Families
Art At Home LIVE | Bill Reid
Wed Sep 30, 2020 | 4 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
(top) Bill Reid working, published in Western Homes and Living, January 1955, Photo: Selwyn Pullan, Collection of West Vancouver Art Museum; (bottom) Bill Reid, Gold Ring, c. 1970, gold, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Takao Tanabe, VAG 2013.38.2
Wednesday, September 30 | 4 PM
Let’s make Art At Home!
Experience the power of storytelling through art, and discover a new activity that you can try with your family at home!
In this session of Art At Home Live, Family Programs Coordinator Christina Jones will be joined by Jordana Luggi, Education Specialist at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, to look, talk, learn and make in celebration of the life and work of Haida artist Bill Reid.
September 30 also marks Orange Shirt Day. Wear your orange shirt as a way to create conversations around the impacts of the residential school system in Canada and to celebrate the resilience of Indigenous communities and cultures.
Join us for this special edition of Art At Home Live to learn more!
Experience Bill Reid’s work in person at the Gallery now in the exhibition Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia. Visit our neighbours at the Bill Reid Gallery to see the exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice, which celebrates Reid’s extraordinary life and legacy 100 years since his birth.
Need an orange shirt? Support local and buy a beautifully designed shirt from the Urban Native Youth Association, featuring artwork by Art Rental & Sales artist K.C. Hall! To order, call 604-254-7732 or email info@unya.bc.ca. Their office is open Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM. Find out more »
Get involved! Submit questions as a family during the Zoom presentation using the Q&A function. You can also engage with your fellow attendees and host during the event using the Chat function.
New to Zoom? Learn how to register and attend a webinar here »
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bill Reid (1920-1998) was an acclaimed master goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer, broadcaster, mentor and community activist. Reid was born in Victoria, BC, to a Haida mother and an American father with Scottish-German roots, and he only began exploring his Haida roots at the age of 23. This journey of discovery lasted a lifetime and shaped Reid’s artistic career.
Essentially a self-taught carver, Reid fused Haida traditions with his own modernist aesthetic to create both exquisitely small and monumental works that captured the public’s imagination and introduced a timeless vocabulary to the modern world.