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Despite having only met virtually, students in professor Amy Modahl’s Communications 200 course have united through artistic expression, sharing their different lived experiences to create an art exhibition, Navigations, which is currently on display in the Alternator Centre member’s gallery.

The community is invited to attend the Navigations exhibition – which is running until April 17 – at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in downtown Kelowna.

Each student created a map envisioning individual and social experiences of the world, inviting guests to tour together through local, distant and conceptual spaces. These projects examine how meaning is made with visual and verbal language, directly and viscerally, upending expectations of academic genre and exposing connection to speech communities, relation to the natural and built environment, mechanics of power and more.

“At a time of heightened virtual interaction and digital documents, projects like this become even more unique physical artifacts, recalling the worldview of this group, while traversing the broadly shared pandemic experience,” says Modahl.

The participants of Navigations include Amritpal Singh, Courtney Hunt, Courtney Spetz, Elysia Zimmer, Jade Gaudet, Justan Vance, Kate Miller, Meredith Hildebrand, Molly Harrison, Rachel Bob, Ran Nussen, Reena Raman, Renata Lima, Shanique Creary, and Amy Modahl.

On the exhibit, students have shared their parting thought: “by following the bright stars in our lives we can navigate our way from darkness and collaborate to understand meaning of our life experience.”

Find open hours and Covid-19 regulations in the Alternator website.