The Audain Travel Award

Supported by the Audain Foundation and administered 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, the Audain Travel Award provides $7,500 to young artists enrolled in a full-time fine arts program at the undergraduate or graduate level, to encourage travel to view art.  A total of five awards are available annually with one student selected from each of our partnering institutions. 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.