Originally born in Toronto, Lisa Anderson is currently studying Visual Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. Before attending ECUAD, Lisa had a career in the financial industry. During the pandemic, Lisa began creating surface designs for a print-on-demand fabric company, which inspired her to follow her dream of going to art school.

Lisa uses pattern in a conceptual way – to explore our connection with ourselves, other people and beings, material possessions, nature, and the world. Her compositions and distinctive mark making have been compared to crochet, knitting, tapestry, and wallpaper sample books. Strategically, these marks are one way to harmonize different ideas and patterns. Thematically, they reference some of her earliest art making experiences and inspiration.

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Sara Wiens is a current graduate student in the Ecological and Sustainable Practices MFA program at Emily Carr University.  She holds a BA in Studio Arts and a Bachelor of Art Education both from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her work is informed by rigorous academic pursuits paired with aesthetic projects focused on equity and accessibility of large ideas and aesthetics for all people. Seeking to understand local ecologies and their connection to wider global ecologies has been a stubborn passion.

Sara’s collection of mixed media paintings are based on the flight patterns of honeybees as they forage to and from their hives. The complexity of layered lines and colour patches in the artwork remind us that over time, the layers of different bee individuals overlap repeatedly to create an indispensable imprint on the survival of all species.

Jiaoyu Wu is a Vancouver-based visual artist whose practice centers on painting, memory, and lived experience. Her work explores the relationship between the body, nature, and emotion, often drawing from personal experience and quiet moments in everyday life. Through painting, she creates spaces of tenderness, reflection, and connection.

Rin Wanchen Yu is an illustrator working with graphite, pencil and oil painting. Deeply inspired by narrative illustration and film concept art. Her artistic practice is characterized by dream-like storytelling, softness, and strangeness. Rooted in her youth and further shaped by her studies in illustration and storytelling in North America, her work explores themes of loneliness, loss, displacement, and a state of in-betweenness. 

Etanda Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with paint who was born, lives,and creates on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, colonially referred to as Vancouver. She completed her BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2026. Elliott’s work is a synthesis of her appreciation for the mundane phenomena and objects of everyday life and for the formal and material qualities of paint and other media.

Brigitta Kocsis explores the space between representation and abstraction, creating hybrid glitched figures that investigate embodiment in technologically mediated environments. After studying at the Fine Arts Department of Concordia University, she earned her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver in 2005.

Her practice has evolved from large-scale multimedia installations and video art to a dedicated exploration of painting, which she has pursued since 2005. She is currently completing her MFA at ECUAD.

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Emilie Fantuz is a contemporary painter whose work investigates the fragmented nature of perception. Her practice explores the instability of the visual field through fractured spatial planes and layered visual structures that echo how we encounter our immediate surroundings.

Fantuz works from the remnants of optical phenomena by collecting streaks of light, reflections, shadows, and the artifacts of technological mediation to articulate a way of seeing that resists a singular viewpoint. Characterized by complex shifts in light, Fantuz employs a modified alla prima approach to construct her compositions. Her process reconfigures visual observations and image collage into a tangible interpretation of light and space. Using a palette knife, she introduces a tactility that positions painting as a site of slow, embodied perception.

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Anissa Peterson is an oil painter and printmaker completing her BFA at Emily Carr University. Working from observation, she explores the relationship between figure and space, seeking to creating intimate, honest portrayals of her subjects.

Hello! My name is Clara Vardal Bintner. I am a Visual arts major at Emily Carr University going into my fourth year. A lot of my work is in the illustration realm creating mainly mythical, folklore, creature, and character works. My whole life I’ve enjoyed drawing dragons, unicorns, and all things unique. My media consists of coloured pencils, pens, graphite, and utilizing the digital world to make my creatures come to life.  I am deeply inspired by animals, nature, and aesthetics such as cyberpunk, Norwegian cultures, the punk subcultures, realism, and cartoon styles.