Hands-on learning with Audain Professor Rande Cook

Rande Cook
Visiting Audain Professor Rande Cook and his class of UVic visual arts students with the pole he is carving at UVic to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women. Credit: UVic Photo Services, March 2016.

“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. 

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