Roxanne Charles-George

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Roxanne Charles-George is a mixed media artist, activist, curator, storyteller, and cultural historian of Strait Salish and European descent. She previously was a councilor, [1] [2] and continues to be an active band member of Semiahmoo First Nation in Surrey, British Columbia, promoting art, language, and culture. As an artist, she works with a wide range of media. She directly responds to the problems of colonialism, and documents issues that reflect her life experiences such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, food security, resource extraction, trauma, and various forms of systemic violence. As a contemporary storyteller and cultural historian, her goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through her work. Her work employs traditional Semiahma forms of knowledge such as visual representation, oral history, and ceremony. [3] [4]

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Her work is in the collection of Surrey Art Gallery. [5] [6]

Exhibitions

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Education

Charles-George holds two undergraduate degrees from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and completed a Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. [4] She also holds a certificate in Northwest Coast Jewelry Design from the Native Education College in Vancouver, BC. [2]

Teaching

Charles-George has taught arts workshops with Surrey Art Gallery, [19] the White Rock Museum & Archives, [20] and ArtsStarts. [21]

Curating

In 2017, Charles-George co-curated the exhibition Ground Signals at Surrey Art Gallery. [13] In 2018, Charles-George was a guest curator for the Vancouver Mural Festival. [22]

Publications

Community involvement

Charles-George has been vocal and influential in addressing issues related to water quality and infrastructure, to the Semiahmoo First Nations. [25] She has participated in organizing land-defense, and movement against fossil fuel expansion projects such as the Trans Mountain pipeline. [26] [27]

Awards

Charles-George received a Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Semiahmoo Rotary Club in 2015. [28] In 2018, she was recognized with a Surrey Civic Treasure award in 2018, which honours those “who have achieved excellence in the production of the arts and/or made significant contributions to the development of arts and heritage in the City of Surrey and beyond,” for her work as an artist and educator. [29] In 2019, she was nominated for the Lind prize. [30]

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  2. 1 2 "White Rock Sun - [ Meet The Neighbours ]". www.whiterocksun.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
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  27. ↑ "TMX: 'We're being criminalized on our own territories'". Ricochet. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
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