Academic Appetizer Hour with Green College Leading Scholars

The Creative Writing Workshop and "Social Programs": Literary Community Inside Carceral Systems
Cecily Nicholson, Creative Writing

My research and writing involve the practice of poetry and other creative writing forms as they interrelate with ecology, geological time and social movement—centering poetry itself as a place that can enact liberation, refuge and belonging. My writing involves poetic research and technique as a mode of embodiment and critique that engages documentary forms, as well as collective organizing and archival practices. My recent projects have involved studies of site-specific labour, industry history, land-use and resource extraction.

Revitalizing Ancient Coast Salish Artistic Traditions: Melding Art History, Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration to Re-Examine Local Artistic Heritage
Alexandra Peck, Art History, Visual Art and Theory

I am the Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art and Assistant Professor within the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. As an anthropologist and material culture specialist, my scholarship examines historic Coast Salish art, landscape and cultural change, as well as Northwest Coast Indigenous art more broadly. My past research explored the 20th century adoption of totem poles into Coast Salish artistic repertoire, Coast Salish public art in urban settings, and Coast Salish mortuary practices. My current projects range from ancient Coast Salish stone carvings and Kwakwaka’wakw repatriation claims to Haida depictions of fungi and sexuality via argillite.