The 2018 Summer Indigenous Art Intensive at the University of British Columbia Okanagan brings together students and visiting artists, curators, scholars, writers, and creative practitioners in residence throughout the month of July around explorations of Indigeneity. The Intensive offers an immersive experience through undergraduate and graduate courses in Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Performance, 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. This Summer Intensive will broadly engage the theme GroundWorks, connecting to place and founding practices, being grounded in land, voice and language, reconnecting to/nurturing traditions, and beyond. 

The Summer Indigenous Art Intensive has been coordinated by the Department of Creative Studies since 2013 and is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.