Exhibition: Indigenous Symbols and Signifiers
Top (L-R): Jazmine Andrew, Riannon Wesley, Robyn Adams. Bottom (L-R): Koyah Morgan-Banke, Brittney Townrow, Kineena Kang
Date/Time: Oct 1 2025, 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Vancouver, Hatch Art Gallery, Floor 2, AMS Nest6133 University Blvd
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Cost: Free
What symbols from your culture represent belonging? Six Indigenous UBC students were invited to visually represent cultural symbols that hold deep meaning in their identities, histories, and traditional teachings.
The Faculty of Arts and the First Nations House of Learning are honoured to showcase and celebrate these student artists as knowledge-keepers. From traditional beadwork and Formline Design to pictographs, native plants, and the language of ceremony, each artist connects deeply to their Indigenous heritage and lands through artistic practice.
Whether honouring grandparents through images of eagles and grizzlies, teaching children the foundation of ovoids, or gathering around a kitchen table to create beadwork, these works express the intergenerational resilience and vibrancy of Indigenous Nations across the country.
The Indigenous Symbols and Signifiers initiative was made possible by the UBC Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism Enhancement Fund.
Featured artists
Jazmine Andrew — BA’27 First Nations and Indigenous Studies, St̓át̓imc from the Lil̓wat Nation
Brittney Townrow — PhD’25 Curriculum Studies, Heiltsuk First Nation
Robyn Adams — M.Arch + MLA’25 School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Red River Métis
Riannon Wesley — BA’26 First Nations and Endangered Languages Major, Anthropology Minor, Nlaka’pamux and Tsimshian First Nations
Koyah Morgan-Banke — BSc’27 Neuroscience Major, t̓uk̓ʷaaʔatḥ (“Toquaht”) First Nation
Kineena Kang — BA’25 Psychology, Anishininiimowin First Nation
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