Four talented Emily Carr Institute (ECI) instructors will be joining NIC's Department of Fine Arts this September, as part of a unique degree completion partnership between ECI and NIC.
Under this two-year pilot project, 20 spaces have been made available for students who have completed a two-year Fine Arts Diploma to move onto the third year of ECI's Fine Arts undergraduate degree, right at NIC's Comox Valley Campus.
NIC faculty will teach years one and two of arts education with ECI faculty teaching years three and four. Upon completion students will be able to receive an ECI Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Each ECI faculty member has a unique background and area of specialization, and NIC welcomes their expertise.
ECI Instructor Biographies:
Wendy taught at the University Of British Columbia in the Fine Arts program for 22 years, mainly printmaking, drawing and theory classes. It is here that her love of theory and cultural studies grew and influenced her artistic practice. She has been working at Emily Carr Institute for the past few years. Wendy has shown extensively in Europe and North America and continues to have a strong artistic practice.
His work grows from an interest in the hidden and mysterious places with social and historical proportions in the landscape of British Columbia.
For over eight years, she has worked as an instructor at both recreational and university levels, most recently, at Thompson Rivers University. Alison has been a resident artist at the Taller Cultural in Santiago de Cuba, and also coordinated the Cuban Canadian Ceramics Art Collective at Kwantlen University College.
She has exhibited in Canada, the U.S. and Cuba, including a collaborative exhibition at the Galeria De Los Oficios, Santiago de Cuba and a two-person exhibition at the Toki Gallery in Berkeley, California. Her work has been highlighted in several art publications and has been recognized by the B.C. Arts Council and the George and Dorothy Saxe Foundation.
NIC is well known for its outstanding Fine Arts Diploma program and the Emily Carr Institute is one of the world's premier art institutes devoted to excellence and innovation in visual arts, media arts, and design. Graduates of NIC's program often head onto ECI to complete their degree but sometimes find it difficult to move families and homes to the mainland to do so. With the new degree completion available right in the community, it removes an access barrier to further education. Some seats are available for Fall 2005.
Go to www.nic.bc.ca for detailed program information.
