In May 2018, the Belkin received a Peter Wall Institute Roundtable Award for to explore Curating Critical Pedagogies, an ongoing research project devoted to critical practices in contemporary art and curating. The roundtable brought participants together for a five-day closed workshop as well as studio visits and conversations with Vancouver-based…
In 2016, Shelly Rosenblum and Carol-Ann Courneya (Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at UBC's Faculty of Medicine) collaborated to create Art and Medicine: Rounding at the Belkin , a course that invited medical students to consider how engaging with art could strengthen observational skills in the sciences.
In response to Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions, a group of UBC Creative Writing students, Visual Art students, and recent Visual Arts graduates gathered to reflect on the transit between mediums and geographies in the show. What emerged was a series of prompts for viewers to engage with as a creative…
In a 2011 survey, Wikimedia found that less than 13% of its contributors identify as female. The reasons for the gender gap are up for debate: suggestions include leisure inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well documented. While…
Laiwan writes, "Begun in 1987 investigating the questions, What is an image? What is a photograph?, she who had scanned the flower of the world... is an ongoing project where I collect flowers from the city I am showing in, placing the petals into slide mounts."