Fire Season featured in PREVIEW Art Magazine
Our current exhibition Fire Season is featured in the June-August 2024 issue of PREVIEW Art Magazine.
Our current exhibition Fire Season is featured in the June-August 2024 issue of PREVIEW Art Magazine.
Last summer, as wildfires ravaged Northern Ontario, many on the eastern side of Canada experienced the visuals of wildfire for the first time. But the haze was all too familiar for Vancouver painter Liz Toohey-Wiese, who was attending an art residency on Toronto Island last year when smoke blanketed the city.
Read more: Wildfire art exhibitions help make sense of Canada’s new climate reality
The University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery is seeking two Black artists for a new exhibition focusing on Victoria-based contemporary Black artists.
On June 17th, 2023, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Francis Dick led the Atla’gimma (Spirits of The Forest) dance at Wawadit’ła (Mungo Martin House). The gathering marked the first time that the Atla’gimma, the cultural property of Francis Dick’s father Chief Kwaxsistalla wath-thla (Adam Dick), was danced since his passing.
Read more: Reopening the Treasure Box: Francis Dick leads the Atla’gimma at Wawadit’ła
Francis Dick invites you to walk through her fires. The multimedia artist’s new solo exhibition at Legacy Art Gallery is an autobiography told through art, each image and object testament to her life’s journey, her culture, her fearlessness, and her ability to transform joy and pain into art.
Read more: Alumna Francis Dick transforms darkness into light in new exhibition
Dr. Devi Mucina’s academic work and his familial connections to the communities and traditions of the Chewa peoples are central to Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance. The exhibition features spirited photography and film by Kl. Peruzzo de Andrade, hand-crafted masks, Adinkra textiles, and an interactive bwalo, filled with brick-red sand. The heart of the exhibition is Gule Wamkulu, or “the great dance of life,” a unifying practice for Chewa communities. But what does it mean to bring Gule Wamkulu to Victoria?
Read more: Legacy hosts first-ever Gule Wamkulu masked dance ceremony
When Devi Mucina left Africa as a young man, he had no intention of returning to the ways of his people. But years later he found himself learning from the struggles and resistance of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. After watching the masked dances of the Coast Salish peoples, Mucina, director of the University of Victoria’s School of Indigenous Governance, felt inspired to reconnect with his past and his family.
Read more: Gule Wamkulu exhibition celebrates great dance of life
A new exhibition opening April 22 at UVic’s Legacy Art Gallery Downtown focuses on Japanese Canadian identity, community and family.
Ink marks paths through skin like rivers across the land. The indelible history of Indigenous tattooing, like the landscapes and waterways of traditional territories, can never be erased. Its significance reaches back through ancient time and ancestral connections, but its practice was banned in Canada in 1885 at the same time as the potlatch.
UVic Legacy Art Galleries has signed the BC Museums Association Repatriation Call to Action.