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My project, The Song of the Whale, is a product of an interdependent narrative structure, and has been led by my conjectural knowledge and artistic research. My research has led me to my current investigation and exploration of particular events and…

11th Beaux Arts Ball, motif: Egyptian. Sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the Vancouver Art Gallery in cooperation with The Vancouver School of Art: Night of the Golden Crocodile. February 4, 1959 at the Commodore Cabaret, 9 pm to 2 am.…

omo.yomo AKA Joshua Lam (he/him) is an emerging filmmaker from Vancouver, located on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Joshua specializes in directing, producing, and creative writing; he experiments with…

This paper outlines the formation of an artistic methodology and an emerging thesis project. Walking and collecting along the shoreline serve as a conduit for creating and point towards a broader engagement with notions of time and temporality. The…

This paper is about memory and about narrative, both of which are concerned with what is missing. It explores the ways that the events in our individual lives, our collective lives, become history and narrative. The paper considers writer Thomas…

Inclusive Design for Regaining Lost Identity is a research project that aims to design and develop accessible clothing that is inclusive and fashionable to foster psycho-social well-being and to enhance the self-esteem of women with disabilities.…

Jason Karman is a Vancouver-based screenwriter-director and producer. His 17 short films have screened internationally at festivals, including Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent showcase at Clermont-Ferrand. A Master of Fine Arts graduate…

I am a Chinese-Canadian artist who specializes with character-focused art. I am currently a second-year student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and I am majoring in illustration. Being someone who identifies as queer and is 3rd generation…

This thesis document, Enceinte Holobiont, explores the positional, practical, and theoretical underpinnings of my recent sculptures Composite Tension. My thesis (both conceptual and visual) focuses on the model of the maternal body that speaks to…

Throughout this paper, I will lay out some of the underpinnings of my practice. My practice is multivalent; it ranges widely, draws from many sources and employs a multitude of media. It reflects my explorations in using the parafiction as a…

Novel Movement, is an emerging collective of dancers based in Surrey. We started our dance journey as teammates in a competitive crew and over the years our friendship deepened as we continue to be passionate about creating art through movement. We…

This support paper seeks to analyze the potential of a new media arts practice in relationship to Second to Fourth Wave feminism discourse. Based on the works produced during my MFA studies at Emily Carr University, I investigate how a humanized…

Jodie Aguinaldo is a theatre major at Douglas College and has been a part of Chorus Studio for three years. She has been an actress and singer in Snow White, a Royal Canadian Theatre Company rendition. Her hobbies include juggling, songwriting, and…

Through a visual art practice and research, this thesis explores my personal background as a Chinese immigrant, through depicting scattered childhood memory to seek overlooked connections among people, objects, and places. By investigation of…

This paper examines the experience of lucid dreaming both from my own perspective and that of others, as well as the theoretical, psychological and artistic aspects of this phenomenon. I discuss destabilizing factors in lucid dreaming: a term used…

My heritage is glued to colour palette, which is layered underneath historical and contemporary painting influences. In an attempt to answer these questions, I begin to peel back layers of personal history and the physical layers of each painting,…

This project aims to refine notions of ethical design within the commercial communications industry and investigate the potential for actionable support to ethical practice. It intends to provide a unique aggregation and distillation of ethical…

This paper is in support of my artist-based thesis research entitled Aurora. My practice is interdisciplinary with a focus on installation and sculpture, consistently engaged in questions surrounding culturally inherited power structures and…

Kaylee Louie is a Chinese-Canadian contemporary dance artist and filmmaker working in Vancouver, Canada*. She has completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Simon Fraser University. During her time there, Kaylee became inspired by multi-faceted…

Taslim Samji utilizes arts and culture as a vehicle to educate communities on the strengths of embracing diversity in all aspects of society. She is a multi disciplinary artist that uses various medias to explore the conversation of inclusivity and…

A series of hand-built pottery forms, fired at the Potters Guide of BC Community Gas Kiln in June 2022. Pieces are built using P700 - Grolleg kaolin porcelain (cone 10) using slab, coil, mold and pinched hand building techniques.

I envision the world as an intricate labyrinth of stories, where with each encounter we have the opportunity to learn from the lived experiences of others. The perplexities of human existence and a curiosity for understanding and sharing perspective…

My art practice is based on the study of sensory perception. How can the representation of synesthesia function in an art context, specifically painting? Further to this, what is the role of sensory perception in relation to Chinese cosmology and…

My name is Khim Hipol i am a Filipino artist who immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. I focuses my work on the ideas around body, culture and identity, and their effects…