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Art NOW Speaker Series: KC Adams
12 pm, September 9, 2016
University Recital Hall
FREE Admission

Tired of reading negative and disparaging remarks directed at the Indigenous population in the press and social media, Winnipeg artist KC Adams created the photo series called “Perception.” Adams will be discussing her career and the path that led to the Perception: Lethbridge photo campaign.

KC Adams is a social practice artist, interested in social and economic issues faced by North America’s consumerist culture. Her focus has been the investigation of the dynamic relationship between nature (the living) and technology (progress). Adams graduated from Concordia University with a B.F.A in studio arts. Adams has had several solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and was included in the PHOTOQUAI: Biennale des images du monde in Paris, France.  Adams participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, the Confederation Art Centre in Charlottetown, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Parramatta Arts Gallery in Australia. Her work is in many permanent collections nationally and internationally.  Twenty pieces from the Cyborg Hybrid series are in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and Birch Bark Ltd are in the collection of the Canadian Consulate of Australia, NSW. She was the set designer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation, as well as having completed a public art sculpture for the United Way of Winnipeg called Community. Adams recently won the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making A Mark Award.

The opening reception for KC Adams' exhibition Perception: Lethbridge takes place at CASA (230 – 8 St. S.) on September 10, 2016, 5 – 7 pm; artist in attendance, everyone welcome.  The exhibition is on view from September 1 – 30, 2016.  In cooperation with IINNII, a registered non-profit collective of Indigenous artists and curators.

Image courtesy of artist.  Perception: Lethbridge, KC Adams.