Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 works to discover at Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s virtual Student Art Sale
The annual event, online to December 7, illustrates the diversity of media and materials that students use to create all sorts of works
Endless Consumption by Yuan wEN.
Emily Car University of Art + Design’s Student Art Sale runs online until December 7
EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY of Art + Design is known as a place where art, design, media, and technology meet. The range of materials that students work with is vast, and one of the best ways to get a sense of the what up-and-coming makers and cultural-shapers are up to is the Student Art Sale.
Like everything else, the 47th annual event will look much different this year than in the past, taking place virtually until December 7. All of the items are hand-crafted, and many are one-of-a-kind. From ceramics to sculpture, jewellery to housewares, and painting to photography, the sale reflects the diversity of the university’s programming itself.
Here are five examples of what’s on offer for 2020 to give you a sense of sale’s variety and the students’ creativity.
Endless Consumption, Yuan wEN (pictured at top)
Endless Consumption (acrylic on canvas, 22 inches by 30 inches; $480) speaks to humans’ need to learn that nothing is permanent, and that greed can destroy nature.
Third-year visual arts student Yuan Wen, whose early training was in traditional Chinese painting and whose practice focuses on printmaking, drawing, and mixed media, is inspired by stories of people with cross-cultural identities.
Screaming Jar, the Insomnicat
Kids might think twice about getting their hands caught in this candy jar. The food-safe lidded jar with sculpted mouth (4 inches tall, 4.5 inches in diameter; $80) can also be used to store paper clips and push pins or as a statement sugar bowl.
“When you scream at it… it screams back,” says Fiona Thomas, a fourth-year student majoring in ceramics who also works in textiles and printmaking. Their work ranges from illustrative to abject sculpture.
Resisting Scarbo, Womb Studio
Scarbo is a mythical vampiric dwarf who torments artists during the night. Cat L'Hirondelle created this sculpture (10 inches by 12 inches by 13 inches; $200) after taking on a challenge to use different woods with burning being the only embellishment permitted.
L'Hirondelle is a mixed-media artist who began ECUAD’s BFA program in midlife. Diagnosed with cerebella ataxia, she had to put art school on pause but has returned as an artist with a disability in her 60s. She has always had visions and regardless of her condition is compelled to see those visions come to life.
Snake Earrings, Mika Abele
Mika Abele is a painter, illustrator, ceramicist, and crafts-maker who loves working with animal imagery and is inspired by beauty, celebration, and empathy for the natural world. The snake earrings (2.5 inches by 1.5 inches; $16) are hand-made from polymer clay and mounted on high-quality sterling silver hooks.
In My Bag tie-dyed tote, Doan Truong
This tie-dyed and silkscreen-printed tote bag ($20) is perfect for picking up produce or schlepping around your phone, umbrella, water bottle, snack… pretty much everything you see pictured on it, designed by illustration major Doan Truong.
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