Sunday, April 15, 2007

Northwest Coast First Nations Lecture Series #1

Northwest Coast First Nations Lecture Series - (6:30 pm)
April 18, May 9, 23, Jun 13, Jul 4
West Vancouver Museum, $10/lecture, 25/3 lectures or $40/5 lectures
A series of talks on the artistic expressions and cultural traditions of Northwest Coast First Nations. Webreg available starting in April. Individual course no. 387417, 387467, 387468, 387469 & 387424 & 387470 for the series and 387472 for any 3 lectures.

April 18 Insight / Incite: Three First Nations Artists Working Tradition Here and Now - Marianne Nicolson, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Art at the University of British Columbia, was a co-curator of Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada in 1992 and has curated exhibitions of work by Yuxweluptun and Rebecca Belmore for the Belkin Gallery at UBC. She has written extensively about contemporary First Nations art, most recently ‘Rebecca Belmore and James Luna on Location at Venice: The Allegorical Indian Redux’ for the journal Art History. She is currently editing with Ron Hamilton and Jennifer Kramer, The Construction of Northwest Coast Native Art: An Anthology.

May 9
Sharon M Fortney, Guest Curator, Ph. D Candidate in Anthropology, University of British Columbia

May 23
Dr. Jennifer Kramer (Curator of the Pacific Northwest, Museum of Anthropology; Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia). The talk is bout Xwa lack tun's career and his involvement with Salish and Kwakwakwa'wakw styles of art.

June 13
Karen Duffek, Curator Pacific Northwest & Contemporary Visual Arts, UBC Museum of Anthropology

July 4
Aaron Nelson-Moody, Artist, Squamish Nation

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