Artist Talk: Visuals, Visions & Voices with James Luna

Join the Department of Art for an artist talk with world-renowned performance artist James Luna. Presented in partnership with the M:ST Performative Arts Festival. Luna will also be conducting a workshop in performance art. Please contact the Department of Art for details. Internationally renowned performance and installation artist James Luna (Puyukitchum/Luiseno) resides on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in North County San Diego, California. With more than 30 years of exhibition and performance experience, Luna has given voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued innovative and versatile media within his disciplines, and charted waters for other artists to follow. His powerful works transform gallery spaces into battlefields, where the audience is confronted with the nature of cultural identity, the tensions generated by cultural isolation, and the dangers of cultural misinterpretations, all from an Indigenous perspective. Luna has received numerous grants and awards throughout his career and most notably in 2005, he was selected as the first Sponsored Artist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presented at the 2005 Venice Biennale’s 51st International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. In 2012, James was Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Location:
Gallery Hall- Taylor Family Digital Library
Speaker:
James Luna, performance artist
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/artist-talk-visuals-visions-voices-james-luna