Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

To Oct 26 Architectures of Protection reflects on ideas and modes of protection and refuge regarding oneself, community, knowledge, culture, identity and land. Featuring artworks by Dana Claxton, Jessica Karuhanga, Emilio Rojas, Beth Stuart and France Trépanier. To Oct 19 Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring. A film by Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle collaboratively created to share an overview of the Lekwungen territory; the land we work, live and play on. We want to centre the Indigenous knowledge of, connections to, and responsibility for these lands. Meryl McMaster: Bloodline is a survey of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch and British ancestry.