FNA | Aboriginal Student Exhibition
Join us for our annual exhibition of Aboriginal student works.
Please join us for the Opening Reception on Monday, April 4, 2016 | 4:30-6:30pm.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to present the 2016 Aboriginal student exhibition.
Each year, our Aboriginal students organize and curate an exhibit in the Concourse Gallery. The exhibition provides a forum for Aboriginal students to express and celebrate their traditional and/or contemporary art practices. Aboriginal students gain valuable experience by organizing this unique cultural event which includes communicating with Aboriginal guest speakers, designing promotional materials, and installing the exhibition. Each Aboriginal guest speaker has a dynamic voice and experience which invokes discussion and inspires cross cultural awareness.
The theme for this year's exhibition is FNA.
Curators Statement:
FNA, an acronym for First Nations Art, is a title that brings forward a certain slang statement saying F’n eh; First Nations Art is still here. Through centuries of turmoil from foreign dictatorships amidst what is now called the Americas, First Nations Art has survived, it is still here, we are still here, practicing our cultural heritages. With technological advancements and new and old practices of art combined, First Nations Art can be constructed to satisfy the needs of the artist’s vision for completion in whatever medium they so choose. Adaptation has happened and the spirit of First Nations Art and it’s practitioners are regenerated to fulfill the symbolic entities of their people’s creative rights. So to that we say, FNA.
Curatorial Team:
- Derian Blake (Gwichin)
- William Callaghan (Tlingit)
- Chloe Mustooch (Nakoda Sioux + Cree)
- Edwin Neel (Ahoushat & Kwagul)