Friday, August 14, 7PM in the KIAC Ballroom
Guest Lecture
Dr. Curtis Collins Manufactured Not Natural
This discussion will examine KIAC’s The Natural &
The Manufactured projects over the past three years, with a focus on
how participating artists have delimited the environment according
to places that are rarely indicative of nature and almost always
affected via artificial means.
Dr. Curtis Collins graduated with a PhD from McGill University’s
Department of Art History and Communications Studies in
2002. Over the past twenty years, Collins has served as a curator
and director for public art galleries across Canada, including the
Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick, the Art Gallery of
Algoma in Ontario, and the Dunlop Art Gallery in Saskatchewan.
Among those universities that Dr. Collins has been engaged as a
sessional lecturer are: the University of Lethbridge, Trent University
and the First Nations University of Canada. In January of 2013,
Curtis was appointed as the new Chair and Program Director of the
Yukon School of Visual Arts in Dawson City.
POST-EXHIBITION TEXT
DR. CURTIS COLLINS, Fall 2015
Please visit the project website for full project descriptions and artist
biographies: naturalmanufactured.com
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