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

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.

Programming for summer 2027 is currently being planned to take place at the UBC Vancouver campus, and will be shared when available.

UBC Okanagan Gallery will present an exhibition and programming at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC Vancouver. No classes will be offered in 2027.

Indigenous Art Intensive Program

From 2014 to 2025, the Intensive offered an immersive experience of undergraduate and graduate courses in Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Art History and Visual Culture, and Indigenous Studies, along with panel conversations, keynote addresses, art exhibitions and performances, readings, and various additional events and fieldtrips throughout – some planned, some impromptu.

The Indigenous Art Intensive Blog has details information on previous years including visiting artists, keynote presenters and events.

Indigenous Art INTENSIVE BLOG

  • Indigenous Intensive panel 2023

    Tania Willard, Krista Belle Stewart and Dion Kaszas panel discussion, Indigenous Art Intensive 2023

  • Invisible Forces opening

    Invisible Forces opening reception, Indigenous Intensive 2023

  • Indigenous Intensive panel 2022

    Panel discussion, Indigenous Intensive 2023

  • Zine workshop, 2019

    Zine making workshop, Indigenous Intensive 2019

  • WIR

    Writer in Residence, Richard Van Camp, Indigenous Intensive 2018

  • Woven Together

    Woven Together Artist Panel, Indigenous Intensive 2018

  • Elder, Richard Armstrong

    Elder Richard Armstrong, Indigenous Intensive 2016