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Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools

2013 / ISBN 978-0-88865-087-0
72 pages, b/w and colour, paperback

Out of print

Exhibition catalogue from Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools at the Belkin (6 September-1 December 2013) with texts by Scott Watson, Geoffrey Carr and Chief Robert Joseph; edited by Scott Watson, Keith Wallace and Jana Tyner.

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  • Geoffrey Carr

    Curator, Writer

    Geoffrey Carr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of the Fraser Valley. He holds a PhD in Art History from  the University of British Columbia. His research examines the largely overlooked architectural history of the Indian Residential School system in Canada, as well as the problems pertaining to the preservation and commemoration of these contentious places. He also is interested in issues related to memorialization, heritage preservation, state apology, and discourses of social reconciliation. (2013)

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  • Chief Robert Joseph

    Writer
  • Scott Watson

    Curator, Editor

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Exhibition

    6 September 2013 – 1 December 2013

    Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools

    Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools presents artists who have produced work arising from the history of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and coincides with, but is independent from, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada National Event that will take place in Vancouver from September 18 to 21, 2013. The exhibition features artists from British Columbia and across Canada, and is cross-generational to include those who directly experienced Indian Residential Schools as well as those who are witnesses to its ongoing impact. 

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  • Event

    29 Nov 2013 2-3 pm

    Concert at the Belkin: Witnesses

    Join us for a concert by the UBC Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery. Ensemble Directors Corey Hamm and Paolo Bortolussi present a program that celebrates the Belkin Art Gallery's current exhibition Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools.

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