Beat Nation
at the Vancouver Art Gallery features work from Aboriginal artists including Emily Carr alumni and faculty. The exhibition runs from February 25 to June 3, 2012.
From the Vancouver Art Gallery website:
Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting,sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the changing demographics of Aboriginal people today.
The Globe and Mail review includes profiles of Emily Carr alumni Sonny Assu and Skeena Reece.