[BCMA] [media release - Caetani Cultural Centre] Resident Child: Art Show with Kelowna artist Mirjana Borovickic

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

July 16, 2019



*Public Service Announcement*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*



Exploring war trauma through textile mixed-media art at Vernon’s Caetani
House
*A pop-up art exhibit at Caetani Centre by UBCO BFA graduate Mirjana
Borovickic*



“I was born in Bosnia and immigrated to Canada in 1995 at the age of 12,
after living through a civil war,” shares Kelowna artist Mirjana
Borovickic, the Caetani Centre’s inaugural UBCO Faculty of Creative and
Critical Studies (FCSS)/Caetani Artist-in-Residence.



Currently, she’s working with textiles and acrylic on a large mixed media
series titled *Resident Child.* In this series she explores her childhood
memories and war trauma, creating images from her past using previously
owned garments, mostly from her own children.



“It’s been a self-guided therapy session for me. I’ve been able confront my
difficult past and release emotions I had suppressed since childhood.”



Throughout her life Mirjana has always been fascinated with textiles; her
love for textiles was further developed during her teenage years when she
opted to take sewing in high school.



She graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of British
Columbia, Okanagan in 2019.



Come meet Mirjana and experience her show, *Resident Child,* during the
opening reception on Monday, July 29th, 7pm - 9pm, as well as during
gallery hours on Tuesday, July 30th from 11am-4pm in the Caetani Cultural
Centre Studio Gallery.


This new partnership between UBC Okanagan and Vernon’s Caetani Cultural
Centre is helping make artistic dreams come true for two UBCO
student-artists.


To have a residency funded by the new UBCO/Caetani partnership removes the
barriers of the very-real financial challenges a number of artists face
working full-time on their art career, explains Bryce Traister, dean of
UBCO’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS).

Caetani Centre’s Artist-in-Residence programs are available to artists
working on creative projects anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months in length.

The artist stays and creates at the Caetani Cultural Centre and is invited
to share workshops, readings and exhibitions with the North Okanagan
community.

For more information please visit our website *https://www.caetani.org
<https://www.caetani.org>*

Or contact the Caetani Centre at 250-275-1525.



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Janelle Hardy
Artist in Residence Program Coordinator
Caetani Cultural Centre
www.caetani.org/creative-residencies
250 275-1525
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