About The Collection

This collection of provocations is designed by artists and art-educators in collaboration with students in the School of Creative Writing at UBC. The Provocation Collection is made possible thanks to the financial support provided by the UBC students through a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund. Work for this project takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

About Sheryda Warrener

Sheryda Warrener is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Test Piece (Coach House Books, 2022). She is a lecturer in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. In her course Pure Seeing: Thinking & Writing Through Art, students explore how creative disciplines can influence each other and evolve new forms and modes of thinking, writing, and making. She is the creator of The Provocation Collection, along with generous assistance from Erin Lindsay, Cole Klassen, and Adrian Matias Bell.