Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams, and Dancing Coyotes
Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams, and Dancing Coyotes: New Works from the Public Art Collection showcases new donations and acquisitions to UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection over the past year and focuses on contemporary Indigenous printmaking and lens-based practices, that explore the relationship of photography to land and culture, by Indigenous Women. Through printmaking, photography, carving, and video, the exhibition brings together Indigenous artists who use their work to challenge social issues and pass on ancestral stories and knowledge.
Medicine Prints, Whale Dreams, and Dancing Coyotes
January 5 to 27, 2026, FINA Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 16, 4-6 pm
The exhibition is curated by Tania Willard, director of the UBC Okanagan and Belkin Gallery and co-curated by curatorial assistant Ryan Trafananko with support from programming assistant Kelly Yuste. The exhibit includes new acquisitions of lens- based work from Michelle Sound, Taylor Baptiste, Krista Belle Stewart, and Nadya Kwandibens, and contemporary printmaking featuring Chief Henry Speck, Jim Johnny, Lyle Wilson, Robert Davidson, Roy Henry Vickers, Trevor Angus, and Rupert and Barry Scow. These prints from artists of different west coast nations were donated to the Public Art Collection last spring by Milton and Della McClaren.
Featured artists Michelle Sound will deliver an artist talk on Monday, January 19 from 3 to 4 pm as part of the FCCS Visiting Artist Series, moderated by Dr. Stacey Koosel. This talk will be presented on Zoom, people can join the room in person, or register to view virtually.
