Tour of Related with Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat
Join us for a lunchtime tour of the exhibition Related with one of the exhibiting artists, Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat.
Location
On Campus
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University
520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map
Open to Public?
Yes
Brittney Namaakii Bear Hat is a Mohkinstsis/Calgary-based artist whose Blackfoot and Cree/Dane-zaa ancestors have lived on the lands that are now part of Treaty 7 and 8 for many millennia. Her work explores this cultural lineage through installation, photography, text and collage. Bear Hat graduated from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2011, where she majored in painting. Her work explores identity and adds to the rich stories of her home territories. Within her work, Bear Hat is exploring that which ties her to these unique landscapes.
Bear Hat’s most recent work, These Gifts, was on display in Contemporary Calgary’s exhibition, Planetary, in January 2020. Other recent exhibitions include Visions of the Hunt (2018), The Esplanade, Medicine Hat; níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | ma soeur | my sister, Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), Art Mûr, Montréal; I Believe in Living (2018), Untitled Arts Society, Calgary, and Lineage (2018), Latitude 53, Edmonton. Bear Hat has also been awarded the Joane Cardinal Schubert Memorial Scholarship in 2011 and the Sonia de Grandmaison Scholarship in 2013.