2024 Workshops and Public Events
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Indigenous Art Intensive Workshops and Exhibitions 2023
Invisible Forces: Krystle Silverfox and Tiffany Shaw
You are on Syilx Territory
UBC Okanagan Gallery and the Indigenous Art Intensive are proud to open two exciting exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous art, Invisible Forces with works by Krystle Silverfox and Tiffany Shaw, and You are on Syilx Territory with works from UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection by Sheldon Louis, Coralee Miller, David Wilson and Manuel Axel Strain, both exhibitions will open with a public reception on Wednesday June 7th at the FINA Gallery on UBC Okanagan campus.
Yukon based, Selkirk First Nation artist Krystle Silverfox was recently shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award (2022) with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa. Artworks from Silverfox’s National Gallery exhibition will be shown for the first time in Western Canada in Invisible Forces. Tiffany Shaw is a Métis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta, whose work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and multiple public art commissions including Edmonton’s Indigenous Art Park, will reinterpret an ongoing series of work that was recently shown at the Surrey Art Gallery and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
You are on Syilx Territory is an exhibition that contains paintings by celebrated Syilx painters, Sheldon Louis, Coralee Miller, David Wilson and Manuel Axel Strain that are part of UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection.
Invisible Forces and You are on Syilx Territory are both curated by Dr. Stacey Koosel, UBC Okanagan Gallery curator and Indigenous Art Intensive co-ordinator.
FEEled Lab presents Water + Fire
Join artist and educator Michelle Sound for a beadwork and tufting workshop at Alternator Gallery May 21 1-3pm
Join us on Sunday, May 21st from 1:00-3:00PM for a beadwork and tufting workshop with Cree and Métis visual artist and educator Michelle Sound.Taking place at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, this two hour hands on and interactive workshop explores Sounds’ vibrant creative practice and cultural knowledges. This event is a part of the Indigenous Arts Intensive in collaboration with UBC Okanagan Gallery and The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
Registration is required to attend this free workshop. Please email Ryan Trafananko, UBC Okanagan Gallery Curatorial Assistant, ryan.trafananko@ubc.cato register.
Exhibitions 2023
Exhibition Archives:
Lossy: How to Save File for Future Transmission, Whess Harman. June 11 to September 11, 2021
Curated by Stacey Koosel
Whess Harman’s ongoing Potlatch Punk series explores broader themes of homage, memory, identity and more specifically celebrates Indigenous identity, resistance, visibility, and interrogations of wealth.
As Potlatch Punk grew in demand, Whess Harman experienced the jackets taking on a life of their own, from requests to purchase, loan, exhibit and commissioning new works the role of the artist morphed from creator to caretaker. A shift was required from the slow process of the traditional handiwork of beading and sewing to digital-age, punk influenced DIY, while preserving the joy of creating and sharing works with a wider audience.
The Earth is my Elder, Krista Arias. May 12 to 28, 2021
Curated by Toby Lawrence
The Earth is my Elder is centred around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada.
View the work in the exhibition
Mobile Indigenous Art Intensive Gallery
Being Out On the Land: Feeds, Streams and Captures
Three Indigenous artist’s video works will screen inside a unique mobile gallery, parked out front of the Rotary Centre for the Arts this spring and summer. The iArt Gallery will present works by noted artists Maureen Gruben, Christine Howard Sandoval and Krista Belle Stewart, curated by UBC Okanagan Assistant professor Tania Willard.
The exhibition, Being Out On the Land: Feeds, Streams and Captures, is mounted in partnership with the Rotary Centre for the Arts and the Thompson Okanagan Tourist Association. The Rotary Centre for the Arts Galleria will also showcase Indigenous youth and emerging artists curated by BFA student and artist Maura Tamez.