Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry | Learning with Syeyutsus Speaker Series

Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry
with Solen Roth
Webinar Date: May 10, 2023 / 12-1pm PT

Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. Frequently, this industry is developed without the consent of those whose culture is being commercialized.

Solen Roth asks what does this say about appropriation, social responsibility, and intercultural relationships? And what happens when local communities become more involved in this cultural marketplace?

We’re excited to hear Solen speak to learnings from her eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork examining how Northwest Coast Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs are cultivating more equitable relationships with the companies that reproduce their designs on everyday objects.

About Solen Roth
Solen Roth is a cultural anthropologist currently working at the service design cooperative Meilleur Monde. She also teaches at the Université de Montréal School of Design, where she is part of Tapiskwan, a participatory-action research project in collaboration with Atikamekw artists and knowledge holders. From 2010 to 2016, she co-chaired the Commodification of Cultural Heritage working group for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage research project at Simon Fraser University.

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