Featured Exhibition Stitched: Merging Photography and Textile Practices, moderated by Emmy Lee Wall and Chelsea Yuill

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In this activation of Capture Photography Festival’s Featured Exhibition, Stitched: Merging Photography and Textile Practices, three of the nine artists included in this exhibition – Maya Beaudry, Dana Claxton, and Michelle Sound – are in conversation with Capture Photography Festival’s Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator and Chelsea Yuill, Assistant Curator. This moderated discussion will touch upon the incorporation of textiles in lens-based works and the social and personal commentaries they provide.

This exhibition is co-curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Capture Photography Festival, and Chelsea Yuill, Assistant Curator, Capture Photography Festival

This exhibition is co-presented by the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art and Capture Photography Festival. It is sponsored by Parc Retirement Living and is generously supported by the Audain Foundation, the Timothy A. Young Family Foundation, the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver through the Arts & Culture Grants Program of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission, Artist for Kids, the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists, and the North Vancouver School District.

This event is free. If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.

About the artists and moderators

Maya Beaudry received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She was the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/CD Howe Award, and has participated in residencies at Triangle France in Marseille and the Kesey Farm in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Polygon Gallery, Ashley Berlin, Contemporary Calgary, Unit 17, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Family Exhibitions and Liquidation World. She lives and works in Vancouver.

Dana Claxton (born in Yorkton, SK, Canada; lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada) is a critically acclaimed artist/filmmaker and works in film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political, and the spiritual. Dana’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally and her first major survey show was at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2018. She is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan.

Michelle Sound is a Cree and Métis artist and mother. She is a member of Wapsewsipi Swan River First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory, Northern Alberta where her mother is from, her father’s family is from the Buffalo Lake and Kikino Métis settlements in central Alberta, Treaty 6 territory. She was born and raised on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, and a Master of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University Art + Design.

Sound is a multidisciplinary visual artist and her art practice includes a variety of mediums including photo based work, textiles, painting and Indigenous material practices. Her artwork often explores her Cree and Métis identity from a personal experience rooted in family, place and history. She works with traditional and contemporary materials and techniques to explore maternal labour, identity, cultural knowledge, and cultural inheritances.

Public art pieces include a printed Transit mural (City of Edmonton),a painted mural at Ociciwan Art Centre (Edmonton) and a printed mural at the Canadian Embassy in Paris.

She has completed artist residencies at the Burrard Arts Foundation(2022), the Indigenous Arts Intensive at UBC Okanagan(2023-24) and the Banff Centre for the Arts(2024). Her work is held in numerous private, corporate and institutional collections including the Burnaby Art Gallery, Indigenous Art Centre (CIRNAC)., Forge Project NY, the McMichael Collection and the National Gallery of Canada.

She has had recent solo and two person exhibitions at Neutral Ground ARC (Regina), Daphne Art Centre (Montréal), Alternator (Kelowna), Gallery 101 (Ottawa), Burrard Arts Foundation, Nanaimo Art Gallery Grunt Gallery and Seymour Art Gallery (Vancouver). Recent group exhibitions include the Burnaby Art Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, Audain Art Museum(Whistler) and BACA (Montreal). Upcoming exhibitions include Diana Gallery (New York City), Latitude 53 (Edmonton), and the Art Gallery of South Western Manitoba.

Emmy Lee Wall is Executive Director and Chief Curator of Capture Photography Festival and prior to that worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery for more than a decade where she worked on numerous historical and contemporary exhibitions. Her curatorial practice has a particular focus on art in public spaces and she has worked on public art projects with a diverse range of local and international artists including Vikky Alexander, Elisabeth Belliveau, Douglas Coupland, Sara Cwynar, Moyra Davey, Christopher Lacroix, Michael Lin, Anique Jordan, Meryl McMaster, Krystle Coughlin Silverfox, Steven Shearer, Shellie Zhang, and Elizabeth Zvonar.

Chelsea Yuill is the Assistant Curator at Capture Photography Festival, where she coordinates the annual Catalogue, Featured Exhibition, and Public Art Projects ranging from billboards, transit stations, and building façades. In this role, she has worked with a myriad of lens-based artists including Jordan Bennett, Lucas Blalock, Michelle Bui, Sara Cwynar, Alex Gibson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Mahmoud El Safadi, and Celia Perrin Sidarous. Curatorial highlights are 88 Artists from 88 Years (2017); Intertwined (2018) both at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; EAT YOUR TAIL, Access Gallery (2020); and Here and Now, Pendulum Gallery (2023).

Published writings include an interview with Dana Qaddah, ReIssue (2021), and the exhibition text for Gillian Haigh: the change that weakens the hour, Monica Reyes Gallery (2023). Yuill holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019), and attended the Momus Emerging Critics Residency (2021). She is on the Editorial Committee at Peripheral Review. Yuill is based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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