Art exhibition

Dr T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss 

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Sto:Lo/Hawaiian/Swiss 

Interactive multimedia piece

Location: Sngequ House, Meeting Room B

Viewing times: Monday 10 am - 6:30 pm, Tuesday 5-7 pm, Wednesday 12-2 pm, Thursday 3:30-5:30

Dr T'uy't'tanat- Cease Wyss is an interdisciplinary artist who works with digital media, writing, performance and land based remediations as her multi-disciplinary arts practice. She is a community engaged and public artist, Indigi-Futurisms developer/artist, land based artist and ethnobotanist/permaculture designer. She is currently working on bringing the healing sounds of plants and fungi, through biosonification with modular synthesizers. Wyss is working on bridging the languages of plants and mushroom as well as other forms of fungi, with indigenous languages and creating conversations between them all. 

Her works range over 30+ years and have always focussed on sustainability, permaculture techniques, Coast Salish Cultural elements and have included themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology. In 2022 Cease was awarded an honorary PhD from ECUAD and in 2023 was awarded the MST [Musqueam/Skwxwu7mesh/Tseil watuth: aka  Skwxwú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Lands & WatersSkwxwú7mesh Ux̱imix̱w']  AiR fieldhouse in Stanley Park for the next 4 years. She will be infusing all elements of her diverse practice into this time spent reconnecting to her ancestors whose spirits remain a part of this forest and shoreline. 

Jordan Hill 

Interactive media projection

Location: Sngequ House, Meeting Room A

Viewing times: Monday 10 am - 6:30 pm, Tuesday 5-7 pm, Wednesday 12-2 pm, Thursday 3:30-5:30

Jordan Hill is an emerging new media artist from the T'Sou-ke Nation, located on Vancouver Island. He has exhibited in numerous galleries, residencies, and festivals across Canada, exploring themes of contemporary digital culture through interactive and disorienting installations. His work invites viewers to engage with the current complexities of truth and immediacy, primarily focused on questioning the use of facades in habitually travelled locales. Jordan’s work plays with disciplinary boundaries, blending technology with structures and body. 

His practice is influenced by urban and natural landscapes, architecture, and his own Indigenous heritage and experiences as a member of the T'Sou-ke Nation. Through these elements, he creates immersive experiences that ask audiences to slow down, linger, and be critical of moments that often discourage it. 

Myrna Crossley

Textile art

Location: McPherson Library

Viewing times: Monday 10 am - Thursday 5:30

Myrna Crossley is a member of the Songhees Nation, one of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples whose traditional territory includes what is now known as Victoria, BC. Her Indigenous roots come through her maternal family of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, while her late father was of English settler descent. Since 1990, Myrna has lived on the Tsartlip reserve on the Saanich Peninsula with her late husband, Charles Elliott, and family since 1990

A Salish wool weaver since 1993, Myrna learned under Master Weaver Rita (Louis) Bob of the Saanich Nation, a key figure in the revival of Coast Salish weaving traditions. Through these teachings, Myrna developed a deep connection to the traditional practices of spinning, dyeing, and weaving wool. She prepares and spins sheep wool using a treadle spinner and creates dyes from seasonal plants, bark, and berries gathered respectfully from the land. Her work is woven on a traditional Salish loom.

For Myrna, weaving is both cultural practice and spiritual discipline. Her process begins with prayer, smudging, meditation, and gratitude, while harvested plant materials and works in progress are treated with care and respect. She values every stage of weaving—from gathering dyes to spinning and weaving—and considers herself a lifelong student guided by mentors, Elders, the plants, and the wool itself. Through each blanket she creates, Myrna honours her ancestors and contributes to the resurgence and continuation of Coast Salish cultural traditions.

Myrna recalls her late husband Charles Elliott saying that with every blanket Myrna wove, she was helping lift off the wet moldy blanket of oppression that was placed on our people and replacing it with what belongs to us. Myrna is grateful to be taking part in the act of resurgence. Myrna is now teaching weaving and is excited to share what she has learned with weaving students. 

Rande Cook

Sculptures

Location: McPherson Library

Viewing times: Monday 10 am - Thursday 5:30

West Coast Kwakwaka’wakw MFA artist Rande Cook explores and combines traditional and contemporary styles. In doing so, Rande creates his own unique approach to Indigenous contemporary art. Incorporating science, culture, and his genuine passion for the well-being of old-growth and Mother Earth, Cook examines the current world we live in while preserving ancestral stories through new mediums and materials. Rande Cook is known for his use of innovative methods, for creating works with his own signature style, and for pushing boundaries in pursuit of continual growth.  

Natalie Rollins

Natalie Rollins is an interdisciplinary artist and emerging curator whose work spans visual, media, and performing arts. Guided by her family lineages—Cree from Driftpile Cree Nation, where she is a band member through her father, and English, Irish, and Scottish through her mother—her practice is grounded in relational, place-based ways of learning, walking, and being. Through both artistic and curatorial work, she explores questions of belonging, responsibility, and Indigenous laws as they are enacted through art, culture, and performance. 

Natalie curated this exhibition in connection with the geography conference as a way of bringing artistic practice into dialogue with geographic questions of land, place, and relationality. Her curatorial approach is informed by collaborative and community-centered methodologies, centering Indigenous perspectives while creating space for reflection on how we live with and care for the lands and communities we inhabit.