Free admission 5-9pm courtesy of Scotia McLeod
Dana Claxton discusses her LAB installation Indian Candy, which investigates buried histories in the Wild West archive, with specific attention paid to Sitting Bull, who shares her Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux ancestry.
Claxton's work has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre, and Sundance Film Festival. She has been an influential teacher at Emily Carr University, University of Regina, Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia. Her numerous awards include the prestigious VIVA Award and the Eiteljorg Fellowship.
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