Taking its name from something that whirls, coils, or spirals or whose form suggests such movement, and the concentric arrangement of a snail’s shell, Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to present “Whorl,” a public artist talk and contemporary art workshop featuring Nadia Chaney (Kanata, Canada) and Zoe Kreye (Vancouver, Canada). To begin the series, Chaney and Kreye will present
Interview with Indigenous Brilliance Issue 44.3 Editors
Tansi hello! We are so thrilled to share the development of the Indigenous Brilliance issue 44.3. Our commissioned artist appearing in the issue is Whess Harman, a Carrier Wit’at multidisciplinary artist, an interview with the brilliant Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones, a Black Indigenous queer femme creative curator, and cover art from Ocean Hyland, artist and activist from the Tsleil-Waututh nation.
This issue is to hold space for Indigenous writers to tell their stories. Indigenous is used to refer broadly to peoples of long settlement and connection to specific lands who have been adversely affected by incursions by industrial economies, displacement, and settlement of their traditional territories by others. We acknowledge this is not limited to Turtle Island and the America’s, and welcome Indigenous experiences from around the globe, who share histories of European colonialism, genocide, enslavement, subjugation, resistance,