University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries
630 Yates Street V8W 1K9 Victoria, BC, Canada

Catalogues are now in! Pick one up for a toonie in the gallery along with a free bookmark. All proceeds will fund UVic Art History and Visual Studies student scholarships.

Great opportunity for emerging artists!

Elly Heise's installation "Related Repose" is installed in The Bed Room as a part of our latest exhibition. The artist utilizes an oak bed from the Legacy's collection to anchor fabric panels of altered photographs from Heise's own archive. "Much like the historic bed, the fabric photograph suggests something beyond its physicality. It is indicative of a space somewhere between psychological and physical, a membrane existing somewhere between the physical world and the imaginative. I see the represented spaces within Related Repose as a place where our memories and identifying narratives reside, a fluid, subjective, and intangible place." https://lifestories.uvic.ca/exhibits/show/legacy/bedroom

Over the past five years, Legacy has been working to address the lack of representation of works by Indigenous women and two-spirit artists in our collection. This year Legacy has purchased new works by five Indigenous artists thanks to the financial support of the Salish Weave Collection of George and Christiane Smyth. Learn more about the works in our New Acquisitions update: https://www.uvic.ca/legacygall//new-acquisitions/index.php

Art shapes our life stories, our sense of self and our relationships, as we journey through the life stages. Life Stories brings to light a provocative array of visual and material culture from the University of Victoria Art Collections that engages with life stages and related rituals. Today is the opening day of Life Stories! Review our COVID-19 safety plan here: https://www.uvic.ca/legacyga/visit-us/safety-plan/index.php... Explore the Life Stories exhibition website here: https://lifestories.uvic.ca/

Even if we can't travel far this year, the Legacy's collection still can! Visit our website to find out more about the 3 galleries our collection has visited this year, and where one special piece will be in 2021. https://www.uvic.ca//current/legacys-collection-travels-ca Maxwell Bates, Yellow Reception, oil on canvas, 1972, Gift of Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic. U996.25.2

We've been busy this week installing a new exhibition opening Wednesday, December 2nd - Life Stories. Art shapes our life stories, our sense of self and our relationships, as we journey through the life stages: Beginnings, Childhood, Coming of Age, Maturity, Later Life, and Passages. Interwoven with the artworks are voices of writers, artists, scholars, and curators offering diverse perspectives on significant stages informing our lives. Join us next week with your masks and ...household bubble! Jack Wilkinson, Girl In Blue Flowered Nightgown. 1972-1975. Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic.

Today is the last day of To Fish As Formerly: A Story of Straits Salish Resurgence. Come catch the exhibition before it closes today at 4pm. As per the new provincial health orders, masks are now required in the gallery. We look forward to welcoming you and your household bubble! First image: Temoseng aka Chasz Elliott, "SHELIS - Life", 2020.... Third image: Colton Hash, "Pulse of the Salish Sea", 2020. . . . @temoseng @colton.hash #tofishasformerly #artexhibition #salishsea #reefnet #yyjarts #uvic

There is only one more week to view Maureen Gruben's TUKTUYAQTUUQ (Caribou Crossing) at the Legacy! See pieces that engage with the caribou, like "Clicked a Dance", made up of 32 caribou hooves coated in aluminum tape to reflect the light, before the exhibition closes on November 14th.

Next Thursday, Dr. Claxton will be speaking and answering questions at our online tour and curator's discussion of our current exhibition To Fish As Formerly: A Story of Straits Salish Resurgence! XEMOLTW Dr. Nick Claxton teaches at UVic in the Department of Child and Youth Care. His research is centered on the revitalization and resurgence of Indigenous knowledges through community-based and land-based healing. Nick’s doctoral research focused on the revitalization of his... community’s traditional fishing practice. His doctoral research project focused on the revitalization and restoration of the SXOLE during which he worked to pull together the disappearing knowledge of the SXOLE, reinvigorate cross border cooperation between the WSÁNE and their Xwelemi relatives, and coordinate the community-based creation and fishing of the first SXOLE on Canadian waters in 100 years. This project involved reconnecting with many elders, youth, and community members. It marked the beginning of a longer-term journey of resurgence and intergenerational resilience that continues. Register for the Zoom tour here: https://uvic.zoom.us/web/register/WN_SkGbZXLpRse_38R8SkbQiw University of Victoria Continuing Studies at UVic University of Victoria, Faculty of Fine Arts UVic History Department University of Victoria Faculty of Education

Two weeks remaining for Holiday Card Contest submissions! We invite Indigenous youth ages 5-12 in B.C. to send in their original holiday-related artwork for ...a chance to be featured on our FPCC Holiday Card! Prizes will be given to the top three finalists. The deadline is November 18th, and it’s approaching fast! Check out our story for more information: https://bit.ly/2TGwzW5 If you have any questions, please reach out to Shireen Banaee at [email protected]

Hear from Katie Hughes next Thursday at 7pm during our virtual tour and curator's discussion of "To Fish As Formerly: A Story of Straits Salish Resurgence"! Register for the free event here: https://uvic.zoom.us/web/register/WN_SkGbZXLpRse_38R8SkbQiw Katie Hughes is a recent graduate of the Public History MA program in the UVic History Department and a museum professional. Katie co-curated the Legacy's current exhibition "To Fish As Formerly: A Story of Straits Salish Resu...rgence". Her graduate research focused on sharing the WSÁNE story of the revitalization of the SXOLE with the public. In collaboration with Nick Claxton, Katie worked with a broad range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members, elders, and artists to develop content and curate artworks for the exhibition. Drawing from Indigenous cultural and oral histories and colonial historical sources, Katie focused on capturing the history of the Reef Net and its resurgence in the exhibition text, artworks and objects. Katie is currently on maternity leave from her position as Community Engagement Coordinator at UVic Legacy Galleries.