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Encyclopedia > Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Established 1925
President: Dr. Ron Burnett
Faculty: 151
Staff: 83
Students: 1588
Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(49°16′14″N, 123°8′0″WCoordinates: 49°16′14″N, 123°8′0″W)
Website: www.eciad.ca

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design is a university in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It is named for Canadian artist Emily Carr. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... This article is about work. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... Emily Carr Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer. ...


The school was founded by the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1925, and later known as Vancouver School of Art: Decorative and Applied (1933), Vancouver School of Art (1937), Emily Carr College of Art (1978), and Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1981). In 1995, the school was renamed Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.


Emily Carr Institute is one of Canada's best known Art and Design universities and specializes in sustainable design, visual arts, media, interactive media, animation, industrial design, communication design and general fine arts.


The current president of the institute is Dr. Ron Burnett. Ron Burnett is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, and How Images Think. ...


Emily Carr Institute is located on the Vancouver tourist attraction Granville Island. It is composed of two buildings, the South building and the North building, the latter of which was once a fish canning factory. A second campus at Great Northern Way is operated in conjunction with BCIT, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University. Granville Island in 2005. ... The Great Northern Way Campus (GNWC) is a small, graduate-level educational institution situated east of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is a polytechnic institute in Burnaby, British Columbia that provides full- and part-time education leading to certificates, diplomas, applied bachelors degrees and applied masters degrees in technologies and trades. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Canadian public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna. ... Simon Fraser University (SFU) is located on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, part of the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia. ...


Current degree programs include:

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, General Fine Arts, or Photography
  • Bachelor of Design in Communication Design or Industrial Design
  • Bachelor of Media Arts degrees in Animation or Integrated Media
  • Masters of Applied Arts in Visual Arts, Design and Media Arts (2006)

Notable alumni

Prototype for New Understanding #8, 1999 Nike athletic footwear, human hair Shapeshifter, 2002 Plastic chairs Isolated Depiction of the Passage of Time, 2001 Plastic trays Variant I, 2001 Nike athletic footwear // Biography Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations roots; he... Terence Koh (born in Beijing, China, 1977) was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and lives in New York City. ... Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a major Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist. ... Neko Case (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (born September 8, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and as a member of The New Pornographers. ... Ronald James Thom OC (May 15, 1923 – October 29, 1986) was a Canadian architect. ... Joseph Plaskett (born 12 July 1918 in New Westminster, British Columbia), mainly known as Joe Plaskett, is a Canadian painter. ... Born in Vicotoria in 1923, Don Jarvis loved to draw from an early age. ...

External links

  • Official website
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Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

United States: Art Academy of Cincinnati • Art Center College of Design • The Art Institute of Boston • CCA • CalArts • CIA • CCSCAD • CCAD • Cooper Union • Corcoran College of Art and Design • Cornish College of the Arts • KCAI • LCAD • Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts • MECA • MICA • MassArt • MCA • Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design • MCAD • Montserrat College of Art • Moore College of Art and Design • Oregon College of Art & Craft • Otis College of Art and Design • Pacific Northwest College of Art • Parsons • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Pratt Institute • RISD • RCAD • SFAI • School of the Art Institute of Chicago • SMFA • SVA • UArts
AICAD logo. ... The Art Academy of Cincinnati is a private college of art and design, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Photo of Art Center during the night. ... AIBs main building at 700 Beacon Street. ... Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) is a regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in Oakland and San Francisco, California, USA. It is one of the premier fine arts and design institutions in the United States. ... Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ... The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. ... The College for Creative Studies in Detroit College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a leading arts education institution in the United States. ... Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), is one of the largest and oldest private art colleges in the United States. ... The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. ... The Corcoran College of Art and Design, founded in 1890, is the only professional college of art and design in Washington, DC. The school is affilliated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ... Kerry Hall, Cornishs oldest building and the last part of Cornish remaining on Seattles Capitol Hill. ... Mineral Hall at Kansas City Art Institute The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a private, independent, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885 that has taught Walt Disney and other artists in Kansas City, Missouri. ... Laguna College of Art and Design (commonly referred to as LCAD) is a private college located in Laguna Beach, California. ... Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is a school for the visual arts located in Old Lyme, Connecticut, offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the disciplines of painting and sculpture. ... The Charles Q. Clapp House which houses many of MECAs adminstrative offices, pictured in 1965. ... Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is an art university in Baltimore, Maryland. ... MassArt, August 2005 Massachusetts College of Art (also known as MassArt) is a publicly funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. ... The Memphis College of Art, known as the Memphis Academy of Arts before the 1980s, is a small, private art college in Memphis, Tennessees Overton Park. ... // History The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) was founded in 1974. ... Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a four-year and post-graduate college specializing in the visual arts. ... Montserrat College of Art is a four-year residential college specializing in the visual arts, located in Beverly, Massachusetts, 23 miles north of Boston. ... Moore College of Art & Design is over 155 years old. ... Oregon College of Art & Craft (OCAC) is a college in Portland, Oregon, United States that grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and certificates in book arts, ceramics, drawing and painting, fibers, metals, photography and wood. ... Otis College of Art and Design is a four year art and design college located in Los Angeles, California. ... The Pacific Northwest College of Art is a college in Portland, Oregon, United States that grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in painting, communication design, illustration, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and intermedia, a mentor-based MFA in Visual Studies, and also provides continuing education in the arts to the local community. ... Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons), is a design school affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University. ... The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. ... Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as in Utica, New York. ... The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD, pronounced /RIZ-dee/) is one of the premier fine arts institutions in the United States. ... Ringling College of Art and Design is a private, four-year accredited college located in Sarasota, Florida. ... Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is one of the U.S.’s older and more prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. ... The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a fine arts college located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (also known as the Museum School or SMFA) is an undergraduate and graduate college located in Boston, Massachusetts and is dedicated to the visual arts. ... The School of Visual Arts Main Building, circa 1992. ... The University of the Arts (UArts) is one of the nation’s oldest universities dedicated to the arts. ...


International: Alberta College of Art and Design • Burren College of Art • Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design • NSCAD University • OCAD • Osaka University of Arts • VCA The Alberta College of Art & Design is located in Calgary on the North Hill overlooking the Bow River and the downtown skyline, in a 245,000 square foot (23,000 m²) building that was designed in 1973 specifically as an art college. ... Burren College of Art is an internationally recognized non-profit independent art college specialising in undergraduate and graduate fine art education. ... The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) is a post-secondary art school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ... Inside a class in 1931 The Ontario College of Art & Design is Canadas largest and oldest university for art and design. ... Osaka University of Arts ) is a private arts university located in Kanan, Minamikawachi District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. ... The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is an educational institution in Melbourne, which offers courses and training in fine art, dance, drama, film and television, music and production. ...


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Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (297 words)
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, a university in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is named for Canadian artist Emily Carr.
The school was founded as the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1925, and later known as Vancouver School of Art: Decorative and Applied (1933), Vancouver School of Art (1937), Emily Carr College of Art (1978), and Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1981).
Emily Carr Institute is one of Canada's best known Art and Design universities and specializes in sustainable design, visual arts, media, interactive media, animation, industrial design, communication design and general fine arts.
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