Moving Images (IAT344)
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Between 2016 and 2022, I collaborated with curators, artists, students, and graduate student teaching assistants, and colleagues to produce significant documentary films to support exhibitions at the Bill Reid Gallery for Northwest Coast Art. Overall we have produced 15 short documentaries for the exhibitions “Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art” (2017), “qaʔ yəxʷ - water honours us:womxn and waterways” (2019), and “To Speak with a Golden Voice (in celebration of Bill Reid’s Centennial birthday)”, 2020.
Three offerings of Moving Images were conducted with the Bill Reid Gallery; two of them I was the primary instructor, working with PhD student and Teaching Assistant Aynur Kadir. A third was led by Senior Instructor Susan Clements Vivian, with co-instructor Dr. Aynur Kadir in a postdoctoral position at the Bill Reid Gallery that I supervised and in which I collaborated with the film production for the Bill Reid Centennial birthday exhibition.
The teaching team and students have all been highly privileged to learn from and spend time with incredible artists and activisits such as James Hart, Marvin Oliver, Tracy Williams, Roxanne Charles, Ronnie Dean Harris, Don Yeomans, Richard Adkins, George Rammel, and the Rematriate Collective.
Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art
September 13 to December 10, 2017, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver BC
The exhibition 'Intangible: Memory and Innovation in Coast Salish Art' ran from September 13 to December 10, 2017 at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver BC. It featured 6 short documentaries created by students in Kate's Moving Images class (IAT 344) that profile each of the exhibiting artists. Aynur Kadir was the course's Teaching Assistant, and former MCL research assistant Justine Crawford also created two of the films. The exhibition is curated by Sharon Fortney and Beth Carter, and we are very grateful to have had the opportunity to engage these incredible artists and to help tell the story of the intangible qualities of their work.
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qaʔ yəxʷ - water honours us:womxn and waterways
Course offering: Fall 2019
Exhibition at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
April 10 - Oct. 6 2019
From the Bill Reid Gallery:
Water is an essential ingredient for human life - it connects us geographically, culturally, and socially while fueling our bodies and spirits. Guest curators ReMatriate Collective reveal the unique connection between womxn and water in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast, with special attention to the roles of child-bearers, healers, and doulas. Artists Richelle Bear Hat (Blackfoot/Cree), Krystle Coughlin (Selkirk), Lindsay Katsitsakataste Delaronde (Mohawk), Alison Marks (Tlingit), Dionne Paul (Nuxalk/Sechelt), Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena), Marika Echachis Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth), Carrielynn Victor (Sto:lo), Veronica Rose Waechter (Gitxsan) and Water Keeper, Audrey Siegl (Musqueam) will explore water as a crucial element of creation, its historical uses for survival, and contemporary over-consumption as a threat to sensitive coastal ecosystems.
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2 films were produced to support this exhibition, led by MITACS postdoctoral fellow Dr. Aynur Kadir, under the supervision of Kate Hennessy.
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To Speak with a Golden Voice
Course offering: Fall 2019
Exhibition at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
July 16, 2020 – April 11, 2021
Co-curated by Gwaai Edenshaw and Beth Carter
From the Bill Reid Gallery:
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art celebrates the milestone centennial birthday of Bill Reid (1920–1998) with an exhibition about his extraordinary life and legacy, To Speak With a Golden Voice, from July 16, 2020 to September 5, 2021. Guest curated by Gwaai Edenshaw — considered to be Reid’s last apprentice — the group exhibition includes rarely seen treasures by Reid and works from artists such as Robert Davidson and Beau Dick.
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6 films were produced to support this exhibition, led by MITACS postdoctoral fellow Dr. Aynur Kadir, under the supervision of Kate Hennessy, and SIAT Instructor Susan Clements-Vivian.
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