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Non-profit run and created by the community, ArtsVictoria.ca integrates current event listings and multimedia arts portfolios, and creates an explorable, living archive of the arts in Victoria BC. 

Featured Art

Kids Gotta Climb

Doug Jarvis

from Victoria BC
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About

Doug Jarvis

Doug Jarvis is an artist and curator based in Victoria, BC. He is a founding member of the avatar performance art group Second Front (www.secondfront.org) and the Noxious Sector Art Collective (www.noxioussector.net) and participates in Open Actions in public spaces. His individual and collective work explores absurdity, care, non-material entities and technology as a human attribute. His projects have been presented at artist-run centres, galleries, museums and festivals across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Jarvis is an active member of the Victoria arts community and participates through a variety of non-profit and artist-run centre boards. He is the Administrator for the ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria, Executive Director at Open Space Arts Society, and the Board Co-Chair of the Ministry of Casual Living. Jarvis received an MFA in studio from the University of Guelph, ON and has been a sessional instructor in the Visual Arts Department at UVic.
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Community Events

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2015
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Current Groups

Open Actions
Member
2012 - present
Second Front
Founding member
2006 - present
Noxious Sector
Founding member
2004 - present

Artist Articles

Doug Jarvis: Keeping Curiosity Conceptual
Published by: WHITEHOT MAGAZINE of Contemporary Art
Author: Vittoria Benzine

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