Indigenous Art Intensive
UBC Okanagan’s Indigenous Art Intensive offers an educational series of courses, lectures, art shows, and opportunities to create art. It features a series of world-renowned speakers, a variety of related undergraduate and graduate credit courses, and a group of resident artists who will be working to create a new body of work.
Courses – May to June, 2024
Alongside the intensive residency, FCCS is offering additional courses in visual art, creative writing, and Indigenous studies. These will run in conjunction with the Indigenous Intensive with varying degrees of crossover, providing students the opportunity to connect with the keynote speakers and the resident artists. All courses are offered in Term 1, May 13 to Jun 20, 2024.
CCS 320 | Interdisciplinary Ecological Art
Instructor: Tania Willard
An interdisciplinary practice-based course that introduces students to artistic methods and processes for engagement in environmental issues.
ARTH 460J | Indigenous Contemporary Art
Instructor: Stacey Koosel
ENGL 154 | Indigenous Narrative
Instructor: Allison Hargreaves
This course introduces students to Indigenous narrative forms, including textual and oral storytelling in anecdotes, life-writing, films, histories, narrative poems, novels, performances, and songs.
Registration
The program is open to UBC students, students from other universities and those who have a previous university degree.
Indigenous Art Intensive Program
The Indigenous Art Intensive features a series of world-renowned speakers, a variety of related undergraduate and graduate credit courses, and a group of resident artists who will be working to create new works.
Indigenous Art Intensive, Keynote presentations and artist panels
The 2024 Indigenous Art Intensive is being planned as an in-person program. Visiting artists will participated in a series of keynote presentations and artist panels once a week throughout May and June.
This year’s keynote speakers include noted artist Kevin McKenzie, esteemed curator and scholar Heather Igloliorte and award winning curator Daina Warren. They are joined by visiting artists Taylor Baptiste, Corrine Derickson, Mariel and Sienna Belanger, Asinnajaq Uitaalutuq, Marika Swan, Krystle Silverfox, Nicole Neidhardt, Peter Morin, Michelle Sound, Victoria Jaenig, and Justine Woods.
Visit the Indigenous Art Intensive Blog for details for the visiting artists, keynote presenters and events, as well as information on previous years.