Collective Description Team
Beth Howe is Associate Professor, Print Media, in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is a practising artist with a focus on printmaking, drawing, artist’s books, and digital/analogue intersections. Her work is often produced in collaboration with others and is primarily concerned with how humans perceive and understand land and landscape through our architectures, technologies, stories, images, materials, and selves. Exhibitions and projects within the last five years include ‘Cloth Culture’ (Lake Country Art Gallery, BC), ‘Stitching and Weaving in the Digital Age’ at Currents New Media Festival (Currents 826, Sante Fe), ‘Prinstallations’ (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA), and ‘Iona’, (Shunpike Storefronts Public Art Projects, Seattle, WA). Her prints and bookworks are in a variety of collections such as the Auchenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and BIG INK: an organization dedicated to large-scale woodblock printing. Beth and Diyan Apreviously collaborated on a SSHRC SIG Grant Robots + Rembrandt: Technological and Archival Research in Printmaking in 2018-19.
http://www.beth-howe.com/ @emelar.editions / @daylight_in_the_vault
Ana Diab is the Collections, Reference + Instruction Librarian at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an Instructor at Langara College in the Library and Information Technology Program. She has a Masters in Library and Information Studies degree from the University of Western Ontario. Her research on exploring creative ways of using comics and artists’ books to teach critical information literacy has been published by Library Juice Press and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Her creative practice involves tapestry weaving, printmaking, and contemporary dance, and explores themes of climate change and labour. Her weavings are featured in the Fire Season 2 booklet and on exhibition this summer at Legacy Gallery in Victoria, BC and at Varley Gallery in Markham, ON.
Kristy Waller (she/her) has worked as the archivist at Emily Carr University of Art + Design since 2019. She holds a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia’s Archival Studies program. Her primary work has been with non-textual records, specifically audiovisual materials, and artists’ records. She has focused on projects that centre Community Archives and collaboration in the digitization, preservation, management, and accessibility of AV materials, photographs and ephemera. From 2018 to 2024 she taught a course on non-textual and audiovisual records at the UBC iSchool.
Research Assistants
Marina Morrison (she/her) is a third year Visual Arts Major and began her degree at UBC from 2019-2021 and then transferred to Emily Carr University of Art + Design in January 2023. Most recently, her interests have expanded to bookmaking and sound compositions; but what remains constant is her enjoyment of artful volunteering and gathering materials from neighbours and the paper recycling bins at the school. Marina makes work that does not disturb the neighbours, but it is with hope that she can make louder and larger works when she has a space to do so.
Rina Reyes is based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh Nations, and is an interdisciplinary student artist at Emily Carr University with an interest in collecting magazines, zines, and artists’ books. They are currently exploring art and text research topics, as well as through expanded printmaking studio practise as part of a BA in Fine Arts. Other interests of include curatorial practises such as exhibition design, and communication design practises in book and print.
Jillian Gordon is a white, cis-woman who currently resides on the unceded territories of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is a student in her final semester of the Master of Library and Information Studies program at the University of British Columbia and holds a BA in English Literature from the same university.
Eavan McNeil