Which awards do I qualify for? Leave this field blank 2025 Graduation AwardsSeveral awards are available to graduating students. Use this Award Finder to see a list of awards for which you MAY BE eligible.The criteria are different for each award. Please read the award description carefully. Good luck and congratulations on completing your degree! Select your degree. BFAMFABDesMDesBMA DESIS Radical Sustainability Award: $500The DESIS Radical Sustainability award honours student projects that best demonstrate how design can “activate, sustain, and orient processes of social change toward sustainability” (Jégou & Manzini 2008).Find out more about this award. Ecological Design Graduation Award: $625Awarded to a fourth-year Bachelor of Design student (or students) whose work in The Show + Virtual Exhibition demonstrates the potential for significant social and ecological impact. Find out more about this award. ECU Health Design Award for Innovation: $500Awarded to a design student who has completed a health-related design project in the Virtual Exhibition that demonstrates innovation in health design. Find out more about this award. ECU Health Design Award for Service: $500Awarded to a graduating design student who has helped develop a service-based project or concept, as a designer to a health project, initiative or organization. Find out more about this award. Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement: $1,000The ECUAA award recognizes students who place community at the centre of their creative practice, stand for a purpose that is bigger than themselves, and explore that which benefits others.Find out more about this award. Glenmore Custom Print + Packaging Award: $1,000Awarded to a Communication Design student exhibiting in the Virtual Exhibition whose work exhibits innovative and well-resolved work in the area of commercial printing and/or packaging. (BDes)Find out more about this award. John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design: $2,000Awarded for academic excellence combined with work in the Virtual Exhibition (undergraduate).Find out more about this award. John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Media Arts: $2,000Awarded for academic excellence combined with in the degree exhibition/screening in the area of media arts (undergraduate).Find out more about this award. John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts: $2,000Awarded for academic excellence combined with work in the The Show + Virtual Exhibition (undergraduate).Find out more about this award. Judith Warren Painting Award: $1,000Awarded to an undergraduate visual arts student whose work in The Show + Virtual Exhibition is in the medium of watercolour.Find out more about this award. Mackenzie Award in Painting: $500Awarded to a student majoring in Visual Arts from the Visual Art & Material Practice program or Graduate Studies Program exhibiting in The Show + Virtual Exhibition working in the discipline of painting. (BFA + MFA)Find out more about this award. Mary Plumb Blade Award: $1,350Awarded for excellence in Painting or Printmaking in The Show + Virtual Exhibition.Find out more about this award. Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA: $1,000Awarded to a BFA student exhibiting in The Show + Virtual Exhibition working in the discipline(s) of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, illustration, photography or print media.Find out more about this award. Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award MFA: $1,500Awarded to an MFA student exhibiting in The Show + Virtual Exhibition working in the discipline(s) of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, illustration, photography or print media.Find out more about this award. Sophie Burnett Memorial Award: $850Awarded to the undergraduate student with the highest GPA graduating from the Bachelor of Media Arts program.Find out more about this award. Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography: $1,250Awarded to celebrate an Emily Carr undergraduate student and Photography major whose work in The Show + Virtual Exhibition demonstrates excellent conception, production and execution of their final graduation exhibition piece.Find out more about this award. The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 2D or Experimental Animation: $500Awarded for Best in 2D or Experimental Animation undergraduate.Find out more about this award. The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation: $500Awarded for Best in 3D Computer Animation undergraduate.Find out more about this award. The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Film/Live Action: $500Awarded for Best in Film/Live Action undergraduate.Find out more about this award. The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Media Installation: $500Awarded for Best in Media Installation undergraduate.Find out more about this award. The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Media Sound: $500Awarded for Best in Media Sound undergraduate.Find out more about this award. Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award: $625Awarded to a design student for the development of new wood products; creation of new designs in wood; development of new applications of existing products; and designs which have the potential to solve significant social, economic and/or environmental concerns through the appropriate application of wood products (undergraduate).Find out more about this award. Van Gogh Designs Furniture + Wood Design Graduation Award: $1,500Awarded to a graduate/undergraduate Industrial Design student working in Wood Design, with a preference given to furniture designers.Find out more about this award. Vancouver Biennale "Art Attack" Award: $1,250Award of excellence to an Emily Carr visual art student based on their work in The Show + Virtual Exhibition.Find out more about this award. WA Architects Ltd Master of Design Graduation Award: $2,000Awarded to a graduate student exhibiting in The Show + Virtual Exhibition, selected through the Graduation Jury process, with a preference given to Canadian citizens.Find out more about this award.