Hands-on learning with Audain Professor Rande Cook

“Poles tell the story of who we are,” said Chief Rande Cook (K'alapa). The contemporary multi-disciplinary artist is the 2016/17 visiting Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest for UVic’s visual arts department. In addition to coaching students through a hands-on carving project on campus, he was recently involved in a panel event "Creation, Honouring and Preservation of Pacific Northwest Indigenous Poles/Monumental Wood Carving", at the end of September at UVic’s downtown art gallery.
UVic's Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest is generously funded through a $2-million gift from BC art philanthropist Michael Audain and the Audain Foundation.