EVENTS

VISITING ARTIST - DAVID GARNEAU | PUBLIC ARTIST TALK

February 19, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Studio 2 (SOVA)

David Garneau (Métis) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. In 2023, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. His exhibition Dark Chapters is on view at the Yukon Arts Centre until February 20.

“European Art Academies positioned still life painting at the bottom of their hierarchy. Being the depiction of the things of everyday life, still life was considered a poor container for the lofty concepts found in history, portraiture, and even landscape painting. Dark Chapters challenges this assumption and status. These realistic paintings consist of things that are ready to hand: rocks, stones, bricks, books, flowers, water, hammers, mirrors, fabric, flags, honey, fish, teacups, jars, boxes, string, rope, and chains. And some less homey items: skulls, bones, smoke, ancient stone tools, sashes, bees, flies, rotting fruit, and hand cuffs. The objects are arranged to suggest meanings beyond representation. Books, for example, stand for book knowledge, universities, and professors. Rocks represent Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, and, sometimes, Indigenous persons. Some rocks are stones or Grandfathers.”

This talk is free, all are welcome!

VISITING ARTIST - DAVID GARNEAU + ARIN FAY | STUDIO VISITS

FEBRUARY 20

Available for SOVA Staff and Alumni

Artist, David Garneau, and curator, Arin Fay, will be travelling to Dawson in connection to Dark Chapters, an exhibition of Garneau’s paintings, curated by Fay, at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery in Whitehorse. A small number of studio visits are available to SOVA Staff and Alumni.

If you would like a studio visit, please fill out this expression-of-interest form. Spots will be filled as completed forms are received, and as scheduling allows.

David Garneau (Métis) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and writer who engages creative and critical expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of knowing, being, and doing. In 2023, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art: Outstanding Achievement and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. 

Arin Fay is a curator living near Kaslo, British Columbia. Her areas of special interest include publications, curatorial writing, and advocating for art and artists. An active member of the arts and culture community in the Kootenay region for thirty years, as an artist, volunteer, board member and curator. Arin is currently the Curator at the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery (NMAG).