Visual Art Students' Association
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Hey everyone! If you’re looking for something artsy to do, here are some of the events that are happening in November!

How does it feel to exist between space and time? We are launching a zine! To submit please send: image and description of the work along with a 50-100 word statement to [email protected] by Oct. 12!

How does it feel to exist between space and time? We are launching a zine! To submit please send: image and description of the work along with a 50-100 word statement to [email protected] by Oct. 12!

VASA brings you a list of events that you and your fellow art enthusiasts can attend to make the most of this month. Links to each event in order below https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca//art-connects-art-and-clim https://www.madeinbc.org/configurations-in-motion-2020/... https://www.contemporaryartgallery.ca/exh/altheathauberger/ https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca//eyes-have-walls-nicole- http://www.sfu.ca//e/2020-fall/ConfigurationsinMotion.html

As everything is looking a little different for everyone this year, we are still scrambling together to get things started. Nonetheless, there are still some really great events that are still on or commencing this month! We thought it is better late than never to mention this list of events for any art enthusiasts hoping to get out there and enjoy some art before this month comes to an end! Links for details below: Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts - Exhibition at the B...elkin Gallery, Sept 8 - Dec 6, 2020 https://belkin.ubc.ca And So They Print - Online Exhibition at the Hatch Gallery, Sept 14 - Sept 30, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/4296320457076355 Shoe Reviews Online and Other Replacement Works - Exhibition at Massy Books, Sept 19 - Oct 19, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/2705137533096281/?event_time_id=2705137526429615 Cheap! Diligent! Faithful! - Exhibition at Grunt Gallery, Sept 25 - Dec 12, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/637762553779985/ A Talk with Kent Monkman - Online Artist Talk organized by MOA, Sept 26, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/632347311045187 Tania Willard: Affirmations for Wildflowers: An Ethnobotany of Desire - Exhibition at Audain Gallery, Sept 28 - November 13, 2020 http://www.sfu.ca/ga/audain-gallery/WillardWildflowers.html

Meet Miya (she/her) Miya is one of the Social Media Executives at VASA this year. She is a half-japanese settler on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Through diverse mediums like painting, photography, film and performance art, she draws inspiration from themes related to identity, mundanity and the uncanny. Her favourite work right now is by George Rouy. Scroll to the next slide to check it out!

Currently being exhibited at the MOA, Cree artist Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience will guide you through Canada over the past 150 years, reclaiming and asserting the presence of the Indigenous voices into colonial history. Through the use of a time traveling gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkman brings us through the past to the contemporary using discomfort, sexuality, grief, and the shattering of the colonial singularity. On S...eptember 26, 11AM-12PM PST, there is also a virtual conference brought to you by MOA and Indspire (a national Indigenous charity) where Monkman will discuss his exhibition! Registration is available for this free talk through the MOA website! Image Credits: Kent Monkman, Le Petit Dejeuner sur l’herbe, 2014. Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM USA. and Kent Monkman, Reincarceration, 2013. Collection of Glenbow Museum. @moa_ubc

Meet Miya (she/her) Miya is one of the Social Media Executives at VASA this year. She is a half-japanese settler on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Through diverse mediums like painting, photography, film and performance art, she draws inspiration from themes related to identity, mundanity and the uncanny. Her favourite work right now is by George Rouy. Scroll to the next slide to check it out!

Meet Erinne Huston (she/her) Erinne is one of the Social Media Executives this year. While her practice is constantly evolving, it is always driven by both vulnerability and fun. For Erinne, art is not just a way to capture, solidify, and present her fleeting thoughts. It is also something to enjoy the creation of. Her favourite artwork right now is by Hariton Pushwagner on the next slide!

Meet Nandia Syabrina (she/her) Nandia is one of VASA’s Graphic Designers this year. The inspiration for her artworks are usually heavily influenced by the place and the culture that she grew up in, which is Indonesia. She likes to incorporate vernacular stories from the contemporary urban culture to explore the relationship between culture & identity, and challenging the notion of high art by incorporating the everyday and the ordinary low culture into my works. She usually works with photographs, sculpture and/or installation-based art. But lately she has been doing a lot of artwork research on screenprinting too! Nandia’s favourite art work is THE CROWD (2012) by AGUGN.

Meet Alger Liang (he/him) He is one of VASA’s graphic designers this year. Alger is a settler who breathes, lives, and learns on the territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are a by-product of reflection, exploration, and resistance. His practice takes a phenomenological approach that uses the body as a tool to sense the situated world. Through this embodiment, he engages with themes such as: the queer Asian diasporic identity, performativity, memory, family, and trauma. Scroll to the next slide to see his favourite artwork right now.

Meet Jessica Girard (she/her) She is a general executive for VASA this year. Jessica has a combination of love for reading conceptual theory and a desire to interpret, create and theorize through her own experiences. Her favourite artwork right now is anything by Ben Evans. Scroll to the next slide to see one of Evan’s works!

Meet Maggie Wong (she/her)! She is VASA’s secretary this year. She likes to use a variety of mediums and approaches in her practice, which tend to revolve around investigating themes of identity, power dynamics, and representation as well as their intersections with queer subjecthood and feminism through a critical theoretical lens. As a self-proclaimed aspiring femme fatale, she has an ongoing interest in fetishism, eroticism, and self-portraiture that seem to inform my work in one way or another. Maggie’s favourite artwork right now is Hannah Wilke’s Through the Large Glass. Scroll to the next slide to see it!

Meet Wendy Hanlon (she/hers) She is one of VASA’s event coordinators this year! Wendy likes painting strawberries and her favourite artwork right now is by Maria Auxiliadora. Swipe to the next slide to check it out!

Meet Heloise Auvray (she/her) Heloise is this year’s treasurer for VASA! She is a life-long art enthusiast in her 4th year of a BA in Art History and Visual Art. She has a multidisciplinary practice, juggling between textile art, video production and photography (production severely interrupted by big course loads and on-going pandemic). The last artist she fell in love with is Elodie Antoine, a Belgian Artist sculpting with fabric and fibers to create works about femininity and nature. Check the next slide to see Heloise’s favourite work by Elodie Antoine!

Meet Paige Braithwaite (she, her, hers) She is VASA’s Vice President! Paige’s practice splits into a dichotomy of the accessible and intimate. Academically, she likes challenging the theatricality of an engaged environmentstimulating or removing senses, sort of thing. She works primarily through sculpture, however she also loves utilizing multiple forms of mixed media, such as print, sound and performance. Alternatively, she studies the therapeutic properties of art making, especially those that are explicitly unreleased. She calls these works my emotional landscapes. Scroll to the next slide to see her favourite work at the moment!

Get ready to kick off this academic year with a series where we will be posting daily to introduce you all to the VASA team! Meet Jayden Dreher (He/Him) Jayden is the current president of VASA. He is in his fourth year at UBC and studies art history and visual art. As a multidisciplinary artist, his practice has recently centred on the intersections of critical theory and queer subjecthood. Through both collaborative and independent exploration, he examines how relationship influence self identity and provide a base for creative output. Scroll to the next slide to see his favourite work at the moment!