From the Scout inbox this evening, we bring you some heavy news in the form of a press release from the Emily Carr Studioshop…

We are sad to announce the closure of [the Emily Carr Studioshop] – it has been a great year with many successes, but budgetary constraints alongside the current economic slow-down means that studioshop is not viable at this time. We thank everyone for their support and look forward to the potential of starting it up again at some point in the future.

Major bummer. I loved this place. From a previous Scout post:

Studioshop carries clothing, artwork and crafts produced by the best and brightest that Emily Carr has to offer. Stay ahead of the masses with design sense that won’t hit the mainstream until next Christmas. Not only will anything you buy here be on the cutting edge of hip – your purchase will help out a starving art student as well. Talk about good karma!

The Studioshop website will remain up and running until the store closes (January 9th), after which it will list links to each studioshop artist’s individual website where possible so that interested shoppers can still “check out some of the rad stuff that is coming out of [Emily Carr student] studios”.

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Michelle Sproule grew up in Kitsilano and attended Bond University in Australia and the University of Victoria before receiving her graduate degree in Library Sciences from The University of Toronto. She lives by the beach in Vancouver and enjoys wandering aimlessly through the city’s shops and streets with her best friend – a beat up, sticky, grimy, and uncooperative camera.

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