“Meet the Artist”

Il Collegio incontra... Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

“Meet the Artist”. Dialogue with the Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, who will talk about his artistic production, focusing in particular on “Haida Manga”, an artistic form he created combining Indigenous and Asian traditions, creating a dynamic and hybrid “third space”.

· DATE: 27 June 2023 from 16:00 to 18:00

· EVENT LOCATION: Aula Giorgio Prodi - Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2 - Bologna - In presence and online event

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an award-winning visual contemporary Canadian artist, author and professional speaker. His work has been seen in public spaces, museums, galleries and private collections around the world. Institutional collections include the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. His large sculptural works are part of the public art collections of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. Yahgulanaas's publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird and RED, a Haida Manga. When not writing or producing art, Yahgulanaas draws from his 20 years of political experience in the Council of the Haida Nation and speaks to businesses, institutions and communities about social justice, community building, communication and change management. Yahgulanaas became a full-time artist after many decades working as part of the Haida Nation's successful campaign to protect its biocultural diversity. But his artistic activity started much earlier: as the descendant of iconic artists Isabella Edenshaw, Charles Edenshaw, and Delores Churchill, he had early training from exceptional creators and master carvers. In the late 1990s, after exposure to Chinese brush techniques and under the tutelage of Cantonese master Cai Ben Kwon, he consciously began to merge Haida and Asian artistic influences into his self-taught practice, and created the art form called "Haida Manga."

The meeting is sponsored by the Embassy of Canada to Italy/Ambassade du Canada en Italie and is promoted in collaboration with: AISC—Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi (Italian Association for Canadian Studies); the research project “WeTell – Storytelling and Civic Awareness”, “Spinoff Permanent Seminar on Comics” (“TALKING COMICS” Series) and CLOPEX — Centro Studi sulle letterature omeoglotte dei paesi extra-europei, LILEC – Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures; the Cultural Association ARCHI — Applying Research Cultural Heritage & Innovation

More info at https://site.unibo.it/collegio-superiore/it/agenda/il-collegio-incontra-michael-nicoll-yahgulanaas