Visual Arts: VISA 103: Drawing and Two-dimensional Practices II | Instructor: Holly Ward

Undergraduate Course

 

VISA 103 is a 3 credit studio course focusing on historical and innovative approaches to pictorial representation, as well as uses of materials, processes, supports and methods of composition. Emphasis will be placed on the ways in which these may be tied to the major concepts and practices behind contemporary visual expression.  Dovetailing and integrating with the Summer Indigenous Residency Program, students will attend all presentations by visiting Indigenous artists, writers and thinkers exploring aspects of Indigenous identity and sovereignty through critical creative practice. Hands-on workshops developed in conjunction with invited guests will provide students with the opportunity to explore and develop creative responses to the materials and ideas presented, with an emphasis on experimentation and individual artistic development. 

This course is intended to build skill, confidence, critical and independent thinking.

 

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 Creative Writing: CRWR 382P: A Creative Writing Collaboratory | Instructor: Matt Rader

Undergraduate Course 

 

How can a writer collaborate with others? A practice-based course, the Collaboratory, provides opportunities for writers to explore how their work might be informed and transformed by direct engagement with artists from a variety of practices including visual arts, performance, and critical studies, while inviting those same artists to explore how writers can shape and reshape their own practices. Guided by Indigenous and Pragmatic ways of knowing and modelled on Open Access tenets of emergent, collectively-held space, the Collaboratory asks through the making of new works: How does a writer collaborate with language, with audience, with self? How does collaboration with material, image, and sound influence writing? In what ways do writers collaborate with history, ecology, and power? What makes collaboration possible? What makes it necessary? 
 

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Theatre: THTR 301: Special Topics in Performance Styles | Instructor: Neil Cadger

Undergraduate Course

 

The course will provide students the opportunity to explore traditional and contemporary based performance practices in conjuction with the Intensive. This will be delivered as a studio course but will also involve class participants interacting with guest Indigenous artists, Elders, and to attend events that reflect Indigenous practices.
 

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Visual Arts: VISA 460J: Time and Abstraction | Instructor: Katherine Pickering

Undergraduate Course

 

This course provides students with the opportunity to strengthen their art practice by engaging deeply with creative research around specific sites in the Okanagan. Coursework begins outdoors with a series of assignments intended to strengthen students' powers of observation. Back in the studio, a variety of short experiments will jump start the development of self-directed project ideas by identifying the core priorities in their art practice. Class discussions, critical feedback and journaling will further student's in-depth investigation of their creative thought processes, and help to generate new avenues for investigation. Weekly contact with resident artists will provide examples of the diverse range of approaches to visual research and highlight the role of cultural identity and the importance of place within the artists' practice. This course is appropriate for artists and creative thinkers at every stage of their development. 
 

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 INDG 295: the Extraction and Reclamation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage | Instructor: Greg Younging

Undergraduate Course 

 

The course will cover the history of the extraction and attempted elimination of Indigenous cultural heritage, including artistic expression, through the Residential School Era (1938-1990) and the Culture Ban (1884-1948) through the Indian Act. The imposition of Eurocentric Intellectual Property Rights law on Traditional Knowledge will also be covered, as well as the application of colonizing false narratives and stereotypes. The Reclamation of Indigenous cultural heritage, beginning in the 1960s through to the present, will be traced and analyzed. Overall, the course will have an historical through to contemporary Indigenous Arts Focus. 
 

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Graduate Studies: VISA 520/IGS 520: Contemporary Indigenous Art Praxis | Instructor: Stephen Foster

Graduate Course

 

In this course students will investigate the methodologies and practices of Indigenous Artists in contemporary contexts of creative praxis, including visual and performance art. The focus of this compressed intensive course will be on Indigenous art that engages social, political, regional, and global issues in relationship to diverse communities and contexts. The immersive environment will involve nine hours per week for a four-week period and will create a learning environment that encourages in-depth exploration of the traditions, methods, and practices of studio artists and curators. 

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