New Adventures in Design, Media & Visual Arts
The Show at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2017 edition
One of the biggest art events in the city every spring, THE SHOW is the annual opportunity for graduating students (both Bachelor and Master degree programs) at Emily Carr University of Art & Design to showcase their work. This year’s exhibition of THE SHOW includes more than 300 works from graduates across the university’s Design, […]
Eastside Culture Crawl: A Photo Essay
Artists on Vancouver's Eastside open their studios to the public for the 20th Culture Crawl
Photos by Christin Herrmann An ambitious project to give exposure to Strathcona-based artists 20 years ago, The Eastside Culture Crawl has turned into one of Vancouver’s most loved annual arts events. VANDOCUMENT photographer Christin Herrmann roamed this year’s Crawl, which has grown beyond the borders of Strathcona proper from Railtown in the north, south to […]
On Life , Art and Business
An Interview with Artist Ricky Alvarez of Tinto Creative
Words and Photos by Kaitlen Arundale Ricky Alvarez is a local installation artist and the creative director of Tinto Creative, a company he started not long after relocating to Vancouver. I met Ricky at his large studio which felt unlike any other Vancouver back alley studio I have seen to date. It was bright and […]
Like Us. Vancouver Art Book Fair Delivers Much More
Zines. Books. Mags. Sales. Talks. Swag. Tarot readings and paying off student loans. Plus an elevator handstand performance.
Photography by Lukas Engelhardt Free and open to the public, VA/BF is the only international art book fair in Canada and one of only two on the West Coast. In 2015 the event is anticipated to attract nearly 5,000 visitors from across the Greater Vancouver Area and beyond. Presented by Project Space, VA/BF is a […]
Wildlife Igniters, Peek A Boo, and the Glacier in the Main Ring
In Dreams group show at Astro Turf gets big Art Waste support
Ash Tanasiychuk photos Oh yeah! Art Waste! My pics from massive group show In Dreams at Astro Turf Massive group show as part of Art Waste 2015 edition. Featuring artists: Olga Abeleva Frances Breden & Emma Lowther The Bush Collective Paul Carr Tanya Crail Natalie Crema Aisha Davidson Caton Diab Grace Eakins Rebecca Dueck & […]
Cultivating Equilibrium
Opening Night at Unit/Pitt
Photo-documentation by Corie Waugh The artists, Patrick Campbell and Madison Killo, have been successful in transforming the gallery of Unit/Pitt into a new space for their exhibition, Cultivating Equilibrium, by recontextualizing the Bloedel Conservatory. “Madison Killo and Patrick Campbell transform the gallery space into an immersive, non-site recontextualization of what is known in the rhetoric of […]
Dusk Dances Dazzle in Downtown’s Portside Park
Feeding the cultural vibrancy of the city
Words by Jen Dunford, Edits + Photos by Kendra Archer, Edits by Kaylin Metchie With festival season upon us, there is never a dull moment in Vancouver’s city parks. The weekend of July 4-6 was no exception with the 20th national anniversary of Dusk Dances, an eclectic outdoor dance festival that features a fusion of […]
SPATIAL POETICS XIII: WeMix
Vancouver’s thirteen-year tradition of artistic mash-up plays to a packed house at The Western Front.
This marks the 13th consecutive year of Spatial Poetics, a celebration of cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration that heralds the beginning of the annual Powell Street Festival. For more than a decade, this event has mashed-up local artists of diverse interests, approaches, and specializations to create new works based on the adventure inherent in the seemingly happenstance […]
Seeking Communion
A journey through faith and healing
Words by Brit Bachmann At first glance, Tyler Hagan’s In The Similkameen is a homecoming for those from the British Columbia Interior. We are situated geographically in a place through his landscape photography, where scree slopes meet agriculture, where horses are left to gnaw on fence posts, and where the nearest gas station is at […]
Permanent Deviation
Happy accidents and the transformative power of coding
Written by Barbara Adler Interview conducted by Barbara Adler, video recorded and edited by Harley Spade On March 14th, a new, interactive public artwork will launch at VIVO Media Arts. Permanent Deviation is an online project that allows the public to create artworks using computer code. The launch party will feature public coding stations connected […]