Vancouver 
Events Description
Women Artists: A Lecture Series in the gallery featuring professors from Capilano University
Contemporary Indigenous bead artists express powerful matrilineal legacies of beauty and resilience that are rooted in ancient worldviews. This talk explores how Tlingit artists, using various materials, honour historical beading methods. These practices symbolize cultural perseverance and ties to the land, despite efforts to control and assimilate Indigenous peoples through laws and institutions.
Dr. Megan Smetzer, Ph.D, Art History instructor at Capilano University, is an art historian who researches the circulation of Indigenous cultural belongings within and between Indigenous and settler communities along the Northwest Coast and beyond. She teaches, publishes, and lectures on historical and contemporary Indigenous cultural expressions, focusing primarily on work made by women.
Smetzer is deeply grateful to the Tlingit artists and elders from Lingít Aaní (currently known as Southeast Alaska) who have generously shared their knowledge and perspectives over many years. These relationships have contributed to her recent book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience, the first to be written on this topic.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : 15
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Thursday May 23, 2024
7-9 pm
Venue & Address
Ferry Building Gallery, 1414 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver, BC V7T 1C2, Canada
Wheelchair accessible
Street Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
