Dr Andrea Walsh has directed the Visiting Artist Program out of the Department of Anthropology since 2011. This program brings artists of Salish ancestry into the Anthropology of the Arts course (ANTH 305) to teach students about their practice.
The engagement between artists and students positioned the classroom as a space of social transformation through the sharing of art.
Dr Andrea Walsh
Over a series of weekly class and studio visits with the invited artist, students have worked with artists on ideas and concepts of culture, land, identity and residential schools, as part of a series of dialogues and roundtables, and they have learned hands on techniques through interactive sessions with various artists.
Visiting Artists
2021
Yuxwelupton Qwal’ qaxala Bradley Dick.
2018
Qwul’thilum Dylan Thomas.
2017
Doug and Kathy LaFortune, (Tsawout First Nation).
2016
Sulsa’meethl and Tousilum, Deb and Ron George (Cowichan Tribes).
2014
HÍELWET Sheilia Austin (Tsartlip First Nation).
2012
May Sam, Joni Olsen, Adam Olsen W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip First Nation) (with Sylvia Olsen).
Over the term that ANTH 305 is offered, each Visiting Artist creates a piece of work in connection with the class or their teaching. This work is then installed as part of the growing public exhibition of Salish art in the Cornett Building.
2010
The exhibition of art in the Cornett building was initiated with the installation of window designs by the Salish artist lessLIE.
Related work: QW’AN QW’ANAKWAL:TO COME TOGETHER
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