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Haida Curators, speaking about RezErect

December 4, 2014 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

RezErect: On Native Erotica
Gwaai Edenshaw and Kwiaahwah Jones are the co-curators of the RezErect: Native Erotica exhibit at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. They will be speaking about their exhibit, Native American sexuality and Indigenous curatorial practices.

Gwaai Edenshaw is a Haida artist known primarily for his metalwork, as well as bone, slate and wood carvings. He is a founding member of the K’aalts’idaa K’ah Storytelling Society and has worked on numerous production, includingHaidawood, a stop-animation suite, the RezErect Catalog, and Beyond Eden, a musical about totem pole preservation that was staged during the Vancouver Olympics.

Kwiaahwah Jones is of Haida and Nisgaa descent and co-author of Gina Waadluxaan Tlu: The Everything Canoe and the RezErect Catalog. Before coming to the Bill Reid Gallery, she was a curator at the Haida Gwaii Museum, where she curated the exhibition From a Few Weavers: The Davidson Collection.

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Date:
December 4, 2014
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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