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Announcing the 2024 Graduation Award Winners
Posted on May 30, 2024 | Updated June 03, 2024, 11:03am
This year, 48 students were honoured with graduation awards for their extraordinary work and accomplishments.
The Graduating Class of 2024 produced one of the most dynamic and versatile offerings of The Show, ECU’s annual graduating student exhibition.
You can view their stunning award-winning work and videos through The Show online exhibition site. There, you can scroll through the works and find the artists' social handles to follow their work beyond graduation.
Our reputable judges conferred 56 graduation awards and honourable mentions to these students for their phenomenal achievements. In total, 30 students received awards valued at $28,325 based on their works and screenings exhibited in the online exhibition and screenings at The Show, their GPAs, or a combination of the two.
Several students received multiple awards and honourable mentions:
- Kamila Bashir (BDes) won the DESIS Radical Sustainability Award and received an honourable mention for the Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement for their project Let’s Talk Housing.
- Nevada Lynn (BFA) won the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia: Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and received honourable mentions for the Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement and Mary Plumb Blade Award for their project, Kohkum & Keffiyeh.
- Andream (BFA) won the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts and the Saralee James Memorial Award for their project Headspace.
- Nathania Wijaya (BMA) won the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Media Arts and jointly shared an honourable mention for the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation with Hei Ching (Kathy) Cheung, Luka Hinić, Tristan Wei, and Rachel Wen for their short film, Rhythm of Rain.
- Luka Hinić (BMA) won the Sophie Burnett Memorial Award and jointly shared an honourable mention for the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation with the above co-directors of Rhythm of Rain.
- Theo Chen (BMA) won the VIVO Distribution Award and received an honourable mention for the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Film/Live Action for their project, Bad People.
- Nimi Martins (MDes) won the ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism and Social Justice - Design and the Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement for their project, Manicure Mixer: Design Lessons from a Black Beauty Salon
- Jeeyoung Kong (BFA) won the Mary Plumb Blade Award and received an honourable mention for ECU Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts for their project, My Life is Not Your Porn.
The university is thankful to our esteemed donors, who enable us to keep supporting emerging and innovative artists. The juries are comprised of industry experts, curators, and art collectors who deliberated and selected the winners. This year, 22 students were selected to receive honourable mentions.
We are grateful to our eminent jurors and everyone who assisted in the awards process. The full list of honorees is below.
2024 Graduation Award Winners + Honourable Mentions
Master of Design + Bachelor of Design
DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Award Recipient
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice (Design) | Award Recipient
ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice (Design) | Honourable Mention
ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Award Recipient
ECU Health Design Award for Innovation
Honourable Mention
ECU Health Design Award for Service
Award Recipient
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Award Recipient
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Honourable Mention
Glenmore Custom Print + Packaging Award
Award Recipient
Glenmore Custom Print + Packaging Award
Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Design | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
WA Architects Ltd Master of Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Kamila Bashir (BDes)
Let's Talk About Housing
Wylde ZH Marsh (BDes)
The Relicious Project
Nimi Martins (MDes)
Manicure Mixer: Design Lessons from a Black Beauty Salon
Sadaf Asl Soleimani (MDes)
Kian
Cassandra Matalas (BDes)
CalmThreads
Angus Duguid (BDes)
CAR-E
Iu Min Kim (BDes)
Todak-Todak
Nimi Martins (MDes)
Manicure Mixer: Design Lessons from a Black Beauty Salon
Kamila Bashir (BDes)
Let's Talk Housing
Jasmine Wong (BDes)
The Comfort Spectrum
Siri Gusdal (BDes)
nowhere at all
Mark Warin Hanbunjerd (BDes)
Normal Project
Fiona (Letong) Xu (BDes)
MERE
Dena Smith (BDes)
Opened Window
Sam McInnes (BDes)
Opened Window
Priyanka Poulose (MDes)
Bloom Club + Bloom Talk
Bachelor of Media Arts
Basically Good Media Lab Graduation Award
Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Media Arts | Award Recipient
Sophie Burnett Memorial Award
Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 2D or Experimental Animation) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 2D or Experimental Animation) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in 3D Computer Animation) | 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 3D Computer Animation) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in Film/Live Action) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in Film/Live Action) | Honourable Mention
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in New Media/Sound Arts) | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence (Best in Installation) | Award Recipient
VIVO Award for Distribution
Award Recipient
Thomas "Myles" Feltenberger (BMA)
Selected Samples 2024
Nathania Wijaya (BMA)
Rhythm of Rain
Luka Hinić (BMA)
Rhythm of Rain
Julie Ma (BMA)
With Love, Mae
Jiyuan Guo (BMA)
The Dragon In The Distance
Victoria Guzhvinska (BMA)
Number 07
Nina (Tsai-Ni) Lin (BMA)
Number 07
Nathania Wijaya, Luka Hinić, Hei Ching (Kathy) Cheung, Tristan Wei, and Rachel Wen (BMA)
Yuhan Yang (BMA)
Three Season
Theo Chen (BMA)
Bad People
Aila Takenaka (BMA)
Ephemera
Sebastien Kaschel (BMA)
Don't Criii
Theo Chen (BMA)
Bad People
Master of Fine Arts + 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 | Honourable Mention
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Judith Warren Painting Award
Award Recipient
Judith Warren Painting Award
Honourable Mention
Mackenzie Award in Painting
Award Recipient
Mackenzie Award in Painting
Honourable Mention
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Award Recipient
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (BFA)
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (BFA)
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (MFA)
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award (MFA)
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
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
Hannah Watkins (BFA)
Untitled
Jeeyoung Kong (BFA)
My Life is Not Your Porn
Nevada Lynn (BFA)
Kohkum & Keffiyeh
Syndey Pascal (MFA)
Raised in mud, wood smoke, and tears
Andream (BFA)
Headspace
Cory Yeung (BFA)
The Party's Over
Marina Levit (BFA)
A bird, a dog
April Matisz (MFA)
Entangled Nature, Painting and Being
Charlotte Campbell (BFA)
Soft Tools 1 & 2
Jeeyoung Kong (BFA)
My Life is Not Your Porn
Nevada Lynn (BFA)
Kohkum & Keffiyeh
Dilveen Abi (دلڤين) (BFA)
Collective Experience
Ava Katz (BFA)
The Clam
Thea Canlas (MFA)
Value Studies
Faria Firouz (MFA)
Bridging Threads
Jaya Enami (BFA)
Colours of Memory
Hwaryun (Jessica) Lee (BFA)
해녀 Haenyeo: Gardeners of the Ocean
Lara Felsing (MFA)
Wâhkôhtowin: Gestures in Kinship, Reciprocity & Rematriation
Melody Nejad (BFA)
Soup Kitchen
Joyce Yam (MFA)
Drawing Entanglements
Kevin Orlosky (MFA)
Visualizations of American Sign Language
Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung (MFA)
Rituals of Rememberance