2 Planet of the Arts / May-June 1996 Volume XI / Issue 4 editors Rocky Haroldsons Jonathan Lander layout/production Derek Barnett Jonathan Lander contributors Allemano, Luigi Bauming, Jacob Barnett, Clint Brown, Celest Coward, Gary Creamer, Duncan Cupit, William Dawes, Terry. Freeman, Shelley Gilgannon, Erin Gum, Xanthan Jurlina, Marina Kennan, Alison Madison, Marlene Maurer, Frank McDougall, Kacey Myskiw, Karen Nygren, Shawn Ohana, Dafna Power, Andrew Santizo, Igor Schimdt, Kevin Disclaimer PLANET OF THE ARTS IS A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE EMILY CARR INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN, WE WELCOME UNSOLICITED CONTRIBUTIONS PROVIDED THEY INCLUDE THE CONTRIBUTOR’S REAL NAME. ARTICLES SHOULD BE LEGIBLE, PHOTOS AND DRAWINGS SHOULD BE BLACK AND WHITE. SUBMISSIONS CAN BE PUT IN THE PLANET MAILBOX IN THE AREA WHERE THE FACULTY MAILBOXES ARE. THE EDITORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO EDIT SUBMISSIONS FOR CLARITY AND ELIMINATE RACISM, SEXISM, CLASSISM, AGEISM, SIZE- ISM, COPYISM AND HOMOPHOBIA. Address planet of the arts c/o eciad 1399 johnston street vancouver, british columbia canada - v6h 3r9 vox (604) 844-3861 fax (604) 844-3801 e-mail: poa@eciad.bc.ca world wide web http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~poa/ FUNDED BY THE STUDENT’S UNION. EDITORIAL We Belong Here BY SHELLEY FREEDMAN, ALISON KEENAN, FRANK MAURER, KAREN MYSKIW, & THE PART-TIME STUDENTS WORKING GROUP Sue messes are best left the way they are. A case in point is non-diploma registration at ECIAD. Three times a year this untidy spectacle takes place. The familiar signs and floor tape guides are installed to direct a bunch of outsiders into the bowels of the Institute where they plead their case to enroll in courses at ECIAD. Many “insiders” at ECIAD are aghast at all this commotion. “Outsider” truly describes what non-diploma and part-time stu- dents are at ECIAD — people with work and family commitments that they can’t toss aside to become “insiders”. If full-time students — the “insiders” here — took the time to meet these people, they would find out how true the difference is between outsiders and insiders. Most of these outsiders possess a host of significant life experiences that have everything to do with being involved in the world and little or nothing before ECIAD to do with art school. One thing that these outsiders possess is the passion and drive to work for the opportunity to receive an art education. To open up the opportunity in one’s life to take courses as a non-diploma or part-time student is not about taking on a hobby to while away spare time. Non- diploma and part-time education at ECIAD is about giving expression to the deepest and most important aspects of living in our world. The difference, as noted above, is that non-diploma and part-time students keep living very actively in the world while taking art instruc- tion. Their lives and their art-making are intertwined. And the result- ing combination is often messy and confusing. But then, as we said, some messes are better left that way. Changes are in the air at ECIAD about the way Part-Time Studies and the non-diploma stream are administered. This is part of a larger Letters Emphasis Where does the emphasis lie? While reading the PoA (Feb./Mar. edition), | came across one short statement on Page 9, 9th paragraph: “Recently a rape occurred in the underpass leading to the bus loop at 4th and Granville” That was it — no more information or discussion for that matter in the rest of the paper. On page 18 there’s a whole article (5 paragraphs) about an art- work depicting a bound and gagged barbie doll being vandalized. Where does the emphasis lie? Signed A Victim of Rape. Somebody Cares | just wanted to write a letter of thanks to a staff member that has really made my first year at Emily Carr much more pleasant. Sadly many of the instructors in foundation have shown little or no interest in the ideas and inspiration | used to complete their assignments and were disinterested when | tried to converse with them to get feedback that might fuel my creativity. Deadlines and obeying petty rules seemed more important - BIG TIME shift underway. to “re-position” the Institute in the face of reduced taxpayer support for post-secondary education. Art school students in general may feel threatened by the techni- cal and vocational criteria that governments are using to evaluate the worth of ECIAD’s programming. Few courses here lead directly to jobs. Many courses make for better people and a more vibrant society. The link between the outside world and art education that can seem problematic for ECIAD as a whole is established daily by part- time students, especially non-diploma students. And for this reason the access of non-diploma students to a high level of art education fulfills ECIAD’s mandate to serve the needs of the community at large; it does this more substantially and more fundamentally than many aspects of the diploma and full-time stream. And this does not mean simply the Spportunity to take Art Access, which is a great course. It means taking courses in photography and painting and creative processes and drawing with instructors as gifted and accomplished as Chick Rice, Lucy Hogg, Kitta Mykka, Doug Biden... the list goes on. Talk to any of these instructors about what mature learners bring to their pursuit of art education and you’re bound to get an earful of insightful comments about how important this opportunity is. = bureaucratize the non-diploma stream into obscurity would be a shame not to mention economic suicide. This is not what ECIAD’s Academic Council necessarily intends. But you have to wonder how carefully they are thinking through the ramifications of policy changes affecting non-diploma “outsiders” at ECIAD. Elizabeth Edwards, assistant to the Registrar, puts it bluntly: “A niche will be lost — we'll lose the beginner artist. Full-time students and their equivalents have to be top priority.” Isabel Scott, director of Part-Time Studies'— until her job is split up and absorbed by the deans of the various divisions — expects that problems will arise from implementing changes that curtail opportuni- ties for non-diploma study. In anticipation of these changes, word was put out to part-time students this spring to apply for diploma status. see We Belong Here, page 24 thing, etc. etc. i‘d like to think that i’m not sexist, but you’re probably right about the fact that i don’t know anything about girls, which would explain a lot. but, i think, that’s exactly why i should write this article. if you’re expecting to find some holy scripture about all the secrets of the female species, stop. you're not going to find anything new in this article, rather, you'll be reading the same thing you’ve undoubt- edly read thousands of times before. i’d also like to point out that this article goes out to myself as much as anyone else. i guess i should start by offering that i don’t think anyone goes out looking to be mean. and usually people aren’t mean, it’s just that circumstances, being what they often are, prevent certain things from happening, and, of course, cause others to occur. keep in mind that while these things are often beyond your control, so, too, are they beyond the control of the girl you admire. i rather doubt that she woke up one morning with a deliberate plan to fuck you over. unfortunately, when things don’t go as we’d hoped they would, the rotten hand that we are dealt is often equated with, “man, what a BITCH!”. emotions often override the clarity of your judgment and things can certainly turn ugly, i’ll be the first to attest to that! but it’s not fair to start passing judgment on to enhance the image of the school not the creativity of individual student. Lu Hogan is one of the few staff that has someone without first knowing all there is = = to know. while finding out all that Yrlonek a A af Ey continued bottom of page 4 saxo offered honest compliments of my work and she has shown a genuine interest in work | have done in and outside of the insti- — tute. Nothing inspires a student more that to get a compliment from someone who has seen all kinds of work. If they're still looking for a President she’s right under their nose. hooray for Lu! At least someone cares! Signed, maybe | will stay! P.S. Keep smiling Lu, It worked for me. a letter about girls from jacob before i start my little letter, you may as well get out all your comments about how | i ee a srcacreyire | [a Tromosith Boi] (SPICE BL He | = WATL a eb hamin-4 a yi sexist i am, and how i don’t know a fucking thing about girls, so i shouldn’t be writing this 2 Planet of the Arts / May-June 1996 Volume XI / Issue 4 editors Rocky Haroldsons Jonathan Lander layout/production Derek Barnett Jonathan Lander contributors Allemano, Luigi Bauming, Jacob Barnett, Clint Brown, Celest Coward, Gary Creamer, Duncan Cupit, Wiliam Dawes, Terry Freeman, Shelley Gilgannon, Erin Gum, Xanthan Jurlina, Marina Kennan, Alison ‘Madison, Marlene Maurer, Frank McDougall, Kacey Myskiw, Karen Nygren, Shawn Ohana, Dafna Power, Andrew Santizo, Igor ‘Schima, Kevin Disclaimer PNET OF THE ARTS 5A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE EMILY CARR INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN, FUNDED BY THE STUDENT'S UNION. WE WELCOME UNSOUCITED ‘CONTRIBUTIONS PROVIDED THEY INCLUDE THE CONTRIBUTORS REAL LEGIBLE, PHOTOS AND DRAWINGS SUBMISSIONS CAN BE PUT INTHE PLANET MAILBOX IN THE AREA RIGHT TO EDIT SUBMISSIONS FOR ‘CLARITY AND ELIMINATE RACISM, SEXISM, CLASISM, AGEISM, SIZE ISM, COPISM AND HOMOPHOBIA Address planet of the arts clo eciad 1399 johnston street vancouver, british columbia canada v6h 319 vox (604) 844-3861 fax (604) 844-3801 emai: poa@eciad bea world wide web http:/wwrveciad bc. ca/-poa/ EDITORIAL We Belong Here BY SHELLEY FREEDMAN, ALISON KEENAN, FRANK MAURER, KAREN MYSKIW, & THE PART-TIME STUDENTS WORKING GROUP Sore meses ae DSF Be Wo ya ‘Aas pit n-dplerarogton a ECA Tre tesa year tis uty seca aks place The anlar sigs and oor tape ‘ies are sald to et burch toute ino the Bowes of reste where they lad tc cave fo el n couse at CAD Mary “rade ot IAD ate aghast ts commotion “Outil tly descbes vat norco td pare st dents re at ECIAD peor vith wrk andar comets that the cat tos ade to become “ade une students ~ the nde” hae~took ete to eet hae people ey Ul nd cut ow te the ferences between out and ade Met ofthe use poses at of gnarl epee tht have eventing to do wth beg kwohed inthe ward and ite o nethingbelore ECD to do wth at schoo (One ting that thse tiers posies the pasion and dive to wot forthe apport oer a wt eda, To ope up the PA Se Suen nt abut ling ona hoy to le wy sp re, No Giploma nd partsine edxcaton at ECD saat go expresion tothe despe and ret porantspecied ing ou we The ference aspoted above, that nop and partie students tegp ivr cel inthe war whe ing art sve tn, Ther Wes and ther ar-maing ee ntestned. And he eat ing combination often men and cofsng, But the, a we aid, soe ese ae bette that wa Change aren thes at CIAD about the way Par-Tive Sudes andthe norma stern are sdneiteed, Tits part of age Letters Emphasi Where does the emphasis ie? While reading the PoA (Feb./Mar. edition), | came across one short statement on Page 9, 9th paragraph: "Recently a rape occurred in the underpass leading to the bus loop at 4th and Granville” That was it ~ no more information or discussion for that matter in the rest of the paper. ‘On page 18 there's a whole article (5 paragraphs) about an art ‘work depicting a bound and gagged barbie doll being vandalized. ‘Where does the emphasis ie? Signed {A Victim of Rape. Somebody Cares | just wanted to write a letter of thanks to a staff member that has really made my frst year at Emily Carr much more pleasant. ‘Sadly many of the instructors in foundation have shown litle or ‘no interest in the ideas and inspiration | used to complete their assignments and were disinterested when I tried to converse with ‘them to get feedback that might fuel my creativity. Deadlines and, ‘obeying petty rules seemed more important to enhance the image of the school not the creativity of individual student. Lu Hogan is one of the few staff that has offered honest compliments of my work - BIG TIME shift underway to “re-position” the institute in the face of reduced taxpayer support for post-secondary education. ‘At school students in general may feel threatened by the techni- cal and vocational criteria that governments are using to evaluate the ‘worth of ECIAD's programming. Few courses here lead directly to jobs. Many courses make for better people and a more vibrant society. ‘The link between the outside world and art education that can seem problematic for ECIAD as a whole is established daily by part- time students, especially non-diploma students. And for this reason the access of non-