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This sub-series consists of records relating to the exhibit A Green Dress: Objects, Memory, and the Museum.” This exhibit, which ran from September 27, 2011 until April 8, 2012, was curated by Karen Duffek, Krisztina Laszlo, Carol Mayer, and Susan Rowley, and was designed to complement the contemporaneous exhibit, “ひろしま Hiroshima.” Records within the sub-series include the exhibit proposal, notes on the development of the exhibit, correspondence, exhibition captions, promotional materials.

This sub-series contains records relating to the display at MOA of Annie Ross’s work, “Forest One,” which was exhibited at MOA from March 20th until May 27th 2012. The sub-series includes correspondence, promotional materials, press clippings, and notes.

Sub-series consists of records relating to the exhibit Anspayaxw: An installation for voice, image, and sound. This exhibit was at the Satellite Gallery in 2013. The Satellite Gallery was an experimental exhibition space shared between Charles H. Scott Gallery (ECUAD), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (UBC), the Museum of Anthropology (UBC), and the Presentation House Gallery. The gallery is closed as of June 2015.

Karen Duffek curated the Anspayaxw exhibit.

The records in this sub-series relate to the semi-permenant exhibition Gathering Strength, which took place after Bill Reid passed away in 1998. Karen Duffek curated the Haida metalwork component of the exhibition, and aided in the development of the accompanying electronic component as well. The exhibition was on display from 2000 through 2004. Records relate to exhibition development and planning, educational and display materials, and correspondence.

Series consists of two photographic prints made by photographer Ulli Steltzer. Both images were used in Duffek’s book Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form, which was published as part of the Museum Note series in conjunction with the Museum of Anthropology’s 1986 exhibition of the same name. One image is from the pole raising ceremony for one of Reid’s pole at Skidegate in 1978. The other shows a canoe carved by Reid being paddled at Skidegate in April 1986.

This sub-series consists of records relating to the exhibition Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures. Duffek curated this exhibition, which was on display at the Museum of Anthropology from January 23 – September 12, 2010. The following is a description of the exhibition taken from the museum’s website:

“Curated by Karen Duffek, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is an exhibition of international contemporary art that inaugurated MOA’s Audain Gallery on January 23, 2010. It brings together the work of twelve artists engaged in a dialogue about cultural boundaries –within and between communities, art practices, audiences, or institutions – and the possibility of translation across them.

Through a surprising diversity of media and approaches, the artists selected for this show use the idea of a border space to raise questions about migration and identity, knowledge protection and access, and the permeability and construction of boundaries cross-culturally. Borders are considered not only as lines or markers that divide cultures, but also as uncertain spaces that are sites of encounter and transformation.Participating artists include Hayati Mokhtar, Dain-Iskandar Said, John Wynne, Edward Poitras, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Tania Mouraud, Marianne Nicolson, Gu Xiong, Prabakar Visvanath, Rosanna Raymond, Ron Yunkaporta, and Laura Wee Láy Láq, please visit www.moa.ubc.ca/blog.

Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, which will be shown through September 12, 2010, is part of MOA’s commitment to exploring, developing, and inviting new ways of representing understandings about culture in the 21st century.

To give you the inside scoop on the ideas behind the exhibit, visit our interactive online magazine at www.BorderZones.ca.

Here you’ll find personal and provocative articles on each of the artists by distinguished contributors such as award-winning journalist Jan Wong, educator and activist Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, and filmmaker and artist Loretta Todd, among others. You’ll also find video interviews with the artists, regular updates on artist files, artwork exclusive to the webzine, provocative reviews of the exhibition, and a blog devoted to the idea of borders.

Over the course of the exhibition, BorderZones.ca will become an archive about the idea of borders, particularly how new spaces of thought and meaning are created and contested at the boundaries of knowledge, language, art, culture, and politics.”

Records within the sub-series include grant application materials, the exhibition proposal, budgets, reports, grant applications, correspondence, interviews, promotional materials, photographs, and press cuttings.

This sub-series consists of records relating to the exhibition of the Carl Beam Exhibit at MOA. This exhibition, which was created by the National Gallery of Canada, was exhibited at UBC MOA from April 8th to May 29th 2010 and was curated by Greg Hill. The Exhibit displayed fifty works of Carl Beam, an artist of Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) heritage.

Files contain correspondence, exhibit floor plans, installation instructions from the National Gallery of Canada, photocopies of art works, exhibit captions, promotional materials, and notes for an opening night speech.