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Use for: Gitskan

• April 6 - September 26, 1993
• By selecting examples from MOA’s collection of over 300 Nuu-chah-nulth baskets and illustrating how they were made, moved into private collections, and acquired by museums, the process by which objects are reinterpreted by both collectors and museum professionals is made visible. In this exhibit, curator Charlene Garvey critically examines changes in meaning that can occur over the life of a basket, and how these interpretations change over time to reflect beliefs about Native basketry, women’s arts and museological practices.

• January 20, 1987 – March 8, 1987 (Gallery 9)
• Presenting 40 vases dating from the eighth to the fourth centuries B.C. that illustrate our knowledge of ancient trade routes, daily life, and the dating of archaeological excavations.

• February 15 – March 31, 1977
• An exhibition combining artifacts from the Royal Ontario Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Museum of Anthropology.

• November 16 - December 31, 1976
• A colourful display of costumes, textiles and backstrap looms from the Guatemalan Highlands. A related demonstration was presented on November 18 at 1:00 p.m.

• January 28 - July 20, 1986 (Gallery 9)
• Women from Musqueam present the fine results of their work to revive a weaving tradition with roots 3,000 years old. This project was made possible through the support of the Department of Communication’s Special Granting Programme for Vancouver to Celebrate the Centenial. Weaving and spinning demonstrations will be given regularly.

Use for: Headgear, Hat

• May 12 - October 12, 2015
• CURATOR: Dr. Anthony Shelton, MOA Director
• MOA delves deep into popular art of Portugal in the upcoming exhibition entitled Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between: Portuguese Popular Art, on view May 12 through October 12, 2015. The North American premiere of this extraordinary exhibition will include 300 Portuguese folk artworks – a distinct and eclectic mix of digital graffiti projections with popular rural creations: puppets, figurines, carnival masks, ceramics, and more. The exhibit will showcase the work of a passing generation of great artists—craftspeople, illustrators, and painters. The exhibition presents Portuguese popular art as multi-leveled, theatrical, politically astute, and individualistic. These creations provide a theatre of the nation, where art and culture are mediated through the eruption of personal, profound, and deeply felt sentiments. In fall 2015, Shelton will lead a group of enthusiastic participants on a 13-day trip to Portugal as part of MOA Journeys, an initiative launched in November 2014 with an inaugural voyage to Cuba. A unique cultural encounter, those partaking in the expedition will deepen their understanding of Portuguese society through encounters with select artists represented in the exhibition, excursions to artist studios, and cultural workshops.

• April 28, 1998 - February 21, 1999
• This exhibit comprises eleven photo-based artworks depicting contemporary Haida hereditary chiefs. Accompanied by voice and text layering, this series by artist Todd Tyarm explores the idea of heredity as a virtual link between present and past, as well as to the future. The chiefs depicted in this exhibit are individuals who represent a crucial conduit for their communities to regain the traditional values, practices, languages, and ways of thinking that have shaped their cultural identities from the beginning. The “Heredity” exhibit offers insight into both the heritage of the Haida, and the thoughts, names, and stories of the people who represent its living legacy.

• May 24, 1984 - October 31, 1985 (Gallery 5)
• Exhibit features masks of Japan, Korea and China and was held in conjunction with the Nitobe-Ohira Memorial Conference.

• June 21 - December, 1994
• ‘High Slack’ is the moment when the tide has risen to its highest point before the ebb. Vancouver artist and UBC Fine Arts Professor Judith Williams sees this pause in the tides as a metaphor for a moment of calm in the social current. The installation of paintings, sculptures, photographs and bookworks at MOA is a series of proposals for future directions in our relations to the “other,” whoever, and whatever that might be. This exhibition is not a statement; rather, it provides an atmosphere for contemplation and change.

• April 11 - September 1979
• Student exhibition: A Fine Arts student colour slide presentation. Six hundred slides are collaged on the theatre’s six screens in a creative view of contemporary media and advertising.