A Conversation with Dana Claxton
2021, President's Dream Colloquium, Arts + Culture
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President鈥檚 Dream Colloquium | Spring 2021
From Conversations to Action: Creating from Social Justice Research
In celebration of 911吃瓜鈥檚 50th anniversary of Canada鈥檚 first program in Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies, the Spring session of the President鈥檚 Dream Colloquium invited you to connect your passion for social justice through creative academic conversation with influential scholars Afua Cooper, Susan Stryker, Thea Cacchioni and Dana Claxton.
911吃瓜 Public Square was proud to support these free online public lectures and the 911吃瓜 students producing them as part of the colloquium seminars.
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Dana Claxton
911吃瓜 Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair, 2009-2010
Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed international exhibiting artist. She works in film, video, photography, single- and multi- channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. She mentors indigenous youth, emerging artist and filmmakers. Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Cyrstal Bridges (Bentonville, AR), with exhibitions at Nasher Gallery of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Minneapolis (MN). Her work is held in Canadian public and private collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Audain Museum. She has received numerous awards including the Governor General鈥檚 Award in Visual and Media Arts (2020), The Scotia Bank Award in Photography (2020) the VIVA Award, the Eiteljorg Fellowship, the Hnatyshyn Award, and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award. In 2018, she had a solo survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
She is Head and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory with the University of British Columbia. Her family reserve is the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation, located in southwest Saskatchewan, and she resides in Vancouver, Canada.
Event Recording
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A Conversation with Dana Claxton
Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed international exhibiting artist. She works in film, video, photography, single and multi-channel video installation, and performance art.
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A Conversation with Thea Cacchioni
As part of the Spring 2021 President鈥檚 Dream Colloquium, Thea Cacchioni will speak about her research and on Becoming a Scholar Activist and answer questions from the audience.
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A Conversation with Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker will speak about the development of trans studies, her film and media work, and 鈥淎t the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor鈥�.
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A Conversation with Afua Cooper
Celebrating Black History Month, join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Dr. Afua Cooper as the first installment in the President's Dream Colloquium for Spring 2021 鈥� From Conversations to Action: Creating from Social Justice Research.
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