{"id":36,"date":"2021-05-11T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indigenousintensive\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:57:33","slug":"exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indigenousintensive\/exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions and Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2025 Exhibition: Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
Peter Morin, \u00a0Nicole Neidhardt and Justine Woods<\/span><\/div>\n
May 28- August 19<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Performance: Peter Morin<\/h6>\n
May 27 11am-4pm FINA Gallery UBC Okanagan<\/a><\/h6>\n
Opening: May 28 5-7pm FINA Gallery UBC Okanagan<\/a><\/h6>\n

In this exhibition, a basket is a container for knowledge, made from futuristic silver reflective mylar in Nicole Neidhardt’s work. This vessel\u2019s coils can become a portal between the networked land and us. A three-channel video installation by Peter Morin traces a single line in the skin over and through becoming an embodied trail connecting ancestors and bodies of rivers and time. While in Justine Wood’s work a still image is a record of time spent with and on the land imbued with careful garments designed to honour and \u00a0harvest. All works reflect a commitment to deeply relational knowledges between people and territories that manifest in world making creative responses.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Inquiries Circle (IIC) \u00a0<\/a>International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). May 13-17<\/h5>\n

This program features a collaboration with the Indigenous Art Intensive presenting two public talks Wed. May 14th (see Programs and Events) as well as a program for IIC members in partnership with the Institute of Community Engaged Research<\/a> and En’owkin Centre.<\/a>This program\u00a0draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.<\/em><\/p>\n

Troubling Colonial Knowledge and Building Kinship Networks<\/a> May 28-31<\/b><\/div>\n

This symposium will bring together Risk-Takers and Trouble Makers from Indigenous and diverse BIPOC Ancestries to think, create, and dream alongside one another about the practice of troublemaking and how troubling knowledge helps the collective to transform. This program\u00a0draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Indigenous Art Intensive Workshops and Exhibitions 2023<\/h4>\n

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Invisible Forces:<\/em> Krystle Silverfox and Tiffany Shaw<\/a><\/h4>\n

You are on Syilx Territory<\/em><\/h4>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s National Gallery exhibition will be shown for the first time in Western Canada in Invisible Forces. Tiffany Shaw is a M\u00e9tis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta, whose work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and multiple public art commissions including Edmonton\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Public Art Collection.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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FEEled Lab presents Water + Fire<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Join artist and educator Michelle Sound for a beadwork and tufting workshop at Alternator Gallery May 21 1-3pm<\/a><\/h5>\n

Join us on Sunday, May 21st from 1:00-3:00PM\u00a0for a beadwork and tufting workshop with Cree and M\u00e9tis visual artist and educator Michelle Sound.<\/span>Taking place at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, this two hour hands on and interactive workshop explores Sounds\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

Registration is required to attend this free workshop. Please email Ryan Trafananko, UBC Okanagan Gallery Curatorial Assistant, ryan.trafananko@ubc.ca<\/a>to register.<\/p>\n

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Michelle Sound, Aunties That Do<\/em>, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art Opening reception on May 19, 6-8pm<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Exhibition Archives:<\/h4>\n
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Defrag editions, Whess Harman, 2021.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lossy: How to Save File for Future Transmission<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>Whess Harman. June 11 to September 11, 2021<\/p>\n

Curated by Stacey Koosel<\/p>\n

Whess Harman\u2019s ongoing Potlatch Punk <\/em>series explores broader themes of homage, memory, identity and more specifically celebrates Indigenous identity, resistance, visibility, and interrogations of wealth.<\/p>\n

As Potlatch Punk <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

Read more about Whess Harman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Earth is my Elder<\/strong><\/em>, Krista Arias. May 12 to 28, 2021<\/p>\n

Curated by Toby Lawrence
\nThe Earth is my Elder\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n

View the work in the exhibition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mobile Indigenous Art Intensive Gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Being Out On the Land: Feeds, Streams and Captures<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Three Indigenous artist\u2019s video works will screen inside a unique mobile gallery, parked out front of the Rotary Centre for the Arts this spring and summer.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, Being Out On the Land: Feeds, Streams and Captures<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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