Fine Arts Department Chair
Milos Campbell
Milos Campbell began her art education at Langara College where she was inspired by ceramics and printmaking. She continued her education with a BFA from Emily Carr, BEd from UBC, culminating with a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary and Master Printer training at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, both in the area of Lithography.
Milos has taught Art in Secondary and Post-Secondary Schools as well as worked as a Master Printer in Lithography. She has exhibited her lithographic work in exhibitions in Holland, Japan, U.S.A., and Canada. Milos’ work is the product of her contemplation of ceramic and lithographic histories, and visual interpretations of nature. The qualities of the lithographic process augment her work, enhancing the sensual interplay of the forms created. Vessel and shell forms are the vehicle that expresses peoples inherent longing; to belong and to be loved. It is about the sensual serenade, the intimate touch, and the stable foundation.
Elizabeth Milton (she/they) is a mixed European settler artist who lives and works on the traditional, unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ First Nations. Her media and performance-based work utilizes absurdist character-play and camp materiality to explore affect and identity. Through hyperbolic expressivity, comedic excess and processes of endurance, Milton examines the performative potential of maximalist femininity, novelty store glamour and the garish refuse of commercial culture.
Milton holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of British Columbia and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University. Her work has been exhibited and performed in Canada, The United States and Europe.
https://www.elizabethmilton.com
Aurora Landin
Aurora Landín received a Diploma of Art and Design from Red Deer College, a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Washington State University. In addition to a long working association with galleries and other arts organizations, she has taught in a number of institutions, including the Alberta College of Art and Design (now AUArts), and the University of Manitoba, U of Calgary and U of Lethbridge. A recipient of various grants and awards, her work has been shown and collected through numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Italy and Poland.
Aaron Nelson-Moody / Tawx’sin Yexwulla (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh)
For the last 20 years, Aaron Nelson-Moody / Tawx’sin Yexwulla (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) has been focused on the revitalization of classic Coast Salish art forms and traditions including wood and stone carving, drum making and singing. He also works with newer media including; graphic design, jewelry engraving, repousse & silversmithing; and blacksmithing and tool making.
His projects have ranged from large housepost carving to small canoes, and has always involved sharing his teachings in the Aboriginal community and in public schools.
Stephanie Aitken
Stephanie Aitken completed her MFA at The University of Victoria. Her ongoing project considers B.C.’s coastal landscapes in relation to the bodies of humans and animals and regional modes of abstraction. Past solo exhibitions include Breathing Machines and Savary Island and Mexico City Watercolours at Field Contemporary in Vancouver. Multi-person exhibitions include Black Diamond Dust at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, The Drama of Perception at Deluge Contemporary in Victoria, B.C., Autumn Almanac at Paul Kyle Gallery, Vancouver, and Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Painting at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Stephanie’s work has been written about and published in The Walrus, Canadian Art, The Vancouver Review, The Vancouver Sun, C Magazine and Border Crossings. Stephanie's upcoming book How To Make a Painting will be published in 2025.
Steve Hubert:
Steve Hubert makes paintings, sculptures, drawings, video, and theatrical presentations. He has exhibited extensively, with work included in collections across Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and Europe. Interests include history, current events, pop culture, the internet, music, design, architecture, and surprise. Some themes: the precarity of individual expression, the theatricality of studio activities, stories that collapse under their own regurgitative weight, hope for today, improvisation.
Alwyn O’Brien
Alwyn O’Brien is and ceramic artist and educator dividing her time between Saltspring Island and Vancouver, B.C. She studied ceramics at Sheridan College of Crafts and Design in Ontario and completed her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She received her MFA in 2010 from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NWCF award and the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Her work is featured in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Surrey Art Gallery, Boise Museum of Art, the Mackenzie Art Gallery, and the Canadian Clay and Glass museum. She is currently an instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C.
Philip Robbins
Philip is an educator, practitioner and researcher holding a Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art (London), a Bachelor of Education from The University of British Columbia, and a Diploma in Fine Art (Honors) from The Emily Carr Institute.
His research interests examine the place of digital media within the practical, hands-on and sustainable opportunities of Maker cultures and their relationship to developing circular economies. Previously, Philip was the co-founder of Material Matters, a research centre within Emily Carr University exploring the implications of emergent modes of fabrication and the intersection of the handmade and the digitally crafted.
He is the recipient of numerous industry partnered Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grants, National Research Council (NRC) grants, has collaborated on multiple Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research projects, and r
received a broad range of Public Art commissions.
Helena Wadsley
Helena Wadsley is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice involves textiles, drawing, painting, and video. She has an MFA in Painting. Her work considers knowledge systems such as science and literature to identify entrenched attitudes about gender that marginalize the ‘other’ while using craft techniques as a way of drawing traditional women’s labour into the vernacular of contemporary art.
She has participated in residencies in Iceland, Finland, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Morocco, the Dominican Republic and the Yukon. Her work has been exhibited in five continents, and recently in France, Latvia, London, UK, Glasgow, New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Orlando, Korea, Greece, and Canada. She is a current recipient of a Canada Council research and creation grant and travel grant.
Phone: 604.323.5511 ext. 2545
Office: B007
Email: swebster@langara.ca
Suzi Webster
Suzi Webster is a contemporary artist whose work explores technology, being and the body. Interdisciplinary in nature, Suzi’s responsive sculptural pieces investigate intersections between object and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context, public and private, in a critical way.
Suzi’s work has been exhibited and published internationally in museums and galleries including Fact, Liverpool; Science Gallery, Dublin; Mode Museum, Belgium; Museum of Science and Technology, Newcastle. Webster’s work has been commissioned as part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Webster completed an MFA Media at the Slade in London, UK. She is currently working on Being Human with Aaron Nelson Moody.
www.suziwebster.org
Pat Vera
Pat Vera is a LatinX mestiza architect, designer, researcher, and educator with extensive multidisciplinary professional practice in South America and Canada. Pat's work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems.
Her work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action,
embodying a commitment to promote sustainable and inclusive futures. Her current research Is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a doctoral fellowship, and it focuses on the incorporation of Indigenous Practice Research, introducing new and re-emergent technologies and the application of systems thinking in design to address ecological and social challenges. She holds a master’s in interdisciplinary design from Emily Carr University and is currently a PhD candidate in Design and Social Context at RMIT University in collaboration with Parsons School of Design in NYC. Pat also teaches courses in design and critical studies at Emily Carr University and is the recent recipient of the Ian Wallace award for Teaching Excellence.
Natalie Purschwitz
Natalie Purschwitz is an artist living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ First Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. Her research draws on modes of making that include collecting, accumulating, arranging, editing, and writing. She is curious about the ways that environments are shaped by humans and nonhumans, through systems of organization, networks of support, and ruptures within these systems. By reconfiguring everyday objects and elemental substances, Purschwitz creates conditions for material events. Her work incorporates a range of media including sculpture, installation, video, performance, photography and drawing. She has a parallel practice designing costumes and sets for contemporary dance and theatre.
Purschwitz has shown her work nationally and internationally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver, BC), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, MB), the Japanese Canadian National Museum (Burnaby, BC), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleingburg, ON), the Prince Takamato Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Canada House (London, UK), AGX Galerie (Tehran, Iran) and most recently, Artspeak (Vancouver, BC).
Gloria Jue-Youn Han
Gloria Jue-Youn Han is a ceramic artist whose art investigates how traditions are preserved and transformed by diasporic peoples. She earned her BFA from Emily Carr University, MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and studies traditional Korean ceramics under Master Potter Jung-Hong Kim and Sylvia Kim.
In her practice she contemplates what it means to receive as a descendant, and to give as a future ancestor through pottery, sculpture, writing, and tool making. In March 2024, she was awarded the NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowship through which she is currently exploring the ways that her practice has evolved to hold the strength, love, and tenderness required to be an artist, teacher, traditional knowledge learner, and friend.
Scott Kemp
Scott Kemp received an MFA from Northwestern University and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at Afternoon Projects and Unit 17 in Vancouver, and at the Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois. Scott was a co-founder of the non-profit art space Duplex Artists Society in 2015.
Rita Yip
The Task Juggler and Clay Connoisseur. Rita's artistic journey began at Langara College, where her love for ceramics took root. After receiving her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, she started on a creative journey that led her to the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. As an alumnus of the Fine Arts Program, Rita brings her passion, experience and a touch of whimsy in supporting the department and the next generation of artistic minds.
Will Morrison
Will is a designer and craftsman whose work is focused primarily on contemporary furniture and lighting. His furniture has been exhibited at the annual Vancouver Interior Design and Address Assembly shows. The objects he creates explore the tension between functional and experimental. Using traditional craftsmanship and modern technology, Will seeks to imagine something which has never existed; yet has the familiarity and warmth of a good memory.
Will is a certified Red Seal Machinist who went on to study Fine Art and Architecture, later graduating with bachelor’s degree with honors in Environmental Design from the University of British Columbia.