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• May 10 - October 16, 2016
• CURATORS: Karen Duffek (MOA Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest) and Tania Willard (artist and independent curator, Secwepemc Nation)
• Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent, is showcased in this provocative exhibition of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty. Twenty years since his last major Canadian solo show, Unceded Territories will demonstrate the progression of Yuxweluptun’s artistry and ideas through hard-hitting, polemical, but also playful artworks that span his remarkable 30- year career, featuring a selection of brand-new works exhibited publicly for the first time. Co-curated by Karen Duffek (MOA Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest) and Tania Willard (artist and independent curator, Secwepemc Nation), Unceded Territories promises colour and controversy through this display of over 60 of Yuxweluptun’s most significant paintings, drawings, and works in other media – a critical and impassioned melding of modernism, history, and Indigenous perspectives that records what the artist feels are the major issues facing Indigenous people today. This exhibition will undoubtedly fuel dialogue, indignation, and even spiritual awareness as it tackles land rights, environmental destruction, and changing ideas about what we can expect of Indigenous art from the Northwest Coast. The issues Yuxweluptun addresses are impossible to ignore.

• This was an ongoing series of exhibitions held in Montréal from 1968-1984 in the pavilions built for Expo 1967. The Museum of Anthropology curated and provided materials for one of these exhibitions from 1969 to 1970.

• 1963

• May 16, 2019 – October 14, 2019
• CURATOR: Nicola Levell (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UBC)
• Over 250 puppets, old and new, from 15 countries, are illuminated in MOA’s dramatic new exhibition. These exquisite puppets—sometimes charming, sometimes a little bit scary, and always entertaining—come together and reveal our enduring fascination with storytelling. For thousands of years, knowledge holders and storytellers around the world have engaged puppets as a means to dramatize the human experience. Puppets have been delighting, entertaining and educating audiences of all ages, letting our imaginations soar. Puppets are the precious purveyors of our epics, dreams and satires. Enter into a theatrical world of kings and queens, demons and clowns, supernatural beings and more. Extraordinary stories and fantastical characters fill the stages, cases and multimedia installations of this enchanting exhibition. Whether animated using age- old techniques or digital technologies, puppets are manipulated by hand, and here you’ll discover more about the different forms of manipulation and animation that give them life: shadow, string, rod, hand, and stop-motion. With a focus on Asia, Europe and the Americas, the exhibition draws from MOA’s stunning international collection of puppets—the largest in Western Canada-—and reveals new acquisitions from China, Brazil, Sicily, Java, the UK and France. Shadows, Strings and Other Things is an immersive experience that illuminates how puppetry continues to evolve and innovate in the hands of artists and performers who keep the tradition alive. From graceful Vietnamese water puppets and comical British hand puppets to the captivating stop-motion puppet animation of the award-winning Indigenous artist Amanda Strong—the full spectrum of human resilience and creativity is on display.

• September 17 – October 1, 1977 Museum of Northern British Columbia, Prince Rupert
• November 1 – January 31, 1978, Museum of Anthropology.
• An exhibit of the works of Norman Tait, who is a contemporary Nishga artist.

• March 2003
• Student exhibition: Based on a memorial for Maggie Pointe of the Musqueam Nation, the exhibit includes a contemporary 14-foot West Coast style canoe and its contents donated by Shane Pointe and Gina Grant. This is the first exhibition curated at MOA by UBC’s Critical Curatorial Studies graduate students.

Use for: Anspayaxw: An Installation For Voice, Image, and Sound

• September 12 – October 26, 2013
• CURATOR: Karen Duffek, Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest Satellite Gallery
• Anspayaxw: an installation for voice, image, and sound is an immersive sound-and-photographic installation for twelve channels of audio diffusion, created in 2010 by Canadian artist John Wynne in collaboration with photographer Denise Hawrysio, linguist Tyler Peterson, and members of the Indigenous Gitxsan community at Anspayaxw (Kispiox, British Columbia).

• 1988 - ?

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

• April 1 - December 31, 1979
• Student exhibition

• April 1 - October 14, 1979
• Student exhibition

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

• April 5 - September 4, 1983
• Student exhibition

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

• August 1989

• Through September 30, 1990 (Gallery 9)
• Student exhibition: Students of Anthropology 431, Museum Principles and Methods, have prepared a series of seven exhibits that explore the social, scientific and contextual interpretations of objects and artifacts found in museums.

• August 11, 1991 (Gallery 9)
• Textiles from the Museum’s extensive collection show the dramatic patterns created by West-African dyers and weavers. This display opens MOA’s Textile Gallery that will present changing exhibits drawn from the Museum’s world-wide collection of clothing and textiles. A special “source book” now on display introduces these holdings. Children’s programs relating to textiles will be offered.

• April 30 – June 1991

• 1991
• Student exhibition

• 1992-1993
• Student exhibition