Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams, and Dancing Coyotes: Works from the Public Art Collection
January 5 - January 27
Free
UBC Okanagan Gallery is celebrating the new year by showcasing a new exhibition of Indigenous art, 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. Through printmaking, photography, carving and video, the exhibition brings together Indigenous artists who use their work to challenge social issues and pass on ancestral stories and knowledge.
The exhibition is curated by Tania Willard, director of the UBC Okanagan and Belkin Gallery and co-curated by curatorial assistant Ryan Trafananko with support from programming assistant Kelly Yuste. Visitors can expect to see new acquisitions of lens-based work from Michelle Sound, Taylor Baptiste, Krista Belle Stewart, and Nadya Kwandibens. The exhibit will also include contemporary printmaking and carving featuring Chief Henry Speck, Jim Johnny, Lyle Wilson, Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Trevor Angus, and Rupert and Barry Scow. These works from artists of different west coast nations were donated to the Public Art Collection last spring by Milton and Della McClaren.
Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams, and Dancing Coyotes: New Works from the Public Art Collection is on view at the FINA Gallery in the CCS Building on UBC Okanagan Campus. The exhibition is open weekdays from Monday, January 5 to Tuesday, January 27, from 9 am to 4 pm. Admission is free, and the exhibit is open to the general public.
