An exhibition on the Indigenous history of the Pacific Northwest has reopened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York with help from a Nuu-chah-nulth artist and historian. CBC News reports that Haa'yuups of the Hupacasath First Nation in the Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island helped restore the exhibit along with Peter Whiteley, the museum's curator of North American ethnology. Haa'yuups, also known as Ron Hamilton, worked with consulting curators from the Coast Salish, Gitxsan, Haida, Haíłzaqv, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nuxalk, Tlingit and Tsimshian communities.
Calgary's VivianeArt is one of two Canadian galleries participating in the Volta New York art fair from May 18 to May 22, showing new works by Winnie Truong. The Toronto artist challenges ideals of beauty in relation to the female form through a labour-intensive process that uses coloured pencil and cut paper collage to create surreal fictions. Toronto's Spence Gallery will also participate in Volta, with work by Nahúm Flores and the Z’otz Collective, composed of three artists of Latin American heritage, including Flores.
The Articles of Faith Symposium, a one-day event on May 28 at MacEwan University in Edmonton, considers art and Christian hegemony in a time of colonial reckoning. The symposium furthers a conversation started by the Articles of Faith exhibition, which considered work by four Canadian artists: Borys Tarasenko, Emmanuel Osahor, Olivia Johnston and Thirza Cuthand. Part of a four-year research project, the symposium will feature presentations by scholars and artists.
The Glenbow Museum has received a gift of $1.5 million from the Michelle O'Reilly Foundation for renovations to its 50-year-old building. With this donation, the Glenbow has raised a total of $152 million of its $175 million target for the project, slated for completion in 2024. The renovations include a rooftop terrace that will be named, in part, in the foundation's honour. For more information, go here.
Centre A, a Vancouver non-profit art gallery that exhibits contemporary Asian art, has launched The Maraya Project: Reflecting Urban Waterfronts: Vancouver | Dubai. The publication by M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang includes foldouts, photographs and poetic texts that track parallels between the waterfront sites of Vancouver's False Creek and the Dubai Marina. The project initially took root in 2011 as a series of talks, tours and interactive web features curated by Makiko Hara. The Maraya Project is published by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in Montreal.
