 2022, 11:55am

This year, 33 students received graduation awards in acknowledgement of their stellar work and accomplishments.

The Graduating Class of 2022 was one of the first groups in over two years to showcase their work in person to the broader public, including family and friends, at The Show, ECU’s annual student exhibition. Despite COVID-19 delays, the graduating cohort of students persevered and honed in their creative process and craft. You can view their superb graduation artworks at The Show 2022, an online interactive platform spotlighting their versatile and stunning talents.

Our reputable judges confer fifty-seven graduation awards and honourable mentions to these students for their outstanding achievements. In total, 33 students received awards valued at $26,550 based on their works in The Show, their GPAs, or a combination of the two.

Cara Jacobsen (BMA) won the Basically Good Media Lab Student Research Award for New Media and Sound Arts, Sophie Burnett Memorial Award, and The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Installation for their project, Hive.
Ana Lawrence (BDes) and Damian Oriak Rodriguez (BDes) jointly shared the Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award and a shared honourable mention for the Ecological Design Graduation Award for their project, Siembra.
Giovanna Gowmez received the ECU Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Media, and the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 2D or Experimental Animation for their project, Stop And Go.
Karl Mata Hipol won the Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award - BFA and an honourable mention for the ECU Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts for their project BALIK-TANAW.
Raven Hawthorne received the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts and an honourable mention for the Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award - BFA for their project, Stress Memos // Expertise in Salads.
Taylor Shaw received the Vancouver Art Attack Award and an honourable mention for the ECU Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts for their project, walang pamagat.
Sahali Tsang and Gigi Lui jointly shared the Ecological Design Graduation Award for their project, Embracing the Discarded.
Elaine Wang and Jingzhou Li jointly shared the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design for their project, Slice of Touch.

We are incredibly grateful for our donors who make it possible to offer many of our awards in support of emerging artists.

Selections were made by juries comprised of industry experts, curators and art collectors. We thank our eminent jurors and everyone who assisted in the awards process. View the full list of honorees below.

2022 Graduation Award Winners + Honourable Mentions

Master of Design + Bachelor of Design

DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Award Recipient

Ecological Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient

Ecological Design Graduation Award
Honourable Mention

ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Design | Award Recipient

ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Award Recipient

John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Design | Award Recipient

John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design | Honourable Mention

WA Architects Ltd Master of Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient

The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient

Danika Oystrek (BDes)
chaos & capability

Sahali Tsang (BDes)
Embracing the Discarded

Gigi Lui (BDes)
Embracing the Discarded

Damian Oriak Rodriguez (BDes)
Siembra

Ana Lawrence (BDes)
Siembra

Michelle Zheng (BDes)
DIM SUM COLLECTIVE

Ingrid Dee van Zyl (BDes)
WayLiight

Elaine Wang (BDes)
Slice of Touch

Jingzhou Li (BDes)
Slice of Touch

Fyonna Leigh Laddaran (BDes)
Bahay Natin (Our House)

Kin Godwin Chua (BDes)
Bahay Natin (Our House)

Andrés Somasco (BDes)
HILOS

Pablo Mariano (MDes)
The ∞ chair

Damian Oriak Rodriguez (BDes)
Siembra

Ana Lawrence (BDes)
Siembra

Francine Fang (BDes)
Genderloop

Bachelor of Media Arts

Basically Good Media Lab Graduation Award
Award Recipient

Sophie Burnett Memorial Award
Award Recipient

ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Media | Award Recipient

John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Media Arts | Award Recipient

The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation | Award Recipient

The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 2D or Experimental Animation

The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Film/Live Action | Award Recipient

The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in New Media/Sound Arts | Award Recipient

Cara Jacobsen (BMA)
Hive

Giovanna Gowmez (BMA)
Stop And Go

Sidney Gordon (BMA)
i see me watching

Shelly Litvak (BMA)
Take A Byte

Alexandra Lyon (BMA)
Take A Byte

Xiao Yu (BMA)
Take a Byte

Giovanna Gowmez (BMA)
Stop and Go

Emilio Vargas (BMA)
CANTO VI

Peter Worthington (BMA)
Vector Horizon (demo)

Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts

ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Visual Arts | Award Recipient

ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Visual Arts | Honourable Mention

Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Award Recipient

John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient

Landon Mackenzie Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Award Recipient

Landon Mackenzie Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention

Rae Ashmore (BFA)
Colonial Comfort, 2022

Karl Mata Hipol (BFA)
BALIK-TANAW

Taylor Shaw (BFA)
walang pamagat

Taryn Goodwin (BFA)
Inter-Connected, Disability Social Practice Artist, Neuro- Divergent Writer, and Community Organizer

Raven Hawthorne (BFA)
Stress Memos // Expertise in Salads

Erick Jantzen (BFA)
The Here and The Now

Jordan Utting (BFA)
Printmaking & Collage: A Study of Multiples and Intersections

Camila Szefler (BFA)
Curiosity Grown

Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA
Award Recipient

Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA
Honourable Mention

Opus Art Supplies Graduation MFA
Award Recipient

Opus Art Supplies Graduation MFA
Honourable Mention

Mary Plumb Blade Award
Award Recipient

Mary Plumb Blade Award
Honourable Mention

The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography | Award Recipient

The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography | Honourable Mention

Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Award Recipient

Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention

Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient

Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Honourable Mention

Judith Warren Painting Award
Award Recipient

Judith Warren Painting Award
Honourable Mention

Karl Mata Hipol (BFA)
BALIK-TANAW

Serena Steel (BFA)
Who do you belong to?

Raven Hawthorne (BFA)
Stress Memos // Expertise in Salads

Gemma Crowe (MFA)
Making Room for Resonance

Lacey Jane Wilburn (MFA)
Shelter in Paint: a portrait of an empty house

Zoe Grace-Anne Laycock (BFA)
Intergenerational Radio

Colin Porato (BFA)
Recent Paintings

Alexis Valgardsson (BFA)
Evocation of Emotion

Jaiden George (BFA)
Staging Nature

Abigail Pfortmueller (BFA)
What is "Home?"

Allen Yi Lin Chen (BFA)
DECOMMISSION

Carlee Thompson (BFA)
bleaching my teeth, 2022

Mika Abele (BFA)
The rocks took a nap, and our whole lives flashed by

Mikaela Kautzky (BFA)
behind the seens

Taylor Shaw (BFA)
walang pamagat

Emmyleah Liaros (BFA)
Charm Bracelet, 2022

Kyla Gilbert (MFA)
Construction

Scotty Alveberg (BFA)
Recent Paintings

Sarah Dixon (BFA)
In the Face of It

Jesse Ross (BFA)
Distortion as Realism