Join Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery, for a guided tour of the exhibition Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting, recorded on July 16, 2022 at the Kamloops Art Gallery. Video by Jonathon Fulton

Echoes of the Homesick Heart By LAURA MICHEL Based on in-person interviews conducted across the Secwépemc Nation over the past several years, Echoes of the Homesick Heart from Playwright Laura Michel (Adams Lake Band member from the Secwépemc Nation in the BC interior) shares stories of this land by incorporating lived experiences and the real-life voices of youth to elders—celebrating the resilience of Indigenous families, communities, and culture. Echoes of the Homesick Heart premiered at the Pavilion Theatre in Kamloops BC in June 2022. Experience the full digital presentation of Echoes of the Homesick Heart starting September 30, 2022 at wctlive.ca/echoes. Artistic Team Cast: CHRIS BOSE Abe | ISSIAH BULL BEAR Sunec | MEREWYN COMEAU Emily | LORI MARCHAND Bernadette Understudy Creative Team: LAURA MICHEL Playwright | ERIC COATES Director | ANDREW KUSHNIR Dramaturge | HAILEY VERBONAC Set, Lighting, and Projection Designer | BONNIE ACKO Costume Designer | JEREMY KNEESHAW Sound Designer | KELSEY RAE Stage Manager | DONNA SHARPE Assistant Stage Manager

"I'm a nontraditionalist being a traditionalist creating nontraditional art, which means that I'm just making art."

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has had his paintings shown in major galleries and collections across the world including the National Gallery of Canada. A graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art, Yuxweluptun grew up in a home where politics was an integral part of daily life, his father being the founder of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and his mother was Executive Director of the Indian Homemakers Association of BC. Yuxweleptun decided at a young age that he preferred to use art as the basis for continuing the dialogue with Canadians about his beliefs and his concerns for the environment and the struggle aboriginal people face in demanding their rights. Although Yuxweluptun's video from 2003, Shooting the Indian Act, continues to stir controversy to this day, he is probably best known for his paintings; Scorched earth, Clear Cut Logging and Killer Whale Has a Vision and Caution! You Are Entering a Free State of Mind Zone. Ken Rockburn spoke to Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at his studio in Vancouver.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun in conversation with Marc Johnson on the unceded and ancestral coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples on June 21, 2019. This video is part of a research project initiated by Marc Johnson, commissioned by the Vancouver Biennale and supported by the Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of France to Canada and the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). #LaurencePaulYuxweluptunLets'lo:tseltun #MarcJohnson #DecolonizationNOmetaphor

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun's strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history in large-scale paintings (from 54.2 x 34.7cm to 233.7 x 200.7cm), using Coast Salish cosmology, Northwest Coast formal design elements, and the Western landscape tradition. His painted works explore political, environmental, and cultural issues. His personal and socio-political experiences enhance this practice of documentation. Yuxweluptun's work has been included in numerous international group and solo exhibitions, such as INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives in 1992. He was the recipient of the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts (VIVA) award in 1998.

Artist, curator, and educator Tania Willard, of the Secwepemc Nation, presents her artist talk titled Intuition Archive. Tania works within the shifting ideas of contemporary and traditional as it relates to cultural arts and production, often working with bodies of knowledge and skills that are conceptually linked to her interest in intersections between Aboriginal and other cultures. This event was hosted virtually as part of the ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter annual meeting on December 3, 2021. It was sponsored by the ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter with support from a special funding grant from ARLIS/NA. This recording is made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Led in collaboration with the University of Victoria the Feminist Art Field School is an online course geared towards students, artists, curators and community members interested in gender, feminism and the porous boundaries between art, activism and academic practice. Join Michelle Jacques and Chase Joynt for module 6 in the virtual field school as they sit down with artist Tania Willard to discuss her research, which focuses on Secwépemc aesthetics/language/land and consider collaborative projects like BUSH gallery, a conceptual space for land based art and action led by Indigenous artists. Learn more at: https://aggv.ca/feminist-art-field-school/ Check out some of the resources/institutions/artists mentioned in this video: https://www.taniawillard.ca/ https://www.bushgallery.ca/ https://www.cmagazine.com/issues/136/bush-manifesto https://www.beatnation.org/index.html https://resilienceproject.ca/en/artists/daphne-odjig https://indspire.ca/about/ https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/gustafsen_lake/ https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/2807 https://www.queer-art.org/tourmaline https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/SFUGalleriesEvents/2020/Siteations.html https://www.nccie.ca/story/dechinta/ https://www.dechinta.ca/ https://momentabiennale.com/en/expo/bush-gallery-diffracting-of-light-and-of-land/ https://ahva.ubc.ca/profile/amy-kazymerchyk/ https://www.sttlmnt.org/ The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is located on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen speaking peoples, today known as the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. We extend our gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to live and work on this territory.

Tania Willard's artist website and online portfolio.

Ted Smith - Ted Smith - Painter, represented by The Art Ark Gallery

Ted Smith Central Gallery June 28 to August 30, 2014 Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery The summer exhibitions feature a retrospective of work by Kamloops-based painter Ted Smith. Ted Smith: A Retrospective encompasses the first major selection of Smith’s work since his 1992 exhibit

June 28 to August 30, 2014 Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery, Jack Shadbolt: Seven Decades of Works on Paper showcases the recent addition of seventy-nine Jack Shadbolt works to the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection

0:00 Welcome by Lisa Steele 1:34 Announcements by Charles Stankievech 3:18 Introduction by Lisa Steele 4:37 Rebecca Belmore and Wanda Nanibush conversation 1:17:25 Q & A On November 15, 2018, artist Rebecca Belmore and curator Wanda Nanibush presented a Master of Visual Studies Proseminar. They discussed working on the exhibition Facing the Monumental. They also talked about the role and relevance of art in today’s political climate. Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinaabe-kwe multi-disciplinary artist from Upsala Ontarioand a member of Lac Seul First Nation. Belmore has been awarded two honorary Phd’s, a Governor Generals award in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. She represented Canada in the 2005 Venice Bienale and was a featured artist in Documenta 2017. Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Indigenous art and co-head of the Indigenous + Canadian art dept at the AGO. For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca

Reflecting on the senior Vancouver painter’s many influences, and steadfast influence, in shaping a unique oeuvre well into his nineties

Elements of Education explores the question of what makes a great educator by profiling some of the graduates and instructors of UBC Faculty of Education. In this episode, we meet one of the luminaries of the West Coast art scene and long-time educator, Gordon Smith. In his view, art is not about being able to draw and paint with skill; it is about living life in a way that is open-minded, unassuming, and masterful.

Inventory magazine founder Ryan Willms visits the 96-year-old Canadian artist's modernist retreat. Read the feature on NOWNESS - http://bit.ly/1PbfQhE ___ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Curated stories on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/tumblr-nowness Inspiration on Pinterest: http://bit.ly/pinterest-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness Subscribe on Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/nowness Follow NOWNESS on Google+: http://bit.ly/google-nowness

Learn more about Gordon Smith and discover their selected works featured at Equinox Gallery.

Jack Shadbolt (1909 - 1998) is one of Canada's most important artists. He is known for his paintings and murals that draw from his personal experiences and from the social and political conflicts that have taken place in British Columbia and world history, such as the struggles of First Nations, the Second World War, and the environmental movement.

“...A mind-dazzling, sight-and-sound roller-coaster ride that leaves viewers gasping with amazement.” This 35-mm film brings the viewer into the world of Jack Shadbolt, the innovative and influential Canadian painter. Filmmaker Stephen Arthur animates Shadbolt’s paintings, creating an entirely new work of art on film. Pushing the limits of 2D animation on a PC in 1996, Arthur reconstructs the missing backgrounds behind the cut-out foreground objects of Shadbolt’s paintings. By using a cause-and-effect sequence of actions and by visually matching the moving forms from one painting to the next, Arthur creates a contiguous environment, a surreal world made from Shadbolt’s paintings. The events are choreographed in movement phrases, with synchronized sound effects, to help the viewer follow the fast flow of unusual transformations. This digital animation of scanned images was recorded to 35mm film by plunking the monitor under an Oxberry animation camera. The making of Transfigured is featured in "The Animation Bible" by Maureen Furniss, 2008. The film premiered in the Official Competition of the Hiroshima '98 International Animation Festival in Japan (director in attendance), followed by the Official Competition of the 1998 World Film Festival in Montreal and the Ottawa '98 International Animation Festival. A reviewer of the Vancouver International Film Festival said: "The real standout is Transfigured, Stephen Arthur's astonishing celebration of Jack Shadbolt's paintings. In six minutes flat, the computer-aided animator brings 80 tableaux to wide-screen life, achieving a degree of plastic beauty previously obtained only by NFB superstar Norman McLaren." -- Mark Harris, The Georgia Straight: Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 1998 "Unique... hallucinatory... an intense reflection on the vision of decay and rebirth that inspires Shadbolt's art." - POV Magazine "Transfigured's images twist, stretch, and transform themselves from one hallucinatory vision to another, many representing different aspects of the West Coast. The result is a direct, jolting wire to the brain: on repeated viewing, your mind interprets the wild colours and shapes as different objects or creatures, with a different viewing experience hitting you each time. It feels like cinema at its purest, causing you to react to the images that evolve in front of you at 24 frames per second, without the rigid imposition of scripts, sets, or actors." -- Emru Townsend, Montreal Mirror, 1998 "The soundscape for Stephen Arthur's film reminds me of Jack's energy. The crashes, the cymbal sounds and the eeriness, this kind of mysterious force of life -- that's what Jack was all about. The seeds, the pupae, the bursting energy of growth, and the transformation. The energy of life is really what his subject was, and of course that life has a darker side, but he had a very yea-saying imagery and even the dark side was positive." -- Xisa Huang, 1998, co-owner of Bau-Xi Gallery, which represented Shadbolt for almost 30 years "This film is a true work of art. It's a masterpiece." -- Jack Shadbolt, April 1998 "This animation is not only about my work visually, but it's as though I were producing it in actuality." -- Jack Shadbolt, 1998 Award for Best Musical Score in an Animated Production (Jean-Luc Perron), Leo Awards 2000, Vancouver, Canada Silver Award - Category: Animation, Expo of Short Film and Video, 1999, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Director: Stephen Arthur Animation: Stephen Arthur Producers: Stephen Arthur, George Johnson Executive producer: Svend-Erik Eriksen Sound editing: Stephen Arthur, Jean-Luc Perron Original musical score: Jean-Luc Perron (commissioned for the film) Paintings were transformed from the originals and used by kind permission of Jack Shadbolt (who died in 1998). Copyright © 1998 National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The NFB no longer distributes or sells this film. The only copies are ageing VHS videocassettes in public library special-collection reference sections for “historical video.” As this film has long been unavailable from authorized sources, the originator, co-producer, and animator of the film, Stephen Arthur, has posted a video of Transfigured here as fair use to memorialize, preserve, and rescue the experience and cultural phenomenon. The film shown here was digitized from a VHS videocassette transfer of the original widescreen 35-mm film. http://transcanfilm.com/xenos/Transfigured_guide.pdf http://transcanfilm.com/xenos/SXA-Resume-Filmmaker.pdf

Life's Imprint: Lithographs by Jack Shadbolt part 3 of 3. This half-hour documentary follows Canadian artistJack Shadbolt over a 9-month period as he worked with lithographer Torrie Groenig to produce a four-part colour lithograph. Footage includes Shadbolt in his now demolished Burnaby home studio, and follows the creative ups and downs of one of Canada's finest Canadian artists, who sadly passed away in 1998. Originally broadcast on CBC, Bravo!, and Knowledge Network, and produced/directed by John Corry, Bodega Media Ltd., with the support of the National Film Board of Canada and Knowledge Network.

Life's Imprint: Lithographs by Jack Shadbolt, part 2 of 3. This half-hour documentary follows Canadian artist Jack Shadbolt over a 9-month period as he worked with lithographer Torrie Groenig to produce a four-part colour lithograph. Footage includes Shadbolt in his now demolished Burnaby home studio, and follows the creative ups and downs of one of Canada's finest Canadian artists, who sadly passed away in 1998. Originally broadcast on CBC, Bravo!, and Knowledge Network, and produced/directed by John Corry, Bodega Media Ltd., with the support of the National Film Board of Canada and Knowledge Network.

Life's Imprint: Lithographs by Jack Shadbolt, part 1. This half-hour documentary follows Canadian artist Jack Shadbolt over a 9-month period as he worked with lithographer Torrie Groenig to produce a four-part colour lithograph. Footage includes Shadbolt in his now demolished Burnaby home studio, and follows the creative ups and downs of one of Canada's finest Canadian artists, who sadly passed away in 1998. Originally broadcast on CBC, Bravo!, and Knowledge Network, and produced/directed by John Corry, Bodega Media Ltd., with the support of the National Film Board of Canada and Knowledge Network.

Learn more about Jack Shadbolt and discover their selected works featured at Equinox Gallery.

George Raab is a printmaker whose original etchings are a combination of drawing, photo-etching, engraving, aquatint, and watercolor painting. See George at the Saint Louis Art Fair, or go to http://georgeraab.com/ for more information. Subscribe now ➤ http://bit.ly/2jaQN5q For more great content from the Higher Education Channel check us out at: Facebook ➤ http://bit.ly/1WPZEek Twitter ➤ http://bit.ly/22qZDNU Instagram ➤ http://bit.ly/1THSOnM

Central Gallery October 19 to December 31, 2013 Curated by Art Gallery of Peterborough, Carla Garnet Ontario-based artist George Raab’s practice spans four decades and is grounded in portraying the wooded world. From his early etchings to present day photo-based prints, Raab’s work portrays the ic

George Raab - Artist, Printmaker

S2E222: "Pocket Desert with Richard E. Prince" As the northern extremity of Mexico's Sonoran Dessert, the pocket desert is a rare habitat in Canada. Here you will find rattlesnakes and scorpions, burrowing owls and sage thrashers, greasewood and mariposa lilies. The desert's dry air and cloudless skies has long been valued for celestial observation. Vancouver sculptor Richard E. Prince is renowned for his elaborate, and sometimes mechanized, artworks that examine natural phenomena. In this episode, Prince presents his “stargazers” work - precision machined viewing devices with which he sites the morning and evening stars of the desert sky.