Artists’ Tour: lineages and land bases

Join curator Tarah Hogue and artists Al McWilliams and Tracy Williams (Sesemiya) for a guided tour of the exhibition lineages and land bases.

Free for Gallery Members or with admission.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer based in Vancouver, BC. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation, with French Canadian and Dutch ancestries, and was raised on the border between Treaty 6 and Treaty 7 territories in Red Deer, AB. Tarah is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery and an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm [Musqueam], Sḵwx̱wú7mesh [Squamish] and səlilwətaɬ [Tsleil-Waututh] territories since 2008.  

Al McWilliams has exhibited extensively in both solo and major group exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. His work is held in most major public collections in Canada, including The National Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée D’art contemporain. Along with his private studio practice, McWilliams has been involved in a number of public art competitions, completing works in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle and Japan. His last public project was the Monument for the Royal Canadian Navy in Ottawa.

Tracy Williams (Sesemiya) is a member of the Squamish Nation and a fifth-generation cedar weaver. For 10 years, Williams worked with the Squamish Education Centre as a secondary school counselor. She has also developed numerous programs for connecting Squamish youth to traditional knowledge practices and protocols, including week-long survival camps with the Wilderness Living Project. In 2006, she was recognized as an Outstanding Supporter of Youth by the City of North Vancouver in recognition and appreciation of her work with Indigenous youth in the North Shore community. Williams has also taught cedar weaving as part of the Uts’am/Witness Project in the Elaho Valley.