LOCATION: Room 916 , 9th Floor. Check-in opens 30 minutes before the session starts.

Part of the Women Deliver Satellite Sessions , presented by the City of Vancouver.

Haisla Collins, contemporary indigenous artist, will guide people through a discussion of northwest coast art, it’s cultural origins and symbolism, cultural world view, the northwest coast cannon (forms and style) and the application of indigenous forms in a contemporary context.

HAISLA COLLINS

Haisla Collins is a contemporary northwest coast artist from the territories of the Tsimshian, Nisga’a and Gitxan. Her work is whimsical, cosmic and heavily influenced by modernism and expressionism. She is most well known for leading “Spirits of the Realms” which is a 130 metre mural on 600 block beatty street” which was completed in 2017 for the 150 + indigenous mural contest. She is currently working as a professional artist, is managing Indigenous Women Artist Collective (IWA), and is lead singer and harmonica player for blues and roots band “ Haisla with Nasty, Brutish and short”.

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