Indigenous Art Intensive

This month-long residency gathers students, artists, curators, writers and scholars to engage in contemporary ideas and discourse—a place for new ideas rooted in Indigenous art-making.

Zine making workshop

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 2023 Indigenous Art Intensive is being planned as an in-person program.

Details for the visiting artists, keynote presenters and events will be shared when information is available.

Visit the Indigenous Art Intensive Blog for information on previous years.

Indigenous Art Intensive Blog

Courses – May to June, 2023

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 15 to Jun 22, 2023.

VISA 460/520 | Indigenous Praxis

Instructor: Tania Willard

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.

Tania WillardTania Willard, of Secwépemc and settler heritage, works within the shifting ideas around contemporary and traditional, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Aboriginal and other cultures. Public Art projects include, Rule of the Trees, a public art project at Commercial Broadway sky train station, in Vancouver BC and If the Drumming Stops, with artist Peter Morin, on the lands of the Papaschase First Nation in Edmonton, AB. Willard’s ongoing collaborative project BUSH gallery, is a conceptual land-based gallery grounded in Indigenous knowledges and relational art practices.

 

CRWR 470 | Portfolio

Instructor: TBC

Intensive manuscript production in one or two major genres: fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction.

ARTH 460 | Indigenous Contemporary Art

Instructor: TBC

Course TBC

Registration

The program is open to UBC students, students from other universities and those who have a previous university degree.

UBC Students Unclassified Students
Western Dean’s Agreement Students Visiting Students

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 2023 program will be shared when available.

Indigenous Art INTENSIVE BLOG

  • Elder, Richard Armstrong

    Elder Richard Armstrong, Summer Intensive 2016

  • Zine workshop, 2019

    Zine making workshop, Summer Intensive, 2019

  • WIR

    Writer in Residence, Richard Van Camp, Summer Intensive 2018

  • Woven Together

    Woven Together Artist Panel, Summer Intensive 2018