Emily Carr University of Art and Design

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The Emily Carr University of Art and Design ( ECUAD ) is a design and art school with the status of a university in the Canadian city of Vancouver. It is named after the Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr and has more than 2,000 students.

The ECUAD specializes in ecological design, visual arts, media, interactive media, animation, industrial design and general Performing Arts.

History

The school was founded in 1925 At the beginning it was called Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, then Vancouver School of Art. Decorative and Applied (from 1933), Vancouver School of Art ( 1937 ), Emily Carr College of Art (from 1978) and Emily Carr College of Art and Design (from 1981). In 1995, she was renamed the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design ( ECIAD ). This name retained the Institute up to 28 April 2008, when a university was from the Institute. The name change, however, was not completed until September 1, 2008.

Campus

The University has its headquarters in various locations in Vancouver. First, the main campus is located southwest of downtown on Granville Iceland peninsula and is housed in two buildings there, with the northern building was a former fish processing factory. A second campus on Great Northern Way east of the city center is operated in conjunction with the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.

Known graduates

Ronald Bladen (1918-1988), American painter and sculptor
Arnold Belkin (1930-1992), Canadian painter and graphic artist
Neko Case (born 1970 ), American singer
Douglas Coupland ( born 1961 ), Canadian writer
Stan Douglas ( born 1960 ), Canadian artist
Brian Jungen ( b. 1970 ), Canadian artist
Terence Koh ( born 1977 ), Chinese - Canadian artists

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