Announcing the 2022 Graduation Award Winners
Hive (2022). Cara Jacobsen (BMA)
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This year, 33 students received graduation awards in acknowledgement of their stellar work and accomplishments.
The Graduating Class of 2022 was one of the first groups in over two years to showcase their work in person to the broader public, including family and friends, at The Show, È«Ãñ²ÊƱ’s annual student exhibition. Despite COVID-19 delays, the graduating cohort of students persevered and honed in their creative process and craft. You can view their superb graduation artworks at The Show 2022, an online interactive platform spotlighting their versatile and stunning talents.
Our reputable judges confer fifty-seven graduation awards and honourable mentions to these students for their outstanding achievements. In total, 33 students received awards valued at $26,550 based on their works in The Show, their GPAs, or a combination of the two.
- Cara Jacobsen (BMA) won the Basically Good Media Lab Student Research Award for New Media and Sound Arts, Sophie Burnett Memorial Award, and The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Installation for their project,.
- Ana Lawrence (BDes) and Damian Oriak Rodriguez (BDes) jointly shared the Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award and a shared honourable mention for the Ecological Design Graduation Award for their project, .
- Giovanna Gowmez received the È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Media, and the President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 2D or Experimental Animation for their project, .
- Karl Mata Hipol won the Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award - BFA and an honourable mention for the È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts for their project
- Raven Hawthorne received the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts and an honourable mention for the Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award - BFA for their project, .
- Taylor Shaw received the Vancouver Art Attack Award and an honourable mention for the È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts for their project, .
- Sahali Tsang and Gigi Lui jointly shared the Ecological Design Graduation Award for their project, Embracing the Discarded.
- Elaine Wang and Jingzhou Li jointly shared the John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design for their project, .
We are incredibly grateful for our donors who make it possible to offer many of our awards in support of emerging artists.
Selections were made by juries comprised of industry experts, curators and art collectors. We thank our eminent jurors and everyone who assisted in the awards process. View the full list of honorees below.
2022 Graduation Award Winners + Honourable Mentions
Master of Design + Bachelor of Design
DESIS Radical Sustainability Award
Award Recipient
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Honourable Mention
Ecological Design Graduation Award
Honourable Mention
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Design | Award Recipient
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Health Design Award for Innovation
Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Design | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Design | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design | Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design | Honourable Mention
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Awards for Excellence in Design | Honourable Mention
WA Architects Ltd Master of Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
The Wood Co-Op/Forestry Innovation Investment in Wood Design Industrial Design Graduation Award | Award Recipient
(BDes)
chaos & capability
Sahali Tsang (BDes)
Embracing the Discarded
Gigi Lui (BDes)
Embracing the Discarded
(BDes)
Siembra
(BDes)
Siembra
(BDes)
DIM SUM COLLECTIVE
(BDes)
WayLiight
(BDes)
Slice of Touch
(BDes)
Slice of Touch
(BDes)
Bahay Natin (Our House)
(BDes)
Bahay Natin (Our House)
(BDes)
HILOS
(MDes)
The ∞ chair
(BDes)
Siembra
(BDes)
Siembra
(BDes)
Genderloop
Bachelor of Media Arts
Basically Good Media Lab Graduation Award
Award Recipient
Sophie Burnett Memorial Award
Award Recipient
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Media | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Media Arts | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 3D Computer Animation | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in 2D or Experimental Animation
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in Film/Live Action | Award Recipient
The President’s Media Awards for Excellence – Best in New Media/Sound Arts | Award Recipient
(BMA)
Hive
(BMA)
Hive
(BMA)
Stop And Go
(BMA)
i see me watching
(BMA)
Take A Byte
(BMA)
Take A Byte
(BMA)
Take a Byte
(BMA)
Stop and Go
(BMA)
CANTO VI
(BMA)
Vector Horizon (demo)
Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Visual Arts | Award Recipient
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
È«Ãñ²ÊƱ Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice – Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient
John C. Kerr Chancellor Emeritus Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Landon Mackenzie Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Landon Mackenzie Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
(BFA)
Colonial Comfort, 2022
(BFA)
BALIK-TANAW
(BFA)
walang pamagat
(BFA)
Inter-Connected, Disability Social Practice Artist, Neuro- Divergent Writer, and Community Organizer
(BFA)
Stress Memos // Expertise in Salads
(BFA)
The Here and The Now
(BFA)
Printmaking & Collage: A Study of Multiples and Intersections
(BFA)
Curiosity Grown
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA
Honourable Mention
Opus Art Supplies Graduation MFA
Award Recipient
Opus Art Supplies Graduation MFA
Honourable Mention
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Award Recipient
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Honourable Mention
Mary Plumb Blade Award
Honourable Mention
The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography | Award Recipient
The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography | Honourable Mention
The Chick Rice Award for Excellence in Photography | Honourable Mention
Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Renée Van Halm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Award Recipient
Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts | Honourable Mention
Judith Warren Painting Award
Award Recipient
Judith Warren Painting Award
Honourable Mention
Judith Warren Painting Award
Honourable Mention
(BFA)
BALIK-TANAW
(BFA)
Who do you belong to?
(BFA)
Stress Memos // Expertise in Salads
(MFA)
Making Room for Resonance
(MFA)
Shelter in Paint: a portrait of an empty house
(BFA)
Intergenerational Radio
(BFA)
Recent Paintings
(BFA)
Evocation of Emotion
(BFA)
Staging Nature
(BFA)
What is "Home?"
(BFA)
DECOMMISSION
(BFA)
bleaching my teeth, 2022
(BFA)
The rocks took a nap, and our whole lives flashed by
(BFA)
behind the seens
(BFA)
walang pamagat
(BFA)
Charm Bracelet, 2022
(MFA)
Construction
(BFA)
Recent Paintings
(BFA)
In the Face of It
(BFA)
Distortion as Realism