My learning process at this stage in the course has been focused on gathering resources. For our project my group is aiming to combine our backgrounds of Tourism, Arts, and Business to create digital advertisements for the art and architecture of British Columbia. However as a part of this, we wanted to be aware of the usage rights of the works we feature.

Landing Page for the Internet Archive’s Canadian Libraries page, which contains a repository of images, texts, and other resources from around Canada

In order to curate resources for our project that we can ensure we have the rights to, we have taken two approaches which I have been working on. The first is looking for works which are now in the public domain. My approach to this has been to explore the Internet Archive, which conveniently has a page dedicated to all forms of media from Canada. By using the search and filtering functions of this online resource, I have been working through works published prior to 1940 to create the highest chance of finding works which can fall under the public domain

Sisawk Sea Creature Mask produced by Nanutsaakas-Kyle Mack Tallio as featured at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
Information placard for the previously mentioned mask

The other method I have used to gather resources came about somewhat by accident. This past weekend I found myself making last minute plans to visit the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, as curator Jennifer Kramer was doing tour of the brand new Nuxalk Strong Exhibit featuring histories of, as well as historical and contemporary works by Nuxalk artists, the indigenous people who originally inhabited the area around Bella Coola, BC, my home town. During this tour I had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer directly and was able to secure permission to feature some of the pieces featured in the exhibit for our project, and this class. As getting explicit permission is always ideal when featuring or sharing art, this was always preferred for our project however finding works that people can visit, as and tracking down those who can give us permission to feature them was a daunting challenge that I personally did not see as likely. So having been able to secure permission has been extremely valuable to me.

Works Cited:
Nuxalk Strong Exhibit: https://moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/nuxalk-strong/|
Internet Archive: https://moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/nuxalk-strong/