Emily Carr University invites the public to virtual Visual Art Forum
Jessica Stockholder, Carr’s Landscape Green, 2017. Courtesy of Jessica Stockholder.
Emily Carr University of Art & Design is thrilled to announce its Visual Art Forum is back and online for 2021 with a dynamic lineup of guest speakers. Presented by the Audain Faculty of Art at ECUAD, the lecture series is open to students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the public.
Launching the series is Jessica Stockholder in conversation with Monika Szewczyk on February 2 from 9:30 am to 11 am PST.
Born in Seattle, raised in Vancouver, and currently living in Chicago, where she teaches at the University of Chicago, artist Jessica Stockholder has work represented in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, New York’s Whitney Museum of Art, SF MoMA, and the British Museum in London. She’ll discuss her work, which draws attention to everyday materials in striking ways, with Szewczyk, the director of de Appel, an arts center in Amsterdam known for its living Archive, hands-on curatorial program, and its community-oriented education initiatives.
On February 8 from 12 pm to 1:30 pm PST, Wendy Red Star is featured. Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, and her work is informed by her cultural heritage and her engagement with numerous forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. Based in Portland, she has a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles.
Howie Tsui is in conversation with Joni Low on February 25 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm PST.
Howie Tsui, whose art has appeared at renowned arts venues such as Ottawa’s National Gallery of Canada and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, received Canada Council for the Arts’ Joseph Stauffer Prize in 2005 and was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2018. Now living and working on the traditional territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations (Vancouver), Tsui was born in Hong Kong and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and Thunder Bay, and has a BFA from the University of Waterloo. Low is a local independent curator and critic whose research explores interconnection, intercultural conversations, public space, and sensory experience and their attendant shifts in contemporary society.
American artist and citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scott ancestry, Marie Watt speaks on March 3 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm PST. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings, through which she explores the places where history, community, and storytelling meet. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University as well as degrees Willamette University (which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2016) and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Full details and registration information about Visual Art Forums are at ECUAD.
Howie Tsui, Parallax Chambers (study), 2018. Digital composite. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown.