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Eight Black Canadian artists are the focus of the new exhibition The Chorus is Speaking: Experiencing Identities of Blackness at the UVic Legacy Art Galleries. Originally exhibited at the Campbell River Art Gallery, co-curators Jenelle Pasiechnik (Campbell River Art Gallery) and Michelle Jacques (Remai Modern) have renewed the show with additional pieces for Victoria audiences.

Rooting for Reclamation is Legacy's latest fall 2024 exhibition on display in the inner gallery. Featuring local artists Aya Behr, Kemi Craig, Nathan Smith, and Tajah Olson. Learn about the inspiration behind the exhibition and more in our interview with emerging guest curator, Madison Bridal.

Currently on display at Legacy Downtown, Masked Identity: Artworks by Robert Burke is an exhibit which transports visitors into the vibrant world of eighty-year-old artist Robert Burke.

Our current exhibition Fire Season is featured in the June-August 2024 issue of PREVIEW Art Magazine.

Last summer, as wildfires ravaged Northern Ontario, many on the eastern side of Canada experienced the visuals of wildfire for the first time. But the haze was all too familiar for Vancouver painter Liz Toohey-Wiese, who was attending an art residency on Toronto Island last year when smoke blanketed the city.

The University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery is seeking two Black artists for a new exhibition focusing on Victoria-based contemporary Black artists.

On June 17th, 2023, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Francis Dick led the Atla’gimma (Spirits of The Forest) dance at Wawadit’ła (Mungo Martin House). The gathering marked the first time that the Atla’gimma, the cultural property of Francis Dick’s father Chief Kwaxsistalla wath-thla (Adam Dick), was danced since his passing.

Francis Dick invites you to walk through her fires. The multimedia artist’s new solo exhibition at Legacy Art Gallery is an autobiography told through art, each image and object testament to her life’s journey, her culture, her fearlessness, and her ability to transform joy and pain into art.

Dr. Devi Mucina’s academic work and his familial connections to the communities and traditions of the Chewa peoples are central to Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance. The exhibition features spirited photography and film by Kl. Peruzzo de Andrade, hand-crafted masks, Adinkra textiles, and an interactive bwalo, filled with brick-red sand. The heart of the exhibition is Gule Wamkulu, or “the great dance of life,” a unifying practice for Chewa communities. But what does it mean to bring Gule Wamkulu to Victoria?

When Devi Mucina left Africa as a young man, he had no intention of returning to the ways of his people. But years later he found himself learning from the struggles and resistance of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. After watching the masked dances of the Coast Salish peoples, Mucina, director of the University of Victoria’s School of Indigenous Governance, felt inspired to reconnect with his past and his family.