Legacy Reception

You are invited...

ITCH 2019 will be hosting an intimate reception at the Legacy Art Gallery on Saturday evening, February 16 starting at 7:00 pm. A $20.00 ticket will provide you entrance to the art gallery, an assortment of light appetizers, and one free drink. You may purchase your ticket(s) at the same time as you register for the conference and we would be delighted to have you bring a guest to share in the excitement of the evening.

The Legacy Art Gallery is located at 630 Yates Street, a short 12 minute walk, or 4 minute taxi ride away from the conference site. The Legacy Art Gallery was made possible by the generosity of local benefactor Michael C. Williams, whose collection of contemporary art left to the University of Victoria after his death in 2000 forms the heart of the gallery. His extensive bequest comprises 1,101 art items, including contemporary west coast art, contemporary and historic aboriginal art, and antique.

The special exhibition while we are there will be “Translations: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Yeend Duer—Gyokush”. Translations showcases the movement of ideas, aesthetics, politics, and people between England, Japan, and Victoria, Canada, by looking at the life and work of Anglo-Japanese artist Elizabeth Yeend Duer (1889–1951). Born a British citizen in Nagasaki to an Englishman and a Japanese woman, Duer studied Nihonga, a traditional Japanese-style painting, with the renowned painter and teacher Atomi Gyokushi. Duer took on the artistic identity of Gyokush. She immigrated to Victoria in 1940 and is among the remarkably few people of Japanese heritage who were not interned during World War II. Instead, she Japanized her new environment by producing Nihonga-style paintings of local indigenous wildflowers while her own identity was being anglicized.