Emily Carr’s Shumka Centre is seeking qualified students to support visiting artists Lou Sheppard (Canada) and Laura Pold (Estonia Academy of Arts, Tallinn) and ECU faculty member Laura Kozak for the upcoming project, Tide Places. 

Tide Places responds to the ecological conditions of the intertidal zone in the eastern basin of False Creek Flats, drawing on histories of ecological and cultural erasure and rapid social change and mass construction. Through walks, site visits and social practice events, a number of artists, curators and graduate students working in Estonia and Vancouver will work in collaboration with Sheppard, Kozak and Pold in early 2025. 

We are seeking two qualified Student Research Assistants (RAs) to support planning, hosting/facilitation and documentation of this project. The ideal candidates will be interested in social practice and place-based practice, and will gain experience planning, hosting and facilitating artist-led events. Through this RAship, there will be an opportunity to contribute to the authorship of a publication or project archive. 

This call is open to students in all disciplines (graduate and undergrad years 3 and 4). Priority will be given to students whose research or practice is connected to this work.  

The role includes:  

• working collaboratively with ECU faculty member Laura Kozak and the Shumka Centre to plan and facilitate this project   
• assisting in preparing and facilitating social practice events and artist-led sessions such as walks, panel discussions, studio visits between January 20 and February 1, 2025 
• assisting in planning activities for visiting EKA students in late January 2025 
• contributing to documentation of the project through reflective writing, photography or other forms of documentation 

Details  

Dates: December 1, 2024 – March 1, 2025 

View the full call on The Leeway
Deadline to apply: 5PM on November 22, 2024 

This project is hosted by ECU’s Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Libby Leshgold Gallery, and made possible through the generous support of Peeter Wesik, with additional funding from Estonia Academy of Arts, Tallinn.