Curators Tour: Grant Arnold and Dr. Kristina Huneault

POSTPONED

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Gallery has postponed this Talk and Tour on March 17. In addition, all hands-on educational activities such as Weekly Family Programs, Spring Break programs and Described Tours are suspended until March 30.

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Free for Gallery Members or with admission.

Join Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, and guest scholar Dr. Kristina Huneault for a guided tour of Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries.

Dr. Huneault’s approach to art combines detailed historical research with close looking, a strategy which makes this special tour not to be missed!

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where he contributes to the exhibition program and development of the collection. Recent exhibition projects include Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries; Mowry Baden; Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, Kevin Schmidt: We Are the Robots; Pictures From Here; Susan Point: Spindle Whorl (with Ian Thom); Stephen Waddell: Dark Matter Atlas; among many others. Arnold has contributed essays to a number of publications and has lectured on historical and contemporary art at a variety of conferences and institutions. He received his MA in art history from the University of British Columbia in 1996, after studying at the University of Saskatchewan and the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Dr. Kristina Huneault is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, a former University Research Chair and a founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. She has an MA in Canadian art history from Concordia (1994) and a PhD in British visual culture from the University of Manchester (1998), where she was a Commonwealth scholar. She has taught at Concordia since 1999 and was the university’s emerging research fellow in 2004.  Dr. Huneault’s approach to art combines detailed historical research with theoretical questioning and close looking. She is the author of I’m not myself at all: Women, art and subjectivity in Canada (MQUP) and Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914 (Ashgate), the co-editor of Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada (MQUP), and the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles on art, gender and colonialism.