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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For Immediate Release
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Artist’s residency in Haida Gwaii subject of conversation at Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In Conversation:</span></i><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall & Nika Collison<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Saturday, March 24,</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> from 2 to 3 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 15, 2018 – Kelowna, BC:</span></b><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal">
</span></em><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Kelowna Art Gallery presents
<i>In Conversation:</i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall & Nika Collison</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">,
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Saturday, March 24,</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> from 2 to 3 pm. This event is held in conjunction with Hall’s current exhibition,
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Gwaii Haanas – Islands and Sacred Sites</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Kelowna-based a</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">rtist
<b>Joice M. Hall </b>is joined by <b>Nika Collison</b>, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Executive Director and Curator at the Haida Gwaii Museum, for a public tour of the exhibition, followed by an illuminating conversation.<span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">In 2016, Hall was selected for a two week artist’s residency in Haida Gwaii that was presented by
<em><span style="font-style:normal">the Haida Gwaii Museum in collaboration with Gwaii Haanas/Parks Canada. This experience was the inspiration for her exhibition
</span></em><i>Gwaii Haanas – Islands and Sacred Sites</i>, which features an 18-foot-long painting installation, comprised of a composite landscape that celebrates the ocean, forest, and marine life she saw while being guided around Gwaii Haanas. Hall referenced
over 1,600 digital photographs that she took during her visit to create the high-realism paintings.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In Conversation:</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall & Nika Collison</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> is free to attend and open to the public.</span><span lang="EN-CA">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hall’s exhibition
<i>GWAII HAANAS – Islands and Sacred Sites</i> is on view at the Kelowna Art Gallery until April 1, 2018.</span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street in downtown Kelowna. For more information about current exhibitions, public programming
or special events, please visit the Kelowna Art Gallery online at www.kelownaartgallery.com or call 250-762-2226.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- 30 –<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Speakers’ Biographies<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Joice M. Hall<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A realist painter, Hall spent most of her career based in Calgary before moving to Kelowna in 1999. She studied at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary from 1960 to 1965.
She has exhibited her work in galleries across Canada, and in Mexico. In 2010, the Kelowna Art Gallery organized a full-scale survey of Hall’s work, titled
<i>Surreal. Real. Ideal: The Art of Joice M. Hall</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nika Collison<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jisgang, Nika Collison, belongs to the
<u>K</u>aayahl Laanas of the Haida Nation. Specializing in historic and contemporary Haida language, art and culture, she’s served as curator for the Haida Gwaii Museum since 2000 and has recently taken on the role of Executive Director. As a senior negotiator
for Haida repatriation initiatives, she is privileged to work with her Nation to build reparations with museums, and, to work with her community in the creation of exhibitions, publications and programs both locally and on an international scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">For more information, to schedule an interview, or for additional high-res images, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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