Image Credit: Rent Tent
Emily Carr University of Art and Design student Avalon Mott and recent graduate Katrina Humphries make their curatorial debut with works created by students enrolled in Community Projects: The Red Tent Campaign at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Conceived from a class project offered through the faculty of Community + Culture at ECU during the 2011 winter semester in partnership with Pivot Legal Society, this exhibit features unique pieces in a range of media, which participants created as a direct result of their engagement with the topic of homelessness, and specifically with the Pivot Legal Society’s Red Tent Campaign.
The majority of artworks included in RIGHT were originally created to support the participants’ activist-style public interventions, which were conducted in and around the city of Vancouver, between February and April 2011. By holding these interventions, students hoped to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness, educate the public about Pivot and their Red Tent Campaign, and familiarize people with bill C-304, an act (which since the recent election has been temporarily removed from parliament) that would provide secure, affordable, accessible, and adequate housing for all.
For more photos of this exhibition, please find here.
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