Resources

Please note digital photographic documentation of the entire exhibition is conducted by University Technical Staff for the Emily Carr Library Archive only. Graduating students are strongly encouraged to document their own work with their personal equipment. Media Resources can help students out with equipment - day loans only.

If you need help with documentation:

• You can read Alumni Relations’ comprehensive list on Best Practices of Documenting Your Work
• Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career Development + WIL Office’s How-to Document Your Work (Prepared with Yvonne Hachkowski, Photographer)
• Watch the following tutorial videos on how best to document your work: the first video shows the set-up with a DSLR camera, the second one demonstrates how to document your work with a cell phone.

If you need help with how to display your work, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career Development + WIL Office’s How-to Display Your Work (Prepared with Yang Hong, Studio Technician).

The shop technicians and your faculty are also here to support you, make sure you get in touch with them.

If you need help with how to source things for cheap, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career Development + WIL Office’s How-to Find Materials for Cheap (Prepared with Laura Kozak, Sessional Faculty and Research Associate).

If you need help with how to build community, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career Development + WIL Office’s

• How-to Display Your Work (Prepared with Shannon McKinnon, Director Career + WIL Office)
• How to Reach Out to People You Don’t Know

If you need help with how to price your artworks or starting a business,

• you can read Alumni Relations’ Guide to Pricing Your Work and Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career Development + WIL Office’s How-to Price Your Work (Prepared with Wil Aballe, WAAP)
  
• you can read Shumka Centre's How to Realize Your Next Great Business Idea (Prepared with Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber, League of Innovators).
• Shumka Centre also has talks on entrepreneurship that you can watch/listen.

If a business is not what you’re looking for, you can also read about different organizational models, or Co-ops By and for Artists and Designers.

Alumni Career Pathways talks can also inspire you on what to do next.

If you are looking for insurance for Art and Artists, Alumni Relations has a comprehensive list you can browse.