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The Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the Univ ersity of British Columbia is pleased to announce Beau Dick as the AHVA Artist in Residence\, from September to December 2013. Durin g his residency at UBC\, Dick will be working out of a studio in the Depart ment’s new Audain Art Centre\, in addition to speaking with graduate studen ts and visiting classes.
Currently\, Beau Dick’s work can be seen in the exhibitions\, Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential School at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on campus (until December 1\, 2013) and The Voyage\, or Three Years at Sea Part VI at the Ch arles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (until No vember 24\, 2013).
Dick will present an artist talk at the Belkin Art Gallery on Thursday\, October 10 from 12:30 to 2 pm and will give a public lecture about his artistic practice on Wednesday\, November 6th at 5:30pm in Lasserre 102.
Beau Dick\, acclaimed as one of the Northwest Coast’ s most versatile and talented carvers\, was born on Village Island\, Kingco me Inlet\, BC and lives and works in Alert Bay\, BC. Reaching out beyond th e confines of his own Kwakwaka'wakw culture\, Dick has explored new formats and techniques in his work\, including painting and drawing. His work can be found in private collections as well as museums\, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Gatineau\, QC)\, the Heard Museum (Phoenix\, AZ)\, the Burke Museum (Seattle\, WA)\, the UBC Museum of Anthropology and the V ancouver Art Gallery. Dick’s work has been exhibited most recently in Sakah an: International Indigenous Art (2013) at the National Gallery of Canada\, 75 Years of Collecting: First Nations: Myths and Realities (2006) at the V ancouver Art Gallery and Supernatural with Neil Campbell (2004) at the Cont emporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). In 2012\, Dick received the Jack and Dori s Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award for Visual Arts.
The Departmen t of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory’s Artist in Residence program is g enerously supported by funding from the University of British Columbia’s Fi rst Nations Studies Department and the Faculty of Arts Dean’s Office.< /p> LOCATION:Frederic Lasserre\, Room 104 GEO:49.267665;-123.255830 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/beau-dick-ahva-artist-in-res idence/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/05/1236.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 DTSTART:20131103T090000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR