This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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The Silk Purse Gallery
Indigenous Artists Showcase
In-person
Indigenous Visual arts Self-guided Intercultural Interdisciplinary Painting Sculpture & installation Fibre & textile arts History & heritageDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Silk Purse Arts Centre
1570 Argyle Avenue
West Vancouver, BC
Directions: 1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver, BC.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
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 singular visions & impeccable skill, 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.
Links
- West Vancouver Community Arts Council westvanartscouncil.ca
Organizer
West Vancouver Community Arts Council
The West Vancouver Community Arts Council is a not-for-profit organization established in 1968, with a mission to increase and broaden the opportunities for West Vancouver and all North Shore citizens to enjoy and participate in cultural activities. The WVCAC is based out of the Silk Purse Arts Centre on the waterfront near John Lawson Park at 1570 Argyle Avenue.
This event is part of a hub:
West Van Community Arts
The District of West Vancouver West Vancouver, BCProudly facilitated by the Cultural Services Team at the District of West Vancouver, in partnership with the Community Arts Council of West Vancouver. Bringing you unique and fun artistic activities at Heart of West Vancouver's Cultural Fac...