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• April 7 - May 29, 2011 (The Audain Gallery)
• Carl Beam (1943-2005) was born in M’Chigeeng (West Bay) on Manitoulin Island. Of Ojibway heritage, the artist has exerted a strong influence on a whole generation of Aboriginal artists and has been instrumental in the development of the art of Canada’s First Nations. He is renowned for his powerful combinations of highly charged images from his personal Anishinaabe aesthetic, which is more akin to the expressive layering of Rauschenberg than the traditional forms of Anishinabek “Woodland School” painters. The exhibition, curated by Greg Hill, and organized by the National Gallery of Canada, features a selection of 50 of Beam’s most remarkable works spanning his 30-year career, from his monumental-scale paintings and constructions, to his ceramics and video.

• October 16, 1984 - February 1985 (Gallery 9)
• An introduction to how cedar was traditionally used by the Northwest Coast Indians. It traveled to Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife NWT, and Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature in WInnipeg, MB in 1988.

• April 3, 2003
• Student exhibition: This year’s class of Anthropology 432 students are looking at celadon (a variety of ceramic glazes that range in colour from grey-green to blue-green to jade-green) through the eyes of the potter, the art historian, the anthropologist, and the geologist. The exhibition features contemporary and historic ceramics from the museum’s collections.

Use for: Graveyards

Use for: Eye of the Beholder

• September 8, 1991
• Student exhibition

Use for: Faces on Ceramic Vessels

• 1993
• Student exhibition

• February 27 - September 29, 1985 (Gallery 5)
• Student exhibition: Exhibit on the development of archaeological research in British Columbia’s Fraser Delta Region. Assisted by a grant from the Museum Assistance Programmes of the National Museum of Canada.

Use for: Kids

• March 28, 1980 – January 3, 1981
• Student exhibition

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• September - November 1994
• These ceramic figurines portraying people and animals were placed in tombs to accompany the deceased to the afterworld. Some of these figurines have been in the museum’s collection since 1982, but were too fragile to be exhibited. They were recently conserved by the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, Ontario. The ceramics are gifts from Dr. Walter C. Koerner and from Mrs. Helen Heaney in memory of Helen Nordham Battle.

• February 26 – May 4, 1981 (Gallery 5)

• November 1979

• April 12 - June 15, 1977
• Student exhibition

• October 9 - 31, 1977