2024-25 Provost’s Speakers Series: Public Lecture by Christine Howard Sandoval

As part of the 2024-25 Provost’s Speakers Series, we are excited to announce a public lecture by Christine Howard Sandoval, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the main auditorium (MCA 190) of 100 McCaul St.

In this talk, Christine Howard Sandoval will explore questions in relation to land-based material within creative practice through recent and ongoing projects that span sculpture, drawing and performance for video. She will share her most recent body of work that draws connections between women-led Indigenous resistance movements, plant medicine and traditional Ohlone language in California.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Julia Rose Sutherland, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design.

Please see below for the full description of the talk and Christine Howard Sandoval’s bio.

The event is open to the public and the entire OCAD U community. Students, faculty and staff are invited to join.

Email FCDC@ocadu.ca if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
 

Public Lecture by Christine Howard Sandoval
How can the use of living material within art disrupt the static notion of collection that is central to the archive?

Can a land-based material practice move beyond the Smithsonian binary of site/non-site through an ancestral understanding of spiral time?

Christine Howard Sandoval, multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University, will discuss these questions through recent and ongoing projects that span sculpture, drawing, and performance for video, including her most recent body of work that draws connections between women-led Indigenous resistance movements, plant medicine, and traditional Ohlone language in California.
 

Christine Howard Sandoval works in sculpture, drawing, and video, through land-based material processes, methods of archive retrieval and correction, and site-specific performance. Her work questions the boundaries of representation, access, and inhabitation, where what is embedded in the land and what is held within state sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning. Born in Anaheim, Ca, Howard Sandoval received her MFA from Parsons The New School for Art + Design and BFA from Pratt Institute. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, the private research collection of Indigenous art at Forge Projects (NY), the San Jose Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC and is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University (Vancouver, BC). Howard Sandoval is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield, CA.
 

The 2024-25 Provost’s Speakers Series explores the intersections of art and design praxis, decolonization and anti-racism, and the role of creative work in building community during times of ongoing change and uncertainty. The series features local and international leaders, scholars and practitioners who integrate decolonizing and anti-racist principles and practices into their creative and scholarly work.