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.
The 2024 Indigenous Art Intensive is being planned as an in-person program.
Visit the Indigenous Art Intensive Blog for details for the visiting artists, keynote presenters and events, as well as information on previous years.
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.
Visa 520/460 | Indigenous Praxis
Instructor: Pieter Morin
Multidisciplinary seminar dealing with various approaches and issues in contemporary creative praxis as relating to the disciplines of Visual Arts, Indigenous Studies, Media Arts, Creative Writing, and Performance. Students will be expected to develop creative work and/or a written reflective text or performance.
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 460 | Indigenous Contemporary Art
Instructor: TBC
Course TBC
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
Visiting artists will participated in a series of keynote presentations and artist panels once a week throughout May and June. For more information on the keynote presentations, panel discussions and other events, please visit our events listings on the Intensive Blog. Details on the 2024 program will be shared when available.