September 25, 2018 Cool Cats Project The Cool Cats Project is a partnership between Cool Arts Society and the Okanagan Cat Coalition (OKCC). The project is aimed at increasing awareness about the estimated 18,000 feral cats living in the Central Okanagan. The OKCC assists by spaying and neutering cats, then re-homing or releasing them to live out their lives without perpetuating the overpopulation problem. Cool Arts... Follow
July 27, 2018 MFA thesis Exhibition – Tania Willard Anthro(a)pologizing Drawing from multiple anthropological sources that framed Secwepemc culture/language and governance my work explores specific sites of rupturing the ethnographic gaze. Citing ideas of refusal and Indigenous futurity to locate agency and land rights struggle within the possible readings of ethnographic subjects this body of work attempts to reassert naming, locating, negotiating and connecting to material culture and ethnographic... Follow
April 18, 2018 Objects in Suspension Meg Yamamoto is an MFA student at UBC Okanagan, completing her degree in the summer of 2018. Meg’s research explores the process of connecting to place through creating place-based art, particularly in the perspective of an artist surrounded by an unfamiliar environment. Her work looks at the various lifeforms observed in the Okanagan (both native and alien) and how they... Follow
March 21, 2018 Jo-Anne McArthur and We Animals Jo-Anne McArthur & We Animals Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning Canadian photojournalist and the founder of We Animals. For fifteen years, she has travelled the world, documenting our complex relationships with animals. We Animals images have been used by hundreds of organizations, publishers, and academics to advocate for animals. McArthur is a sought-after speaker and is the author of two... Follow