The Distinguished First Nations Artist Program is pleased to present a talk by Dana Claxton. Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinar y artist whose work includes film and video\, installation\, performance\, photography\, and curating. Over the past 17 years\, her work has generated alternative\, subversive societal critiques that have informed the field o f art and social history.
Dana Claxton is currently part of a group s how presented by the Contemporary Museum of Photography at the National Gal lery of Canada in Ottawa titled\, Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aborigina l Artists. From the whimsical to the reverential\, the poignant to the poli tical\, these artists refashion the view of Native people not only by the w ay of the camera lens\, but also through their own cultural perspectives. T he works also challenge the stereotypes that have been previously construct ed about them by others for political\, religious\, or commercial purposes.
Claxton's work is held in public collections\, including the Vancouv er Art Gallery\, Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Art Bank of Canada\, National Gallery of Canada\, Eitlejorg Museum (Indianapolis) and has been screened internationally\, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, the Walk er Art Centre (Minneapolis)\, at Sundance Film Festival\, and Microwave in Hong Kong. She received the VIVA Award (Shadbolt Foundation) and in 2007 be came an Eiteljorg Fellow given by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis). Claxton was the 2003 Global Television Chai r at the University of Regina\, School of Journalism. She is a member of th e Aboriginal Educational Council for the Ontario College of Art and Design and has taught at Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University. Dana C laxton is of Lakota descent and her family reserve is Woodmountain.
T his lecture is free of charge. It is part of the Distinguished First Nation s Artist Program and is organized in conjunction with the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, the First Nations Studies Program\, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, and the Museum of Anthropology\, with the support of the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia.< /p>
Photo: Dana Claxton - Daddy’s Gotta New Ride 2008.
From The
Mustang Suite.
Courtesy of the artist.
For more inform
ation contact Naomi Sawada at (604) 822-3640 or naomi.sawada@ubc.ca Morris
and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, The University of British Columbia.
Da
na Claxton's website
http://www.danaclaxton.com