Speaker Series: Art Education, For Life: Rebecca Baker-Grenier

2026 Speaker Series - Art Education, For Life: Fashion, Cultural Memory, and Design as Living Practice

Join designer Rebecca Baker-Grenier for our first in this 2026 series, as we explore fashion as a form of cultural knowledge, creative inheritance, and contemporary expression. Grounded in regalia-making, material practice, and intergenerational learning, this talk considers how design can carry identity, memory, and responsibility forward. Through a discussion of process, visibility, and the evolving language of Indigenous fashion, the conversation asks what art education makes possible over the course of a life.

Rebecca is of Kwakiuł, Dzawada’enuwx, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestry. She is a multidisciplinary artist with a BA from the University of British Columbia, majoring in the Indigenous Studies Program. Rebecca began fashion design in 2021 and is apprenticing under established Indigenous designer and artist, Himikalas Pam Baker. She completed the Indigenous Couture Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in 2022.

Admission is by donation. Suggested donation: $10.

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