Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Launch or grow your UX/UI design career with up to $3,500 in tuition support!

Eligible B.C. residents aged 19+ can apply for the StrongerBC future skills grant to help cover tuition for our UI Design and UX/UI Design Leadership Micro-Certificate programs.

Develop practical skills in just 8 weeks through hands-on projects and a curriculum designed for today’s digital creative industries.

Funding provided by the Province of British Columbia through the StrongerBC future skills grant.

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/l4aG50ZuLTh

Whether you're picking up a paintbrush for the first time, building your portfolio or exploring a new creative direction, there's a Continuing Studies course for you this fall!

Choose from courses in painting, drawing, photography, animation, creative writing, Adobe Creative Suite and more, all taught by practicing artists and designers.

⭐️ Flexible evening and weekend courses
🌱 Learn for the joy of creating or build skills for what's next
📍 In-person and online options available

Explore our course offerings and find the one that fits your schedule and sparks your curiosity!

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/KWSs50ZwLmB

Our Youth Community Programs are back this fall! 🎨✨

✨ Teen Art Group, for ages 15-18, (Starts October 15) is offered in partnership with Vancouver Art Gallery. Alternate between the Vancouver Art Gallery and ECU for exhibition experiences, behind-the-scenes access with artists and studio projects.

✨ Youth Art + Culture Lab, for ages 12-14, (Starts November 1) is offered with the Richmond Art Gallery. Explore exhibitions, meet artists and gallery professionals, and experiment with new materials and creative techniques.

💛 Four full-tuition scholarships are available for Teen Art Group. Apply by September 15.

Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/qnYB50ZtXKZ

Ever wondered how artists collaborate with architects? Perhaps you’re curious about the 240+ colourful, back-painted spandrel glass panels that adorn ECU’s distinctive exterior?

Lucky for you, we’ve done a deep dive into how this public artwork was created! (HINT: artist and Professor Emerita Landon Mackenzie was commissioned for this work in 2016 in collaboration with artist and former faculty member Ben Reeves!)

Learn about Landon and Ben’s process and how the windows reference artworks, artists and ECU history: https://ow.ly/YwAB50ZuuA5

And through Nov. 8, get up close and personal with some of the paintings that inspired ECU’s facade at the Vancouver Art Gallery in their exhibition ‘That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature.’

Congratulations to artists and Emily Carr University Art + Design alums Amberia Keke Li (BMA 2026) and Leah Nelson (BMA 2006) as well as ECU student Min Kim, all of whom will be showing at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) in September!

Amberia will be showing her fourth-year capstone film, ‘The Maggots,’ in OIAF’s Canadian Student Competition. The animated short explores a young woman’s struggle to navigate toxic family dynamics.

Also appearing in the Canadian Student Competition, Min will be showing her student film, ‘Insomn,’ which follows an exhausted office worker whose bleak routine is broken by a surreal journey into his own unconscious.

Meanwhile, Leah will screen her film ‘Tangles,’ an animated feature portraying the day-to-day life of a young woman returning home to care for her mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. Adapted from a graphic novel by Sarah Leavitt and lauded by ‘Variety’ as “striking,” “honestly felt and highly affecting,” ‘Tangles’ was an official selection at the 2026 Festival de Cannes and features voice acting from stars including Bryan Cranston, Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen.

Our resounding applause to all three for their accomplishments! 👏👏👏

A new project led by artist and ECU faculty member Éléonore Goldberg uses interactive media to animate the stories of George Kenny, an author, journalist and residential school survivor, and his son, athlete and doctoral student Mike Auksi.

Currently titled 'Hockey Survivor Stories', the project was developed with ECU student research assistants Inanna Cusi (MFA 2027), Leo Martinez (BFA 2027) and Hannah Strocel (BFA 2027), and facilitated by ECU Industry Liaison Alan Goldman.

“One of the great things about this experience has been witnessing the research assistants develop their identities as artists,” Éléonore says. “I try to bring social justice topics into my classrooms and encourage my students to develop projects around family and cultural traditions. It can help an artist open themselves and their minds.

Read more about this incredible project here: https://ow.ly/pJMo50ZqULT

Reflecting on nearly a quarter century since he graduated, artist Sonny Assu says his time at ECU played a huge role in his approach to artmaking.

“ECU was transformative in terms of both social and career development. It got me to the understanding that I could do this for a living, but it also gave me the freedom to make the work I wanted to make. I didn’t feel I was hindered by anything. If I wanted to explore, I could explore. It was a game-changing time for me. ECU was a phenomenal place to be.”

Read our feature interview with Sonny: https://ow.ly/5pUj50Zp7Wt