She received a bachelor of fine arts degree in visual arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a master of fine arts degree in interdisciplinary studies from Simon Fraser University. Stephanie Gagne is a Vancouver-based artist.

They are a lens based artist that moonlights as a media anthropology/entomology undergrad and community-centred arts facilitator/administrator/programmer/writer. Hagere Selam ‘shimby’ Zegeye-Gebrehiwot is a transnational diasporic dyke born and predominantly based in Treaty One Territory (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). and group exhibition with the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine 2020 in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. Upcoming exhibitions are Art Toronto 2019, solo booth with Macaulay and Co. Group exhibitions include: The Map Is Not The Territory at the Portland Art Museum, I continue to Shape at The Art Museum at U of T in Toronto and An Assembly of Shapes at Oakville Galleries. Vickers most recent solo exhibitions include, Chrysalis Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC, Speaking With Hands and Territories, SFU Galleries and Coverings at Macaulay and Co in Vancouver. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Royal Bank of Canada art collection. Trained as a painter, she graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1994), Simon Fraser University, BA (1998) and MFA (2013.) Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Amsterdam. Born in Kenora Ontario and raised in Toronto, her works explore her Ojibway ancestry through painting, sculpture, performance, and video examining memory, healing and embodied connections to ancestral lands. Our guests for Saturday’s community conversation:Ĭharlene Vickers is a contemporary Anishinabe artist based in Vancouver Canada. Manuel Axel Strain, The Land Can’t Hear Your Voices, video installation (still), 2020. Their goal is to move beyond the binary opposition of the colonizer and the colonized to establish new ontologies for First Nations identities. Strain’s work is mainly concerned with assimilation, religion, spirituality, intergenerational trauma, and healing. They work with painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and installation. This leads them to examine the construction of First Nations identities - in particular the internal conflicts that arise from imposed identity constructs and the legacies of colonization. They use their lived experience to inspire social and political change in the colonial state of Canada. Manuel Axel Strain is a 2-spirit interdisciplinary artist with Musqueam/Simpcw/Syilx heritage based in the unceded territory of the Katzie/Kwantlin peoples. Possible topics will include addiction, different modes of recovery and healing, institutional and cultural knowledge systems, connections to ancestral land, intergenerational transmissions, and Indigenous-Settler relations.

Condesa Strain, Charlene Vickers, Hagere Selam (shimby) Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Stephanie Gagne to share their responses to the exhibition. For Take As Needed, Strain has invited E. Needed Medicine locates mental health within contexts of colonialism, intergenerational trauma, and cultural resurgence. The conversation will begin at 3:30pm to make time for those who would like to visit the exhibition at Gallery Gachet (across Carrall Street) before gathering at Interurban.Īll are welcome to join us for a community conversation on the artwork and themes of Needed Medicine, a solo exhibition of new sculpture, drawing, video, and performance work by Manuel Axel Strain currently at Gallery Gachet. Interurban Art Gallery, 1 E Hastings |Saturday, February 8 | 3pm-5pmĪ community conversation in association with Manuel Axel Strain’s Needed Medicine, currently on exhibit nearby at Gallery Gachet, 9 W Hastings.

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