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Use for: Kwakkewlths, Kwakiutl

• April 5, 1983 - June 17, 1984 (Theatre Gallery)
• Student exhibition

• March, 1979 - February, 1980
• Student exhibition

• March 28, 1980 - December 31, 1981 (Theatre Gallery)
• Student exhibition

Use for: Kutenai, Kootenay

• April 5 - November 6, 1983 (Orientation Centre)
• Student exhibition

Use for: Comox

• The K'ómoks First Nation (KFN) traditional territory is the eastern portion of Vancouver Island from the Salmon River watershed in the north to the Englishman River watershed in the south. The territory includes all of the islands and portions of the BC mainland from Forward Harbour in the north to include the northwestern Texada Island and all of Denman and Hornby Islands in the south.

• March 17 - September 3, 2012 (The Audain Gallery)
• CURATOR: Dr. Jennifer Kramer; MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at UBC
• Northwest Coast Kwakwaka’wakw art is renowned for its flamboyant, energetic, and colorful carving and painting. Among the leading practitioners was Doug Cranmer (1927- 2006), whose style was understated, elegant, and fresh, and whose work quickly found an international following in the 1960s. He was an early player in the global commercial art market, and one of the first Native artists in BC to own his own gallery. A long-time teacher, he inspired generations of young Native artists in his home village of Alert Bay and beyond. The exhibit shows a wide range of Doug’s artistic works in two and three dimensions in wood and paint, from totem poles, a canoe, masks, bentwood boxes, bowls, and prints, to his important “Abstract series” of paintings on mahogany plywood. Works and words by his students are also included in the exhibit, which is organized as a series of overlapping modules that reflect different aspects of the artist’s life and work. Dr. Jennifer Kramer, MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UBC, curated the exhibit, and authored the accompanying book, which is available in the MOA Shop.

• April 24 - September 3, 2002
• Contemporary art works from the Heiltsuk village of Waglisla (Bella Bella), B.C., and historical pieces from the Royal Ontario Museum’s R.W. Large Collection. We are honoured to host this extraordinary collection of rarely-seen objects, ranging from brightly-painted masks, carved figures, boxes, baskets, bows, walking sticks and staffs, to musical instruments, jewelry, tools, and fishing gear.

• March 7 - June 11, 1978

• Exhibit connected to the arrival of material collected by Dr. Ronald Dore, Asian Studies, with historic emphasis. Installed under his direction in 1959

• Labels by Dr. Ronald Dore (Japan) and Dr. Ping-ti Ho (China), 1962

• August 4 - October 18, 1987 (Theatre Gallery)
• A contemporary Cree artist from Edmonton expresses visions and supernatural images encountered in her sweatlodge experience.

• From the exhibition, Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
• June 18 – August 22, 2010 (Multiversity Galleries)
• Vitrine 448, a 'book work' created by renowned Canadian artist Jamelie Hassan in 1988, was shown at MOA as part of an exhibition organized by the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Curatorial liaison: Karen Duffek.

• June 17 - November 30, 1986 (Gallery 5)
• This exhibition presents a half century of Jack Shadbolt’s Indian paintings together with a selection of Northwest Coast Indian masks from which he draws inspiration. This project was made possible through the Department of Communication’s Special Granting Programme for Vancouver to Celebrate the Centennial.

• November 20, 2015 – April 3, 2016.
• CURATOR: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA Curator, Asia
• Against a backdrop of skyscrapers and mountains, ghosts and spirits haunt the island of Taiwan. Deities reside in a variety of shrines and temples or forms of natural phenomena across the island. Known for its democracy, contemporary Taiwan embraces different, often hybrid, beliefs expressed and practiced in myriad fashion. Taiwan’s urban and rural life cycles are filled with rituals and ceremonies of various faiths ranging from Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism to Christianity, Chinese folk religions and animistic beliefs of Taiwan’s Aboriginal peoples. While religion affects, challenges and intermingles with the secular world, myths, legends and fairytales add other layers to the spiritual world of Taiwan. Taiwan is home to sixteen officially recognized Aboriginal groups of Austronesian peoples and Han Chinese of various backgrounds as well as other long-term settlers and recent immigrants. Throughout its history, outside forces—Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese—have taken a turn to ‘discover’, settle in or occupy Taiwan. They introduced or forced different religions or brought myths and legends to the island with them. As with other East Asian countries, it is common to blend different religious practices in Taiwan. The spiritual world is very much part of life and has also been the source for creative inspiration in Taiwan. (In)visible: The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art explores how traditional and religious beliefs and modern values are integrated in this vibrant country. The exhibition features works by seven contemporary Taiwanese artists, who express and visualize religious beliefs, myths and the spiritual world with modern sensitivities