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Publishing date: Apr 18, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • After more than 40 years, Arts Umbrella has a spectacular new home on Granville Island. Award-winning Vancouver architect Richard Henriquez led the challenging renovation. Photo by Kevin Clark Studios /PNG
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“The new limitless,” Arts Umbrella’s imaginative motto, is not only a metaphor for transformative arts education for young people it also expresses the feeling of awe that the architectural redesign inspires inside the stunning light-infused building at Vancouver’s Granville Island.
Arts Umbrella moved into the building that previously housed the Emily Carr University of Art and Design on Granville Island, a former industrial area along the waterfront redeveloped in the 1970s Photo: Kevin Clark Studios
The official opening this month of Arts Umbrella’s new $27m 50,000 sq. ft home marks a milestone for arts education in Vancouver. It also cements Granville Island, a former industrial area along the waterfront redeveloped in the 1970s, as one of Canada’s most successful public spaces and cultural hubs.
Founded in 1979 by Carol Henriquez and Gloria Schwartz with a view to accommodating youth from all economic backgrounds, Arts Umbrella is now Canada’s largest visual and performing arts institute for young people serving 24,000 students annually. The organisation, which provides inter-disciplinary courses aimed at ages 2-22, moved into the building that once housed the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, originally designed
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