Living Artists, Living Art Lecture series presents

Rod Sayers & Emily Luce

Recorded Feb 25, 2026

Klehwetua Rodney Sayers and Emily Luce have a longstanding multidisciplinary collaboration that traverses art, design, and the collision of worlds that exist. Sayers, a Hupač ̓ asatḥ̣ sculptor/artist, and Luce, a US-born designer and printmaker, started by combining typography and oral history to support the Hupač ̓ asatḥ̣ fluent speaker’s group, moved on to tiny but inhabitable buildings, and now steward qʷicčiƛma (the sky opened up,) a studio with printmaking, carving and sculpture, a native plant and dye garden, a stage and a fire pit.

Klehwetua Rodney Sayers is a visual artist whose studio practice is based on ʔAhswinnis, in what is now known as Port Alberni. Although his practice is rooted in his Hupac ̌̓ asatḥ traditions, he is influenced and amused by his observations of the ‘funny edge’ of the world, and these contemplations are reflected in his work. Emily Luce is an artist, designer, and researcher. Her projects involve art development, printing, drawing, design, and collaboration.