Finding Space, 2026 by Christina Lennox photographed by Cydney Lawrence
Making Space presents the research creation component of curator, student, and artist Christina Lennox’s master’s thesis. It is currently on display and open to visitors in lobby of the 10th floor of Buchanan Tower.
Through prints of beadwork and a digital painting, the exhibition explores the concept and experiences of cultural wellness among three Métis former undergraduate students. Grounded in a Métis ontology, it invites the viewer to engage with art as a form of knowledge—where meaning is not written, but woven through lived experience, observation, and intuitive knowing.
Created by visiting with three Métis community members, these works carry story through the hands of their makers. The first reflects the research process of meaning-making, and knowledge translation. The following three were created by the participants in this study. Themes of kinship, community, identity, and making space unfurl from the stories held within the beadwork inviting reflection on the futures of patterned knowledge mobilization.
Title: Making Space
Curator: Christina Lennox
Artists: Christina Lennox, Everan Horwood, Sophie Carriere, Autumn, artwork photographed by Cydney Lawrence
Location: Ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, UBC Vancouver Campus, BUTO 10th floor lobby
