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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">July 4, 2019</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Indigenous Summer Arts Studio opens at Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";color:black">Visitors to Victoria will be able to include a stop
at the Indigenous Summer Arts Studio when they visit the Royal BC Museum f</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">rom July 4, 2019 to mid-September, 2019. The studio—located next to Wawadiğ³a (Mungo Martin House) in Thunderbird
Park—is a place where Indigenous artists will be able to create, share, learn, network with peers and meet guests from around the world.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Indigenous Summer Arts Studio program is the result of discussions with Indigenous artists during consultations on the renewal of the Thunderbird
Park Carving Studio. The studio will include both mentoring and emerging Indigenous artists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">“With the new Studio program, the Royal BC Museum has created a temporary space where emerging artists can connect with senior artists and arts mentors,”
says Lou-ann Neel, Repatriation Specialist at the Royal BC Museum. “For more than 50 years, this was an important function of the original Carving Studio, and artists at the consultations felt it was important to re-establish a space for urban Indigenous artists
who might not otherwise have access to mentors.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Indigenous Summer Arts Studio space is an 18-by-30-foot open-sided tent, with a wooden house-front façade designed by Sarah Jim of the Tseycum
First Nation. The tent has been loaned to the museum by Nuu-chah-nulth artist Hjalmer Wenstob.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Each week, from Wednesday to Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, the Indigenous Summer Arts Studio will host up to four artists, representing and practicing
a range of artistic practices including: carving (wood, bone); painting; cedar-bark weaving; wool weaving; beadwork; drum-making; jewellery engraving; leather/hide work; singing; storytelling; and textiles/sewing.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Indigenous artists were invited to be a part of the Summer Arts Studio with a call to mentoring and emerging indigenous artists and will receive
and honorarium for their time at the studio. More information is available at </span>
<a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/first-nations/indigenous-collections-and-repatriation/calltoindigenousartists"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/first-nations/indigenous-collections-and-repatriation/calltoindigenousartists</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides a dynamic
forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees and
Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Media contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Julie Ovenell, 778.679.1379<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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