The Audain Travel Award
The Audain Travel Award was established in 2019 to carve new pathways for student artists by supporting access to career-enriching international art experiences. Five $7,500 awards are granted annually, each to a young artist enrolled in a full-time visual arts program at the undergraduate or graduate level. The Awards are supported by the Audain Foundation and presented by our partners from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Okanagan, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Faculty are responsible for their own selection process and eligible students are encouraged to contact their school administrators for more information about the award.Recipients
Noor Abouchehade
Simon Fraser University
Noor’s work currently explores Arabfuturism and the diasporic condition through modes of divination, soothsaying and fortune-telling practices as methods of deciphering and speculating about pasts, presents and futures.
Caitlin Ffrench
Emily Carr School of Art & Design
Caitlin Ffrench’s practice examines the anthropogenic connections between disappearing landscapes and the idea of solistalgia, or grief for the dying world.
Tiffany Law
University of British Columbia
Tiffany Law is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. The MFA program is dedicated to helping students understand both the making and theorizing of art against the background of the diverse intellectual environment of a major university, and within the context of local and international art communities.
Nicole Mandryk
University of Victoria
Nicole Mandryk is an emerging Anishinaabe and Irish contemporary beader. Beadwork is a means of connecting Nicole to her Anishinaabe culture and her work is inspired by stories, animals and the land.
Victoria Verge
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Victoria Verge is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is grounded in analysing the effects of military service on its soldiers and their families through research and reflection of her own upbringing as a military child.