Indigenous Art Intensive

About the 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, 2025

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 12 to Jun 19, 2025.

Admission and 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 2025 Indigenous Art Intensive will be held as an in-person program where Curators and visiting artists will participate in a series of keynote presentations and artist panels once a week throughout May and June.

The curators and visiting artists for this year include Jamie Isaac, Serena Steel, Sherry Farrel Racette, Faye Heavyshield, Joseph Naytowhow, Marie-Anne Redhead, Peter Morin, Justine Woods, Nicole Neidhardt, Catherine Blackburn, Judy Anderson, and Les Louis.

The Indigenous Art Intensive Blog will be updated with details for the visiting artists, keynote presenters and events, as well as information on previous years.

Indigenous Art INTENSIVE BLOG

Stay tuned for more details on the 2025 visiting artists and programming.