Connections : 4 Artists' Projects : Celebrating 25 Years of Bringing Contemporary Art and Community Together

Celebrating the Surrey Art Gallery’s 25th anniversary and surveying its history, this catalogue focuses on the gallery’s devotion to community involvement, and features four community-based artist’s projects that make up the “Connections” exhibition. Laurence discusses the projects and describes their various methods of giving a voice to a community, while Alibhai takes a global approach and situates the exhibition in terms of developments in art history and practice. Biographical notes. 32 bibl. ref

George Littlechild

On the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of Littlechild's paintings, prints, and cibachromes that focus on issues affecting First Nations people, this catalogue assembles texts by six contributors from various background. Guest curator Alibhai provides a biographical essay; Todd examines how the artist's search for identity proceeds through a "decolonization of the archival photograph"; Jackson's text is written from a collector's point of view. Includes texts and comments by Littlechild. Biographical notes. 28 bibl. ref

Artropolis 93 : Public Art and Art About Public Issues

Contains 12 texts and documents works by nearly 300 Canadian artists in a Vancouver-based public art project. Includes artist's statements. 7 bibl. ref