Message, Meaning and Creation

On Wednesday, March 10 from 11:30am to 12:30pm, Artist Levi Nelson will be joining us online to talk about message, meaning and creation.

About Levi Nelson

Levi Nelson is an artist from the Lil’wat Nation located in Mount Currie, British Columbia. He is currently in his 4th year at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a focus on painting. Nelson’s work can best be described as contemporary First Nations art, where he fuses Aboriginal elements and ideas concerning Indigeneity, through traditional Western practices as oil painting. Most recently he has taken interest in multimedia works, integrating silkscreen, paint, and collage on canvas. Nelson is the recipient of the 2018 IDEA Art Award, The Ian Gillespie President’s Discretionary Award, and was voted as Best of Pemberton’s Favourite Artist 2020 in PIQUE Newsmagazine; Most recently his painting Nations in an Urban Landscape, was acquired by the Audain Art Museum Whistler for their Permanent Collection.