Dr. Ruth Beer

Emily Carr University of Art and Design - Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice

Ruth Beer’s trans-disciplinary artistic research is informed by the social sciences and humanities within the expanded field of contemporary art and media. Her SSHRC research and creation projects include "Catch & Release: Mapping Cultural and Geographic Transitions" with a focus of transformation of coastal communities, and "Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines" (2013-2018) addressing energy and environmental social justice through creative production and pedagogical encounters. Working with a variety of media, her artistic and research practice engages with issues of cultural and ecological impacts of resource industry expansion within Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in the northwest including the “Highway of Tears”. She is Professor of Visual Art and Material Practice and Assistant Dean of Research at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.