WITNESSING 40 YEARS OF URBAN ABORIGINAL ART

Dates: July 19 and 20, 2012, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Victoria Native Friendship Centre, 231 Regina Ave.

Open Space and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VFNC) invite you to the third exhibition in a four-part series. The exhibition honours the art of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth people, with an individual tribute to Nuu-Chah-Nulth artist Art Thompson.

Join us at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre (231 Regina Ave.) on July 19 and 20 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Over the course of the year, Open Space has collaborated on a series of distinguished exhibitions with the Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VNFC). This four-part exhibition series is comprised of selected works from the VNFC archive of Urban Aboriginal Art. Tahltan Curator-in-residence Peter Morin worked closely with Leslie McGarry (Cultural Programs Liaison) and Shona Collision (Community Health Liaison) to develop the exhibitions. The Victoria Native Friendship Centre collection is a growing archive of urban aboriginal artists, telling the stories and celebrating the achievements of VNFC s decades of community service to urban aboriginal populations. This collection is an important chapter in contemporary arts communities of British Columbia and Canada.