Indigenous Artists Showcase

Experience the incredible work of several local Indigenous artists, coming together in community, to share their passions, perspectives & stories. Artists from a variety of First Nations & backgrounds will be featured working across media including carving, painting, fashion & jewelry. These diverse artists tell their stories with their distinct visions & impeccable skills, carrying on the traditions & teaching of their respective cultures & mentors while paving the way forward in exciting new experimentations & endeavours.

We are pleased & grateful to work with Kolten Khasalus Grant as Exhibition Advisor, to bring these artists together & share a vision of community & kinship. Grant is an artist of  Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, Kwaguł, Tlingit, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & St’atl’imc ancestry. He is a wood carver of traditional & contemporary Masks, Frontlets, Panels, Paddles, Bent-boxes, Rattles, Regalia, Drums, Table Tops, Totem Poles, & House Posts; as well as painted design work, silver/gold jewelry & graphic design. He was born & raised in the village of Xwemelch’stn 
(Capilano Reserve) within the homelands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation in what is also known asWest Vancouver.