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This lecture covers the collaborative process of experimental narrative cinematic work through experimentation and creation; how it began and where it is going.

Corinne Thiessen is a multidisciplinary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  She holds an MFA from the University of Lethbridge.

Robert Bechtel was raised in Lethbridge attending the University of Lethbridge from 1993 to 1998. He has maintained a studio practice as well as being involved in the local arts community participating with such groups as the Potemkin art collective and Trap/Door. He has had an interest in participating in the organization of group shows where the practice of art is open to the widest possible audience. Robert has had an interest in painting as well as installation and video, moving from one to the other depending on the requirements of the project. 

Indigenous Art Today--Contemporarily Traditional or Traditionally Contemporary

Don (AhnAhnsisi) McIntyre

Don McIntyre is an Ojibway of the Wolf Clan from Timiskaming First Nation. He has been adopted in the Potlatch by the Beaver Clan of the Nisga’a.

A Very Brief Introduction to Art History for Understanding Contemporary Art

This talk will give some a very brief introduction to historical art as some background context for understanding contemporary art. 

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Yoko Takashima was born and raised in Japan.  She received her BA from Kyoto Women’s University, BFA from University of Lethbridge, and MFA from University of Victoria.  She has exhibited since 1995 in Canada, US, Asia and Europe.  Her selected solo shows are at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Western Front Gallery in Vancouver, Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, OBORO in Montreal, A Space in Toronto, The New Gallery in Calgary, and Art Tower Mito in Mito, Japan.  Her selected group shows include at Vancouver Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum in Ca

Jackson 2bears speaks about new installation and performance artworks, as well as documentary projects.

Sarah Anne Johnson's latest exhibition is a continuation of themes she explored in House on Fire (2009) and Dancing With The Doctor (2010).  These works reflect on trauma sustained as a result of CIA experiments on mind control undertaken from 1950 to 1973.  Under the banner of MKUltra, US and Canadian citizens were administered paralytic and psychedelic drugs, subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, isolation, sensory deprivation, drug-induced coma, and verbal and sexual abuse by researchers and psychologists studying the alteration of mental states and brain function.

Jackson 2bears is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia artist and cultural theorist who currently resides in Lethbridge, AB. He has exhibited his work extensively across Canada, most recently at the Musée d;art Contemporain de Montréal; the Vancouver Art Gallery; PAVED Arts (Saskatoon, SK); the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto, ON); EMedia (Calgary, AB); Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB); and Urban Shaman (Winnipeg, MB).