Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth looks at the diverse ways urban Aboriginal youth are asserting their identity and affirming their relationship to both urban spaces and ancestral territories. Unfiltered and unapologetic, over 20 young artists from across Canada, the US, and around the world define what it really means to be an urban Aboriginal youth today. In doing so they challenge centuries of stereotyping and assimilation policies. This exhibit will leave visitors with the understanding that today’s urban Aboriginal youth are not only acutely aware of the ongoing impacts of colonization, but are also creatively engaging with decolonizing movements through new media, film, fashion, photography, painting, performance, creative writing and traditional art forms.

If you have a chance during the Holiday break, check out the Claiming Space exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology before it closes January 4th. It features the work of Emily Carr’s graduates and students from our degree program and Continuing Studies Summer Institutes including; Jeneen Frei Njootli, Ippiksaut Friesen, Ellena Neel, Diamond Point. Kelsey Sparrow, and Taleetha Tait

http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/claiming-space/

http://moa.ubc.ca/claimingspace/