Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - Summer 2025

Books and other materials to enhance your experience with the exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Summer 2025.

Updated May 15, 2025
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Curve! : women carvers on the Northwest Coast
Claxton, Dana
Paper Book
An eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast. Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many of these artists have not become as well known outside their communities as their...
Dana Claxton : fringing the cube
Bartels, Kathleen S.
Paper Book
Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political issues through a practice which encompasses photography...
Early days : Indigenous art from the McMichael
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 Canadian Museum Association award for Outstanding Achievement in Research A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under...
Indigenous media arts in Canada : making, caring, sharing
Claxton, Dana
Paper Book
Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices. Humans are narrative creatures, and since the dawn of our existence we have shared...
Native art of the Northwest Coast : a history of changing ideas
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
Paper Book
The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world's canonical art zones. Since the mid-1700s, objects or "art" deriving from the Indigenous cultures of this area have been desired, displayed, and exchanged, classified and interpreted, stolen and confiscated, bought...
Sacred thought : Mi'kmaq meditations for our times
Paul, George (Elder of Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation)
Paper Book
In this philosophical exploration, Mi'kmaq Elder George Paul shares his traditional knowledge with those on a quest to better understand themselves and the world around them. Practiced and maintained by North American Indigenous tribes since time immemorial, this search for spirituality is...

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