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• May 1, 1985 – July 12, 1986

• May 24 - July 1988 (Theatre Gallery)
• People have lived at Musqueam for at least 3,000 years. Over the last century the City of Vancouver has grown up around the Reserve created at this ancient site. In this exhibit of archival photographs and oral history, two Musqueam women, Verna Kenoras and Leila Stogan, tell the story of their people over the last one hundred years. Cosponsored by the Musqueam Band Council.

• July 14 - September 15, 2012 (Satellite Gallery)
• The Kwakwaka’wakw artist Henry Speck, or Udzi’stalis (1908 – 1971), became a “newly discovered phenomenon” in 1964 when his paintings of masked dancers, coastal creatures, and sea monsters were shown at Vancouver’s New Design Gallery. Chief Speck, from Turnour Island, British Columbia, was a community leader, teacher, and cultural practitioner. By the 1930s he was also becoming known for his modern paintings, rendered in vibrant colours and textures. His work caught the attention of the Austrian artist and theorist, Wolfgang Paalen, and was declared by the Haida artist Bill Reid to be “far beyond anything attempted before in Kwakiutl art.” Experience Henry Speck’s paintings through originals and large-scale projections that refigure his work against a backstory of media images, sound, and film—an installation that evokes the changing contexts of the mythic and the modern in the 20th century. This exhibition is made possible with support from the Michael O’Brian Family Foundation, and is organized by the UBC Museum of Anthropology and Satellite Gallery. The exhibition was curated by Karen Duffek, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest; and Marcia Crosby, writer, scholar, and PhD candidate, UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. Media by Skooker Broome, Manager, Design/Production, MOA.

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• October 1, 1992 – March 14, 1993
• Changes in Hong Kong’s New Territories mean that farm tools and household utensils, once integral to daily life, are no longer used. This exhibit features the traditional tools and clothing of the Hakka people of this area.

• March 1 - October 9, 1988 (Gallery 9)
• Student exhibition: Popular culture represents social values, attitudes and lifestyles and is often taken for granted although it forms the everyday culture in which we participate. This exhibition, produced by students in Anthropology, provides four separate sculptural statements that focus on one aspect of popular culture - the interaction between the consumer and the mass media. Each installation of Popology - Catch the Wave; The Event; Alice in Consumerland and decor-me-beautiful - explores one faucet of this relationship.

Use for: Totem pole raising

• November 3, 2012 - March 24, 2013 (The O'Brian Gallery)
• In her own celebrated work, Australian ceramic artist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott nudges pale-glazed tableware forms into still-life groupings of bowls, bottles and cups. Individually familiar, the juxtaposed forms speak to one another and to the observer with surprising emotion. In this exhibition, Ms. Pigott has selected objects from the Museum’s permanent, world-wide collection and re-assembled them, with her own works, in surprising new relationships. The “introductions” have been made based on colour, form, and pattern, often featuring objects that are normally never displayed together. The pieces are not placed within any historical or cultural context; rather they are grouped to illustrate that, regardless of social or cultural background, makers share similar aesthetic choices when making decisions about the creation of their work. Gwyn Hanssen Pigott is recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists and has exhibited extensively in Australia, America, Europe and Asia. In 2002 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher. The exhibition is curated by MOA Curator Dr. Carol E. Mayer and Susan Jefferies, past curator of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto.

• November 22, 2019 – March 29, 2020
• Curator: Carol E. Mayer