RiverLink   1994-95

RiverLink, was an interdisciplinary exploration, by fourth-year University of British Columbia printmaking students, of the Fraser Basin.   It was the result of a liaison Zeigler initiated between her printmaking class and Dr. Michael Healey, at the time Director of BEST (the Fraser Basin Ecosystem Study), and former director of Westwater Research Centre at UBC.   BEST was a major three-year program of interdisciplinary research on the ecosystem of the Lower Fraser River Basin that was undertaken by the Westwater Research Centre at UBC, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Research Institute and nine other faculties and schools.

The RiverLink project extended over two terms and involved field trips, discussions, and the making of selected artworks that in April 2005 were displayed in an exhibition in AMS Gallery on the University of British Columbia campus.

Additionally, a 30-page catalogue was produced with images of the student work in the exhibition taken by Robert Bos, photography technician of the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. The catalogue was designed by one of the students in the project, Victor K. T. Wong, and also included introductory essays by Professor Healey and Professor Zeigler and statements by each of the students about their artwork related to the Fraser Basin.