Contemporary Landscapes - KPU Fine Arts Exhibit
We will be hosting a group art show upstairs in the Big House featuring artwork by 3rd year students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, exploring the relationship between landscapes, art and politics
Date/Time: May 7 2019, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Langley, Fort Langley National Historic Site | Event calendar23433 Mavis Ave
P: (604) 513-4777
Beyond depiction of beautiful views, landscape art has served multiple purposes throughout the past 500 years: showing ownership, depicting leisure, and propagating nationalism. Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fine Arts students who are undertaking the course “Politics in Landscape” have studied the political implications of landscape art, touching on ideas of the “wilderness myth” in Canada, as well as racial, historical, and environmental issues in landscape.
“Contemporary Landscapes” is an exhibition that responds to two on-site learning experiences – a native plant walk with a Kwantlen elder in Campbell Valley Park, and an interpretive tour of the Fort Langley National Historic Site. Students' artistic responses encompass drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation to consider their own relationship to land in this contemporary moment.
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