Art At Home LIVE | Susan Point

Interconnection and Printmaking

Wednesday, July 8 | 1:30 PM

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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 tell us the story of the incredible life of contemporary artist Susan Point.

Point’s work expresses Coast Salish visual language that she has learned from her family and from researching ancestral cultural objects. As she has said, “I try to show the connection of all things because they are all connected and an example is the enduring spirits… It’s the cycle of life, it goes in a circle…”

Together, we will discuss the elements and shapes specific to Coast Salish design that Point uses in her prints, carvings and public sculptures. We will then learn how to make our own prints that express interconnection using shapes and elements from our imaginations, memories and cultures.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Susan A. Point, of the Musqueam First Nation, inherited ancestral learnings and the traditions of her people from her mother. Point is the Daughter of Edna Grant and Anthony Point, and the niece of Dominic Point and Mike Kew, who passed the traditional stories of the Musqueam on to her when she was a child. Point has been a key figure in re-establishing the vitality of Salish art, drawing inspiration from the designs of her ancestors and exploring the use of non-traditional materials to forcefully assert the vitality of Salish culture in the contemporary world. Point’s work has been widely exhibited in North America, Europe and Asia, and she has produced more than forty public artworks for specific locations in BC and Washington. Point excels using non-traditional materials and techniques, creating stand-alone sculptures and site-specific works.

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Point has been recognized with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions to Canada. She has also been acknowledged with an Indspire Achievement Award, a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, a B.C. Creative Achievement Award and the 2018 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, among other honours. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2017, the exhibition Susan Point: Spindle Whorl at the Vancouver Art Gallery surveyed her entire career. It has since toured to Surrey Art Gallery and Kelowna Art Gallery.