Lecture on Hiuchol Art by Dr. Anthony Shelton | Wixaritari Exhibition

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Friday, July 10th, 2015
2:00 PM to 3:15 PM

The Wixaritari and the Heart of the World Lecture by Dr. Anthony Shelton, followed by a tour of the Huichol Art Exhibit, Wixaritari – People Walking Toward Dawn at the art gallery at VIU in building 330.

Lecture takes place on July 10, 2:30 to 3:15pm Building 355, Room 203, Vancouver Island University, Attendance is free

The Wixaritari (Huichol), who live in the mountainous, isolated parts of northwest Mexico, have retained a unique cosmology despite continuous threats to despoil their land and sacred sites. Their homeland was created through the sacrifice of their ancestral deities who became transformed into the land, mountains, seas and plant and animal forms that surround them. This presentation will open a glimpse into this world and describe some of their techniques and philosophy which enables them to see what is invisible to others.

Dr. Shelton is Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Shelton specializes in critical museology and heritage studies, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, and Latin American and European visual cultures.

He has over 150 publications including Art, Anthropology and Aesthetics (with J. Coote. 1992) and Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In-Between, Portuguese Popular Art and Culture (2015), and is currently working on a volume on critical museology.

Dr. Shelton's lecture will be followed at 3:30pm by an opportunity to meet him while viewing the WIXARITARI PEOPLE WALKING TOWARDS DAWN exhibition.