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,
The Vancouver Art Gallery envisions a future program and collection for the 21st century
Hyung-Min Yoon, The Doors, 2016, inkjet print on plastic film, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Partial gift and partial purchase with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund.
VANCOUVER
.- On December 12, the Vancouver Art Gallery opens its new exhibition, Where do we go from here?, which proposes to think critically about the role of both art and institutionssuch as galleries and museumsin the process of producing narratives about the past, present and future.
Acting on the Vancouver Art Gallerys statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, Where do we go from here? developed as an opportunity to consider the Gallerys own collecting and exhibition history. Reflecting on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Gallery in 1931, this exhibition both acknowledges the under representation of African diasporic artists in our col