Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams and Dancing Coyotes Exhibition Opening Reception

Join us for an opening reception to celebrate UBC Okanagan Gallery’s latest exhibition, Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams and Dancing Coyotes: New Works from the Public Art Collection.

The exhibition celebrates new donations and acquisitions to UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection over the past year and focuses on contemporary Indigenous printmaking and lens-based practices that explore the relationship of photography to land and culture by Indigenous women. Visitors can expect to see new acquisitions of lens-based work from Michelle Sound, Taylor Baptiste, Krista Belle Stewart and Nadya Kwandibens. The exhibit also includes contemporary printmaking and carvings featuring Chief Henry Speck, Jim Johnny, Lyle Wilson, Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Trevor Angus and Rupert and Barry Scow. These prints and carvings from artists of different west coast nations were donated to the Public Art Collection last spring by Milton and Della McClaren.

The opening reception will take place from 4 to 6 pm at the FINA Gallery in the CCS Building. The curators of the exhibition, Tania Willard and Ryan Trafananko, will be on hand to connect with visitors and answer questions about the exhibition. This event is free and open to the general public. Light refreshments will be served.