Charlotte's First Nations and Indigenous Studies Blog

The portrayal of Canadian residential schools in Indigenous art: Portrayal of Canadian residential schools in Indigenous art Methodology: I first conducted research on potential Indigenous artists from BC Susan Point Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Sonny Assu Jim Logan   Visited galleries and museum exhibitions Exhibitions Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at MOA http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/lawrence-paul/ Sonny Assu at the Vancouver Art Gallery https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_assu.html Susan Point at the Vancouver Art Gallery https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_point.html   Chose the artists whose work I would include in my work Choosing works (Example)   Analysed the selected works of art Visual Analysis (Example)   Conducted research on…read more

My Big Idea Project will be focusing on artistic portrayal of the social issues Indigenous peoples in Canada encounter on a daily basis as a long term result of European settler colonialism in North America. I will explore the works of Indigenous artists from British Columbia’s unceded territories, such as Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. I first discovered Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s work when visiting his exhibition Unceded Territories at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, when collecting information for a research paper. Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s work, for example, especially portrays the restrained Indigenous rights…read more

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