Executive Director’s Foreword · Dauna Kennedy

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD

I am pleased to introduce artist & UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies lecturer Andreas Rutkauskas with the exhibition Living Through Wildfire. This exhibition focuses on the aftermath of various BC catastrophic wildfires utilizing photography to capture and document these events.

I’d like to thank our guest writer - Siobhan Angus, an art historian, curator and assistant professor of Media Studies at Carleton University. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from York University where her dissertation was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal.

A special thanks to Lubos Culen, Vernon Public Art Gallery’s curator for his contribution to both this publication and associated exhibition.

I would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia, the Regional District of the North Okanagan, and the BC Arts Council, whose funding enables us to produce exhibitions such as this for the North Okanagan region and interested parties across Canada. We hope you enjoy this publication and exhibition.

Regards, Dauna Kennedy Executive Director Vernon Public Art Gallery