by ebingham | Mar 31, 2025 | Alumni, Award, donor, Graduate, indigenous, News, Visual Arts
We congratulate 2025 Presidents’ Alumni Award recipient Tania Willard, a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. A graduate of the Department of Visual Arts (BFA, 1998), the work of Kamloops-born Willard activates...
by John Threlfall | Mar 28, 2025 | climate, donor, Writing
When 20 of the best climate storytellers from around the world present their ideas at the international My Climate Story project on April 10, UVic will be in the room as well: Writing professor Sean Holman was selected out of nearly 100 submissions to share a...
by ebingham | Nov 10, 2024 | Alumni, Award, indigenous, News, Theatre, Writing
The Faculty of Fine Arts is thrilled to announce that Jeannette Armstrong will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) and Lina de Guevara will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) at the Fall 2024 Fine Arts convocation ceremony. You can watch as...
by John Threlfall | Oct 25, 2024 | Events, Faculty, indigenous, Writing
When this year’s installment of the sxʷiʔe ̕m “To Tell A Story” Indigenous Writers & Storytellers Series returns to UVic on November 1, it will be the latest gift to the community by the Department of Writing and professor Gregory Scofield. “My goal is to...
by John Threlfall | Sep 25, 2024 | Art History & Visual Studies, Faculty, indigenous, Visual Arts
On May 27, 2021, Canada watched in horror as news spread about the confirmation of more than 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, located on the lands of the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. This discovery was a painful...
