Overview of Symposium: Events, Participants, Book Launch

PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC: 

An Introduction to Artist/Writer Emily Carr

PRODUCED BY INGRID MARY PERCY AND STEPHANIE MCKENZIE

All events are free and open to the public.
Everyone welcome.

Friday March 22 to Sunday March 24, 2013

Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador CANADA

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EVENTS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Kerry Mason (Instructor in Canadian and Northwest Coast Art History, History in Art Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)

FILM SCREENING

Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers & the Spirits of the Forest, Michael Ostroff, Director at The Millbrook Cinema, Millbrook Mall, Corner Brook, NL.

"An impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters. Emily Carr began painting in an era when women didn’t, at an age when most people shouldn’t, traveling to remote locations that few professional adventurers chose to go" (White Pine Pictures, http://www.whitepinepictures.com/all-titles/emily-carr/)

Bring your friends, come early and stay late!

PARTICIPANTS

Marcia Crosby, PhD candidate, UBC Department of Art History and Visual Culture, Vancouver, British Columbia. Haida and Tsimshian ancestry.

Kerry Mason, BA, MA, Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.

Dr. Stephanie McKenzie, BA, MA, PhD, Associate Professor, English Programme, Grenfell Campus Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. McKenzie will present a discussion of Carr's writing and influences -- Aboriginal literature, Walt Whitman and Vincent van Gogh.

Ingrid Mary Percy, DipFA, BFA, MFA, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Program, Grenfell Campus Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. As a former long time resident of Victoria, B.C. and contemporary visual artist, Percy will speak to Carr's legacy as it pertains to British Columbia and contemporary art.

Jan Ross, Curator in Residence, Emily Carr House, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Ross will share her extensive knowledge of Emily Carr's life and work from her unique perspective as curator and long time resident of the Carr family home, in James Bay, Victoria, British Columbia.

Riva Symko, MA, PhD Candidate (ABD), Department of Art History, Queen's University, and Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts Program, Grenfell Campus Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.

BOOK LAUNCH

Launch of Dr. Stephanie McKenzie's Saviours In This Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent Van Gogh (Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher, Ireland).

Funded by:

The Memorial Pilot Program of Funding for Scholarship in the Arts

Memorial University ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

Office of Dr. Maura Hanrahan PhD

Special Adviser to the President for Aboriginal Affairs.