The Aboriginal Distinguished Artist Program is pleased to present a talk by Dana Claxton. Dana Claxton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes film and video, installation, performance, photography, and curating. Over the past 17 years, her work has generated alternative, subversive societal critiques that have informed the field of art and social history.

She is currently part of a group show presented by the Contemporary Museum of Photography at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa titled, Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists. From the whimsical to the reverential, the poignant to the political, these artists refashion the view of Native people not only by the way of the camera lens, but also through their own cultural perspectives. The works also challenge the stereotypes that have been previously constructed about them by others for political, religious, or commercial purposes.

This lecture is free of charge. It is part of the Aboriginal Distinguished Artist Program and is organized in conjunction with the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; the First Nations Studies Program; the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; and the Museum of Anthropology with the support of the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia.