2023-ECUAA Graduation Award for Community Engagement Design
Product Information: 2023 Emily Carr Alumni Association
Graduation Award For Community Engagement | Design
The 2023 Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for
Community Engagement | Design is an award that recognizes students
who use visual arts as a function within community building,
engagement, or activism. The award values vary year to year and
rotate annually between visual arts, media, and design. The Emily
Carr Alumni Association advocates for and celebrates alumni from
all programs, years, and disciplines. The award aims to encourage
dynamic relationships with past, present, and future members of the
Emily Carr University Community.
The award criteria require applicants to demonstrate active
participation within the community throughout their studies at
Emily Carr. Applicants must have volunteer/service experience over
the course of their undergraduate studies at Emily Carr. This could
include volunteering in the greater community, at the university,
developing or participating in a club, or serving as a student
representative.
Criteria:
- Currently using visual arts as a function within community
building, engagement, or activism. - Their work explores, discusses, embraces or demonstrates
community or the goals of community engagement and social
discourse. - Can demonstrate active participation within the community
throughout their studies at Emily Carr. - Have volunteer/service experience over the course of their
undergraduate studies at Emily Carr.
Application Requirements:
Please include:
- A statement of 500 words describing your current design
practice and work. (You may wish to add where you hope to take your
practice in the future.) Consider: your views on engagement, the
role of the artist, how your work or practice is involved with
social discourse, and/or the building or betterment of
community. - If applicable, include images of your work, project or
community practice in action; any support material produced for
project/event; and documentation of work/process. - A list of your volunteer and/or service activities, clubs or
associations and your role within them.
Format: Submissions must be in PDF format of no
more than 4 pages. Your submission must include the 500 word
written statement described in the criteria above.
Product Usage Instructions:
- Read the award criteria carefully to ensure that you meet the
requirements. - Prepare a statement of 500 words describing your current design
practice and work, including your views on engagement, the role of
the artist, how your work or practice is involved with social
discourse, and/or the building or betterment of community. - If applicable, include images of your work, project or
community practice in action; any support material produced for
project/event; and documentation of work/process. - Include a list of your volunteer and/or service activities,
clubs or associations and your role within them. - Ensure that your submission is in PDF format and no more than 4
pages. - Submit your application + materials to [email protected]
before the application deadline on May 8, 2023, at midnight. - Contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
2023 Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award For Community Engagement | Design
The ECUAA award recognizes students who place community at the centre of their creative practice, stand for a purpose that is bigger than themselves, and explore that which benefits others. The Emily Carr Alumni Association advocates for and celebrates alumni from all programs, years, and disciplines. We encourage dynamic relationships with past, present, and future members of the Emily Carr University Community.
The award will rotate annually between visual arts, media and design. The award value also varies year to year.
Eligibility: · Applicants must be fourth-year Design students participating in The Show online graduation exhibition. · The work(s)/project will be exhibited in The Show online graduation exhibition.
Criteria:
The applying student is: currently using visual arts as a function within community building, engagement, or activism.
and/or their work explores, discusses, embraces or demonstrates community or the goals of community engagement and social discourse. The successful applicant can demonstrate active participation within community throughout their studies at Emily Carr.
Applicants will have volunteer/service experience over the course of their undergraduate studies at Emily Carr. This could include volunteering in the greater community, at the university, developing or participating in a club, or serving as a student representative.
Application Requirements: Please Include –
a statement of 500 words describing your current design practice and work. (You may wish to add where you hope to take your practice in the future.) Consider: your views on engagement, the role of the artist, how your work or practice is involved with social discourse, and/or the building or betterment of community.
if applicable, include images of your work, project or community practice in action; any support material produced for project/event; and documentation of work/process.
Include a list of your volunteer and/or service activities, clubs or associations and your role within them.
Format *Submissions must be in PDF format of no more than 4 pages. Your submission must include the 500 word written statement described in the criteria above.
EMILY CARR ALUMNI GRADUATION AWARD APPLICATION FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Name:___________________________________________ Major:___________________________________________ Email: ___________________________________________
Student #:________________________ Year: ___________________________ Phone: __________________________
Project Name: ________________________________________________________________________
¨ If I am the successful applicant, I agree to have my name/project info released to the donor + ECUAA ¨ If I am the successful applicant, I agree to have my name/project published on the Emily Carr websites ¨ If I am the successful applicant, I agree to write or have written, My Emily Carr Story in 100 words or
less for the Alumni Association to share with alumni and future alumni and the greater ECU community
Submit your application + materials to [email protected]. The application deadline is May 8, 2023 at midnight.
Contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
