Art as Indigenous Pedagogy Event | Public Humanities Hub and Vancouver Art Gallery

January 30, 2025, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join the UBC Public Humanities Hub (PHH) and Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) on January 30th, 2025 for “Art as Indigenous Pedagogy”, featuring artist and filmmaker Shelley Niro and Indigenous Art Education expert and UBC faculty member, Dr. Shannon Leddy. This program coincides with the exhibition, Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch, the first major retrospective of Shelley Niro’s work. 

Dr. Shannon Leddy will guide participants through an interactive process that engages with Shelley Niro’s artwork. This will be followed by an artist talk by Shelley Niro on her body of work exploring themes from her four-decade career, including, Matriarchy, Past is Present, Actors and Family Relations.

This exciting event is free. Registration is required to hold your seat. Refreshments will be provided.

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When? 

Thursday, Jan 30 
5 PM - 8 PM 

Where?

Vancouver Art Gallery,
Room # Courtroom 301 

Shelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation, from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Niro’s visual art and film works have been featured internationally.

Dr. Shannon Leddy is Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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