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News → 11 May 2021

Fata Morgana: Online Extensions

News → 28 Apr 2021

Peter Wall Roundtable: Curating Critical Pedagogies

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…

News → 09 Apr 2021

Art and Medicine: Rounding at the Belkin

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.

News → 07 Apr 2021

Belkin x CRWR: Stations

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…

News → 25 Mar 2021

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Defeating the Patriarchy, One Edit at a Time

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…