Looking for some resources on how to navigate everything around the grad show? Fret not, we have you covered. Take a look at the list below.
Resources: Documentation
Please note digital photographic documentation of the entire exhibition is conducted by University Technical Staff for the Emily Carr Library Archive only. Graduating students are strongly encouraged to document their own work with their personal equipment. Media Resources can help students out with equipment – day loans only.
If you need help with documentation:
- You can read Alumni Relations’ comprehensive list on Best Practices of Documenting Your Work
- Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career + WIL Office’s How-to Document Your Work (Prepared with Yvonne Hachkowski, Photographer)
- Watch the following tutorial videos on how best to document your work: the first video shows the set-up with a DSLR camera, the second one demonstrates how to document your work with a cell phone.
Resources: Display
If you need help with how to display your work, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career + WIL Office’s How-to Display Your Work (Prepared with Yang Hong, Studio Technician). The shop technicians and your faculty are also here to support you, make sure you get in touch with them.
Resources: Sourcing Cheap Materials
If you need help with how to source things for cheap, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career + WIL Office’s How-to Find Materials for Cheap (Prepared with Laura Kozak, Sessional Faculty and Research Associate).
Resources: Community Building
If you need help with how to build community, you can read Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career + WIL Office’s
- How-to Display Your Work (Prepared with Shannon McKinnon, Director Career + WIL Office)
- How to Reach Out to People You Don’t Know
The Career + WIL Office and your faculty are also here to support you, and they do service alumni! Make sure you get in touch with them: coop@ecuad.ca
Resources: Pricing Work and/or Planning Your Next Steps
If you need help with how to price your artworks or starting a business,
- you can read Alumni Relations’ Guide to Pricing Your Work
- Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and Career + WIL Office’s How-to Price Your Work (Prepared with Wil Aballe, WAAP)
- How to Realize Your Next Great Business Idea (Prepared with Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber, League of Innovators).
- Shumka Centre also has talks on entrepreneurship that you can watch/listen.
- If a business is not what you’re looking for, you can also read about organizational models, or Co-ops By and for Artists and Designers.
- Alumni Relations and Career + WIL Office has Alumni Career Pathways talks if you’re looking for inspiration on what to do next and learn from your fellow alumni.
Resources: Insurance
If you are looking for insurance for Art and Artists, Alumni Relations has a comprehensive list you can browse.