Artist Portraits
Jan 22, 2022 – February 29, 2024
First Peoples House | UVic Campus
Lekwungen territory
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Curated by Andrea Walsh, Smyth Chair in Arts and Engagement
Amanda LaLiberte’s photo portraits showcase 12 Coast Salish artists who participated in the Visiting Artist Program hosted by the UVic Department of Anthropology.
Image credit: Amanda Laliberte, 2021.
February 2020 – February 2022
Curated by Mel Granley (Metis), Young Canada Works Intern
with lessLIE (Coast Salish artist)
2020 marked the ten-year anniversary the First Peoples House. This exhibition focused on Coast Salish title and relationship to land and how this is communicated through art.
In doing a write up for this exhibition I felt a certain level of trepidation that my voice as a Métis and settler person would be inadequate, inappropriate, or too loud, and so I am extremely thankful and humbled to have the words of artist lessLIE to take precedence over mine. If you are non-Indigenous or not Coast Salish my hope is that this exhibition will encourage you to consider your position on these lands, what brought you here, and your responsibilities to the Coast Salish peoples who have tended to this land for time immemorial. Hiy-hiy!
– Melissa Granley
This continuum of Coast Salish art and artists is a visual means for acknowledging Salish territory… Such a geographical acknowledgement of traditional territories is vital in the 21st century. Most North Americans know the anxiety of protecting land from terrorism and nuclear bombs. In an era of Wet’suwet’en Solidarity and of COVID-19, the acknowledgement of land is vital to the future of humanity.
– lessLIE
Featured artists include Margaret August, Butch Dick, TEMOSEN Charles Elliott, Jordanna George, Stan Greene, Edward Joe, Maynard Johnny Jr., Sarah Jim, lessLIE, Sage Paul, Andy Peterson, Susan Point, Manuel Salazar, Dylan Thomas.
This program is generously funded in part by the Salish Weave Collection.
Fall 2014 to Fall 2017
On the UVic campus at First Peoples House
Curated by Allison Grey Noble and Caroline Riedel
This exhibition of serigraph prints by artists Patrick Amos, Joe David, Ron Hamilton (Chuuchkamalthnii), Tim Paul, Art Thompson (Tsa-Qwass-Upp), and Glen Webster visually articulates knowledges of histories and stories that are important to the people of the Nuu-chah-nulth nations. These prints are from the university’s permanent collection and originate from the print making studio of Vincent Rickard, who worked with these artists in the 1980s and 1990s. Rickard and donors George and Christiane Smyth have given the university nearly 3,000 contemporary Northwest Coast prints, making UVic’s collection the most comprehensive in Canada.
Image: Supernatural, Joe David (Nuu-chah-nulth)
Henry Hunt, Kwagiulth Chief and Frog
February 2014
First Peoples House at the University of Victoria
Curated by Emerald Johnstone-Bedell
Twice yearly at convocation the University of Victoria awards honorary degrees to those who have demonstrated distinguished and extraordinary achievements. During its 50-year history UVic has granted honours to seven First Nations artists who have contributed not only to the arts but also to the community at large as leaders, activists, visionaries, role models, and groundbreakers. This exhibition features works from the University of Victoria’s art collection and an excerpt from the citation that was read at the occasion of granting the degree.
February 2012 – January 2013
First Peoples House at the University of Victoria
Curated by Phyllis Isaacs
An exhibition of works by students and instructors from the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, BC.
Click here to visit the En’owkin Centre’s website.
October 2011 – January 2012
First Peoples House at the University of Victoria
Serigraph prints from the University of Victoria Permanent Collection.
Masters of the Sky, Edward Joe, 1993
September 2010 – September 2011
First Peoples House at the University of Victoria
Serigraph prints from the University of Victoria Permanent Collection.