This course centers around a Community Based Engaged Learning component (CBEL). We will be working with local galleries, diverse art centres, artists and alternative collectives as a way to transform learned theory to praxis. This experience aims to extend awareness of the impact culture and artistic practice has on society, the role of the artist, and how it is influenced and delivered within the community.
This course serves to give insight on applying degree skills learned to this point to real world practice, witnessing the type of impact and role of the arts in society first hand. This class works with a wide range of partnership institutions in the Vancouver contemporary art community to facilitate this engagement. You will be connected to one of our partners and involved in a specialized project(s) at that specific institution.
We are very lucky to live in a city with an active art community, where openings, events, talks and exhibitions are happening all the time – and, while it is conveniently local, Vancouver-based art is recognized on an international scale. I encourage you to not only become a part of the institution you are partnering with, but also open up to what your colleagues are doing within their institutions and events.
The 13 partnerships for 2016 are:
- Access Gallery – Kimberly Phillips, Director/Curator
- New Media Gallery – Sarah Joyce & Gordon Duggan, Director/Curator and Kristina Fiedrich, Arts Programmer
- Art/Seen, Klara Manhal, President
- Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) – Chantal Sullivan, Program Manager
- Contemporary Art Gallery – Shaun Dacey, Curator and Holly Schmidt, Assistant Curator
- Helen Reed & Hannah Jickling, Artist duo
- Grunt Gallery Don Pon, Archives Manager
- Other Sights – Barbara Cole, Executive Director
- Presentation House Gallery – Vanessa Sorenson, Development & Communications Manager
- Scott Massey, Artist
- Vancouver Art Book Fair – Tracy Stefanucci, Director
- VIVO Media Arts Centre – Karen Knights, Archive Committee Chair
- Wil Aballe Art Projects (WAAP) – Wil Aballe, Owner/Director