Marcia Crosby
Individual
Roles
Curator, Educator, Researcher, WriterBiography
Marcia Crosby is a writer, art historian, and educator whose work interrogates mainstream representations and historical narratives of First Nations peoples and cultures. Crosby has a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and English, a Master of Arts in Cultural History, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Art History, all from the University of British Columbia. Since 1996, Crosby has taught English literature and First Nations Studies at Vancouver Island University. She acted as guest curator and writer for her exhibition, Nations in Urban Landscapes at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver in 1994. Since 2001, she has added to her publications a number of essays on contemporary art history on topics as diverse as the myth of Bill Reid; the sculptural works of Dina Gomez, an Argentinian artist living and working in Vancouver; and Indigenous performance art, which included two recently published essays on the multi-media works of Rebecca Belmore.Adapted from Vancouver Art in the Sixties, 2016
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related programs
#callresponse (Artist)INDIANacts: aboriginal performance art (Moderator)
Performance of Trauma and Testimony (Moderator)
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